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Old Feb 13, 2012, 6:11 pm
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bmvaughn
 
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Originally Posted by intub8r
I may be misunderstanding how this works, but it says prominently on the splash screen displayed at the start of this process, and in the FAQs, that you are not required to mail in the cards. So what's the loss in not accepting gift cards with less than $25?
The fact that somehow Plastic Jungle needs to resell the cards and they've probably found that it's difficult to make a profit on a card for $3.92.

Keep in mind all of their infrastructure costs and the fact that they have to resell a card with a value of $3.92 on it... so they would probably only want to pay you the equivalent of $2 for it, or 50 miles. At some point, it doesn't make sense to support.
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