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Sure.

I created it back in 2011 or 2012.

It wasn't a gift card that personally motivated me to make this. It was credits from an online referral program I was gifted. I guarantee I did not read the fine print at that time.

> You've used gift cards before right? The whole point is that you can't convert them to cash.

This is very untrue - there's a ton of services that do this and while it is against the ToS sometimes, there's plenty of place where ToS of this type are not legal and so you are perfectly within your rights to resell a gift card for money.

It's obvious that you can convert them to cash, because merchants accept cash and do not want to pay their employees in gift cards.

The process is just not obvious and usually not accessible to everyone.

Most people dont read the fine print on the back of gift cards. So I can easily see someone never running into a situation where it’s actually explained that is not allowed face to face.

There are multiple companies dedicated to turning gift cards into cash.

It isn't some new idea, he just didn't follow all the rules doing it!