If you gave Brewer’s Connection money for a gift card, it is now worthless- yet they want us to go in there & give them more business. I called the new owner to resolve this offline and told him I could see the balance of the card online. He told me “that’s the old owners debt” and to “do what you gotta do”. I’m sure my fellow brewers would like to know that any money they spent there on gift cards is now worthless. For years we’ve bought those cards to give them business, and every year I buy supplies from their store. Going forward I will go out of my way to shop elsewhere. I see this as a short-sighted business mistake. It will cost them far more than the balance on the cards in lost revenue from customers they could have retained.