Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Sorry you're dealing with this situation.
I had a similar experience with an Instacart EGC I bought through Best Buy's site. I held onto it for about two months, and when I tried to redeem it, it...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Looks like the server compromise only affected you. Purchased a $200 as well back in December to do the same promotion and had no issues redeeming it earlier this week.
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Thank you for sharing your experience. It is so helpful.
For Amazon gift cards, if it is a physical card, it has a 16-digit serial number in the back. A phone support staff can search by the...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Chase has closed the dispute and credited me $200. I was lucky that I found the eGift card had been redeemed by the scammer within 60 days from my credit card statement date to qualify for a dispute....
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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I can confirm this happened to me but I bought Starbucks cards at Amazon
I tried redeeming them and was told that they were already redeemed. Amazon then refunded me the purchase price.
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Upon looking closely, I have found that Best Buy opened a back door allowing anyone to anonymously retrieve customers eGift card codes in seconds by inputting simple order information that can be...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Customer most certainly is not always right anymore.
Such a bad situation nowadays with corporate always just waving it off as consumer protections prohibiting them from helping.
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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I had this happen with an Apple gift card from target,⦠someone stole it before I got to use it⦠, neither the card sender-hired by target nor Target would accept responsibility. therefore I never...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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amazon cs for this will do nothing , all off shoredl, you will get copy/paste reply only...they don't even read what you write . amazon now has the worst possible cs under jassy. keep after BB even...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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had a best buy card they sent me for missing a delivery date used last fall come up used. IT is likely employees stealing them. got a 75 best buy gift card for missing the delivery date on a...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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I just received a reply from Bestbuy support. They are even worse than Amazon support. I asked them to contact Amazon on my behalf to find out when the card was redeemed or investigate it further,...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Contact your state attorney general's office and maybe look for (or start) a class-action against them.
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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https://www.bestbuy.com/site/amazon-100-gift-card-digital/6545179.p?skuId=6545179
If you have purchased Amazon eGift cards from bestbuy.com in December of 2024 and have not redeemed them yet,...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Multiple people wrote the reviews at bestbuy.com with same exact issue during the exact same time period. Bestbuy did nothing to help....
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Thanks for sharing. You are lucky that you were not impacted. Multiple people from Bestbuy product review page mentioned that their $200 Amazon eGift card codes were also already redeemed during the...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Why even use gift cards? pay with your credit card and get cash back.
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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I went through Amazon customer service route asking when my eGift card was redeemed, they refused to provide that even after I sent in the proof that I am the purchaser of the eGift card. Then I sent...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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I tell everyone to redeem their gift cards immediately. Scammets have ways of getting your card information through random generation. We were given a gift card from Target back in 2020, and we...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Thanks for sharing. When I talked to Bestbuy support on the phone, the guy kept saying the reason he could not help me was because my issue is with Amazon gift card. Had my issue been with Bestbuy...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Yeah, gift cards are risky. Best to use them right away to detect any issues like this.
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Credit card dispute is the way to go. My experience with Amazon cs has been awful also recently that I had to resort to credit card dispute on one occasion. If they ban my account for it, I'd say...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Smells like a scam ππ
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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I had a similar situation with Office Depot about 9 years ago. I was given a $300 gift card purchased from Groupon, but when I tried to use it, it was empty. However, Office Depot was able to trace...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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I feel for ya and that's ALOT of money to take a loss on. If misery loves company, I had a similar ordeal with Taco Bell gift cards I purchased on Amazon. Now where are incidents don't meet is the...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Don't even think they will do anything for you, trust me, they are told to just say NO and repeat the same nonsense when you email them, does not matter where you send the email it will all go back...
Amazon eGift cards purchased at bestbuy.com in December 2024 may not work $200
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Thanks for sharing. Do you recall what kind of error message you saw when you first found out that the $500 gift card Amazon sent you was worthless? Did it say $0 balance, or did it say that it had...
