Time is running out!
Don’t forget to enter our contest to win one of two $25 gift cards to Macy’s. Coinstar donated both gift cards as part of our post on their new Exchange kiosks, where you can trade in an unwanted gift card for CASH. Yes, cash, ladies! We made a fun video featuring Madi2theMax to let you know what Exchange kiosks can do for you!
Enter to win a $25 Macy’s gift card below!
How Coinstar Exchanges work
- Plug in your gift cards and you’ll get an offer for 60-85% of the value of the card.
- If you accept the offer, you’ll get a voucher that you can exchange for cash immediately.
- Kiosks accept gift cards from nearly 150 retailers.
- The new kiosks are bright yellow (the original ones are green).
- Find a yellow Exchange kiosk in these cities – and the corresponding grocery store.
- Austin – Randalls
- Boston – Stop and Shop
- Chicago – Jewel Osco
- Cleveland – Giant Eagle
- Columbus, OH – Giant Eagle
- Denver – King Soopers and Safeway
- Houston – Randalls
- Fresno – Vons
- Las Vegas – Vons
- Los Angeles – Vons
- Philadelphia – Acme
- Phoenix – Safeway and Albertsons
- Pittsburgh – Giant Eagle
- Seattle, Spokane, and Portland, OR – Safeway
- San Diego – Vons
- Northern California – Safeway
Find a Coinstar Exchange kiosk here
To help prevent fraud, the kiosk reads your drivers license and prints your ID number on the voucher. When you take the voucher to the counter to redeem the cash, the store employee will also check your ID to make sure that you are the rightful owner of the voucher. No need to enter your social, and the information is always secure.
My take on Coinstar Exchange
Getting 60-85% of the value of a gift card is not ideal, however, if you are never going to use a gift card, and you can’t re-gift it, why not get cash for it? What I like about the Exchange kiosks is that you can avoid creating an account on a gift card buy/sell site (like Cardpool.com), you can avoid sending your unwanted gift cards in, waiting for them to be verified, and then waiting to get paid. It’s quick and easy!
If you dump your change into a regular Coinstar machine (the green ones) you can get 100% of your money back as a gift card. There are DOZENS of stores to choose from, including grocery stores and Amazon. That’s as close to cash as you’re going to get – for free!
Enter to win a $25 Macy’s gift card (two winners)
This gift card contest ends Sunday July 13, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. EST.
How many gifts cards do you have lying around?
I was compensated for this campaign. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Welcome to Bargain Babe! I’m Mara, and I’m so glad you’re here. I am an obsessive bargain hunter and penny pincher, and I am determined to live a full life without EVER paying full price. 
I have one gift-card left from Christmas.
I have no gift cards his time.
I have a couple of gift cards, one I’m winding down, and one I haven’t used yet. I would luv to have this!
i have one starbucks card
I have two starbucks cards.
I have about 3 gift cards.
I have three and one is for Paige Denim that I will never, ever use
I have 10 gift cards. I LOVE all kind of gift cards! Shopping, restaurants, Starbucks – they are all great to have.
I have a few gift cards to other stores, but I need to buy some new towels for my bathroom so a Macy’s gift card sure would come in handy! *hint hint* Thanks, BB.
I have one gift card I won in a contest.
I’ve got approximately 60 — and utterly on purpose! I buy discounted gift cards to pay for everyday items like haircuts, movies, drugstore purchases and treating my nephews to McDonald’s.
Normally I don’t have this many; however, my favorite movie chain had a big sale and these cards aren’t usually available, so I bought a whole bunch. Now I’m set for quite some time.
I have no gift cards!
4 papa johns for a when a bad day meets a good deal in pizza!
I have 3 gift cards now.
I have about a handful of gift cards lying around for various stores that I always plan to visit but never seem to get around to doing.
I have SO MANY…probably close to 50. We received FIVE movie theater gift cards for the holidays and haven’t had the opportunity to use them; I have a bunch of retail gift cards (WHBM, Express, Kohl’s, NY & Co, American Eagle, H&M, etc) but I rarely have time to clothes shop–I’m starting to realize the gift cards were hints, haha. DH is a teacher, and his students usually give him a LOT of target, dunkin, b&n, and starbucks gift cards (I can’t tell you how much we appreciate these–so unexpected, SO NICE!!!). We’re hoarding the Target ones for holiday shopping, but the other three are like gold in our house, so we don’t keep those for very long ;-)!
I think we are down to 3; made special trips to use several more recently.
I actually have about 4-5 gift cards with tiny amounts that I’ve been trying to get rid of
I have one gift card now.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any gift cards at the time, but my teenage daughter has an amazon one. She would love to cash it in! Wish we had a Coinstar gift card machine closer to us. 🙂
I have been trying to use them up lately, so I only have about 3.
Two!
about 10…been working on using them.
I have about 3 different gift cards: Fandango, Babies R Us and a local restaurant.
I have 2. We use them a lot. I cash in some points on credit cards for the gift cards.
I have a bunch of gift cards for my kids from game stop. I tend to use mine quickly….no need to let them sit around. And I load my starbucks cards directly onto my phone app.
I have 6 or so.
no gift cards here so I need to win the Macy’s one!
I have 1 starbucks gc
I have one giftcard.
I don’t have any gift cards. I spend them right away 🙂
I have about 10 gift cards
I have five or six gift cards. Have been trying to use them up this summer!
I have about 5 gift cards right now.
I have 2 gift cards.