Be careful when purchasing in the store. There is known scams [google.com] going on where giftcards are tampered with.
Dont buy when seal is tampered. Scammers are getting creative to hide this, so check multiple times. They remove the internal gift card or replace it with some other giftcards.
Take pictures of receipts and front-back of gift card envelope and inside card
Target physical store cant do anything if you bought tampered card and will direct you to target giftcard services at 8005442943
If you are stuck with bad giftcard, here are multiple routes you can take (all of them are slow).
1. Contact Apple and explain the situation, they might help you. But mostly they will direct you to Target as cards are bought there.
2. Contact 8005442943, explain the situation. They will create case # and email you to attach all the details. Wait for few days for the result.
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If they refuse to resolve it your next call is to your bank and tell them you want to file a chargeback on the cards that failed to activate. Reason is "merchandise not as described." Target knows full well this has been going on a while and it's on them to be accountable for it.
But one order per account online though. At least no one here says otherwise. Cancellations on additional orders.
Maybe I can offer you a good tip now. Go into your user page and select the tab "Settings and Options">"Edit Options">"Number of Posts to Show Per Page". You can adjust the number of posts you can see per page up to 45. Less page turning. All of the posts are in my "page one" for this thread.
Avoiding purchasing physical gift cards from now onwards.
I bet Apple still hasn't fixed their manufacturing line yet. My problem was clearly an issue on Apple's side where the gift card inside didn't match the packaging outside (so the wrong card gets activated at checkout). Everything looked fine - it was sealed, scratch code still intact.
Long story short, I also am never going to buy these in store again. Slowly building up my balance 2 cards at a time (we have 2 accounts) whenever these deals show up.
I bet Apple still hasn't fixed their manufacturing line yet. My problem was clearly an issue on Apple's side where the gift card inside didn't match the packaging outside (so the wrong card gets activated at checkout). Everything looked fine - it was sealed, scratch code still intact.
Long story short, I also am never going to buy these in store again. Slowly building up my balance 2 cards at a time (we have 2 accounts) whenever these deals show up.
AFAIK, people had some success doing it online (safer) multiple times. Give it a shot.
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If they refuse to resolve it your next call is to your bank and tell them you want to file a chargeback on the cards that failed to activate. Reason is "merchandise not as described." Target knows full well this has been going on a while and it's on them to be accountable for it.
Called Apple, they said some lock on my account and needs to be reviewed by backend team takes 24hrs. Also, told me that if the backend team review comes negative I have to close this account and open new one and forfeit the complete the apple balance.
Called Apple, they said some lock on my account and needs to be reviewed by backend team takes 24hrs. Also, told me that if the backend team review comes negative I have to close this account and open new one and forfeit the complete the apple balance.
This is the type of thing I have read about in the eneba threads when folks get bad codes from them (after the hassle of trying to work it out), their Apple account gets locked.
Target is an auth Apple GC reseller. IDK about eneba. Never researched them other than reading their threads here.
Good luck!
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