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Letter from Steve Jobs: No Apple Giftcards for iPads

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Re: Letter from Steve Jobs: No Apple Giftcards for iPads

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First of all, this is only in effect for like a month. It wouldn't kill anyone to wait it out until the ban is lifted. It sounds like Apple put in place a number of systems to keep people from gaming the rules (they caught that guy who was buying iPads and shipping them overseas).

If it really is a huge deal, you can sell your cards on Cardpool. It looks like they are paying $340, so it would cost $60 for the convenience of having cash that you can use right now...

Re: Letter from Steve Jobs: No Apple Giftcards for iPads

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They're requiring you to use a credit card and that's pretty simple to track (only 2 per card).

Of course nobody has more than one card, and of course nobody could ever have a shipping address different from their home address on some of their cards for their business... and then there are all those people that have no friends that would allow them to go and buy an iPad because they're not going to. And so on. The weird thing about stuff like this is that those that want to get their hands on as many ipads as t…

Apple - bringing BRM (Buyer's Rights Management) to your shops since 2010. Strangely - just like DRM - it affects normal customers more than "evil" ones.

Re: Letter from Steve Jobs: No Apple Giftcards for iPads

#24

Does anyone really believe anymore that S.J. himself writes all the letters / messages which are so popular lately? I sometimes don't have time to respond to everyone, even though I'm just a developer. I know many managers who could spend the whole day writing and answering emails and they're not even that high in the hierarchy. I can't even imagine how many emails must Steve get from inside the company -- and these…

I've emailed him before and gotten a reply from an assistant.

Re: Letter from Steve Jobs: No Apple Giftcards for iPads

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Why would they do that?

For the same reason they're not accepting gift certificates... To limit the number of iPads purchased by an individual while supplies are still tight and limited to the US market. Did you not read the email? Steve Jobs is quite terse and easy to read.

I think we all read his email and understood it. The point is that this is not reasonable. The gift card was purchased in good faith that it could be used to purchase whatever products Apple sells, on demand. I have some gift cards that I'd like to sell you, but you can only use them when I say so.

Re: Letter from Steve Jobs: No Apple Giftcards for iPads

#28
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Ridiculous, if you have gift cards then you should honour them. You can't just retro-actively undo the possibility of using gift cards already bought for the purpose of gifting someone any apple device, including the iPad. I'm betting they'll be redeeming a lot of gift cards for their cash value because of this stupidity. I never really realized just how much of a control freak Jobs really is, imagine the CEO of a bi…

Apple is a big company and Steve Jobs is the CEO and he is doing this - no need to imagine. And Apple seem to be doing ok with it, particularly compared to the last time they didn't have him as the boss.
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