another-normal-anomaly:

argumate:

please don’t ever say gift cards are as good as cash, for gift cards must be cleansed from this earth by fire and the sword

Yes. With the exception of Amazon gift cards, which are as good as cash.

Nah. After a lot of analysis† and searching†, I *eventually* managed to figure out a way to make Amazon gift cards *90%* as valuable as cash, if you ignore the extra effort involved in buying electronics off of Amazon and reselling them for 90% value.

(Now, if Amazon started carrying Wegmans gift cards, I might consider Amazon credit as good as cash††. But not before.)

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†Am I the only one for whom Tumblr links are often no longer distinguished from non-link text? I think it only happens on Chrome, but my choice are Chrome and Firefox, and Firefox Quantum is unusably slow.

††At least until we started making more than $2,000 or so in Amazon credit per year, which we might actually manage if we re-optimised our menial-Internet-labour payouts under an assumption that Amazon credit was as good as cash.

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#I essentially had to pay a fifty-fucking-dollar exchange fee to Amazon #but I *did* manage to wring $450 out of the $500 in menial-Internet-labour credits #planning to do it again next time we get enough credit built up #adventures in human capitalism #reply via reblog