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Comment on Powering up your ReadyNAS NV+ remotely by Michele

Michele — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:42:29 +0000

Hi
to not void the warranty and build a cheap circuit I built this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32942046/RemoteFingher/WoL-RemoteFinger.htm using the WakeUP On LAN function on a standalone ethernet NIC and an linear actuator found in a car-wrecker.
Ciao
Michele

Comment on Solution: improved specifications by Collaborative healthcare with collaborative software

Collaborative healthcare with collaborative software — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:13:55 +0000

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Comment on Don’t trust iTunes gift cards by Charles

Charles — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:10:17 +0000

I’ve had two cards “cancelled” on me. This seems like a huge scam. Someone is making money.

Comment on Don’t trust iTunes gift cards by Neil A.

Neil A. — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 20:29:37 +0000

Same problem here … I have a $15 gift card, from Best Buy, purchased around Christmas 2008 or 2009. I didn’t use iTunes until recently, and when I try to redeem the card, it claims it has already been “cancelled”. What a load of BS. What’s the point of gift cards if they can cancelled at any point, without any warning?

Comment on Don’t trust iTunes gift cards by MichelleC

MichelleC — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:22:02 +0000

We are dealing with the same issue right now. I bought my husband 4 $30 packs of gift cards at Michael’s when they had a buy $30 for $25. They come with 3 $10 gift cards per pack. He activated 1 and the other 2 didn’t work. He has gone round and round with Apple and has similar e-mail exchanges as this post. I had the 4 activation receipts and a gift receipt for him, but not the original receipt and still Apple is asking for the original receipt, WTF is a gift receipt for then?

I also don’t get how 1 card in a pack of 3 works but the other 2 don’t and that means our claim is not legitimate to Apple. The cashier can only activate the card from the outside of the pack not each individual card.

We are only out $20 if it doesn’t get resolved, but it really is the issue of them not honoring the gift card.

Comment on Don’t trust iTunes gift cards by Lyna

Lyna — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:35:39 +0000

My boyfriend gave me a few iTune gift cards MANY years ago, which I just finally decide to use last week. I have the same “…cancelled” message after I scratched off to Redeem it.
I appreciate the long story from the original post, save me the trouble (& shorten life span) of chasing for a solution since there is no way I have proof of purchase nor the location, because my boyfriend tends to throw out receipts ASAP.
However, I sense this pattern of unfair practice, something is fishy here! I think we should should ALL report this to your local Better Business Bureau, so they can also keep a record to this type of complaints. Or perhaps someone has some pull in the News media to make it more public, such as “Shame On You!”
Any unpopular attention to Apple, Best Buy, or other retail stores doing the same scam, may save other consumers from our lost.

Comment on Don’t trust iTunes gift cards by martin

martin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:43:40 +0000

A question to all of you commenters: did all of you get the gift cards from Best Buy, or are there victims who got them elsewhere, for instance in an Apple store? I think the answer to this question is important.

Comment on Don’t trust iTunes gift cards by albert R.

albert R. — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:30:43 +0000

just recieved a card for my birthday and it gives the message it has been cancelled. hope some one does something about this as this smells of a huge lawsuit for APPLE… hope this scam gets cleared and victims compensated. If i had purchased this card myself i would be furious!!!.. will notifiy gifter of situation so she is aware.

Comment on Don’t trust iTunes gift cards by Barbara Fafard

Barbara Fafard — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:28:14 +0000

We are having a problem with $50 in I-Tunes Gift card that we were given a couple years ago. Of course we do not have the paper receipt because it was a gift.

I would love to see a class action law suit on this.

Comment on A platform too many by martin

martin — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:59:36 +0000

David,

The problem here is that one company isn’t covering its different platforms consistently and you call for third parties to do that instead? Just like they do with, um, exactly what? Nobody else has a similar setup, not because they’re not allowed to, but because they either didn’t think of it, or couldn’t be bothered. DRM has nothing to do with that.