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Weird. Did noone else notice the obvious? A prepaid/gift-card company rooting via a (sketchy) survey based article for prepaid/gift-cards as the number one gifts.

How convenient.

I would love see the numbers behind the survey and the questionaire and the selection method of the sample.

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Right? This looks like a straight-up ad, especially if you check out OP's account.

I gotta say I personally felt insulted when I was doing contracting and my hiring company bought me a 5 dollar starbucks gift card. They were making $25/hr off of me for the privilege of having introduced me to employer. Found it pretty galling.

By that logic money is the best gift. We still have tons of unused gift cards that we forget about or are only applicable to things we're not that interested in.

Still, I prefer something more personal than money.

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