Sharper Image gift card holders = boned.

[Zambini]

Bankruptcies often leave consumers holding worthless gift cards - MarketWatch

Tens of millions of dollars in gift cards and certificates became worthless overnight in the wake of the Sharper Image's financial plight -- and customers holding those cards have little recourse.
Federal law allows a company to stop honoring store gift cards when it files Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and that's exactly what's happening at San Francisco-based Sharper Image. Sales clerks are telling customers they can no longer accept the plastic cards as payment, and the cards are no longer accepted when customers try to use them online.

This sucks. My friend has a bunch of money in a gift card he got for his birthday last year that he was gonna spend a couple days ago.

[Capper]

man, if you are dumb enough to shop at the Sharper Image....you deserve that......overpriced and worthless crap.