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"Credit/Debit Card Update Process in Place" - January 07, 2007

We have allowed our users the ability to change their credit/debit card information, be it due to card expiration, or just to switch cards. The new card you wish to use will have to undergo the same Identity Verification process you completed when you registered in the first place. A link to the tool appears under My Account > Replace Credit Card. Should you have any questions, please contact us by clicking on Help. Thank you, CertificateSwap.com


 
"Students weigh the costs of gift cards" - February 03, 2005

There is now a solution for that problem. Online services such as CertificateSwap.com,... allow members to buy, sell and trade gift cards for countless major retailers. Think of it as virtual regifting; nobody has to know.

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"She sees the future, and it's in the cards" - January 25, 2005

Now that the holidays are over -- now that we've pretended to celebrate and mingle and feast and care -- we can finally get down to the business of the only thing we really wanted to do in the first place: Spend those gift cards.

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"Did you get a gift card from a store you don't really like this year?" - January 18, 2005

On CertificateSwap.com, you can check to see what is available from your favorite stores, or in your favorite categories...

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"The Secondary Market For Gift Cards" - January 18, 2005

...once we got our $50 Home Depot card listed there, it was sold within an hour.

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"Get Cash for Dud Gift Cards" - January 04, 2005

If the National Retail Federation's predictions came true, stockings were stuffed with gift cards this year. Did old St. Nick pick your plastic with care? If not, do what revelers the world o'er have been doing for years: Exchange it for something better.

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"The Ins And Outs Of Gift Cards" - December 31, 2004

Did you get one of those holiday gift cards - the ones that look like credit cards? Lots of people did, 75% of us bought at least one of them. If you've not gotten one before - tonight some advice that might surprise you - on how to use them.

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"In June, 2004, the site was acquired by Peter Milosheff" - June 30, 2004

Notice: The news articles featured below are those written on the company's founders, Cameron Johnson and Nat Turner. In June, 2004, the site was acquired by Peter Milosheff of New York City.


 
"How Tech Got Its Groove Back" - May 21, 2004

Cautiously optimistic. Those are the words you hear, from Silicon Valley to New York City, when you ask about the mood of the...

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"Roanoke, Va., Teen Entrepreneur Hopes to Sell Profitable Web Company" - March 18, 2004

Several months later and more than $30,000 richer, Cameron Johnson is cashing in the Web-based business he launched in December...

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"SWAPPING GIFT CERTIFICATES" - March 10, 2004

One of the amazing things about the internet is the way it created a worldwide marketplace. Hard-to-find things aren't so hard to own now...

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"Teenage entrepreneur shops Internet venture to VC firms" - February 27, 2004

Local entrepreneur Nat Turner hopes to cash in on the popularity of retail gift cards with the recent launch of...

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"Swapping unused gift cards begets a brand-new industry" - February 06, 2004

Christmas was six weeks ago, and you still have unused gift cards and certificates crammed in your wallet...

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"A Second Life for Unused Gift Certificates" - January 29, 2004

LAST week I decided it was time to undertake a thorough accounting of my assets....


 
"New site swaps unwanted gift cards for cash" - January 26, 2004

For hundreds of parents, friends and co-workers who werent sure what to buy that difficult person on their list this holiday season, a gift card proved the ultimate solution....

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"Supply and demand" - January 22, 2004

What happens when you get a gift card for a store you don't like?...

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"WHIZ KID STARTS EBAY FOR XMAS GIFT CARDS" - January 18, 2004

Cameron Johnson, the 19-year-old college freshman who started CertificateSwap.com, is on the hunt for some big money to back the fledgling venture...

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"As mentioned on The John Tesh Radio Show" - January 14, 2004




 
"Unused Gift Card? Swap It For Another -- Or Cash" - January 13, 2004

Did you receive a gift card this holiday that will waste away in your wallet or remain in your junk drawer?...

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"As featured on Fox News 23, Tulsa" - January 08, 2004




 
"Looking a Gift Card in the Mouth" - January 08, 2004

CHANCES ARE, Santa left you or someone you love a gift card under the Christmas tree last month...

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"As featured on My 94.1 FM, San Diego, CA" - January 07, 2004




 
"Swap Gift Card On Web Site" - January 06, 2004

Did you receive a gift card this holiday that will waste away in your wallet or remain in your junk drawer?...

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"New Web sites offer gift card exchanges" - January 05, 2004

L.B. of Hampton asked what he can do with a gift card he received to a store that no longer is in our area...

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"As featured on 5 Eyewitness News, Des Moines, IA" - January 04, 2004




 
"As featured on Fox 35 News" - January 03, 2004




 
"As featured in the Duluth News Tribune" - January 03, 2004




 
"As heard live in Houston on TalkRadio 950 KPRC" - January 03, 2004




 
"As featured in the Montgomery Advertiser" - January 03, 2004




 
"SHOPPING FOR YOURSELF IN MICHIANA" - January 02, 2004

Christmas may be over, but the spending season is still in full swing.

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"Ten tips to save money in 2004" - January 02, 2004

Once again, financial resolutions top our lists of the things we hope to accomplish in 2004. We want to save more, spend less, get out of debt...

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"As featured on Channel 3 WCIA, Champaign, IL" - January 01, 2004




 
"Rise in gift card use spawns sites to swap them" - December 31, 2003

Gift cards, the modern equivalent of retail gift certificates, have become the rage of the holiday season...

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"Go online to offload unwanted gift certificates" - December 31, 2003

You may not want the gift certificates you got over the holidays. But someone else may be willing to trade you for the certificate you really covet -- or give you cold, hard cash...

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"As featured on NBC, San Diego, CA" - December 31, 2003




 
"High-Tech Texan: CertificateSwap.com" - December 31, 2003

Not too long ago I talked about gift cards and how you can use them not only at retail stores, but also online at specific Web sites...VIDEO BROADCAST AVAILABLE AT LINK

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"New Website Allows Trading of Store Gift Cards" - December 31, 2003

It's been almost a week since Christmas and many of us have already spent time standing in line to...TV BROADCAST AVAILABLE AT WEBSITE

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"As featured on KSTP TV, ABC Channel 5" - December 30, 2003




 
"As featured on NBC 12, Richmond, VA" - December 30, 2003




 
"As featured on KEYE News, Texas" - December 30, 2003




 
"Teen launches web based business for unwanted gifts" - December 30, 2003

FEATURED ON TV BROADCAST...Cameron Johnson knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of a bad gift. "I've gotten gift certificates that I may not have wanted,"...

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"Retailers cashing in on gift-card sales" - December 30, 2003

Gift cards may end up being even bigger than big this year...

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"As featured in The Herald Sun" - December 30, 2003

At least it's not regifting: When even the gift card doesn't fit, unhappy gift recipients now can turn to the Internet.

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"As featured on First Coast News" - December 29, 2003




 
"As featured on KSN News, Wichita, KS" - December 29, 2003




 
"GIFT CARDS" - December 29, 2003

If you received a gift card or certificate this holiday season, but its to a store you didnt like or the store was to far away, we have a solution...

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"As featured on NBC Channel 4, Southern California" - December 29, 2003




 
"Exchanging Gift Cards" - December 29, 2003

Got a gift certificate or gift card that doesn't quite fit? Just in time for the season of returns come websites that enable you to swap, sell...

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"Returning Gifts Pain-Free" - December 29, 2003

FEATURED ON THE EARLY SHOW...Gift cards were one of the most popular items this season, to the tune of more than $17 billion. Redeeming is easy, but gift cards can almost never be returned...

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"Analysis: Gift card buyers beware" - December 29, 2003

They may be made of plastic but some gift cards begin shrinking almost immediately because of dormancy fees and service charges and should...

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"Pretty packages leave paper trail" - December 28, 2003

As analysts carry on about disappointing holiday sales, one is left with the impression that the only sure bet during the holidays is that gift wrap sales will boom...

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"As seen on WSAZ News" - December 27, 2003




 
"As seen on ABC 13 News, Houston, Texas" - December 27, 2003




 
"Web sites specialize in gift-card trading" - December 27, 2003

You're the sort of person with yellow Post-it notes on your computer, the type known to scrawl a phone number on your palm...

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"Gift cards sell at brisk pace" - December 27, 2003

...And if you received a gift card that doesn't give you the flexibility you want, you can go and sell or trade it online at CertificateSwap.com.

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"Trade your gift certificates with others" - December 27, 2003

More than $5 million worth of gift cards were purchased this Christmas season...

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"BIG MOVERS" - December 27, 2003

...Certificateswap.com, which debuted earlier this month. In midafternoon on Christmas Day, there were five Sears gift certificates on Certificateswap...

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"Gift Card Swap" - December 26, 2003

Maybe you got a gift card but it is not a store you like or from a store that's no where near you. We have a solution...

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"As featured on WRAL, Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville, North Carolina" - December 26, 2003




 
"Website allows gift cards to be swapped" - December 26, 2003

If you got a gift certificate for Christmas that you aren't happy with, you may be in luck...

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"A day for returns, bargains" - December 26, 2003

Lines of cars snaked around fast food restaurants this morning as gift-returners decided to grab breakfast on the go...

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"As featured on KOAM TV 7" - December 26, 2003




 
"The gift of choice" - December 25, 2003

Evelyn McLeod of Paterson says Christmas shopping got a lot easier when she discovered the gift that fits all. This year, her...

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"Entrepreneur finds market for unwanted certificates" - December 23, 2003

Now a freshman at Virginia Tech, Cameron Johnson said he couldn't pass up investing in the gift card industry...

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"Trading Cards" - December 22, 2003

There are a lot of reasons merchants love the current gift-card boom, but topping the list is this powerful statistic from auditors Deloitte & Touche: 10%...

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"USE IT or lose it" - December 19, 2003

A few years back, my brother gave me an online gift card at Amazon.com. Not yet an online shopper, I procrastinated for more than a year before trying to use...

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"Just card them" - December 18, 2003

They always fit, they don't break, they don't need batteries and they're easy to hide. Yet gift certificate envelopes aren't the most exciting gift under the tree...

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"As featured on Channel 46, Atlanta's News Channel, Altanta, GA" - December 17, 2003




 
"Swapping gift certificates moves to the Net" - December 14, 2003

This Christmas, instead of stuffing an unused gift certificate into a drawer and forgetting about it, why not use it for something you really....

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"Website to Sell or Exchange Unwanted Gift Cards" - December 14, 2003

What do you get the person who has everything? How about a gift card or a gift certificate? Well, what if you buy them a card at a store they don`t shop at?...

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"As featured on FOX31 News in Denver, CO" - December 13, 2003




 
"Net site provides gift card market" - December 11, 2003

If you get a gift card or certificate that you can't use or just don't want this holiday season, a young entrepreneur wants to provide online.....

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"CertificateSwap.com Launches Gift-Certificate Trading Site" - December 11, 2003

CertificateSwap.com launched a new site for trading gift certificates online. The company said anyone can buy, sell, or exchange gift certificates.....

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