You leave the shop not only with a free bottle of gin, but also with a cash gift.
For people whose preferences we don't really know but for whom we still feel compelled to buy gifts, Mr. Waldfogel recommends giving cash or gift cards.
Not so long ago, offering cash as a gift was a social faux pas.
Rather than just giving generic cash as a gift, Skype Gift Cards can be accompanied by a personal message.
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These cards use cash back, gift card or fuel credit incentive programs that are based the amount of purchases you make.
After a weird Freudian experience of listening to your coinage rattle around and be separated into the proper stalls, Coinstar gladly takes a small cut of the proceeds and then offers you a voucher for either cash or a gift certificate redeemable at the location.
Also pressuring the market are expectations that funding conditions in China's short-term money market will get tighter toward the end of the year, when demand for cash typically surges for gift purchases and bonus payment, analysts said.
Finally, this past visit, after she had organized an intensive summer course in History, Language and Art for her grandchildren, I gave her a small gift of cash, amid dire warnings to apply it to nothing other than a laptop that she would then use to start a blog.
That leaves the intensely budget conscious shopper the ultimate value gift: pure cash.
Generally, it takes a substantial amount of these points to earn cash or cash equivalents, such as gift cards.
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Customers in those countries will have the ability to purchase DLC with any form of payment including trade credits, gift cards and cash.
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Cash for Clunkers, an unsustainable government gift to the auto industry, goosed third-quarter growth numbers.
It was a gift from her father, Johnny Cash, who posted a handwritten note inside its sound hole.
Donations can be in cash, securities and goods (known as gift-in-kind), and they can be bequests from estates.
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Cash equivalents have become increasingly popular, but gift cards too involve waste: In one recent year, Consumer Reports said 27 percent of these went unredeemed.
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Lee had an attractive offer for the stores: He would pay them cash on the line if they would sell him gift certificates at about a 10% discount off face value.
In Japan, a thoughtful, personalized gift often carries far more weight than a cash award.
Under the headline "Gotovina - a Christmas bonus" - playing the pun on Gotovina's surname which also means cash - the paper says the arrest comes as a gift for the Christmas stockings of UN prosecutor Carla Del Ponte and Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader.
Over the years the concept evolved from spending spree vouchers to gift cards to, well the ultimate voucher, cash: the universally tradable commodity.
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The prizes included cash, business services, Sugar Bowl and Bonnaroo tickets, gift cards from New Orleans power-scene restaurants, and even 100 pounds of crawfish.
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People magazine ran a blurb about her flagship product a wallet she designed to neatly organize cash, coupons and change in its December 2009 gift guide.
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In China and India, diamond jewelry stands as the clear favorite among women asked to rank their preferred luxury gift, ahead of vacation trips, fashion accessories, cash and electronics.
Points can be redeemed for gift cards, travel, MTV merchandise, events, and cash.
Then, when Babson asked him for a bigger gift a few years ago, DeMello, still with little cash, had an idea.
But competition to get your gear in the Gift Bags is fierce, with vendors not only donating it but paying extra cash for the privilege.
New technologies have made it easier to convert points to cash at the point of sale instead of having to order from a merchandise catalog, request a gift card they can use to pay for their purchase or pay upfront and then use rewards as a statement credit.
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