Passing on good info passed on to me. After having worked with gift card support for the past 4-5 years, I recommend bank issued Visa / Mastercard Gift cards. They are accepted every where and allows the person receiving the gift flexibility.
Saw this posted and thought I would forward it along to others:
I wanted to give every one a heads up that if you intend to give gift cards around the holidays, you need to be careful that the cards will be honored after the holidays.
Stores that are planning to close after Christmas are still selling the cards through the holidays even though the cards will be worthless January 1. There is no law preventing them from doing this. (On the contrary, it is referred to as 'Bankruptcy Planning' ).
Below is a partial list of stores that you need to be cautious about.
Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)
Ann Taylor - 117 stores nationwide closing
Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine' s to close 150 stores nationwide
Eddie Bauer to close 27 stores and more after January.
Cache will close all stores.
Talbots closing down specialty stores.
J.Jill closing all stores (owned by Talbots).
Pacific Sunwear (also owned by Talbots)
GAP closing 85 stores
Footlocker closing 140 stores, more to close after January
Wicke Furniture closing down
Levitz closing down remaining stores
Bombay closing remaining stores
Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January
White Hall closing all stores
Piercing Pagoda closing all stores
Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.
Home Depot closing 15 stores
Macys to close 9 stores after January
Linens and Things closing all stores
Movie Galley Closing all stores
Pep Boys Closing 33 stores
Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores
JC Penney closing a number of stores after January
Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.
Wilson Leather closing down all stores
Sharper Image closing down all stores
K B Toys closing 356 stores
Lowes to close some stores
Dillard's to close some stores
Just thought you'd like to know. And you thought the financial bailouts/crisis were over.
I think things are going to get a lot worse before they get better
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