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Perfect for that Starbucks lover? $450 stainless steel gift card

By Betty Hallock
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If you’re a gift-card giver and have a Starbucks fan on your list, here’s what might be the ultimate holiday present: Starbucks’ $450 stainless steel gift card. The card is $400 of Starbucks credit, with an additional $50 tacked on for the cost of the card itself.

The Starbucks Metal Card will be available at the shopping website Gilt.com starting at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Friday, until the supply of 5,000 cards is sold out.

Starbucks is getting all kinds of fancy, first with its $7 cup of coffee, and now with its limited edition Metal Card that includes gold level membership for the Starbucks rewards program. Rewards program gold membership means a free birthday drink and a free drink or food item after the purchase of 12 drinks.

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Without a Metal Card (which is refillable), Starbucks customers have to make 30 transactions a month to achieve gold membership. A presale begins Thursday for current rewards program members.

Use the card toward a cup of the Costa Rica Finca Palmilera, which the company began selling last month -- at $7 (for a grande size), its most expensive coffee ever.

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Betty Hallock

Betty Hallock is deputy Food editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has co-written four cookbooks, including “Bäco: Vivid Recipes from the Heart of Los Angeles,” “Amá: A Modern Tex-Mex Kitchen” and “Baking at République.” She started her journalism career at the Wall Street Journal and Scientific American in New York, worked on the L.A. Times’ Business desk, and was interim food editor at Los Angeles Magazine. Hallock also helped launch a food and nutrition vertical for wellness app RoundGlass. She’s a graduate of UCLA and New York University.

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