You typically won’t be paid for the full value of your gift card. Some websites you can sell your gift card to are Cardpool, Raise, CardCash, and Giftcard Zen.
Raise also has an app you can download.
You should also factor in shipping costs if you are sending the gift card to someone. Be careful when meeting up with someone to sell the gift card.
A Coinstar Exchange Kiosk is different than a regular Coinstar machine that only exchanges coins for bills.
You can search online to see where the closest Gift Card Exchange kiosk is.
This isn’t exactly like getting cash, but if you need to buy things from the updated store, the card essentially works just like cash.
If some of the balance has been used, you can tell the friend in advance and ask them if they’d like to use the rest of it.