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I'm afraid I don't understand the logic. I was going to send Simon's niece a gift card. She's alien to us in that she enjoys shopping. We were told that she shops at Target almost daily and that would be an appropriate gift card.
Fuck Target.
1. It says $5-1000.... but there are only 8 choices. There's a pretty big range between 100 and 200 dollars, at least to me.
2. They don't tell you up front that it costs money to send a physical gift card, you have to give them a credit card number and all your location data and that of the recipient before they disclose that.
3. There's tax on the shipping. (Which Target has no control over, I admit, other than waiving the shipping.)
Why on Earth would they not want to send gift cards for free during this season? Why would they be so bitchy in the flexibility of amounts one gives? $2 to mail a gift card? That's ludicrous. We're going to send a check. It will cost $0.44 and be a hassle to redeem but this way we can encourage her to buy something from somewhere else instead.
LLBean sent me a coupon for $10 off because I spent $50 buying Simon slippers, which I got during a 10% off deal and they always have free shipping. Today they had a 20% off deal on slippers and there is a 15% email subscribers deal, I paid $30 for $60 slippers for me. But Target can't mail a gift card.... LandsEnd offers free shipping to everyone who spends $50 and sometimes for any amount. But Target can't even ship a gift card. Amazon ships gift cards in any amount (you can type in the box; it's not a drop down select) and you can send it any way, including FedEx, for free.
The new Target near me never has any underwear in my size. They don't have long-sleeved men's undershirts, they're continually out of flour and soy sauce. Now with this bitchiness toward gift giving through them, maybe I'll just shop elsewhere entirely. I know Simon's niece is probably going to use the money we send to pay her credit card bill because she's probably done with her shopping already.
There's a movie, Better Off Dead, where this newspaper boy keeps shouting that he needs to collect Two Dollars. I hope Target is happy not getting my $2 and not getting the thousand or so I used to spend there annually. Because I really am going to think twice about going there now.
Fuck Target.
1. It says $5-1000.... but there are only 8 choices. There's a pretty big range between 100 and 200 dollars, at least to me.
2. They don't tell you up front that it costs money to send a physical gift card, you have to give them a credit card number and all your location data and that of the recipient before they disclose that.
3. There's tax on the shipping. (Which Target has no control over, I admit, other than waiving the shipping.)
Why on Earth would they not want to send gift cards for free during this season? Why would they be so bitchy in the flexibility of amounts one gives? $2 to mail a gift card? That's ludicrous. We're going to send a check. It will cost $0.44 and be a hassle to redeem but this way we can encourage her to buy something from somewhere else instead.
LLBean sent me a coupon for $10 off because I spent $50 buying Simon slippers, which I got during a 10% off deal and they always have free shipping. Today they had a 20% off deal on slippers and there is a 15% email subscribers deal, I paid $30 for $60 slippers for me. But Target can't mail a gift card.... LandsEnd offers free shipping to everyone who spends $50 and sometimes for any amount. But Target can't even ship a gift card. Amazon ships gift cards in any amount (you can type in the box; it's not a drop down select) and you can send it any way, including FedEx, for free.
The new Target near me never has any underwear in my size. They don't have long-sleeved men's undershirts, they're continually out of flour and soy sauce. Now with this bitchiness toward gift giving through them, maybe I'll just shop elsewhere entirely. I know Simon's niece is probably going to use the money we send to pay her credit card bill because she's probably done with her shopping already.
There's a movie, Better Off Dead, where this newspaper boy keeps shouting that he needs to collect Two Dollars. I hope Target is happy not getting my $2 and not getting the thousand or so I used to spend there annually. Because I really am going to think twice about going there now.
