— -- I'm going to take a wild guess and assume that you like money. I'll bet you like free money even better. Free money is essentially what you get if you buy secondhand gift cards from ...

Shoppers planned to buy three to four gift cards, spending about $50 per card, the group said, boosting total gift-card spending in 2023 to $29.3 billion, up from $28.6 billion last year.

CNBC Select looks at ways to avoid gift card scams and how to get your money back should you fall victim to one.

And those gift card companies want to give that money back," the FTC said in its blog post. Here are steps, highlighted by the agency, that consumers should take if they suspect they have been conned.

If anyone tells you to pay with a gift card or to buy gift cards for anything other than a gift, it’s a scam. You’ll lose your money, and you won’t be able to get it back. Receiving a random ...

You won't receive any money until someone buys your gift card. GCX imposes a 15% fee for the privilege of using its site to sell your card. In other words, the best possible return is 85 cents on ...

And it found 1 in 3 of us have lost money due to gift cards that have expired, been lost or came from retailers that went out of business. "Go out and use those gift cards," Hunter advised.

One of the most prolific vendors of gift cards, Starbucks, is based in Washington, a state that says it won’t take most gift-card money as unclaimed property—and because of its favorable ...

The Better Business Bureau of Western Michigan says scammers are manipulating gift cards in-store to take money from consumers. To stream 13OYS on your phone, you need the 13OYS app.

In a July survey, Bankrate found that 47% of U.S. adults had at least one unused gift card worth an average of $187. That's a total of $23 billion in unspent money.