Amazon Gift Cards SECURITY FEATURE sucks
Compare the ease of use, Amazon vs. iTunes Gift Cards. The security feature of AMAZON gift cards is clearly inferior and very difficult to use.<br /><br />I had received several of each (Amazon and iTunes) for Christmas gifts. The GIVER would not be aware of this problem; only the RECEIVER is inconvenienced by AMAZON gift cards security feature. Carefully scraping off the covering "SCRATCH OFF GENTLY WITH A COIN FOR CLAIM CODE" on the Amazon gift card often results in defacing the tiny superficial printing of the code, making the gift card UNUSABLE, since the code is unreadable.<br /><br />Amazon, please fix this, you should have usability as good as or better than iTunes Gift Cards.<br /><br />VERY DISAPPOINTED in AMAZON due to the poor design of this security feature.  I would not buy AMAZON Gift Cards unless this feature works better.<br /><br />1. Compare with iTunes gift card, use of AMAZON gift cards is very messy. There is a lot of sticky, messy, waxy stuff resulting from the scraping, and after scraping the characters may be illegible, some completely unreadable.<br /><br />2. The printing under the AMAZON security feature is tiny and often rubs off when trying to expose the code. This renders the card USELESS.<br /><br />3. Be sure to use a coin with a blunt edge, not a pocket knife which will deface the printed code.
Rating: 1 stars