Gift Card Guide

iLounge - A huge increase in new iPod owners and iTunes gift card holders overwhelmed Apple s iTunes Store over the holiday, prompting error messages and slowdowns. The AP reports: Frazzled users began posting urgent help messages Monday and Tuesday on Read more

OregonLive.com - Portland police early Thursday arrested one man accused of threatening a woman with a gun at an apartment complex at North Skidmore and Montana. One Portland officer fired shots at the man but missed. The incident began when police received a call at Read more

Kirksville Daily Express & Crier - Due to increased popularity of gift cards, which a National Retail Federation poll predicted would generate $24.81 billion, shoppers will keep spending. Sara Barker, book manager at Hasting’s, said their gift card sales increased this year, and many Read more

US News and World Report - Fresh strategy. Retailers may rethink the gift-card boon of 2006. Gift cards aren’t counted in sales figures until they are redeemed, and Marshal Cohen, chief analyst at the NDP Group, sees vendors “thinking twice” about gift-card advertising next year Read more

Knoxville News Sentinel - With only a cellular phone number as a clue, KFD Capts. Brent Seymour, Jeff Stooksbury and Doug Conard came up with a ruse to ferret out the identity of the felonious prankster. “I left a message that the phone’s owner had won a gift card from a Read more

Lansing State Journal - The gift that keeps on confusing Last week, in response to a reader’s inquiry, state attorney general spokesman Matt Frendewey told me that he could find nothing in state law that prohibits merchants from imposing expiration dates on gift cards Read more