Sell eBay, Netflix, Uber, IKEA and Other Retail Gift Cards — 74% in the UK
The everyday cards nobody thinks to sell. eBay, Netflix, Uber, Airbnb, IKEA, H&M, Nike, Adidas and prepaid Visa all pay 74% at GiftCasher, cashed out in pounds.
Most articles about selling gift cards talk about Steam and Amazon, because those are the ones with the eye-catching rates. But the cards actually clogging up British drawers are rather more mundane: a Netflix card from a Secret Santa, an IKEA voucher from a house-warming, a prepaid Visa from an aunt who wanted to give money but felt that cash was rude.
All of them are sellable. Here is what they are worth, and — just as importantly — when you should not bother.
The 74% band
These all pay the same rate:
| Card | Rate |
|---|---|
| eBay | 74% |
| Netflix | 74% |
| Uber | 74% |
| Airbnb | 74% |
| IKEA | 74% |
| H&M | 74% |
| Nike | 74% |
| Adidas | 74% |
| Puma | 74% |
| Sephora | 74% |
| Visa / Mastercard (prepaid) | 74% |
| Google Play | 74% |
| Nintendo eShop | 74% |
So a £50 Netflix card is worth £37. A £100 IKEA voucher is worth £74. A £25 Uber card is worth £18.50.
Check any card and any amount in the calculator.
Why these pay less than Steam
It is not a judgement about the brands. It comes down to one question, which sets every rate in this business:
How many people can actually spend this credit?
Steam credit works on any account, in any country, forever — so the buyer pool is the entire PC gaming world, and the rate sits at 90%. An IKEA voucher is useful to somebody who wants furniture, lives near an IKEA, in the right country, before the card expires. That is a far smaller pool of people, and a smaller pool means a lower price.
Prepaid Visa cards are an interesting case. You would think a card that works anywhere would fetch a premium — but they are the single most fraud-prone product in the category, frequently bought with stolen bank details, so buyers price in that risk. Hence 74% rather than something higher.
When you should not sell
We will make less money by writing this section, and we are going to write it anyway.
If you will genuinely use the card, use it. Spending a card is worth 100% of its balance. Selling it is worth 74%. There is no arrangement in which selling a card you were going to spend anyway leaves you better off.
The time to sell a retail card is when the honest answer to "will I ever actually go to Sephora?" is no. A £60 H&M voucher for someone who does not shop at H&M is worth £44.40 in cash and £0 as a good intention. But if you were going to buy trainers next month anyway, that Nike card is worth £100 to you, and we would rather you kept it.
Gift cards are also a depreciating asset — they expire, and the issuer can go bust, in which case you get nothing at all. We wrote about expiry dates and what happens in administration, and it is worth five minutes of your time if you are inclined to leave a card in a drawer "for later".
Part-used cards are fine
Most retail cards in real life are part-spent. You bought a lamp with a £75 IKEA voucher and never went back for the rest.
This is not a problem and there is no penalty. We check the remaining balance during verification and pay the same 74% on whatever is genuinely there. If you do not know the balance, put down the face value — we will find the real number and tell you before crediting your account.
Most physical retail cards have a balance checker on the retailer's website, or the till will tell you in seconds. Here is how to check a gift card balance for the major brands.
Getting paid in pounds
A sterling card pays into a sterling balance, and a PayPal withdrawal sends you sterling. No conversion, no spread.
Worth checking wherever you sell: many gift card exchanges are American in origin and convert everything to dollars somewhere in the pipeline, at a rate slightly worse than the real one, without mentioning it. On a £40 Netflix card the loss is pennies. On a stack of cards it stops being pennies.
If you take crypto instead, USDT, ETH and BTC settle in US dollars, so a pound balance is converted — we show the rate and the exact dollar figure before you confirm. For pounds, take PayPal.
The practicalities
- Minimum card: £20. A £10 Costa card is below our threshold, and honestly, just have the coffee.
- Minimum withdrawal: £50. If you only have one small card, you may need a second before you can cash out.
- Verification: up to 24 hours.
- No fee. The rate you see is the rate you get.
Worth more than you think
The single most common thing we hear is that somebody found a card they had written off entirely. A drawer with an old eBay voucher, a Netflix card, and a prepaid Visa from a birthday is not a drawer of rubbish — at 74% it is quite likely £80 or £90 that you had mentally discarded.
Check what the drawer is worth. It takes about ten seconds a card, and you do not need an account to look.