Yeah I've been thinking about a web site to shame people out of giving gift cards. On one hand there's the whole arguments that gift cards should be eliminated because they are a conduit for fraud, but also the one that they take away from the recipient as much as they give.
There was the time my sister-in-law gave my son a Burger King gift card just after Burger King went out of business in our town which was the beginning of a series of misadventures which could best be situated in the Buddhist framework that desire leads to suffering. Or the time she gave my son 3 $10 AMZN gift cards and I think I still have one with 84 cents of value on it. Just say no.
