How EightyUP works
Sell the gift card you won’t use.
Post it under the store price. Someone who actually shops there buys it. They save. You walk away with cash.
01
Post the card
Pick the store. Enter the number and PIN — we check remaining with the store ourselves, no screenshot needed. That’s what’s left. The card never shows on the board.
02
Someone buys it
They pay your ask through Square — not to you. Money sits there until we confirm the card.
03
We check it. Then it's sold.
Someone here opens the store checker by hand. If remaining holds, the sale closes and your ask lands in Money, minus our 8% of the card’s value. The code itself freezes for 10 days as a security step before the buyer can use it. If remaining doesn’t hold, Square refunds them and the card stays yours.
Example
Sally’s leftover Home Depot card
Sally gets a $100 Home Depot card she will never use. She lists it for $80. A guy already heading in for a $100 tool set buys it, pays Home Depot with the full $100, and keeps $20. Sally has cash instead of plastic in a drawer.
Selling
You have a card you won’t use
Enter the number and PIN, we lock remaining straight from the store, you set the ask. Usual ask is $80 on a $100 card.
Buying
You already shop that store
Pay the ask, not the shelf. The store still takes the full amount on the card.
The split
$100 on the card, sold for $80
On the card
$100
What the store will take
Buyer pays
$80
$20 under the shelf
Seller gets
$72
$80 minus our fee, after it sells
EightyUP takes
$8
8% of the card’s $100 value. Square’s ~$2.62 comes out of this, not you.
Practice cards on the board are demos. They don’t move money.
Safety
Money and the PIN never move together
A gift card is just a number. Whoever has it can spend it. So the cash and the code never move at the same time unless the sale actually finished.
Buyer
You don’t pay a stranger
You pay Square. If the card is already gone or the charge fails, you get a refund.
Seller
They can’t walk with the code
The number never hits the board. Cash stays in Square until it closes.
- 1Seller types remaining. The board shows store, balance, and ask — not the number.
- 2Buyer pays Square. You have not been paid yet.
- 3We check the card by hand. If remaining holds, the sale closes: your ask, minus our 8% of the card’s value, is owed to you, and the PIN freezes for 10 days before the buyer can use it.
- 4Anything fails — charge, remaining, listing, or a pull — Square refunds. Card stays with you.