Are Greeting Cards too Expensive?

Question

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Answer 1

Prices are going up faster than Obama's electric rates.

Answer 2

We get ours at the Dollar Tree, 2 for $1.00 and if it's really someone special we splurge and get the one for $1.00

Answer 3

But I ****** use them anymore

Answer 4

That's why I go to Dollar Tree for my cards.

Answer 5

Outrageous. Even a dollar card is ridiculous. I'm not missing the local Hallmark store at all, but the wife sure does.

Answer 6

It's amazing how much they cost compared to years ago especially if you buy them individually. The stamps make it way more expensive. That is why I stopped sending them.

Answer 7

Get them from Card Factory you get them for about 99p.

Answer 8

I haven't sent a card in years..i love sending net cards..fast and cheap and so many choices.

Answer 9

My wife and I either print or hand craft our own cards.

Answer 10

I almost always make my own.
They look better and are more appreciated.

Answer 11

That is why I often make my own, they have always been overpriced.

Answer 12

I make my own.

Answer 13

...but you can always make your own, and when you do, it can mean a lot more.
Besides, putting your heart into something always increases its value... much more so than some spare change.

Answer 14

I only pay like 1 or 2 euro for them. Even in the States I never paid a lot for a card.

Answer 15

Everything is becoming too expensive.

Answer 16

For the most part, yes. Sometimes I buy an expensive card if the occasion calls
for it but I frown at the prices.

Answer 17

Yes! I've started to collect tissue boxes with pretty graphics and other random stuff so that I can make my own :). But if I pick up a card that captures exactly what I want to say, I'll buy it. For the people in my life that will appreciate it.

Answer 18

LOVE, THEM...
I LEAVE THEM UP, WHEN I GETT THEM...

Answer 19

I'm an Artist and usually make my own cards.

Answer 20

I checked "Yes" immediately. I'm not so sure upon reflection. Not that a lot of cards - perhaps most - are not overpriced, they are, but, w/o shopping around too ****, you can find them for under a dollar, sometimes a good deal less than that. In a world where meritless egos like Ashleigh Brilliant are given cause to think they can copyright the alphabet, under a buck seems okay.

Answer 21

At the Hallmark store but not at the Dollar Tree! Cards there are either $1.00 and even 2 for $1.00 and they are pretty nice quality! Buy all my cards there now!

Answer 22

Dollar Tree sells them 50¢ apiece.

Answer 23

Not at the dollar store!

Can anyone guess how much they cost?

Answer 24

I tend to make my own

Answer 25

It's ridiculous.

Answer 26

They are ridiculous.....to buy something that the recipient is almost sure to throw away. I always buy the off-brand. Screw Hallmark.

Answer 27

Answer 28

Everything is too Expensive these days.

Answer 29

I never buy them any more because I enjoy making them instead.

Answer 30

Picked up one yesterday - $6.99! It was a very basic card. Pretty, but no music or stuff popping up or anything. Just a pretty design with some nice words.

Answer 31

Where I live it is a dollar for each card. I don't know how much the ones in packs cost (in a dollar store) but it is not that great because they is not they many cards in a pack, in the first place. I live in Canada.

Answer 32

not at dollar store

Answer 33

YES! A dollar. Good guess!

Answer 34

Nope, food costs more......

Answer 35

Your better off buying a small present. It will last longer and they'll always remember you and why they got it.

Answer 36

I never buy one, if they wait for me to buy one they are out of business. I make one out of a sheet of paper with a personal message......

Answer 37

Yes they can be. That's why i buy a box of them, in various pictures and sentiments. A box of 18 cost $5.00, that's about 25 cents a card. I usually buy nice ones for my son and his girlfriend but that's it.

Answer 38

I usually write my own cards on blanks. Hallmark doesn't need to express my sentiment. Every now and then I'll purchase funny cards if there is a sale or twofer.

Answer 39

I always find the perfect card, and then realize it costs so much I'd have to spend less on the gift. That's when I head over to the dollar store or something and get a cheap card that is, in all honesty, just as good.

Answer 40

yes they are, but Hallmark has some cheap ones, I always look for the not so sappy or the long ones with verses or poems and sentiments that seems too much. Right to the point and depending on the occasion, a hug or a kiss at the ***.

Answer 41

Prices are going up faster than Obama's electric rates.