Gift Cards - How do they Work?

Mage 13X13

OK, the title pretty much asks the question, but I have to get details to clarify what I wish to know.

Basically, I want to buy a gift card for myself and then use it to buy store credit. The gift card would be invalid after one year, according to the promo page. If I purchase Store Credit with it, am I correct in assuming that there is no expiration on that other than when it is all used up?

The reason I wish to do this is because I have a limited amount of funds for purchasing content and other store items, and to make sure it is available for when I wish to use it for a DAZ purchase, I would like to have it in Store Credit form to ensure I cannot spend it elsewhere.

Thanks in advance for any information you can provide for me. 

MelanieL

Store credit lasts forever (until you spend it!) as you thought - it's just unclaimed Gift Cards that expire.

I've been using GC's for nearly eight years - one reason is (like you) to limit spending to a budget (good luck with that though). The other reason is for people like me (outside the US) currency conversion can be so variable that I like to buy a GC when the exchange rate for me is high. The only exception to this is when DAZ has a good sale on GCs which outweighs currency conversion losses - look out for these, I've seen them up to 20% at times (some people report even better when there has been a store glitch)

barbult

Select gift card in the store and put your own Daz account email address in both email address fields. Add It to your cart and purchase it. In a few minutes You will receive an email message from Daz with a gift card number. It is a link . Click on It to redeem the gift card to store credit in your account. You will get no feedback that It worked. Go to your account and check your store credit balance. You should see the addition of the credit from the GC You just redeemed. There is a store bug that sometimes causes two emails with two different GC numbers to be sent. If the first one doesn't work, that was the buggy one. Try the other one. It should work.

Mage 13X13

Many Thanks MelanieL and barbult. You have both provided excellent information, including need to know items I was not expecting. I most definitely appreciate it all.