December 18, 2008

Great deal on gift cards

Throughout the year, my wife and I often consider buying gift cards for gifts for people who are having birthdays, anniversaries, and other “gift giving” occasions.  We like to buy gift cards over the Internet if at all possible, to save us the trouble of going to the store that sells them.  One of our favorite relatives loves a particular restaurant that is nowhere near where we live so it is difficult to get a gift card for that place unless we order it over the Internet.

One of the drawbacks to that in the past, has been that buying the gift cards from the company’s Internet website often incurs a shipping fee that adds quite a bit to the cost of the gift card itself.  Imagine our delight when we found a website called giftcardmall.com that offers a huge variety of gift cards from many stores and restaurants for sale with no shipping fee (for standard shipping) for the entire month of December!  This is a perfect time to buy gift cards and send them to the folks on our shopping lists – they can use them during the after-Christmas sales to buy the things that they really want – getting the biggest bang for the buck!