Comments on: WWYD: The Lost Gift Card

By: TARDIStime

TARDIStime — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 02:53:57 +0000

I think there are charities you can donate to with your gift card money – I don’t really know a lot about it but I might have considered that if it had been me.
Or if there had been something on my wishlist worth like $24.95 I would have spent it on myself because that shit’s meant to be!

By: Faintly Macabre

Faintly Macabre — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:18:04 +0000

@stuffisthings It’s possible. My housemate senior year of college ordered me a CD that kept being delivered, with no notification, to my on-campus address from sophomore year. Amazon willingly sent about three copies before I finally got a notification from our school’s mail services that there was a package waiting for me (at the same time as one finally reached our house, of course). I guess it was cheaper for them to keep sending it than to track down where they were ending up.

By: Megano!

Megano! — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:15:42 +0000

If Amazon told you to use it, I can assume they already issued a new one, if they know who the purchaser was. Like, I would assume they would contact the purchaser?

By: lizard

lizard — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:57:02 +0000

i would totally use it. finders keepers sucker ;)

By: stuffisthings

stuffisthings — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:26:01 +0000

@bgprincipessa Yeah I suspect that was just the easiest solution that would make everyone happy without possibly breaching any privacy laws.

Plus Amazon CS is like a crack dealer — “First one’s free, kid, but Prime’s $80 a year.”

By: Norrey

Norrey — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:16:08 +0000

Yeah, gift cards, unlike cash, are “extras” – you can be almost totally sure that the person will still be able to make rent without it, for example. Also, it’s nigh impossible to find the real owner of a gift card. It’s too bad the person lost it, but in this case there isn’t much to be done.

By: bgprincipessa

bgprincipessa — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:14:56 +0000

@stuffisthings That’s what SHOULD have happened. I mean, maybe not the “reward” part but since she used it clearly they didn’t cancel it. But it would have been so simple to say “Okay, negate that number, and reissue a number to purchaser.” I know this is not the most analogous example, but I used to work at a public library and had people contact us and say they found lost things, saw a library card, etc. We wouldn’t give #s or addresses out of course, but we’d just take that person’s # and pass it on to the person who lost the stuff.

By: Dancercise

Dancercise — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:06:05 +0000

All these posts are making me paranoid about losing things, but hopeful that if I do, someone like this will do everything they can to find me.

By: stuffisthings

stuffisthings — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 20:00:58 +0000

I have a feeling that Amazon may have contacted the purchaser to issue them a new gift card, and let you use the one you found as a “reward.” Am I being to generous to their customer service practices?