When shopping last minute for a gift that you need to give to someone you don’t know extremely well, what do you do? The standard for procrastinators is to give either money or a gift card. Some people refrain from giving real money as a gift because they feel that it’s rather impersonal, so instead, they purchase gift cards to places like The Home Depot. Yeah, I’m sure that fourteen-year-old girl will use that gift card to the max when she needs to build a deck. What a nice and personal touch. Most of us have probably received gift cards at one time or another, and most of the time, they’re to a retailer that we could care less about. Since you can’t really return them, why not try to sell or exchange the cards at SwapAGift?

This is a service that is great for those neglected pieces of plastic. Register with the site to take part in the exchanges, and by doing so, you’ll be entered in a monthly drawing for a US$50 gift card to a retailer of your choice. Listing your card will cost you US$3.99 for each gift card that you want to list, but you can set the purchasing price or swap material that you are interested in. Sometimes gift cards are so unwanted that you’re happy to knock off a few bucks of the gift cards value just to receive real money. The next time someone gives you a ridiculous gift card, ease the tension of the awkward moment by planning what you want to swap it for at SwapAGift.