Sell Your Unwanted Gift Cards on Plastic Jungle
How many times have you received a bunch of gift cards for Christmas, your birthday or other special occasions? Have you ever wished you could just have cold hard cash instead? In this economy, there are times when we’d rather have some cash than a $50 gift card to Home Depot. Especially if we don’t really need or want anything at Home Depot.
Plastic Jungle is a website that allows you to trade in your unwanted gift cards for a fair price. Selling gift cards online may not be a form of residual income - but I thought this website could help some readers improve their cash flow by trading in their gift cards.
I did a comparison with the two major gift card trade-in websites; Plastic Jungle and Gift Card Rescue. I posted a sample $50 Best Buy gift card for sale to see how much each website would pay me. Gift Card Rescue only offered me $39, while Plastic Jungle offered me $42.50. Obviously, Plastic Jungle gives you the better return on your gift card.
Don’t get me wrong, I know that you can also sell your gift cards on eBay – but then you have to set up an auction and pay the eBay fees. So while you may sell this very same Best Buy gift card on eBay for $45 – is it worth all of the time and hassle? Plastic Jungle seems like an easier option, especially if you have a stack of gift cards to sell. Plastic Jungle claims that they will mail you a check within 2 days of receiving and verifying your gift card amount.
The other good thing about Plastic Jungle is the fact that you can buy gift cards off their website from people who don’t want them. Let’s say you wanted to buy a $1,000 televison at Best Buy, you could buy $1,000 worth of gift cards and save about 5% on the overall purchase. Just think, you could use gift cards to buy all of your major purchases and save at least 5% every time! If any of you have used Plastic Jungle in the past, I’d love to hear about your experience with them. They also have an affiliate program set up through Commission Junction which pays at least 6% on any gift card sold or bought by someone that you refer to their website.
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Let us know what you think about this review of Plastic Jungle, if you have compliments, complaints, comments or you think it is a scam – let us know by commenting below…
Best regards,
Michael-John Wolfe
TAGS: Residual Income, Make Money Online, Royalties
7 Comments to “Sell Your Unwanted Gift Cards on Plastic Jungle”
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Michael,
Good post on selling your gift cards for cash. You really can’t beat the service that these two sites provide.
My question is did you actually go through your experience selling your cards to Plastic Jungle or Gift Card Rescue?
I don’t think that it is fair to your readers to strongly suggest one company or the other without actually trying the service offered.
Hi Ben – no I honestly have not tried Gift Card Rescue. Can you tell us about some of the benefits of using GFR over other gift card websites? My apologies – I did not mean to reflect negatively on Gift Card Rescue, I just assumed that the most important factor people would consider when selling gift cards would be price.
Thank you,
MJ
I mailed in 3 50.00 Macy gift cards in to the address you gave
me on Jan 8 ;and have not received anything.
Hi Susan, I am sorry that you experienced this. Did you get delivery confirmation? Have you called Plastic Jungle? If this is the case, I will sell my next gift card to Plastic Jungle to see if I get paid. If not – I will remove this posting. Please let us know what you find out.
MJ
MJ,
We offer extremely competitive rates and a great customer experience that adds perks for using the site. But the biggest thing is that in our business a lot of it is repeat buyers and keeping our customers happy. You’ll never see a bad review or negative experience that we didn’t immediately address.
At our competitors site I’ve seen a lot of negative reviews about their service. I hope that Susan’s problem gets worked out.
i actually purchase bulk gift cards on craigslist and resell them. I sent in 808 dollars worth of gift cards to plasticjungle.
They operate a smooth service which includes a prepaid envelope and and updated online status of your order.
Flaws: Their customer service is terrible, they never pick up. Their mailback system with the prepaid envelope takes 3 days to receive since it is regular postal. They need an option to have it sent faster.
Another problem is they take 2-3 days to actually print the check and then takes 3-4 more days to receive it.
I sent my gift cards on the 24th of may, and got my check exactly on june 7th. ( way too long!)
im trying out a small batch for CARDPOOL.COM right now, but i just realized they do not have a customer service number. I hate these gift card sites! its better to sell them one by one on ebay and lose a few bucks…but at least you get your money usually instantly
Hi Rick,
I’m Ben Hebert the head of the bulk sales department at Gift Card Rescue. I would love to speak with you about selling your bulk gift cards.
I can guarantee same day order and check processing for all of your bulk sales. You can contact me by calling 877-904-3822 ext 3 (9-5 EST) or by e-mail anytime at ben@giftcardrescue.com
We will help you get your money almost instantly and eliminate the hassle of ebay.
Ben @ http://www.giftcardrescue.com
877-960-3822 ext 3