Best Free Gift Card Club

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

List Price: $14.95Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name(read more)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

List Price: $27.95Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010 As the finale to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is not content to merely match the adrenaline-charged pace that made international bestsellers out of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire. Instead, it roars with an explosive storyline that blows the doors off the series and announces that the very best has been saved for last. A familiar evil (read more)

The Girl Who Played with Fire

List Price: $15.95Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: The girl with the dragon tattoo is back. Stieg Larsson's seething heroine, Lisbeth Salander, once again finds herself paired with journalist Mikael Blomkvist on the trail of a sinister criminal enterprise. Only this time, Lisbeth must return to the darkness of her own past (more specifically, an event coldly known as "All the Evil") if she is to stay one step ahead--and alive. The Girl Who Played with Fire is a break-out-in-a-cold-swea(read more)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

List Price: $14.95Price: $7.15You Save: $7.80 (52%)130 used & new from $6.95Amazon Best of the Month, September 2008: Once you start The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, there's no turning back. This debut thriller--the first in a trilogy from the late Stieg Larsson--is a serious page-turner rivaling the best of Charlie Huston and Michael Connelly. Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name(read more)

Fly Away Home: A Novel

List Price: $26.99Sometimes all you can do is fly away home . . . When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law school, she had wild curls, wide hips, and lots of opinions. Decades later, Sylvie has remade herself as the ideal politician?s wife?her hair dyed and straightened, her hippie-chick wardrobe replaced by tailored knit suits. At fifty-seven, she ruefully acknowledges that her job is staying twenty pounds thinner than she was in her twenties and tending to her husband, the senator. Lizzie, the Woodr(read more)

SVM Selects CashStar as its Preferred eGifting Partner - Business Wire (press release)

SVM Selects CashStar as its Preferred eGifting PartnerBusiness Wire (press release)... has partnered with SVM, a leading distributor of gasoline and retail gift cards, to deliver CashStar-powered eGift cards to SVM's corporate customers. ...and more »

New rules ahead for gift certificates - Courier-Life

New rules ahead for gift certificatesCourier-LifeThe new federal rules cover retail gift cards, such as Barnes and Noble, Gander Mountain, Home Depot and restaurant gift cards. They also apply to network ...and more »

Capitalize on gift cards - Thousand Oaks Acorn

ABC2 NewsCapitalize on gift cardsThousand Oaks AcornRetail gift cards can be used at specific stores or chains of stores, while network-branded cards, such as those issued by MasterCard, American Express and ...Gift cards can have hidden feesCamarillo Acornall 8 news articles »

Baby Steps 5K raises money for grief counseling center - Tuscaloosa News

Baby Steps 5K raises money for grief counseling centerTuscaloosa News... a moon bounce and other activities, door prizes will be given away with an assortment of restaurant and retail gift cards and a few trips up for grabs. ...

Update: The State vs Retail Gift Card Companies… Who really owns ...

New laws surrounding expiring of retail gift card balances and a more aggressive posture being taken by states in pursuit of much-needed revenues have made a complex array of issues even more confusing, and potentially dangerous, ...

Gift Cards: A Thoughtless or Thoughtful Gift?

In a 2008 survey of more than 8000 consumers conducted on behalf of the retail group by Ohio-based BIGresearch, almost 55% of reported that they prefer to receive gift cards. The reason most gave is that they prefer the flexibility of ...

How to Win the Retail Credit Card Game

The Macy's Star Rewards Card - What can't you get from Macy's? With the card you'll earn $10 – $25 rewards gift certificates, get special notifications on sales, and they send you boatloads of coupons in the mail. And those coupons? ...

Beware of scams on Facebook – News & Observer | Retail Blog Biz ...

Beware of scams on Facebook – News & Observer | Retail Blog Biz. July 29, 2010 · Facebook News. CaryCitizenBeware of scams on FacebookNews & ObserverThe two to watch out for now: Free gift cards: You'll see a message that says if you ...

The Benefits of Plastic Gift Cards - Alltimeprint.com Blog

A gift card scheme has various benefits for retailers – mainly in the areas of cost reduction due to the elimination of the need for secure handling and fraud. The US retail market, where plastic gift cards were first introduced, ...

SVM Selects CashStar as its Preferred eGifting Partner

PORTLAND, Maine----CashStar, Inc., the leading digital gifting and incentives company, has partnered with SVM, a leading distributor of gasoline and retail gift cards, to deliver CashStar-powered eGift cards to SVMs corporate customers.

Europe's Tender Words About FOSS

There's no denying that everyone needs a little love from time to time, but for those of us in the FOSS community, that need can be particularly acute. After all, rarely a week goes by without some affront from those we had hoped were our friends. Case in point? Dell. Imagine our surprise, then -- nay, outright joy! -- when none other than Neelie Kroes lavished a heaping helping of love upon the ...

New rules ahead for gift certificates

New federal rules that go into effect soon will give consumers a much greater window in which to use most gift certificates and gift cards.

GNOME Bands With LiMo to Build Mobile Linux Inroads

The LiMo Foundation and the GNOME Foundation on Monday announced that they have begun working together as partners to further open source innovation. Starting immediately, LiMo Foundation will become a member of the GNOME Foundation's advisory board and the GNOME Foundation will become an industry liaison partner for the LiMo Foundation.

Wikileaks Plunges Political World Into Turmoil

In what's been called the "biggest leak in intelligence history," more than 90,000 classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan came to light on Sunday and are wreaking havoc in political circles around the globe. Covering the period from January 2004 to December 2009, the reports were published Sunday by whistle-blowing site Wikileaks.