Do Gamers Really Want Gift Cards?

[mcdougall57]

If it's somewhere like HMV im ok with it, i'm just glad I didn't get any zavvi vouchers.

[hdmyg85]

This clock projects the time, date, or temp on the wall or ceiling http://www.liangdianup.com/clocks_1.htm some people call
it a ceiling clock but I call it a digital projection clock. I got the black one because at the time that was the only color
they had. But now they have them in black and also in white.

[lightningdude]

They make gift cards that go for numerous stores. For example, my grandmother used to buy me Visa Prepaid cards with $50 on 'em. You can use it anywhere you can use a Visa card.

As far as the article is concerned, parents (or other relatives/friends) don't know what to get for their beloved gamers. So, instead of buying a game that they're afraid the person won't like, they get them a gift card instead. That way, they can buy what they actually want.

I agree with the report because I personally saw a bunch of parents at a local game store taking advantage of a sale in which they snagged a bunch of cheap games (dual meaning). I felt sorry for the kids that were getting them.

Free stuff or not, if you're not gonna play it, it might as well not have been received at all.

[gumgod]

Gift cards can be useless if the store doesn't sell anything you want. The nice thing about games though is that if you keep them wrapped up you can just take them back to the store... This happened to me a couple years ago... I did this - I got Tak the great something or another lame game for Christmas... and took it to Walmart got $25 which I then put into Castlevania Portrait of Ruin. A much better title and granted I did have to go out of my way a little I still felt like I got something from my relative that was thoughtful. I would have probably just kept a Wal-Mart gift card until I was broke and needed groceries or something... but trading in another game didn't bother me at all.

[b_simpson1999]

well i got argos vouchers tring to sell them in argos itself so funny or gave them to other ppl as a present that was awhile bk but lucky u can get high street vouches here (not like i got any) but most computer or other shops accept them so if i ever get any i can use them