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Company Overview

Swapagift.com is the leading Internet site for buying, selling, and swapping merchant gift cards. Our goal is to provide the one service that the gift card merchants won’t – an opportunity to exchange your unwanted gift cards for cash, services, and other gift cards. Swapagift.com is the only website that let’s you pay your bills with your unwanted gift card. Imagine paying your cellular phone bill with a gift card from a leading retailer!

Swapagift.com is the answer to those unwanted gift cards that are collecting dust in your dresser or going unused in your wallet. Quite simply, it is the leading Internet exchange where buyers, sellers and swappers can come together to conduct gift card commerce the way it was meant to be!

Products and Services

Sell Your Card

Sell your gift card to other users. It is just $1.99 to list your gift card and your card listing will stay active for 90 days. If you have not sold the card at the end of 90 days, you are given the opportunity to re-list for an additional 60 days at no additional charge.

Swap Your Card

Swap your gift card with other users. It is just $1.99 to list your gift card and your listing will stay active for 90 days. If you have not swapped your card at the end of 90 days, you are given the opportunity to re-list for another 60 days at no additional charge.

Mail for Cash

Mail your gift card in for cash. If you don’t want to list your gift card, why not mail it in for cash? A Preferred Merchant is a gift card supplier whose cards we can accept for mailing in for cash. We have over 100 Preferred Merchants. Check our site for merchant cards we’ll accept, and their corresponding redemption rates.

Pay Your Bills with a Gift Card

Swapagift.com is the only website that allows you to pay your bills with your gift card with our VersiCard BillPay™.

We accept gift cards from over 100 merchants, and can pay ANY bill you send along (utility, cell phone, even other retailer charge accounts!). Check out our VersiCard BillPay™ to see the merchant cards we’ll accept, along with their corresponding redemption rates. Then, simply mail a copy of your bill and your gift card to Swapagift.com.

Fact Sheet

Swapagift.com, founded in 2003, is the leading Internet site for buying, selling, and swapping unwanted gift cards. Swapagift.com gives customers options to maximize the value of their unwanted cards. Even better, it gives consumers a way to save by offering discounted gift cards for sale on the site.

The co-founders, Michael and Mary Jane Kelly are experts on the secondary gift card market - having pioneered this space. They have appeared on CNBC, Fox News, ABC World News Tonight, along with many others. As knowledgeable and engaging speakers, they provide insight into this burgeoning market.

Some Interesting Facts:

nearly $10 BILLION in gift cards go unused each year
Over 23 million consumers still have gift cards from last year
TowerGroup, a research and advisory service has projected sales of $97 Billion in 2007
Consumer Reports National Research Service reported 27 percent of the people that received gift cards in 2006 have not used one or more of these cards.
Laws governing expiration dates and dormancy fees vary state to state. Unused gift cards are considered abandoned property in over 35 states

Consumer Reports stated several reasons gift cards go unused:

58% of consumers do not have time to shop
35% stated they did not find anything that they want to buy
32% of the people that did not use the gift card stated they forgot about it
7% will not redeem the card because it is lost or expired

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