Along that same line, my wife recently went shopping with Amex gift cards
($25 and a $50) that she got a few years ago. She had tucked them somewhere,
and just recently found them. When the clerk ran the $25 card thru, she said
there's only $2.75 left on this card. My wife handed the $50 card to the
clerk to see what was left on that card. The result was something like $26.
My wife paid cash for her purchase, and when she got home, she called Amex.
They told her that after two years, they start knocking about $2 per month
off the value of the card. My wife said that was news to her, so Amex
restored the full value to the $25 card, as long as she uses it within a
month. Unfortunately, she didn't think to mention the number on the $50
card, so this weekend, we're going to use the $51 when we go out on one of
our monthly dinner dates.
Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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From: midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 4:57 PM
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Solving World Hunger with the System i and maybe
helpingtheplatform
On Jan 17, 2008 8:43 AM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You might want to remove CompUSA. I think they're out of business.
Crap. I still have a $25 gift card. They wouldn't let me use it when they
closed the local stores around here. The closest
as-of-this-writing-still-open store is an hour away, and I have no pending
plans to otherwise make a trip that way. So...
How about this? I'll send this gift card to the first one of you that
requests it, on the promise that you'll make a $25 donation to some
charitable organization that helps to solve "world hunger". I'd suggest the
Salvation Army, but I'd leave it to the recipient to make the decision.
According to the compusa.com website, responding to a question of whether
the gift card could be used online, "CompUSA Gift Cards were designed for
retail store use only. We recommend you visit one of the CompUSA retail
stores to redeem your Gift Card."
- Dan
midrange.com
