I wrote about using our cashback bonus money for gift cards to restaraunts. We saw that one of them was going bankrupt, namely Bennigan’s, so we went to lunch there today to use up the cards before they were no good any more.

Tragedy! “We’re sorry, we don’t accept those any more. Corporate shut down and we can no longer redeem the cards.”

Oof. While I can understand fully the local restaraunt’s position, they would be out out meal cost, it was still a bit of a let down thinking we were getting a “free lunch” when we weren’t. Thankfully, the manager was very understanding and took off 20% for the inconvienience. That was nice!

The very large up side to the whole process, a brief call to the card with the cashback bonus got the bonus refunded for the now defunct gift cards! So, while we were looking forward to an afternoon out on the gift cards, it ended well.

Peace,
Tony