Consumers lose more than $5 billion a year to fraud involving gift cards, while the industry exploits regulatory loopholes and delays solutions.
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Consumers lose more than $5 billion a year to fraud involving gift cards, while the industry exploits regulatory loopholes and delays solutions.
Regulation over banks that issue credit cards, debit cards and gift cards is piecemeal. The customer loses.
Finding good gifts can be tricky. Here are some research-backed tips to help you with your holiday shopping.
Choosing the wrong gift can damage a relationship. Here is some advice, based on decades of research, on how to side-step the pitfalls.
Many children receive gift cards or even ask for them so they can choose their own presents. But are youngsters ready to handle the wiles of advertisers and the complexities of ‘credit’ on a card?
Removing expiry dates should increase sales and give consumers more flexibility, but it could also increase costs.
The NSW government is set to mandate a 3 year minimum expiry period for gift cards, but it isn’t clear that this will solve the problem of unredeemed cards.
Top contributors
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Investigative Journalist, The Conversation
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Professor of the Practice in Fraud and Forensic Accounting, Salisbury University
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Head of School at the School of Accounting, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Lecturer - School of Business (Accounting), Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Retailing and Consumer Behaviour, University of Tasmania
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Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Marketing, University of Tasmania
