Do you have a weird uncle or a senile aunt that for some reason keeps sending all the boys in the family gift cards to “Victoria’s Secret”? …or sends all the girls gift cards to…ummm…the “Jock-strap Emporium”, or some place equally wrong? Wouldn’t it be great to try to get some cash for that card instead of trying to find something to buy with it?

Turns out there are a few companies that do just that. CardAvenue.com and SwapAThing are out there a ready to use for dumping your crappy gift cards, and both are featured in a Wired article.

I think that its a great time we live in, when someone with a cool idea can slap a international business together in a matter of months and have a real chance at success.

(In case you were wondering, I do not intend to use either of these services to swap my gift cards from Best Buy even though I was having a bit of a deliema. Turns out that you can order an iSight camera in the store and have it shipped to your house. So if nothing super cool comes out of the upcoming Mac World Expo, then I’ll have an iSight.