>was already redeemed in some way

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

wat10000 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

What matters is that the purchaser had every reason to think that it was legitimate and they were not the malefactor in this scenario, but they still got banned.

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twelvedogs 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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charcircuit 5 hours ago | parent [-]

>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.

	▲	netsharc 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Your comment reminds me of this news story of a guy trapped in his work's elevator for the weekend. How was he supposed to know it'll be only for the weekend.
	▲	direwolf20 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It was locked for a week because of the social media fuss that not everyone can raise. Otherwise it'd be forever.
	▲	deaux 3 hours 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.