In the press

The Unwanted Voucher Service's launch in December 2005 was covered by a number of major news channels including BBC and Channel Four.

Launch Press Release - 21st December 2005

Sixty million pounds of gift vouchers given this Christmas will never be redeemed

• This Christmas, over 700 million pounds' worth of gift vouchers will be given as presents, but one in twelve people still have unused vouchers leftover from last year.

• December 21st sees the launch of the Unwanted Voucher Service.  This service will sell or swap any gift vouchers that you’ve got sitting at home.

It is an unfortunate truth of the festive season that we don’t always end up getting quite what we’d hoped for. However, the Unwanted Voucher Service (www.unwantedvoucher.co.uk), launched today, could change all that.

Recent research carried out by the Unwanted Voucher Service indicates that this Christmas up to 60 million pounds' worth of vouchers given as gifts will never be redeemed (1).  According to Dominic Keen from the Unwanted Voucher Service – “We’ve all had that sinking feeling when we don’t quite get what we hoped for at Christmas time. By launching the Unwanted Voucher Service , we hope we can make things a little merrier for everyone this year.”

The Unwanted Voucher Service buys the gift vouchers that people don’t want.  They deal with over forty different types of high-street gift voucher, including ones from Marks & Spenser, Argos and WHSmith.  Their service also makes it easy to swap vouchers for those that you’d prefer to have – so, if your Grandma always gives you book tokens for Christmas, you can now swap them for the fashion vouchers that you really want.

(1) Figures based on market information from The Voucher Association and interviews carried out on behalf of the Unwanted Voucher Service in December 2005.

The Unwanted Voucher Service
www.unwantedvoucher.co.uk

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