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Old Jul 17, 2019, 4:55 am
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wharvey
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Originally Posted by spartacus
I'm not sure what the amount of unclaimed gift cards in the world may be, but I'm sure it has something to do with why the guidelines specifically say no GCs. Whoever the anonymous person was that sent me a GC, well, it's Amazon Prime Day, I need a new nighttime spotlight for my flagpole, so I go back to find the e-mail from Amazon stating I have a GC and enter the code in the e-mail. Well, I'm now over 20 minutes on the phone with Amazon after the code comes back as invalid and they're having trouble determining what the problem is. You didn't cause their technical glitch but you sure caused my angst by failing to follow simple directions. No wonder why you wanted to remain anonymous...
If you need me to reach out to the person who send that gift card, let me know. Honestly though, I do not see how blaming them is appropriate if it was Amazon's problem. I always enter Amazon gift cards into my account as soon as I get them even if I am not using them immediately to eliminate these problems.

I much prefer someone to send a gift card vs someone who sends nothing.

So sorry it did not work for you.
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