Gift Certificates?

[shoeless89]

I've gotten a lot of people wanting to buy gift certificates for people. How do you guys go about this?

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[tw33k2514]

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/off-topic/44333-gift-certificates-my-website.html

Dugdug had a pretty good idea in that thread.

 

[Flash Gordon]

I have an unorthodox method of doing GC

If a customer wants a GC for someone, I give them what they want and tell them to pay me when its redeemed. I do this for ttwo reasons

1) I never know what kinda condition the car they'll be sending will be in

2) I HATE doing a car that I've already been paid for 6 months ago or longer. Plus I always seemed to undercharge doing the prepaid, so that made it really suck!

My wife prints them up using high quality paper and matching envolopes. She usually makes them smell good too

 

[ShaunD]

In any instance, price quotes before seeing the vehicle usually doesn't end well for payment. So do you have the customer buying the GC give you a budget and then work that out with the person receiving the detail?

 

[A.P.A.D.]

Do u recommend an expiration date on the certificates?

 

[Mike Calloway]

I have an unorthodox method of doing GC

If a customer wants a GC for someone, I give them what they want and tell them to pay me when its redeemed. I do this for ttwo reasons

1) I never know what kinda condition the car they'll be sending will be in

2) I HATE doing a car that I've already been paid for 6 months ago or longer. Plus I always seemed to undercharge doing the prepaid, so that made it really suck!

My wife prints them up using high quality paper and matching envolopes. She usually makes them smell good too

It might help if you do the gift card for a dollar amount and not a detail. So if the car is in bad condition you aren't obligated to a specific service, but they can still use the card towards their balance and pay the remainder.

To the OP. Their are alot of foreign manufactures of gift cards on Alibaba. There you can order a nice amount of cards and sell them by the dollar value. Then they redeemer can put the balance on the card to whatever their total is. Best Wishes!

 

[Flash Gordon]

It might help if you do the gift card for a dollar amount and not a detail. So if the car is in bad condition you aren't obligated to a specific service, but they can still use the card towards their balance and pay the remainder.

I tried that ^ It doesn't work. The ppl who purchase GC from me don't want the recipent to have to pay anything

I understand my method is not for everyone, but for me, it works as designed

 

[shoeless89]

I ended up just selling a dollar amount. If anything goes bad, maybe I'll change it in the future.

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[Flash Gordon]

Do u recommend an expiration date on the certificates?

I never have, but it would probally be a smart business move to make it one year from the purchase date

 

[Flash Gordon]

I ended up just selling a dollar amount. If anything goes bad, maybe I'll change it in the future.

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You'll be fine rops:

If I were you though I would stick that money in a sock until the individuals calls