Where You Can Buy a Visa Gift Card for the Holiday Gift
Stumped for gift ideas for the holidays? Strapped for time? Here's an idea: give the people on your gift list spending power, instead of a physical gift.Yesteryear, it seemed perhaps crass to hand someone cold hard cash. A fistful of money, even when wrapped in elegant wrapping paper, seemed perhaps a bit lacking in love.
But you can achieve the same result (a happy recipient) with a small piece of plastic, for instance a prepaid gift card, that enables someone to buy exactly what they want (including, maybe a gift for you!).
Gift cards are available from a range of companies, such as American Express, MasterCard, Visa and Chase. You can buy prepaid cards online, but they are also sold in a range of retail stores and banks.
This is similar to giving a person a gift certificate, but the money is not tied to any particular store.
Gift cards, such as the one offered by VISA, may be the perfect holiday gift for a teenager, a friend who is out of work and struggling financially, and even colleagues.
The value of the card you give is not written on the card; the recipient has to access this information. So, there's some surprise value in this gift!
For example, Visa gift cards can be used at retail stores, online, and to pay for such basics as gas for a car or food. They are accepted anywhere that a regular VISA credit card is accepted — which is just about everywhere.
Consumers can buy a Visa gift card, for instance, at the following ten Brooklyn locations, among many others (as well as online):
- Key Foods
- Pathmark
- OfficeMax
- Pathmark
- Walgreens
- Duane Reade
- Chase
- Blockbuster
- Rite Aid
- Staples
