Petition Make gift vouchers fair and stop companies keeping your money after expiry.

From refusal to issue change or a credit note when only part of a voucher is used to simply keeping your money if the voucher expires, these practices are unfair and should be stopped. I call for legislation to control the sale and terms of gift vouchers so that money is never allowed to disappear.

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While class action lawsuits have been setting precedence in the US, the UK is still behind.

A survey in September 2010 by Groupola.com suggested that Britons are have nearly £580m of unused gift vouchers. Many of these won't be honored by issuers.

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2006/apr/29/consumernews.moneysupplement

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/chill-factore-gift-vouchers-trafford-8532757

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/jan/30/are-gift-card-waste-money

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Date closed 9 February 2017
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