It has never been easier to join the jamboree all the exclusive benefits of the D23 membership are now available as a gift card. You can give a friend or family member the gift of an exclusive D23 membership with the purchase of the Disney D23 gift card. The D23 gift card gives the card holder a one year membership in Disney’s D23 club, a one year subscription to the Disney twenty-three magazine, discounted tickets to the D23 Expo (worth $84) held annually and access to members only merchandise and special events. Perhaps one of the biggest perks of D23 membership is the iconic D23 membership certificate and a surprise gift from the Disney Archives.

The D23 Disney gift card is available for only $74.99 from all domestic Disney Stores and all Disney Land Resorts. The tickets to the D23 expo alone are worth the price of the Disney gift card. This is an incredible gift for any Disney fan, act now because these wont last long!

Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for Disney Gift cards appearing on Giftah. Occasionally someone receives a Disney gift card that is not a big Disney fan, these cards end up on Giftah’s gift card marketplace, usually selling for a large discount. Keep your eyes open for the incredible deals on these discounted Disney gift cards they won’t last long.

The Ellen Degeneres show is generously giving away a $400 IKEA gift card. While it may fall short of getting you a good IKEA couch, the large amount would certainly get you a large amount of furniture. All you have to do to enter is head over to Ellen’s website (click here) and fill out the entry form. You must be at least eighteen years old and a resident of the United States to enter.

If you have trouble spending all that money at IKEA, consider selling your gift card on Giftah. The site allows you to sell any gift card at auction or you can also sell it directly to Giftah. IKEA gift cards are in high demand so you should be able to get a lot of cash for your gift card.

GameStop and Atari’s Backyard Baseball are hosting a competition this summer to find GamesStop’s Backyard Baseball Kid of the Year. Anyone can enter on GameStop’s website (click here) before August 16th to be eligible to win. The contest is open to any legal residents of the United States who are 6 years or older.

There are some great prizes available, first place takes home two $1,000 GameStop gift cards and a official MLB baseball autographed by David “Big Papi” Ortiz. There are also 100 additional $30 GameStop gift cards available and 500 trial subscriptions to Baseball Youth Magazine.

The GameStop gift card are obviously the major win in this competition, scoring $1,000 for GameStop could easily net you several of the newer consoles and some games to boot. If you’re not a gamer the contest still could be worth the time it takes to fill out your entry. You can always unload any GameStop gift cards you win for cold hard cash. Giftah the online gift card marketplace lets you sell gift cards for cash.

If you are a Toronto Hydro customer there is a new promotion available that offers $75 dollar gift cards to over 250 leading retailers of your choice. All you have to do is sign up for peaksaver a new service from Toronto Hydro that cuts down your air conditioners energy consumption during peak hours. If you sign up for the service Toronto Hydro will install a device to your air conditioner that will reduce its energy consumption. The service helps the power companies save money and consumers should not notice any major difference in the temperature of their homes.

After the peaksaver device has been installed you will be contacted to make your choice of the available gift cards. Gift cards are available for Harvey’s, Swiss Chalet, Winners, HMV, Cineplex, Kelsey’s, Canadian Tire, the Home Depot and hundreds more.

Head over to Toronto Hydro’s Website to sign up or call 1-877-487-8574 Mon – Fri between 8am and 9pm. Be sure to use the following promotion code: DM200901
If the electrical bill is still too large after installing the peaksaver system considering selling your cards on Giftah, a online marketplace for buying and selling gift cards.

Nestea is running a new promotion that offers consumers $25 prepaid Mastercard gift cards if they collect a certain number of Nestea proof of purchases off of specially marked products. To cash in on the deal collect one of these sets of products:

1) 12 x 473/591ml bottles of Nestea, Nestea Cool, or Nestea Vitao and receive a $25 prepaid Mastercard gift card.

2) 10 x 10 (200ml) tetra packs of Nestea and receive a $25 prepaid Mastercard gift card.

3) 10 x 2 bottles of Nestea Cool and receive a $25 prepaid Mastercard gift card.

4) 8 x 1.89L cartons of Nestea

5) 4 x 12 (341ml) can packs of Nestea, Nestea Cool, or Nestea Vitao.

The proof of purchases will be available on specially marked Nestea products until the all the packages are sold or August 31, 2009. After purchasing the products the proof of purchase and receipts must be mailed in to Nestea. Each household is limited to claiming 3 $25 prepaid Mastercard gift cards. For the full details of this promotion check out Nestea’s Refresh and Redeem website.

Gift cards are an easy gift to give, and as long as the store is alright people love to receive them. Yet almost everyone who has ever received a gift card has let the card expire, lost it, or still have it sitting around the home somewhere. Why don’t people use their gift cards quickly, why do so many gift certificates expire without being used?

In a 2006 report consumer electronics retailer Best Buy revealed they had profits of $43 million from gift cards that went unused. The value of the entire unused gift card market in the United States is over $8 billion a year. Over 27% of consumers surveyed that year had cards they had held onto for over a year, they cited not having time to shop or not being able to find what they wanted as the reason for not using the gift cards.

The real reason can be found by scientifically examining human’s behavior, a study was conducted where two test groups received gift cards, one group’s gift cards had an expiry date of three weeks and the other groups gift certificates expired in three months. The group with the gift cards expiring in three weeks was five times more likely to use their cards. The expiry date on the card gave the group a sense of urgency, while the other group felt they had all the time in the world, they kept putting off using the card until it was expired. This is the reason many gift certificates do not carry expiry dates, people are less likely to ever use them.

So what can you do as a consumer? How can you fight your own behavior? Being aware of the condition is the first step to freeing yourself from it. Now that you know what happens to gift cards without expiry dates you can make more of an effort to use them quickly. If you get a card for a store you are not going to be shopping at soon it is much better to sell the gift card online then risking its loss or expiry. The best site for selling gift cards online is Giftah. Giftah offers an online marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of gift cards. If you want to sell your gift card online head over to Giftah and get cash for your unwanted gift cards.

Saks Fifth Avenue is offering a one day promotion that lets shoppers receive Saks Fifth Avenue gift cards in return for shopping at the store.  The offer is only available for one day, May 2oth, 2009. The offer can also be used online and in combination with free shipping (use code SHIPSPR9). Here is how the offer works;

Spend $250 to $499 and get a $25 Saks Fifth Avenue Gift Card.

Spend $500 to $999 and get a $50 Saks Fifth Avenue Gift Card.

Spend $1,000 to $1,999 get a $100 Saks Fifth Avenue Gift Card.

Spend $2,000 to $2,999 get a $300 Saks Fifth Avenue Gift Card.

Spend $3,000 or more and get a $450 Saks Fifth Avenue Gift Card.

The promotion is called spend$some get$ome and the code May9 must be used at checkout. Pre-order items are excluded and certain designer exclusions apply. Gift cards balances may also be deducted for returned merchandise. Since you need to drop ahuge amount of cash just to get one of the gift cards you may want to recover some of your loses and sell your gift card on Giftah.

Ikea Canada is having a promotion right now for customers looking to buy some new bedding. The Ikea Bedroom Event gives consumers 20% of their spending back on a Ikea gift card when they buy any Sultan mattresses or box-springs.  The promotion runs from May 11 – 31, 2009 which leaves a couple weeks to get in on this promo.

Many companies have been offering promotions involving gift cards this spring, Canadian Tire and Shoppers Drug Mart have similar gift card promotions happening now. However, Ikea gift cards are much more valuable then many of the other promotions. If you end up with a Ikea gift card you don’t plan on using sell the gift card on Giftah. Ikea gift cards are very popular and always command a high selling price.