DeCA gift cards lose all value

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DeCA gift cards lose all value
By Travis J. Tritten, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Tuesday, March 3, 2009

SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — If you have DeCA gift certificates, forget about using them to shop at your local commissary.

The certificates are no longer worth anything at military supermarkets around the world, the Defense Commissary Agency said Saturday.

Shoppers must instead try for a reimbursement from the Ohio-based company that issued the popular gift certificates — and abruptly went out of business last week, according to DeCA.

CertifiChecks Inc. had sold gift certificates to commissary shoppers as a third-party provider since 2002.

Since then, shoppers bought more than $17.5 million of the certificates.


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