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Cardpool (YC W10) — accelerator company

Cardpool is a gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards up to 30% off their face value, sell their gift cards for up to 90% of their face value in cash, trade their gift cards for an Amazon.com Gift Card, or donate their gift card to charity.

Cardpool is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2010 batch. The founder listed is Tim Wong (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 17, 2012).

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Cardpool

New accelerator entry · 2012-01-17 · the record

Winter 2010
batch
251
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchWinter 2010
Announced2012-01-17
StageEarly
StatusAcquired
Team size251
IndustryConsumer
Sub-industryConsumer -> Home and Personal
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttp://cardpool.com

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Cardpool is a gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards. Customers can buy gift cards up to 30% off their face value, sell their gift cards for up to 90% of their face value in cash, trade their gift cards for an Amazon.com Gift Card, or donate their gift card to charity. Cardpool provides free shipping for both buyers and sellers, a 100-day return policy, and policy of only selling gift cards that have no expiration date and no monthly fees.

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