gift cards

i think you should use it. it's not like you have to pay for the meal, so if you don't like it, then what have you got to lose? besides, it might surprise you. i have a gift card for a store right now that i never shop at, but i am going to go. who know's? besides, like i said, i might be suprised. and your friend obviously wanted to share with you something that she enjoys. so i am pretty sure you can make the "sacrifice" lol...

First of all. Are you sure the gift card is still good? You may want to check that before giving it to anyone. The reason I ask is I've had people give me gift cards they won't going to use and they would be expired.... If I get one I'm not going to use I give it to daughter and son-inlaw...And I do tell them where I got it from....

I would just go check the place out, sell the card on ebay, or as you suggested - give the card to someone else who will use it, either as a gift or donate it to a charity. Before you do any of that, you may want to make sure the card is still good.

I never really cared for gift cards. The ones I always got were from this one relative who used to shop at this very expensive store. The gift card was always for $10.00 and expired in a year, and there was not one thing in the store that cost only $10.00 lol, the cheapest I could ever get away with was to add another $20 to $25 in order to get something. Eventually I just gave up because the store didn't really carry anything I would ever dream of wearing, and it was too far away, and too expensive to boot. From then on I re-gifted the card to somebody who I knew liked that style of clothing, and they were thrilled with it. I've actually given away gift cards I've gotten for a few different restaurants. I had a $50 gift card I got from a boss for this one Italian restaurant, and he gave the same gift card 3 years in a row. While the gift card was nice, I found the first time going there that they offered nothing that wasn't laced heavily with garlic...and I'm really allergic to it. So, I ended up only eating a salad without dressing, and desserts all night hahaha. After that I gave my one daughter and husband the gift card for the place. They were happy with having a night on the town. They were just talking about gift cards on the news yesterday. Did you know that some of them take away a certain percentage of the face value every month or so? I found that out by surprise once, but I didn't know that so many places did that. You would think that once you've purchased a gift card with cash that it would be good for whenever with no percentage penalties....who knew?!!

I know what you mean. when I get gift cards I cannot use, I offer them to my family or a friends to use. I would rather someone get some good use outf it rather than to just throw it away.

I cannot imagine a restaurant I wouldn't eat at if we got gift cards, unless it was a dirty place or something else was horribly wrong with it. If going there would be a health hazard I would shred the card and throw it away rather than giving it to someone else and endangering their health, lol. What is it about the restaurant you don't like?

be fore you give it to anyone else, make sure its still good - some of those things expire or start losing money after a while.