[ThrustVectoring]

Ask the initial buyer to file a chargeback if it was purchased via credit card. At least in the US, there's good protections that way for preventing folks from owing money for goods and services they didn't receive.

[brianpgordon]

But they did receive the gift card. Why should the payment processor assume the risk that, possibly years later, someone doesn't honor the gift card?

[ThrustVectoring]

They're not assuming the risk, the merchant bank is. And the merchant bank should be mitigating that via holding back a portion of credit card receipts from companies for the specific purpose of honoring chargeback demands.

[tdhoot]

I don't think you can chargeback years later, it's usually 45-120 days.