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What do I do with my CircuitCity gift cards?

post #1 of 34
5/14/09 at 3:17pm
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EDIT: Well, they sold for about a buck on Ebay. Go figure.
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post #2 of 34
5/14/09 at 3:19pm
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Originally Posted by Sduibek View Post
I've got like 75 bucks in gift cards from birthdays and xmas's and I didn't find them until the doors closed because we moved and everything was in disarray. Are these useful for anything now besides a coaster or novelty item?

Looks like the online store should be open soon. You might be able to use them there.
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post #3 of 34
5/14/09 at 3:20pm
You can shim open cheap door locks with them.
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post #4 of 34
5/14/09 at 3:21pm
I have $60 in CC Reward certificates (from my Circuit City Credit Card) that I can no longer use. I meant to check out the firesale, but never made it. Oh well. I guess I can use them as toilet paper.

For your useless gift cards, you can use them as keys (to gain unlawful entry) or to spread thermal paste on CPUs if you're into building computers or as a crumb comb. Cheer up...all is not lost!
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post #5 of 34
5/14/09 at 3:25pm
shoot! i just remembered that i bought a six-pack lift ticket and never used. and its too late.
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post #6 of 34
5/14/09 at 4:03pm
Order vinyl.
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post #7 of 34
5/14/09 at 4:44pm
A few ideas:

Re-Gift them to someone you don't like.
Make guitar picks out of them.
Try to sell them on Ebay as a novelty.
Shim for a table that wobbles.
Use them to pick foreign objects out of your teeth.
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post #8 of 34
5/14/09 at 4:57pm
Didn't Circuit City liquidate under bankruptcy? Bankruptcy most likely discharged any value those cards held. Sorry.

You didn't miss much with the sale, either. Strangely enough, the liquidator raised prices and then discounted them to about retail. I saw thrashed display items without box or manual selling for more than NIB ones elsewhere. One can only wonder why Circuit City's business model failed.

On the bright side, you can take your gift cards to restaurants and shim that wobbly table.
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post #9 of 34
5/14/09 at 5:09pm
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It's funny, I called the Check My Balance number on the back of the card(s), and it goes to a fast busy. lolz
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post #10 of 34
5/14/09 at 5:11pm
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Originally Posted by lmilhan View Post
Try to sell them on Ebay as a novelty.
Hmmm.. that's crazy enough that it just might work! I think i'll try and see what I can get

EDIT: Ha! http://cgi.ebay.com/Circuit-City-DPS...3%3A1|294%3A50

Hm... the search suggestions says that people have searched for "circuit city gift card" so I might be in luck!
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post #11 of 34
5/14/09 at 7:31pm
Tape them together and use them as a mouse pad.
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post #12 of 34
5/14/09 at 8:30pm
Keep them for about forty more years, and sell them on Ebay, or whatever the hot auction site is at that time. You should get your money back, without interest, as a valuable, nostalgic collectors item.
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post #13 of 34
5/14/09 at 11:13pm
If The Source in Canada is owned by Circuit City then why are they still doing business up here?
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post #14 of 34
5/14/09 at 11:44pm
poop or go blind
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post #15 of 34
5/14/09 at 11:53pm
Some bad news for you...

I received a $32 refund check from overpaying my 18 month same as cash, Plasma purchase, and when I went to cash it, it bounced and cost me a $10 returned check fee.
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