OP almost for sure saw the language on the Dollar/Euro card page, I've never seen it anywhere else and I looked through dozens of terms in print and on the internet archive before I read the message about his raving insanity about curses and stopped looking.
Either way, those terms won't help you one iota in this case now that you finally expalined it. Any good accountant knows that if you monetize something worthless, it's still a taxable event.
The only valid argument is that it's just cashing out the purchase rebate in the same way that banks allow purchase rebate points to be transferred to airlines or to cash back. It isn't income but a purchase rebate. Therefore they have no 1099.
Best of luck, but I am certainly not moichel you for that message. You seem to think everyone is hiding something from you or trying to squeeze more money out of you, that's a sad way to go through life.