Jim Whitelaw’s daughter bought an iPod Touch to play games with, and Jim placed some allowance money on a gift card for her to buy games from the iTunes store. Accept she can’t. The iTunes store in Canada does not allow one to use gift cards to buy games or applications. I ran into the exact same problem a while back when I tried to use a free gift card to buy a $10 app, and all of a sudden saw that my credit card had been charged. I wouldn’t have bought the app if I’d have known. Sure enough some digging into the terms listed online I found that I couldn’t buy applications with my gift card, but one shouldn’t have to dig through the small print to learn that info. It really should be right on the card (this card is good for music only).
Jim Whitelaw wasn’t going to just let this one go, so he set off to get to the bottom of this Apple stance. His MPP and the Minister of Industry are now involved. His story can be followed on his blog.
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