Thanx to everyone who responded with such helpful information. I didn't realize there were so many places you could look to both sell – and buy – gift cards. I knew about eBay but I found many local places when I went to Craig's List-Vegas although I didn't check out their prices. And there are several Internet sites but some didn't have good reviews. The one I liked best was http://www.cardpool.com/sell-gift-cards. No fees and it looks like it is connected with amazon.com and seems to be the most reliable one. In fact, they are offering to buy my Tiffany cards at 75% of their face value – even more if I took it in amazon.com money rather than cash.
I knew $400 was lowballing it – that was just the minimum I would be happy with. So $543.75 sounds really good from cardpool. I would have liked to sell it to a person I know, personally or from this list – and I will still do so if someone wants the cards for that price. But please e-mail me privately if you are interested.
In the meantime, I hope this discussion has been helpful to others who may have cards they'd like to turn into cash – or ideas on how to buy cards at a discount.
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Jean $¢ott, Frugal Gambler
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