> The card was purchased from a major brick-and-mortar retailer (Australians, think Woolworths scale; Americans, think Walmart scale)

>was already redeemed in some way

This is the important quote showing that the gift card was not legitimate.

do you think that makes it ok? they walked into a store, tried to pay money to apple and as a result they had their stuff locked forever

apple recommended they only buy gift cards from apple, but they still sell them in stores...

obviously money is more important to them than the consumers but pretending apple have zero responsibility is silly

>they had their stuff locked forever

It was locked for less than a week.

>but they still sell them in stores

Unfortunately there are sketchy resellers that exist too.

	▲	direwolf20 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It was locked for a week because of the social media fuss that not everyone can raise. Otherwise it'd be forever.
	▲	deaux an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Hah, because it went viral. Good luck if you aren't able to reach a wide audience (99% of people aren't). Else it would've been locked for eternity. Stop defending atrocious behavior like this.