One of my Christmas gifts was a $50 gift certificate for eBay. I’ve been trying to spend it for three months completely unsuccessfully. This is probably for a few reasons:
1) I refuse to spend over $50 (what the gift certificate is worth).
2) I have bid three different times on Scrabble tiles (future Too Cute Tuesday craft) and I’m always outbid at the last second. There’s no “buy now” option for what I want. I think my idea for the tiles is not in my crafting destiny.
3) I successfully bought a pair of earrings a couple weeks ago and was sent the wrong item by the seller. They asked me to forward the wrong merchandise to the right person (priority, with delivery confirmation—which I totally did like the sucker I sometimes am). In turn, they sent me my earrings, some extra jewelry I don’t even like, oh, and they gave me my money back.
So three weeks, 10 bids, and one pair of earrings later, I still have a $50 gift certificate for eBay.
I’ve resorted to looking for things like cosmetic type items that I use and obscure movies that like to own. It’s just kind of funny how difficult spending “free” money has been in this case.
Of course, I could’ve sold this gift certificate from online (like, um, on eBay or any number of other websites) or I could have bought gifts for people. But I really wanted to be selfish on eBay. I guess I still have my chance! Any ideas?
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LOL. You can send it my way, I’m sure I could find something I’d like for $50!
I’ve never had this kind of problem. Anytime I’ve ever been given free money, I’ve found someway to blow it. Do you not have the option to “cash it” in? I don’t know how their gift certificates work. Otherwise, keep trying on the scrabble pieces if that’s what you want. Good luck!
Sounds like the worst gift card ever. Why would someone get that for you when they could get you an Amazon giftcard and you can use it more easily.
try to click on the ‘free shipping’ link, they’ll get ya with shipping, put in a fairly high maxium bid and check frequently. If someone wants it bad enough they’ll spend too much for it and you’ll feel superior.. ( works in my head)Make sure to check the sellers feedback, anything over a 98% is worth taking a stab at it. Good luck!