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Originally Posted by kunkstyle

There's nothing fishy and/or not right about it. The gift card laws are pretty black and white.

A card/certificate for a cash value cannot expire. A card/certicate for a specific item/service, etc can. This falls in the latter category as it's a certificate for a gift card.

If they're paid for up front it's irrelavent.

Anyway, glad they made it work for you, flamesrule.

That's mostly true.
If a card is for a specific service, you're right it can expire.
However, they must still honour the original value paid for the card.
For example, if you buy a groupon for $20 and it's good for a windshield, when it expires, the no longer have to give you the windshield. They do however, have to give you $20 off of the same windshield, as that's what you already paid.