Damaged Card
I purchased this $50 Apple Gift card on Prime Day at the sale price of $40.00.  Once I received it, I pealed off the strip to reveal the redemption code.  The card must have been old or stored in the heat as the peal removed most of the first three characters of the redemption code.I could not read it.  Apples redemption scanner couldn't read it either.  What do you do with a card that you can not redeem?  I decided to try Apple support.  They require you to email them along with images of both sides of the card and my receipt.  Simple enough?  Nope.  Safari on my Mac would not let me attach it to the email as required.  I then redid the email on an iPad, re-took the images and successfully added the card images.  But not the Amazon receipt.  It would not accept a pdf or image of the receipt.  I ended up taking a screen print of the receipt.  That worked.  Now I must wait on the generosity of Apple to provide a new card.  If they refuse, I'm out $40.  Clearly either Apple had a bad print on the card or Amazon did not store it properly and the strip adhesive was damaged.  The card does look and feel "old" but can't swear to it.  The moral of the story is don't buy gift cards.  Once you give up your money for them, you have no real recourse if the card can't be redeemed.  Buyer beware.
Rating: 1 stars