First, pay with the gift card to use up the balance, and then pay the rest with cash or a credit or debit card. Some states give consumers another option: In California, for example, gift cards. The Starbucks eGift Card is valid for 30 days from the date of purchase. After 30 days from the date of purchase, the eGift will be considered expired and no refund will be made or reimbursed to the sender of the Starbucks eGift Card. Extension of the validity period is not allowed. Once the Starbucks eGift Card is redeemed, the usual 3 years validity period from the last transaction date applies for the Starbucks Card. Bring in your new or used gift cards to a Check Into Cash store for a free quote. Bring Your ID Show us your driver’s license so we can verify your identity and process the payment.

It’s pretty simple. Since the Bar Code is just a representation of your gift cards Serial Number, all you need to do is take a Screen Capture from your phone of the generated Starbucks Card Bar Code.

If you do not know how to take a screen capture with your particular smart phone, just google it. But here’s the iPhone instructions: Press the Home button and the Power/Sleep Button at the same time: Here’s a link: http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-With-an-iPhone or this one on the Apple Forum: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3739872?tstart=0

Then you can email it to your wife/husband/boyfriend/girlfriend, or whoever else you want to use your card.

Screen Cap Like So (Obviously I removed the real bar code and numbers from this picture):

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PLEASE NOTE: This does not fool the system into giving you free Starbucks! Nor was this an attempt to try to circumvent the system.

Also, DO NOT Send this to anyone who you do not want to use your Starbucks card and your money, treat this screen capture as if it was your real Starbucks card, because it is! Your balance will decrease each and every time someone scans the photo on their own smart phone at the Starbucks register.

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Also, what’s cool about this method, is you do not need to share your password, and the person you share the photo with doesn’t even need the Starbucks App installed on their phone!

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Just Another Stream of Random Bits…– Robert C. Ilardi