I first learned about CardSwap back in 2009 and shared it with readers on the blog. The company had a great idea – a central place where Canadians could buy and sell gift cards! You know, the one your aunt got you from a store you’d never shop at, or the one you got ages ago for a store 2 hours away from you. It was the perfect spot to sell those cards and for people to pick up gift cards at a discount. Though the discount would always vary, you’d still walk away with a deal.
Now, CardSwap has found a way to take a great program and make it better. Instead of a variance in prices and deals, they’ve streamlined everything. What you pay for the card is it’s face value. So, a $125 Old Navy card is going to cost you $125 at CardSwap.
So why shop at CardSwap and not the actual store? Because the store doesn’t reward you for your gift card purchase and CardSwap does!
So, for example, if I were to buy the $125 Old Navy Gift Card I’ve been eyeing at CardSwap, I’d get back 625 SwapPoints just for that purchase! I can then save them up and get myself a gift card as my own reward OR I can just cash out via PayPal. Very cool.
Of course, CardSwap operates by receiving cards from people who don’t want the ones they have so you can still sell your gift cards to CardSwap AND you get SwapPoints for selling cards too!
Bookmark CardSwap.ca and keep it in mind when shopping for gift cards this holiday season AND of course in January should you receive a gift card in your stocking this year that will make you wonder what the gifter was thinking! 😉
Winners/La Senza cards are always nice.
I liked CardSwap before their recent revamp because they had a much larger selection of gift cards but now they seem to save a lot of them for redemption instead. Plus instead of paying less right off the bat, it’s all about point collection now. Oh well…guess it still saves a bit of money!
I love gift cards from Old Navy!
I love CardSwap!! they have any card you can possibly think of!!
Amazon.ca, I do a lot of shopping there.
LOVING shopper’s drug mart gift cards 🙂
I like getting the grocery cards for practical reasons, but would love to get a Winners card or Home Outfitters card for myself. I also liked it better before the points system where I would save money straightaway, but the fact that I can transfer to Paypal is also appealing. Didn’t know about the Paypal part.
I like the walmart gift cards.
Starbucks!
Definitely WaySpa!! 🙂
winners!! 🙂
Wow. I too think I liked it before their changes. Would probably choose Shoppers Drug Mart.
I always like an Amazon.ca giftcard.
I saw a Winners gift card I wouldn’t mind having!
Shoppers Drug Mart.
Winners! One of my fave stores
canadian tire would be nice
The Old Navy and Amazon cards stood out for me! Thanks!
I like Sephora cards
I’d like to have a Canadian Tire gift card.
I always buy Canadian Tire cards from CardSwap because I get my gas there.
The walmart GC would be nice.
I’d love one of the Canadian Tire GC’s! THe 100 one looks great!
Shoppers Drug Mart
Esso. I could always use gas cards.
I would like a Toys’r’us gift card to buy my grandkids Christmas gifts.
I would love the Shoppers Drug Mart for sure!
Canadian tire would be awesome!
A Canadian Tire GC would be a great gift for my husband!
Gift cards from Shoppers’ Drug Mart and Canadian Tire definitely caught my eye.
The Keg gift card would be great, I would put it towards a nice dinner out for my wife and I.
SDM would be my first choice and Walmart a close second.
walmart
Walmart and Shoppers Drug Mart 🙂
The Esso and Shoppers Drug Mart GC has caught my eye
Walmart and Old Navy caught my eye!
I’d like the Esso card to put away till our road trip next spring…then it would be like free gas! since we probably would have forgotten about it.
One of the $25 Old Navy Gift Cards would be great.
I like the Chapters Indigo card or the Keg card! Thanks for the chance to win!
Oooh, it would be so hard to choose between Old Navy, Chapters, and Cineplex! Thanks for the chance to win 🙂
wow, Starbucks caught my eye as did Tim Hortons which says they are out of stock at this time
yourstrulee(at)sasktel(dot)net
I just bought a Homesense card and one for Pizza Pizza. I use card swap often and I really like how they’ve changed things to make it even easier to be rewarded.
I’d like the cineplex card
Chapters Indigo!
i’d love the hbc/home outfitters card
I could use the Mark’s gift card!
amazon or starbucks, I’d use them up in a flash
Cineplex 🙂
a giftcard from chapters would be great!
I like the Tims card!
The Keg gift card would make a great night out!!
I like the chapters/indigo card
Cardswap offers great deals. I’ve been using them for almost 2 years now, and I love the deals that I’ve received in the past! It was a change when they switched over to the swap-points originally, but it’s like earning free money towards a different gift card of your choice; when you would have had to spend the money at a store anyways and pay full face value! The cards I have ordered in the past come within 3-4 days of me ordering them…It’s amazing! Don’t even have to leave the comfort of your own home. 🙂
I like the Canadian Tire
Starbucks.
Chapters gift card caught my eye
thanks
Shoppers drug mart
I’d take the JOEY restaurant card i’m dying to try that place and their gluten free menu!
I would like Tim Hortons for my husband
Tim Hortons
The $50.00 Amazon.ca GC caught my eye.
Thank you for this post! I was just trying to remember what this site was because I have a GC that I’d like to get rid of. Good timing!
the tims or the bon appetit card. it would be a good night out with the last one
Tim Hortons!!
I’d love the Amazon.ca gift card.
I would love the Chapters gift card or Canadian Tire
I always treat myself to Starbucks when I head into Saskatoon. It’s an even better treat when I have a gift card and don’t have to pay for my latte. So it would definitely be the Starbucks card.
Old Navy!
Canadian Tire
Tim Hortons Please;)
tim hortons
Toys R Us for Christmas shopping!
I would get a Boston Pizza gift card!
I would love an Ikea card!
Thank you for this contest. I signed up a while ago but haven’t purchased a card yet. Forever 21 is opening in Victoria at Uptown. My daughter’s favourite store. I will buy gift card from this site when 1 becomes available…Christmas present 🙂
Ardene.
The Toys R Us caught my eye *wink wink* 🙂
HBC!
Canadian Tire
Bon Appetit for some yummy swiss chalet. :0)
i would chose a Home Depot GC
Winners!
Home Depot.
La Senza!!
I would love a -Shoppers Drug Mart card…Pretty please with sugar on top !!!
WINNERS HOMESENSE…MY FAVE STORES
Oh but it’s so hard to choose! Can Tire for house stuff? Winners/HomeSense for me stuff? Old Navy for kid stuff? Can I have one of each? 😉
the amazon gift cards!
I would like a chapters indigo gift card.
I like the Chapters Cards
Tim Hortons!
Marks work warehouse caught my eye
Chapters! Always need new books to read.
Home Depot for my DH…maybe it will get him moving on finishing our basement! ;o)
A card that caught my eye is Tim Hortons
Old Navy!
Chapters/indigo
starbucks
Oliver & Bonacini so I can take my boyfriend out to dinner.
Canadian Tire
Winners/Home Sense
Tim Hortons
Shoppers Drug Mart
Shoppers Drug Mart 🙂
Best Buy!
I’d love to say The Keg so hubby and I could go for a date night, but Shoppers Drug Mart would get used immediately.
Best Buy – that would be great.
amazon.ca and Canadian Tire
The winners homesense card
Winners
The Keg Steakhouse gift card!
winners
I’d like a costco card!
The Keg Steakhouse( love their steak)
Walmart gift card:)
Cineplex would be great
The Keg…yum!
tim hortons
A Chapters card would be a great gift for one of my kids, or my husband, or for me.
Esso
Shopper’s Drug mart
I would probably choose old navy.
Winners!
A Payless card would be great. Who doesn’t need more shoes? 😉
Tim Hortons
The Cara card or Timmies.
can’t wait to hear who won!