According to Best Buy's website their cards don't expire, http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....ry&id=cat09000. (you can also check you balance here too)

Although if you have any other cards from different companies you might want to check your local laws regarding this, some states have passed laws making this illegal.

Have you thought of selling them? Possibly for less than what they are worth. I know you won't get the full amount but at least you would get cash.

That is the problem. I am hard to shop for and I know I am hard to shop for. No one is going to be able to buy a gift card at my favorite place to place to buy stereo equipment for example. Another example is what I do buy, it is very targetted and specific - People go to the store and pick up a GeForce 8800 GTX for example. Me, I'll search until I find a specific manufacturer (Only place most times to find what I am looking for is online), and then I am not done because I have to modify it in a specific way such as buy specific cooling for it, or I may be looking for a speicific power requirement. It is an impossible thing to shop for me like that. That is why I probably get the cards.

Speaking about shopping - any of you Europeans may be able to answer this - I am trying to find a Loewe Aconda CRT. Anyone know where to find one? Finding German TV's - espeically tube based TV's (LCD and Plasma just have too poor picture quality for my tastes) is exceedingly difficult. I've been to the best Audio Video places I can find as still have come up short. I'm about to give up and I am willing to import it.

-S

First rule of male survival.

Don't buy your girlfriend a blouse.
You might find yourself being celibate.
for an indefinite period.

Thanks for the info! It is good to hear they don't expire.

I have thought of selling them, but I hate the idea of selling them for less than they are worth. Especially when I can get their full value back out at some point. I think as software becomes available, I'll use it for that. Might take me a while htough - and the gift idea also works!

-S

no problem, there are some good games that are comming out soon, along with the direct x 10 graphic cards...

Gift Cards are a huge scam.

80% of all Gift Cards given go unredeemed. It's like free money for the store.

Prepaid phone cards are another scam, because, again, like 80% of them are lost before the minutes used up, so the actual per minute price is much higher than that stated on the card.

Just found out that Nordstrom is reporting over 24% of them go unclaimed. So, even though it is not 80%, it is still an abnormally high number!

-S