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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...
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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…
Was it sent from his Macbook?
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…
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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.
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…