Patent ID: 7258273

Claim:
A method for facilitating a purchase agreement between a purchaser and a vendor for stored value cards to avoid escheatment on an unredeemed amount of such stored value cards comprising: presenting a stored value card to a purchaser; said stored value card having a monetary value pre-assigned or assigned at the time of purchase; presenting one or more additional items of value to said purchaser; the vendor transferring an amount of the monetary value of said presented stored value card to said presented one or more additional items of value but the purchaser still being able to use the stored value card up to the full amount of the value paid by the purchaser; and, executing the purchase of said presented stored value card and said presented one or more additional items of value in a transaction with the purchaser such that no escheatment would accrue as long as the purchaser uses the pre-assigned or assigned monetary value of said stored value card for purchases valued up to or above the pre-assigned or assigned monetary value stored on said stored value card minus said transferred monetary value amount.