No Print of Value | Cheap Nylon Packaging with Visible Serial #
Gift cards are simply the best option for allowing the recipient to buy what they need, taking guesswork out of planning and gifting people for occasions. Unless they have a public wishlist on Amazon or you are making a custom DIY gift for the recipient, you might very well buy a gift that isn't a useful to them, specially if you don't know their likes and dislikes.<br /><br />Therefore in the time when buying random physical gifts are obsolete, fancy gift cards need to be given a special place in terms of customizable presentation, designs, colors and styles - specially on a platform like Amazon. You would think that you will be spoiled with various beautiful and upend choices of gift cards packaged in great variety of styles and designs. But to my astonishments, the range of choices are very limited, often to very cheap and dollar store type thrown together packagings. Neither are environmentally friendly, using chemical heavy processes to produce gloss and sparkles.<br /><br />Another option is to go with a plain card design and then get a separate gift wrapping and boxing solutions. A search for that yielded few and poor selection of results.<br /><br />This seemed somewhat better than others but apart from the dreadful faults shown in other reviews such as the card arriving bent and with faults, no thought has been given to the process;<br /><br />(1) The box arrives inside an ugly, cheap nylon packaging with a sticker label that reveals ALL the serial numbers and information necessary to use the gift card without even opening it. How dumb is that. This can open the gift card to theft as you don't even have to open the box to use the code to claim the value.<br /><br />I wanted to open the box and inspect it to be sure all is as should be and adding a few more customized items to it. You couldn't do that because of that stupid and dumb nylon packaging. Why not open the nylon packaging then, you might ask. Since I didn't have a prior experience with this design, I didn't know if I could open the nylon package since the critical information regarding the code were on the seal line that closed the box. I imagined and hoped the information is also printed on the card but wasn't sure since there were references in reviews and other places that nothing is printed on the cards. They are just cosmetic and generic. I know this might sound a no brainer, but given how often these things are overlooked, I wanted to be sure. I opened the box and the information was on the card's back but then I still don't understand why you would print it on a nylon packaging that the unit came in; something that a user should throw away. A blank and clear nylon packaging was sufficient and would avoid creating confusion.<br /><br />Also rather than a nylon, I preferred an eco friendly packing option such as a cardboard paper of some sort.<br /><br />(2) Dumber still, the value on the card is not printed. This was a customized amount not listed among options. This is for making it easier for the supplier not having to bother with an additional step of printing something. Nevertheless, that sometimes matter and important to the giver and receiver. Most cards you buy from the shelves also do not have a value printed unless you buy the pre-loaded ones at set values. The point of getting a customized card is to have it customized.<br /><br />(3) The last but not least is the no return, no refund policy. If a card's style or presentation doesn't meet expectations, they should make it easier to cancel and transfer the funds to another style or replacement.
Rating: 1 stars