Daily Archives: December 12, 2008

Gift cards: The present that keeps on taking?

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING The most popular holiday gifts this year will be clothing, but the second most-common present will be gift cards (NPR.org 11.19.08). Yet gift cards are notoriously problematic. Take for example The Sharper Image, which recently went into bankruptcy. The high-tech toy company left consumers holding more than $60 million worth of [...]