All about Gift Cards & Gift Vouchers

Paypal for Faster Payment Cardlimbo now offers Paypal for faster payment for unwanted gift cards.  In March 2013 Cardlimbo began offering customers the option to select Paypal when selling unwanted gift cards. Selecting Paypal results in faster payment to customers that are selling unwanted [ ... ]

Cardlimbo partners with Gifte.com.au Cardlimbo partners with Gifte to provide gift card users with the ability to exchange and swap gift cards.  Gifte.com.au is Australia's first gift card store to offer consumers a broad range of digital e-gift cards as well as plastic gift cards from many [ ... ]

Listen to a clip from our January 2012 radio campaign in Sydney on radio 2UE.    

Cardlimbo features in Channel 7s Today Tonight TV program which aired on 12 December 2011: Gift Voucher Black Hole. Watch the program on Today Tonights website here. http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/consumer/article/-/12326472/gift-voucher-black-hole

  Value of gift cards about timing Nhada Larkin From:National Features August 22, 2011 12:00AM Cardlimbo CEO Fergus Koochew champions the cause for those stuck with unwanted gift cards. Read the full article here. 

Card sharps cash in on plastic gifts Jason Bryce From:The Sunday Mail (Qld) January 09, 2011 12:01AM ..... The gift card market in Australia is worth more than $1.5 billion annually, according to research by Melbourne University. According to Australian Retailers As [ ... ]

Auction websites awash with unwanted Christmas gifts Genevieve Gannon December 28, 2010 CLOTHING, kitchenware and lots of socks are expected to flood websites in the next few days as savvy online sellers seek to cash in on unwanted Christmas gifts. New Melbourne website Cardlimbo, which buys ba [ ... ]

Cardlimbo features on Channel 9 morning TV, The Today Show. 26 December 2010  

The gift that stops giving Reporter: Georgia Main Broadcast Date: December 09, 2010 Gift cards are the perfect gift for those ‘hard to buy for’ family and friends. This year alone, we'll splurge $1.5 billion dollars on them, much of it in the lead up to Christmas. But 20% are nev [ ... ]

Australia's Most Wanted Gift Cards this Christmas Date Published: December 17, 2010 Gift card vouchers are expected to be the number one gift again this Christmas. Making a decision about which gift card to give, however, can be a difficult task. So to help, Cardlimbo, Australia’s [ ... ]

  December 1, 2010 .......Choice says another option is to convert an unwanted gift card to cash or swap the gift card through the internet with someone else. A new website, cardlimbo.com.au, allows consumers to sell unwanted gift cards from about 100 different retailers at between 60 per cent  [ ... ]

There are some hundreds of Australian businesses now issuing and selling their own pre-paid gift cards. Indeed the local market is thought to be worth at least $1 billion a year and growing at 20% per annum. A significant proportion of the value on those cards is never redeemed. One estimate sugg [ ... ]

Gift card traps 15 November 2010 About $1.5 billion worth of gift cards were purchased in the last financial year. About three in four participants in a recent CHOICE survey told us they’d received at least one gift card in the past 12 months, with a similar proportion giving one as a pres [ ... ]

Channel 9's Today Show reports on Gift Card Traps and Gift Card research conducted by Melbourne University and Cardlimbo.   

Gifts that gives no pleasure as millions wasted on vouchers Karen Collier From:Herald Sun November 18, 2010 8:32PM   GIFT cards are going down the gurgler with up to $300 million a year wasted on unwanted vouchers. One in five people is given cards from stores they ra [ ... ]

Australia's Leading Innovation and Entrepreneurial Magazine names Cardlimbo as One of Australia's Most Innovative Companies!  29 June 2010

Anthill’s ‘SMART 100′ Index was developed in 2008 to identify and rank Australia’s 100 most innovative products, proving to be one of the lar [ ... ]

Cardlimbo voted Australia’s Most Innovative Product 2010 - SMART100 People’s Choice Award 19 August 2010
Melbourne online start up, Cardlimbo, has just been voted the Winner of Anthill’s SMART 100 - People’s Choice Award for 2010.
On revealing this years People’s Choice Winner, Anthill  [ ... ]

Edition 1 - StateMON 07 JUN 2010, Page 009 
A $360m gift for retailers --- Vouchers going unspent --- EXCLUSIVE 
By John Rolfe

ABOUT $360 million worth of store gift cards bought this year will never be spent, with the nation's top consumer group calling for a code of practice to control  [ ... ]

Edition 1 - StateSUN 09 MAY 2010, Page 027 
Mother's Day 2010 - Cash now on cards 
By DAVID NANKERVIS

MUMS unhappy with the gift cards they receive today will now be able to turn them into cash.
That's because a couple of enterprising companies have just launched on-line trading sites [ ... ]

Cardlimbo Mothers Day Cash Special!

Looking for some extra cash to spend on your mum this Mothers Day? For a limited time Cardlimbo has lifted the price it will pay for your favourite cards.  Get 90% for your Coles Group & Myer Cards and Woolworths Wish Cards.  Get 85% for other f [ ... ]

Edition 1 - FIRSTTUE 16 MAR 2010, Page 035 
New life for unwanted gift cards 
By John Beveridge 

IT HAS taken a while for an official secondary market in gift cards to emerge in Australia.
But judging by some of the prices on offer on the new Cardlimbo website yesterday, there [ ... ]

Cardlimbo features in The Sydney Morning Herald. Click here to view the article. Online firm Starts Trade in Gift Cards Consumers who have unwanted gift card vouchers can now trade them for cash through a new online company set up expressly for the purpose. Cardlimbo.com.au, which was launched  [ ... ]

Cardlimbo features on Channel 9 News Melbourne 15 March 2010  

 
Cardlimbo features on Melbourne's Channel 7 News - 15 March 2010

Cardlimbo.com.au launches Australia’s first dedicated online market to eliminate gift card voucher wastage.

Gift card vouchers worth millions of dollars expire unused each year. In an Australian first, Cardlimbo (www.cardlimbo.com.au) today launched Australia’s first dedicated online marketpla [ ... ]