15 Ways to Spend an Apple Gift Card You Received for Christmas

[Danfango]

Apple Polishing Cloth. My favorite and best purchase ever.

I am ashamed to say I got very very drunk yesterday after a meal out with some friends and actually bought one of those in Regent Street Apple Store.

And you know what, it's not one of those things you wake up the next morning and think "what was I thinking", like my ex wife. It's pretty good. Managed to polish out all the embarrasing post-COVID sneezes off the studio display this afternoon

Now getting very drunk again, on unfortunately on the only thing I have left which is Prosecco (yuck), and browsing the Apple store some more...

 

[jwm]

Serious advice that I hate to give, but first recommendation is to check that Apple gift card you gave or received actually has a balance. A dead giveaway that you or someone may have been scammed is whether the long alphanumeric string on the back of the envelope does not match the inside of the card slip (not the code you scan to add the balance).
I bought a $50 card last week off a rack at Target that looked perfectly sealed and activated at the register, but was an invalid code when adding thru AppStore. Turns out a crime ring takes/replaces cards at retailers that they check later perhaps with bots whether funds have been added. Apple was very great to work with and I got lucky that this all happened within hours, but I can imagine there’s going to be a lot of unhappy people and customer service swamped.

This happened with me today. There is a distinct difference in the green tab tear strip on the fake card, which might be worth checking for when buying at Target. The one at the top was from the genuine gift card.

 

[AppleEnthusiast1995]

Just got a 100 dollar gift card from my brother, might keep it and put it towards a new iPhone purchase eventually.

 

[PowerButton]

Anything you need from the Apple Store, that’s what you buy. 🤷‍♂️

 

[svish]

AirTag will be a good buy.

 

[1rottenapple]

Apple Polishing Cloth. My favorite and best purchase ever.

lol how is a cloth even a best purchase lol. My best purchase was my steamdeck this year.