Gift card swap for cash

LAKE MARY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Nothing says "last minute gift" better than a gift card, but surely not everyone is thrilled about getting that plastic. Which is why, if you're in this position, and you'd rather score some cash, then log on to three websites.

For starters, log on PlasticJungle.com . It's very simple to use.

Let's say you have a MACY'S gift card worth $80 that you simply don't want. PlasticJungle will give you $64 in cash for it or $67.20 on Amazon.com for it. On the other side, you could buy a MACY'S $100 gift card for $93 dollars. A savings of $7.

The list of merchants on this site seems endless, but they're not alone. CardPool.com does the same thing and gave us the same numbers to sell our MACY'S card. But to buy one, they had a better discount rate at 8 percent off.

Finally, check out GiftCardRescue.com . Again, same exact numbers on our MACY'S card to sell it -- $64 cash, $67.20 on Amazon -- and to buy a MACY'S card, you get 8 percent off the card value.

All in all, these are three smart sites to buy gift cards. Some are even up to 30 percent off, and sometimes they'll pay you up to 92 percent of your existing card.

So comparison shop on these three and get some quick cash for the gift that maybe never gave. And here's an added bonus. These sites will ship your newly bought gift cards for free, and they all accept partially spent gift cards.

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On the web:

www.PlasticJungle.com

www.GiftCardRescue.com

www.CardPool.com