Raise Alternative: Sell Your Card’s Value Without Handing Over the Code

Raise is one of the best-known places to offload a gift card — but it’s a marketplace, which means you list your card, wait for a buyer, pay a commission when it sells, and the buyer receives your card’s code. FlipGift takes a different path: an escrow marketplace where you keep the card, spend it yourself to fulfil a buyer’s order, and get paid from escrow on delivery — the code never leaves your hands. Here’s a fair comparison.

How Raise works

On Raise, you’re not selling to Raise — you’re selling to other buyers on its marketplace. Checkable traits:

• You list and set a price. You enter the card and choose a selling price, usually a discount off face value to attract buyers.
• Listing is free; selling is not. Raise charges the seller a commission when the card sells. The rate is tiered — it varies with your sales volume — so check Raise’s current seller-fee page for the exact percentage that applies to you.
• You’re paid after it sells. A buyer has to purchase your card first, so payout timing depends on demand for that brand at your chosen price.
• The buyer gets your code. Like every resale marketplace, the product being delivered is the card’s number and PIN.

How FlipGift is different

On FlipGift’s escrow marketplace, you sell what the card can buy, not the card itself:

• The code stays with you — always. You place the buyer’s order at the store’s own checkout using your card, and ship to their verified address. FlipGift stores no card numbers or PINs at all.
• The buyer’s money is committed first. It sits in platform escrow before you spend a cent of your card, and is released to you on confirmed delivery.
• You set your own discount. Most sellers net 78–89% of face value in withdrawable cash — you control the trade-off between speed and rate.
• One flat fee. 2.5% of the deal, split between buyer and seller (~1.25% on your side) — no tiered commissions.

Raise vs FlipGift

When Raise is the better choice

If you want a paste-the-code-and-walk-away sale, a marketplace like Raise is simpler: you list, it sells, you’re done. FlipGift asks more of you — you place the buyer’s order yourself and ship it — in exchange for keeping more of the value and never exposing the code. If your card’s store doesn’t ship physical goods, resale may also be the only route.

How a FlipGift escrow sale works

1. List an offer — the store, your max order size, and the discount you’ll give. No code, no PIN, no balance upload.
2. Get matched with a buyer — their payment locks into escrow, held by FlipGift.
3. Place the order yourself — on the store’s official site, paid with your card, shipped to the buyer’s verified address, with an order screenshot and tracking as proof.
4. Get paid from escrow — released on confirmed delivery, with a dispute process backed by your evidence.

(Historical note: FlipGift once also offered a card-for-card swap and retired it permanently in July 2026 — in any code trade the previous owner still knows the number and PIN and can drain the card later, a risk no platform can remove. Why swapping closed.)

Start an escrow sale — sell without sharing the code