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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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GingerG9467
11-05-2023 at 03:02 AM.
11-05-2023 at 03:02 AM.
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.
I didn't have trouble using my balance to buy an iPhone SE in July. Was also able to use balance to pay for an iPhone 8 battery replacement at an Apple Store.
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PortlandME
11-05-2023 at 03:14 AM.

Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank PortlandME

11-05-2023 at 03:14 AM.
It's actually 15% OFF the value, so a $100 GC uses only $85 of your cash back reward (or a 17.65% "added bonus"). Smilie
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dapu
11-05-2023 at 04:50 AM.
11-05-2023 at 04:50 AM.
Quick question - How long does it take for the gift card to be delivered? TIA!
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jep08
11-05-2023 at 05:07 AM.
11-05-2023 at 05:07 AM.
Quote from dapu :
Quick question - How long does it take for the gift card to be delivered? TIA!

Almost in a minute.
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BuddyLee10
11-05-2023 at 06:20 AM.
11-05-2023 at 06:20 AM.
Quote from jack3chu :
Damn, used up my cash back on my last statement… guess now I know better

Same. Just turned off automatic cash back.
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PocketsThick
11-05-2023 at 06:53 AM.
11-05-2023 at 06:53 AM.
Quote from Zankapfel :
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).

Ok but what do you do if you don't have any apple hardware currently but you have an apple account? Sounds like a closed loop system. Not that apple isn't dumb enough to do that. They like to close their apple products into their ecosystem. The saving grace is Europe. Maybe Europe eventually forces them to stop doing that via law. They already got apple to adopt usb-c via law adherence.
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Soda78
11-05-2023 at 07:16 AM.
11-05-2023 at 07:16 AM.
Thanks OP. In for a few. Have been racking up balance to purchase Studio display on BF.
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TidalWaveOne
11-05-2023 at 08:12 AM.
11-05-2023 at 08:12 AM.
They are probably trying to get people to use their cashback before they offer the best deals on Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday.
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Ki1982
11-05-2023 at 09:15 AM.
11-05-2023 at 09:15 AM.
Can we buy this gift cards and apply towards any apple iPhone purchase on apple website?
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MerryStag2813
11-05-2023 at 10:23 AM.
11-05-2023 at 10:23 AM.
Noice! Thank OP.
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petervivian
11-05-2023 at 01:58 PM.
11-05-2023 at 01:58 PM.
Quote from tenderidol :
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.
I utilized a small amount of GC balance to purchase a basic Mac mini, only to receive a fraudulent warning email, resulting in the order not being processed. Subsequently, I had numerous phone calls in order to manually facilitate the order, leading to a highly unsatisfactory experience.
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LeBoom
11-05-2023 at 02:31 PM.
11-05-2023 at 02:31 PM.
Quote from Ki1982 :
Can we buy this gift cards and apply towards any apple iPhone purchase on apple website?

Yep! Anything from the Apple Store or App Store
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techslacker
11-05-2023 at 03:12 PM.
11-05-2023 at 03:12 PM.
Quote from PocketsThick :
Ok but what do you do if you don't have any apple hardware currently but you have an apple account? Sounds like a closed loop system. Not that apple isn't dumb enough to do that. They like to close their apple products into their ecosystem. The saving grace is Europe. Maybe Europe eventually forces them to stop doing that via law. They already got apple to adopt usb-c via law adherence.
I think a clearer head is in order here.
  1. You can have an apple account without having apple hardware. Services like Apple Music and AppleTV+ first come to mind as they are available on multiple platforms.
  2. What you're trying to stir up is nothing different from anywhere else. You shop at a store with a gift card, you move or stop shopping at the store but still have money on the gift card. What do you do? If it's physical, you might be able to sell or give it away but if it's electronic, you might be SOL.
  3. Apple gift cards can be used for paying for these services along with others that are purchased by in app subscriptions or subscriptions. I've been doing it for years. Back when Netflix would allow people to sign up for an account through an Apple TV, I did just that and could pay for the subscription with heavily discounted apple gift cards.
  4. You're deluding yourself about Europe and usbc. If you look at the timeline for R&D and bringing things to market at their scale, usbc was in the works before Europe started bringing the hammer down. Apple didn't like being told to do it because it takes away from their announcement events as then everyone knew usbc was coming. Apple is pretty good when it comes to marketing and government enforced deadlines for such a change lessens the impact of a new product.
As for using gift cards to buy hardware I've done this in the past but had a little problem with the fact that I'm one of the long time Apple ID holders that ended up in the mess where I have one account for app purchases and another one for everything else. I don't recall the details that led to this right now but many long time apple customers have this situation and apple refuses to merge the accounts.

This led to me learning that when I was redeeming my gift cards into my account, it went into the account that purchases app, music, and subscriptions. The iCloud account that handles everything else was what I was trying to buy with because I originally thought the cards were being redeemed there and just didn't remember the other one was I play...it's easy to forget and I wouldn't be surprised if others...maybe here...had similar issues. I was a little upset at first wondering why I couldn't use my gift cards but once I realized the money was in a different account, I just used that account to purchase the hardware. Pretty simple once you know.
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techslacker
11-05-2023 at 03:15 PM.
11-05-2023 at 03:15 PM.
Quote from LeBoom :
Yep! Anything from the Apple Store or App Store
Which includes services offered through it. In another post I mentioned how I use discounted Apple gift cards to subscribe to Netflix. Right now I'm using them to pay for Disney+ for a few months.
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hottie
11-05-2023 at 03:26 PM.
11-05-2023 at 03:26 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.

They had this issue last year, but I was able to buy iPhone 15 pro for store pick up two weeks ago. I was told there was issue redeeming the Apple balance last year and it was on their end.
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