Will my Gift Card expire？

Under the federal Credit Card Act of 2009, gift certificates and store gift cards cannot expire in five years. However, if the card has not been used for 12 months, the card issuer can still charge an “inactivity fee”. This means that if you do not use your gift card, your gift card will be reduced in price.

Although this is required by law, the types of gift cards issued by different regions may vary, and the validity period may be uncertain. To keep your gift card from expiring, you have two options:

1. When you get a new gift card, it’s best to check the expiration date on the front and back see if it has expiration dates, and read the terms and conditions. If you can’t find these terms and conditions, call the card’s company customer service to confirm when your card will expire and make sure you can use it within its expiry date. There is also a special case where your card may have expired, but the money in your card has not expired. In this case, maybe you can also choose to contact the customer service of the official company and ask them to replace your card.

2. Use your gift card as soon as possible. Say you got a gift card for Sephora, but there is no Sephora near your home. Of course, you should make sure your card is a new one without any record of use. CardAurora will save that unused brand-new gift card in your drawer. Try selling your gift cards online, which is a convenient way to trade cards, try selling your gift cards to CardAurora online, which is an excellent choice.

Generally, a gift card can be in one of the following states: Used card, invalid card, information card, etc. Different card types have different status types. Google gift cards, for example, are the ones that show the most information cards, sometimes it displays a single sentence“We need more info to redeem your gift card”. Do not make the mistake of thinking that this is a used card, your money is in your card, but due to the information card limitation, you need to fill in some relevant information to restore the card, this is not a platform problem, because the card is from Google. CardAurora has a professional system of its own, and all card feedback is correct, if you are still worried about this problem, you can also choose to go to our home page to contact our online customer service.

Notice: CardAurora does not accept any form of checking the card balance, whether the card has been used, nor can it check the card usage record. If the invalid card is submitted repeatedly, it will be automatically judged as a malicious operation by the system.