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Discover is offering Discover Cardholders: Redeem Cashback Bonus on Apple Gift Cards (Physical Gift Card or eCertificate) for 15% Added Value (see increments below).

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Note: Must login to your Discover account and select the 'Rewards' tab, then Redeem Cashback Bonus, then Gift Cards tab

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Probably since you added it to your account at a rapid pace, it triggers a block. All you need to do is call apple ask for post sales department then ask them to check if you have purchasing block in the system, then they will tell you yes, after that ask them to submit an unblock request to their "back office support team", they fixed it in about a day.

Generally training does not teach the front-end rep about purchasing blocks on accounts but their back end team will know how to lift purchasing blocks - assuming your GCs are legit.
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I'm waiting for Cyber Monday for CITI's annual 20% deal on Apple, but this is tempting. Has Discover offered 20% on Apple GC redemption before?
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earthdeuxbella
11-04-2023 at 05:13 PM.

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11-04-2023 at 05:13 PM.
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All good and all but beware not to redeem to apple balance. I don't know what apples issue is but they wouldn't let me purchase anything with apple balance and I had to call apple to unredeem back to gift cards before being able to purchase off the site.

This happened to us last year, too… did a bunch of different promos to collect Apole gift cards (Target, Best Buy, Discover, etc) to buy a $1500+ Mac book, loaded them all too Apple balance in account (everyone advises this to prevent theft of the gift card after purchase, because once it's added to your account, it can't be stolen unless someone hacks your account and use the balance). Went to buy the MacBook, absolutely could not get it to work by issuing from our account balance. Spent countless time on the phone with customer service, who couldn't give a good reason why it didn't work and couldn't give us a solution. Ended up having to pay cash for the MacBook because we were in a time crunch and had already spent like two weeks trying to fix this gift card issue, and now I just have a huge apple balance that I don't know how we're going to use.
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Elon-Mickey
11-04-2023 at 05:23 PM.
11-04-2023 at 05:23 PM.
Quote from StrongRock443 :
Thanks OP. Just redeemed 2x $200 GC (cost $340), no idea where to use the points for years...

Usually Apple will have sale on Black Friday
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fenix8o0
11-04-2023 at 05:24 PM.
11-04-2023 at 05:24 PM.
Quote from IkeV :
there's a login wall so I can't see the terms. Up to how much can I do this for? If i buy a 4k giftcard for a laptop, can I get 15% back?

While supplies last. No limit
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grdax
11-04-2023 at 05:33 PM.
11-04-2023 at 05:33 PM.
Can't seem to find it. Link doesn't show anything?
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PraneethV
11-04-2023 at 05:43 PM.
11-04-2023 at 05:43 PM.
Quote from abc0001 :
All good and all but beware not to redeem to apple balance. I don't know what apples issue is but they wouldn't let me purchase anything with apple balance and I had to call apple to unredeem back to gift cards before being able to purchase off the site.
Same, this is just not worth the hassle of redemption while purchasing at Apple. Even at 20% off, I would think twice before getting Apple GCs.
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blackbeluga
11-04-2023 at 05:44 PM.
11-04-2023 at 05:44 PM.
Damn, used up my cash back on my last statement… guess now I know better
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tenderidol
11-04-2023 at 05:46 PM.
11-04-2023 at 05:46 PM.
Quote from earthdeuxbella :
This happened to us last year, too… did a bunch of different promos to collect Apole gift cards (Target, Best Buy, Discover, etc) to buy a $1500+ Mac book, loaded them all too Apple balance in account (everyone advises this to prevent theft of the gift card after purchase, because once it's added to your account, it can't be stolen unless someone hacks your account and use the balance). Went to buy the MacBook, absolutely could not get it to work by issuing from our account balance. Spent countless time on the phone with customer service, who couldn't give a good reason why it didn't work and couldn't give us a solution. Ended up having to pay cash for the MacBook because we were in a time crunch and had already spent like two weeks trying to fix this gift card issue, and now I just have a huge apple balance that I don't know how we're going to use.
Sorry to hear that... Similarly, I collected gift cards from promos and also wasn't able to use my account balance to buy a $499 Mac mini. Called the customer care, they transferred me to a "specialist", and she was able to "release" the balance in about 5 minutes. it was annoying for sure, but it hasn't happened again since.
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11-04-2023 at 05:49 PM.

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11-04-2023 at 05:49 PM.
Quote from earthdeuxbella :
This happened to us last year, too… did a bunch of different promos to collect Apole gift cards (Target, Best Buy, Discover, etc) to buy a $1500+ Mac book, loaded them all too Apple balance in account (everyone advises this to prevent theft of the gift card after purchase, because once it's added to your account, it can't be stolen unless someone hacks your account and use the balance). Went to buy the MacBook, absolutely could not get it to work by issuing from our account balance. Spent countless time on the phone with customer service, who couldn't give a good reason why it didn't work and couldn't give us a solution. Ended up having to pay cash for the MacBook because we were in a time crunch and had already spent like two weeks trying to fix this gift card issue, and now I just have a huge apple balance that I don't know how we're going to use.
Probably since you added it to your account at a rapid pace, it triggers a block. All you need to do is call apple ask for post sales department then ask them to check if you have purchasing block in the system, then they will tell you yes, after that ask them to submit an unblock request to their "back office support team", they fixed it in about a day.

Generally training does not teach the front-end rep about purchasing blocks on accounts but their back end team will know how to lift purchasing blocks - assuming your GCs are legit.
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11-04-2023 at 06:18 PM.
11-04-2023 at 06:18 PM.
Quote from Fanime :
Probably since you added it to your account at a rapid pace, it triggers a block. All you need to do is call apple ask for post sales department then ask them to check if you have purchasing block in the system, then they will tell you yes, after that ask them to submit an unblock request to their "back office support team", they fixed it in about a day.

Generally training does not teach the front-end rep about purchasing blocks on accounts but their back end team will know how to lift purchasing blocks - assuming your GCs are legit.

Added slowly over the course of about two weeks. Confirmed with multiple reps that the account was not blocked. We called probably ten different times. They just kept saying they weren't sure why we couldn't apply the funds to a purchase and they were sorry but there's nothing they could do about it. Monthly iCloud storage and other charges deduct from the balance without issue. Maybe just bad luck but it ended up being an expensive risk for me that didn't work out.
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11-04-2023 at 06:34 PM.

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11-04-2023 at 06:34 PM.
Quote from earthdeuxbella :
Added slowly over the course of about two weeks. Confirmed with multiple reps that the account was not blocked. We called probably ten different times. They just kept saying they weren't sure why we couldn't apply the funds to a purchase and they were sorry but there's nothing they could do about it. Monthly iCloud storage and other charges deduct from the balance without issue. Maybe just bad luck but it ended up being an expensive risk for me that didn't work out.
Same thing happened to me. Worked for subs but couldn't buy anything physical with the balance. Had to ask for post sales team to remove purchasing block. Front end reps had no idea why I couldn't place orders.
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Rsh1234
11-04-2023 at 07:17 PM.
11-04-2023 at 07:17 PM.
Thanks Op. was thinking between this and the Target deal, went with this deal. Mainly use it for monthly cloud storage purchase, so will buy more if a better deal comes up.
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11-04-2023 at 07:43 PM.
11-04-2023 at 07:43 PM.
Quote from earthdeuxbella :
Added slowly over the course of about two weeks. Confirmed with multiple reps that the account was not blocked. We called probably ten different times. They just kept saying they weren't sure why we couldn't apply the funds to a purchase and they were sorry but there's nothing they could do about it. Monthly iCloud storage and other charges deduct from the balance without issue. Maybe just bad luck but it ended up being an expensive risk for me that didn't work out.
I've experienced issues with this with Google and apple. The solution is the same. Request a specialist who can override the system. They'll tell you it's not possible. Be polite and insistent. You're not taking no for an answer. Their system. Their problem. They'll get it fix.
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11-04-2023 at 07:56 PM.
11-04-2023 at 07:56 PM.
Quote from IkeV :
there's a login wall so I can't see the terms. Up to how much can I do this for? If i buy a 4k giftcard for a laptop, can I get 15% back?

Up to your rewards balance on Discover. This deal requires you to buy the gift cards with your Discover rewards balance.
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11-04-2023 at 08:26 PM.
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Quote from Fanime :
Same thing happened to me. Worked for subs but couldn't buy anything physical with the balance. Had to ask for post sales team to remove purchasing block. Front end reps had no idea why I couldn't place orders.
I had similar issues last year when I was trying to buy a (price matched) Apple Watch from their online store (had to call for the price match). I couldn't get the Apple balance to work. They were clueless. Had to get it escalated and finally figured out that you have to add your Apple account to your wallet app on your iPhone (or other Apple device). Once I did that it worked flawlessly and have since purchased a few other things with my Apple account balance (including an expensive MacBook where I maxed out the 2k account balance limit).
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11-04-2023 at 09:38 PM.
11-04-2023 at 09:38 PM.
Nice. Hello $315 cash back redemption. Time to start over.
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