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Blockbuster Gift Card

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 at 12:38 pm 
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The first Blockbuster Gift Card store was opened in Dallas, Texas in October, 1985. The founder of the company was David Cook, who grew the business and brought it public. The logo was created by Lee Dean, working for the now defunct Rominger Advertising agency.

Scott Beck, a student in Brooklyn New York, approached John Melk, prior executive with Waste Management, about buying a franchise. Melk brought the idea to his friend and business associate, Wayne Huizenga, who agreed to buy the company after overcoming initial concerns about the video industry.

Huizenga and Melk used similar techniques in growing Waste Management, and soon, they were opening one store every seventeen hours.[citation needed] They also bought every Blockbuster franchise they could get their hands on (removing pornographic movies). The company became a multi-billion dollar company and was sold to Viacom for a price of $8.4 billion.

The Blockbuster Gift Card Block Party concept was test-marketed in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Indianapolis, Indiana; Block Party was an "entertainment complex" aimed at adults, containing eight themed areas housing a restaurant, games, laser tag arena and motion simulator rides and was housed in a windowless building the size of a city block. During the 1990s Blockbuster bought out their major UK rival Ritz Video and changed the name of all the stores to their own, which made them the number one video rental store in the country by a wide margin.

Gamestop Gift Card

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 at 12:38 pm 
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Gamestop Gift Card Corporation (NYSE: GME) is an American video game and entertainment software retailer. The company, whose headquarters are in Grapevine, Texas (a suburb of Dallas), United States, operates 6,200 retail stores throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Austria, Puerto Rico, Switzerland, Portugal, Sweden and in the United Kingdom. GameStop will open around 400 new stores for the 2009 business year.

The company operates retail stores under the name GameStop, EB Games, Micromania and MovieStop. In addition, the company runs two e-commerce websites, GameStop.com and EBgames.com, and also Game Informer magazine, GameStop's proprietary video and computer game publication. In addition to video and computer games, GameStop sells magazines, strategy guides, entertainment DVDs (which as of late 2008 stopped), and other related merchandise. A major source of the company's profit is also buying used games and films from its customers and selling them back at an increase. Approximately 48% of Gamestop Gift Card revenue is from its used products sales (based on the quarter that ended Nov. 1 2008). A new store concept called MovieStop, which focuses on selling movies rather than games, is currently building and operating stores in the southeastern United States, including the Dallas area.

Amazon Gift Card

Monday, August 15th, 2011 at 12:37 pm 
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Amazon Gift Card is an American-based multinational electronic commerce company. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, it is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the Internet sales revenue of the runner up, Staples, Inc.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an on-line bookstore but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, etc. Amazon has established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan, and China. It also provides international shipping to certain countries for some of its products.

On January 15, 2009, a survey published by Verdict Research found that Amazon Gift Card was the UK's favorite music and video retailer, and came third in overall retail rankings.

Barnes and Noble Gift Card

Thursday, August 11th, 2011 at 12:38 pm 
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Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailer in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered in lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Barnes & Noble is the nation’s top bookseller brand for the sixth year in a row, Barnes and Noble Gift Card as determined by a combination of the brand’s performance on familiarity, quality, and purchase intent; the top bookseller in quality for the second year in a row and the number two retailer in trust, according to the EquiTrend® Brand Study by Harris Interactive®.

Barnes and Noble Gift Card is known for large, upscale retail outlets, many of which contain a café serving Starbucks Coffee, and for competitive discounting of bestsellers. Most stores also sell magazines, newspapers, DVDs, graphic novels, gifts, games, and music. Video games and related items were sold in the company's GameStop retail outlets until October 2004, when the division was spun-off into an independent company.

Itunes Gift Card

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 1:25 pm 
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Itunes Gift Card is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod digital media players as well as the iPhone. Additionally, iTunes can connect to the iTunes Store via the Internet to purchase and download music, music videos, television shows, applications, iPod games, audiobooks, podcasts, feature length films and movie rentals (not available in all countries), and ringtones (available only in the USA). It is also used to download applications for the iPhone and iPod touch running iPhone OS 2.0 or later.

Why Choose Online Giftcards?

Gift cards are no longer fad gifts. Just ask the gift card companies who are projecting to earn $100 billion dollars this year, after the holiday season closes. It is living and exponentially growing business that is a source of presents for over millions of households world wide.

You can buy gift cards over the counter in your favorite merchant outlet or you can buy online giftcards. There are several advantages of buying online giftcards.

1. You get to save time as you no longer have to leave the comforts of your own home to buy a gift card. Juts go to a reputable online dealer or the web page of that merchant store and you get to order your choice of gift cards. Also, you save time in store hopping as you can visit multiple sources of online giftcards with just a click of the mouse.  itunes gift card

2. No more travel expenses spent in buying that gift card you want. If you go to an outlet, you need to spend parking fees and gas for your car. You can use that saved money to increase the value of your Ipod gift card purchase.

3. Some Itunes Gift Card merchants online will allow you to personalize the look of your gift card. You can choose a color for the background, add the name of your recipient and for some, even upload the picture of your friend, lover or relative.  itunes gift card

4. Buying online can also allow you to receive special online shopping perks from your chosen merchant like discounts on other items if you do decide to buy yourself.