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You can find plenty of things on eBay. If you don't need them now, I would save them for when you need something. They have lots of fixed price auctions (eg. Not an auction) so you don't need to participate in the competitive part if you don't want to.

@Mrs. Yoyo: Great idea. Buy a gas card gift card with it or a grocery gift card. Check the seller rating before you do though.

I agree; you may be pleasantly surprised by what you can find on Ebay. However, I too, would have preferred a Visa gift card or cash! I'm not sure if you're interested, but I'd look into selling clothes, books, home goods, electronics, etc on Ebay and using the gift card to pay for the seller fees. It's an "easy" way to make some pocket change.

@Skadi: lots of stores are now on eBay. Babies R Us is just one of them. We bought some of J's gear with PayPal funds on their eBay store.

eBay started to lure retailers to compete with amazon. So there are a ton on there, drugstores, etc.

I would save them for any obligatory gift situations in the next year- christmas, weddings, birthdays, etc.

Giftcards.com buys unwanted giftcards. They'll buy $200 of ebay cards for $162 in a check or through paypal. https://www.giftcards.com/sell-gift-cards

You could see if a friend or co-worker would be interested in buying the gift cards from you. I feel like if you sell them elsewhere, you won't get as much money for them. Alternatively, you can actually buy gift cards on ebay itself, so maybe find one you'd use for everyday things (like Target or something) and basically trade them that way.

There are a lot of things on ebay now that aren't auction style and are more of just a store front. I think the last thing I bought on ebay was undershirts for DH. There are "useful" items that you may actually need if you need anything material at all.

I've bought a lot of stuff on Ebay and don't think i've every bought something "auction" style. Ebay is just another way for companies to host a online storefront - it doesn't have to be an auction.

I bought home renovation stuff there, there are lots of practical things... like, if your husband's car needs parts because of his commute, you can buy all sorts of car parts there (I just bought a headlight for my car)

Ebay, like amazon, also has a large food selection. You could buy some of your pantry staples to help keep your grocery bill down (cereal, pasta, etc)

Also - i'm not sure how ebay gift cards work, but is there any chance you can load the balance on your paypal account? (you may have to create one anyway when you sign up for ebay) You can use paypal to pay for almost anything online, sometimes including bills if your area does online bill pay. And i bet you can buy gift cards with paypal money. But again, i'm not sure if ebay gift cards can be paypal money...

Why not just find something on there that has a "Buy it now" option? Then you don't have to deal with bidding and competing with people. eBay has everything, there has to be something you would like!