Originally Posted by
intub8r
The $25 minimum makes this offer almost useless. One of my main objections to gift cards is how difficult they are to use as the balance gets low. Often if you don't have enough on the card to cover the whole purchase, the merchant can't do the transaction. Or you have to know exactly what the balance is to tell the cashier, who can then enter it manually. What a pain.
I was excited to see this offer for RDM's, but looks like with the $25 minimum they have protected the gift card industry quite well.
Probably just not worth the time to do the conversion for $3.29 gift cards and the like. I doubt that the minimum is to protect the gift card industry, because I don't know why UA would care about protecting the gift card industry. (If UA
really cared about "the industry" and wanted to ensure breakage, they would not offer this program at all.)
It looks like the $25 minimum is set by Plastic Jungle, UA's partner that accepts the gift cards for exchange, not by UA.