Who will want to buy them now ?
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@WRNAz68-4ogs Thanks for the details. I said it was a gimmick.
It had NOTHING to do with the value of the TRU gift cards - or even any TRU gift cards at all. If you showed up at a Kmart with a TRU gift card in hand, which Kmart employees had no way to check the value of so it could even be an empty one you'd already spent, they would hand you a flyer telling you to go to a special webpage to complete a survey about your toy-buying habits. After completing the survey, you would receive the $10 in SYW points. But anyone who got that webpage URL could do the same survey and get the points too, once per SYW account. If you had hundreds of dollars on your TRU gift cards, that was all gone, nobody but you knew or cared anymore.
Again, spend any gift cards you don't want to lose.
It was Kmart that did something with he TRU gift cards.
Somebody, maybe it was Sears, offered like $10 store credit for ToysRUs gift cards after they went down. A promotional gimmick but better than nothing.
"If this happens hopefully another store like Wal-Mart will step in and accept the cards."
That is an absurd expectation. No other store will have any way of validating the balance of Sears/Kmart gift cards, or any motivation to give away that kind of money if they could. Spend them now.
I don't understand the desire to give gift cards anyway. It is saying here is money that can only be spent at a specific company vs here is cash to spent on what you want or need from where ever you want to go to get it. Wether it be new shoes, a nice dinner or saved for later when you need it. I personally hate gift cards. I tend to forget about them unless I use it right away.
Does Kmart also have gift cards sales of those may also diminish . After a while the stores may stop accepting these cards. If this happens hopefully another store like Wal-Mart will step in and accept the cards.
Who cares?
That's the modern equivalent of getting coal in your stocking.