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GiftCards.com is an
American-based prepaid gift card retail website that sells personalized Visa gift cards and egift cards. GiftCards.com was founded in 1999 by Jason Wolfe under its original name DirectCertificates.com. Today, the company has over 95 employees and over $ 100 million in annual
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I stopped checking, should sources only support that you exist (to sell you something)? "Gift Cards" is pretty generic (the concept), anyone could have bought the domain first. I have a high tolerance for inclusion in WP, but you need to draw the line somewhere – I think I would draw it at
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In 2007, Mr. Wolfe bought back both GiftCards.com (originally DirectCertificates.com) and Direct
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This company is a scam. I vote to delete this page. Trust pilot reviews are full of poor reviews about how the cards do not work.
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