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"Scammers have adapted": Valve confirms that physical Steam Gift Cards are dead. Once the current stocks are sold through, they're done. (www.windowscentral.com)
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[โ€“] mrmisses@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

A coffee shop used to offer a $10 gift card for every $40 gift card you bought (or something like that) around Christmas. It was meant to get people to buy them as gifts but we knew we were going to go there throughout the year anyway so we loaded up for ourselves.

[โ€“] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Same but with haircuts. My mom used to get 4 for $40 cards around the holidays. She was very astute when it came to finding actually good deals.