Talk:GiftCards.com

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This is to be the official page for GiftCards.com. GiftCards LLC will redirect here.— Preceding unsigned comment added by McNelis41 (talk • contribs)

While I support the merger, I must point out that there are no "official pages" on Wikipedia. The subjects of Wikipedia articles do not own the articles - they are Wikipedia's articles about the subjects. Please also note that you are required by the Terms of User to declare your conflict of interest, preferably on your user page.--ukexpat (talk) 13:25, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have read through both articles, and it does not appear that there is any information on the GiftCards LLC page that is not already on this page. So I'm going to call this an uncontroversial merge of a duplicate page and just turn the LLC article into a redirect. Rwessel (talk) 18:41, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I would vote to delete this page. The NBC link is actually NBClosangeles.com a regional "chapter" I guess (first thought was a fake site..) and the content is on many, not just GiftCards.com. The New York Times[1] article is also on more than them and about selling your gift cards – because you might not want them in the first place.. Not a good endorsement?

I stopped checking, should sources only support that you exist (to sell you something)? "Gift Cards" is pretty generic (the concept), anyone could have bought the domain first. I have a high tolerance for inclusion in WP, but you need to draw the line somewhere – I think I would draw it at giftcards.com – a company that actually sells you something that is nothing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Comp.arch (talk • contribs) 15:53, 19 August 2015‎

I took a closer look at some of the references, I think I'd support an AfD at this point. Rwessel (talk) 04:06, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright issues[edit]

It appears that portions of this article may have been copied from other sites, for example [2]. From the wording I suspect that the above is not a copy *from* the Wikipedia article. I think it likely that both were written by someone involved with the company (presumably from some standard company history), but the copyright status of this text needs to be resolved. This is not the only example. Rwessel (talk) 18:59, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I am fully open to the idea of re-working or re-writing the content in an unbiased manor. The example is a site that scraped content off of http://www.giftcards.com/about-us. Can you please let me know what I should do? Justinfritz (talk) 19:05, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, the copyright holder is (presumably) GiftCards.com. The organization could donate that text, or release it under a license like WP:CC BY-SA, but even if the company were willing to do that (and pretty much no one is), the text is still being copied from your website, and that is not what would normally be considered a reliable source (WP:RS). Basically text should be paraphrases or summaries from reliable sources. Much information about the issue is available at WP:COPYVIO. Note, if you have a conflict of interest, you should generally (see the COI page) avoid editing the article directly, but feel free to suggest changes on this talk page. Rwessel (talk) 19:26, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

GiftCards.com

GiftCards.com is an American-based prepaid gift card retail website that sells personalized Visa gift cards^[1] and egift cards. GiftCards.com was founded in 1999 by Jason Wolfe under its original name DirectCertificates.com^[2]. Today, the company has over 95 employees and over $100 million in annual sales^[3]. GiftCards.com is headquartered in Green Tree, PA^[4] a suburb of Pittsburgh.

History

GiftCards.com was founded in 1999 as DirectCertificates.com by Jason Wolfe^[5]. In 2003, Wolfe purchased the domain name GiftCards.com for more than $40,000 and changed the business name^[6].

By 2006, GiftCards.com and Wolfe's sister company (Direct Response Technologies) were sold to Digital River for $21 million^[7].

In 2007, Mr. Wolfe bought back both GiftCards.com (originally DirectCertificates.com) and Direct Response Technologies for an undisclosed amount of money^[8]. After the purchase, Wolfe decided to convert GiftCards.com from a third-party gift card distributer into a manufacturer and developed GiftCards.com headquarters in Green Tree, PA^[9].

In 2014, GiftCards.com grew to over 100 employees and reached $110 million in revenue^[10].

References

[1] ttp://www.forbes.com/2008/11/26/gift-cards-shopping-forbeslife-cx_jp_1128lifestyle.html

[2] ttp://www.bbc.com/news/business-28409603

[3] ttp://fortune.com/2014/11/07/tech-star-jason-wolfe-giftcardscom/

[4] ttp://www.post-gazette.com/business/2014/05/30/green-tree-tech-firm-planning-campaign-for-gift-cards/201405280150

[5] ttp://www.post-gazette.com/business/2014/05/30/green-tree-tech-firm-planning-campaign-for-gift-cards/201405280150

[6] ttp://www.entrepreneur.com/article/235585

[7] ttp://www.post-gazette.com/business/2014/05/30/green-tree-tech-firm-planning-campaign-for-gift-cards/201405280150

[8] ttp://www.post-gazette.com/business/2014/05/30/green-tree-tech-firm-planning-campaign-for-gift-cards/201405280150

[9] ttp://www.post-gazette.com/business/2014/05/30/green-tree-tech-firm-planning-campaign-for-gift-cards/201405280150

[10] ttp://www.post-gazette.com/business/2014/05/30/green-tree-tech-firm-planning-campaign-for-gift-cards/201405280150

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