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Black Friday 2014: $100 iTunes Gift Cards for $75 (US Only)

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Paypal Digital Gifts is offering $100 iTunes Gift Cards for $75 via eBay - a 25% discount, for Black Friday. The codes are delivered digitally to PayPal registered email addresses. The offer is only available to U.S. customers and expires tonight at midnight (Eastern).

Black Friday sales kicked off last night and officially continue through today. Some sales may last the weekend. We've previously provided a comprehensive list of sales on Mac, iPhone, and iPad products.

Article Link: Black Friday 2014: $100 iTunes Gift Cards for $75 (US Only)
 
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Despite this not being available in the UK, I'm surprised at how we've been increasingly swept up in Black Friday year over year.
 
Plutonius said:
Paypal / ebay no thanks.

I'll pay $85 (for a $100 card) at Bestbuy instead.
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Best Buy will match this offer. Take advantage of it while you can! I always go to Best Buy when I see offers like this from PayPal/EBay, not only because they match it, but as an Elite Plus member and Best Buy credit card holder, I get a crap load of Rewards points. Just gotta make sure I pay my full balance so I don't get charged any rape interest.
 
My understanding is that Paypal Digital Gifts is actually a "host" of different merchants.

I'm not buying any codes from an unknown source, as if/when fraud is detected, Apple will shut down the iTunes account that redeemed a code.

It's probably fine, but there's still some risk imo.
 
Weird. I bought 2 and got two emails that had the same code. After a bunch of times trying each one and getting an "already redeemed code", I got another email that switched out one of the email codes with a different one. Glad they finally worked but that was weird. I think they are getting a lot of volume because the first time I tried to retrieve the code the server was too busy. Be patient and it works.
 
It's legit. It went through my PayPal account (which was already pre-authorized via by eBay account).

I got a $100 card for the price of $75. A good deal. One of the few times I will give thanks for MacRumors (for telling me about deals like this).
 
I don't know how it works overseas, but in Australia at least one major retailer has anywhere from 10%-25% off iTunes gift cards. Coles, Woolworths, Target, BigW, Harvey Norman, service stations, even Australia Post. Always somewhere, especially this time of year. I don't remember the last time I paid full price for iTunes cards. Plus staff discount at stores owed by my employer adds another 5% off.
 
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So I fell for this and bought 2. Received 5 emails, 2 from eBay basically confirming order and shipment. 3 from PayPal, the last being my redemption code. When I redeemed it, the code only gave credit for 1- $100 gift card, not 2. So I've paid $150 for a $100 gift card and now have to contact customer service, go through the hassle of getting this fixed. Their receipt for the redemption code clearly shows $150 paid, with $100 as the amount of the gift. So either one of their "merchants" under the PayPal digital gift umbrella is scammer...or they've got a bug in their system.

WHAT A CROCK OF $#%.

This undermines my impression of PayPal, I expect their systems to be superior, given that I have both bank account and credit card linked to them. I don't care if there are a bunch of merchants under the PayPal digital gift thing...if they're going to put their name on it, it should work.

Not worth the hassle to save $5 over the multitude of other deals out there.
 
For all those people that said that they only got a single code by a single email when purchasing multiple cards:

Are you using Apple Mail?
Are you using Conversation View?
Did you even bother to look at the earlier emails in the conversation?​

I purchased two codes and it appeared that I only received a single email because of how conversation view works in Apple Mail.
 
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dmcdayton said:
So I fell for this and bought 2. Received 5 emails, 2 from eBay basically confirming order and shipment. 3 from PayPal, the last being my redemption code. When I redeemed it, the code only gave credit for 1- $100 gift card, not 2. So I've paid $150 for a $100 gift card and now have to contact customer service, go through the hassle of getting this fixed. Their receipt for the redemption code clearly shows $150 paid, with $100 as the amount of the gift. So either one of their "merchants" under the PayPal digital gift umbrella is scammer...or they've got a bug in their system.

WHAT A CROCK OF $#%.

This undermines my impression of PayPal, I expect their systems to be superior, given that I have both bank account and credit card linked to them. I don't care if there are a bunch of merchants under the PayPal digital gift thing...if they're going to put their name on it, it should work.

Not worth the hassle to save $5 over the multitude of other deals out there.
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I think you need to look harder at your emails. I bought two and got two emails. I use Apple Mail and have my messages grouped by subject conversation so maybe you think you are only seeing one email but two emails are in that group. Or maybe you didn't click both "View Code" buttons on two emails to get two redeem code emails sent to you.

The emails I got were:

4:44 pm Payment confirmation from PayPal
4:45 pm Purchase confirmation from eBay
4:50 pm 2x View Code emails from PayPal
4:58 pm Shipped confirmation from eBay (After clicking View Code on each email?)
5:45 and 5:46 pm 2x Redeem Code emails from PayPal

Meh, they probably figured out what they did and are too embarrassed now to admit it.
 
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dmcdayton said:
So I fell for this and bought 2. Received 5 emails, 2 from eBay basically confirming order and shipment. 3 from PayPal, the last being my redemption code. When I redeemed it, the code only gave credit for 1- $100 gift card, not 2. So I've paid $150 for a $100 gift card and now have to contact customer service, go through the hassle of getting this fixed. Their receipt for the redemption code clearly shows $150 paid, with $100 as the amount of the gift. So either one of their "merchants" under the PayPal digital gift umbrella is scammer...or they've got a bug in their system.

WHAT A CROCK OF $#%.

This undermines my impression of PayPal, I expect their systems to be superior, given that I have both bank account and credit card linked to them. I don't care if there are a bunch of merchants under the PayPal digital gift thing...if they're going to put their name on it, it should work.


Not worth the hassle to save $5 over the multitude of other deals out there.
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I purchased two as well, received several emails. Go over your emails again and you'll find the 2nd card.
 
Solomani said:
It's legit. It went through my PayPal account (which was already pre-authorized via by eBay account).

I got a $100 card for the price of $75. A good deal. One of the few times I will give thanks for MacRumors (for telling me about deals like this).
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Again, it's probably fine. However, "it's legit" doesn't end with code redemption when dealing with digital products. There have been many stories about iTunes codes frm EBay redeeming fine, then the accounts being closed later because there was fraud committed somewhere along the way. Similar issues have arisen with with AppleCare too.
 
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