Trying to use a Mastercard, Visa, or Amex Gift Card on Amazon can cause several headaches. First, simply registering the card as a payment method can be tricky. Amazon requires a name and billing ...

Consumers spent $18.48 billion on gift cards during the 2005 holiday season, an increase of 6.6% over the 2004 season according to the National Retail Federation, which expects the growth to continue.

Would you ever dream of buying a beautiful gift, maybe a cashmere sweater or a diamond necklace, and have it gift-wrapped at the store, only to watch your special someone open the box and discover it ...

NORTH TEXAS – Gift cards are bound to remain popular holiday presents, but anyone with them on their shopping list needs to be aware of a worldwide scam. The CBS News Texas I-Team found the latest ...

Gift cards are great, but when your physical wallet already has a ton of stuff in it, it can be easy to lose them in the chaos and completely forget about your free money. By adding your gift cards to ...

Gift card companies are adding protections for consumers, who are increasingly being duped into sending funds to online scammers through store credit. In 2022, nearly 65,000 consumers were swindled ...

For holiday shoppers, gift buying is getting close to crunch time. For many, that means defaulting to gift cards. "Probably Starbucks, Chipotle, gas gift cards," said shopper Leah Crone. Emma Gohlke ...

Although consumers were warned several times this year that gift cards might not be the best option when buying something for their loved ones, some likely continued buying the plastic cards as gifts.

Gifters love gift cards. However, more than half of the people who receive one apparently don’t, leaving $3 billion – an average value of $116 per person – on the table. When someone buys or receives ...