Giftcard Zen

Giftcard Zen was a secondary gift-card marketplace founded in 2012 by Aaron Dragushan in Phoenix, Arizona, that let consumers sell unwanted gift cards for cash and buy discounted gift cards from retailers such as Target, Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart and Best Buy. Backed by 500 Global, the company was acquired by RetailMeNot in April 2016 for roughly $22 million in cash (plus an earnout) and folded into RetailMeNot's digital savings platform. The giftcardzen.com domain no longer operates as an independent service and redirects to RetailMeNot; the company exposes no public developer or API surface. This profile is retained for network provenance.

Giftcard Zen is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Gift Cards, Marketplace, Secondary Market, and E-commerce.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyGift CardsMarketplaceSecondary MarketE-commerceRetailPaymentsAcquired

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Composite quality — 5.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: giftcard-zen
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/giftcard-zen.png
name: Giftcard Zen
description: Giftcard Zen was a secondary gift-card marketplace founded in 2012 by Aaron Dragushan in Phoenix, Arizona, that
  let consumers sell unwanted gift cards for cash and buy discounted gift cards from retailers such as Target, Home Depot,
  Lowe's, Walmart and Best Buy. Backed by 500 Global, the company was acquired by RetailMeNot in April 2016 for roughly $22
  million in cash (plus an earnout) and folded into RetailMeNot's digital savings platform. The giftcardzen.com domain no
  longer operates as an independent service and redirects to RetailMeNot; the company exposes no public developer or API surface.
  This profile is retained for network provenance.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/giftcard-zen/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: RetailMeNot
x-acquired-date: 2016-04
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Gift Cards
- Marketplace
- Secondary Market
- E-commerce
- Retail
- Payments
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://giftcardzen.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1