Apple and iTunes in the dark ages
Can you believe it in this day and age? I wanted to send an iTunes voucher in dollars to someone in the US, however it seems that you can only buy vouchers in your own currency that can only be spent in your own country. When I asked iTunes support if there was any way round, this is what they said
So it looks as though it’ll have to be an Amazon voucher. Can anyone explain why iTunes can’t seem to manage something that much smaller retailers handle very easily?
Dear Julie,
I understand you would like to purchase a GIft Certificate for someone who lives in the US.
Currently, iTunes Music Store Gift Certificates can only be redeemed in the country where they are purchased. It is not possible to send an iTunes Music Store Gift Certificate to a recipient in another country.
Sincerely,
John David
iTunes Store Customer Support
So it looks as though it’ll have to be an Amazon voucher. Can anyone explain why iTunes can’t seem to manage something that much smaller retailers handle very easily?
posted by Julie Oakley at Saturday, September 30, 2006
5 Comments:
Well, as the saying goes: As IT savvy as an Irish undertaker.
yeah, they're simply too cheap to pay their accounting/banking people the fees for making the exchange rates balance out!
It's also a huge source of revenue they're missing out on – but more fool them!
I've no idea who this is for, but I'm your husband - maybe just give me a gift. UK currency would be find or better still give it in kind....
I thought it might be something like that. However I wanted to buy a US gift voucher for someone who lived in the States, so I wasn't trying to buy, for instance, music that had been licensed only to be sold in the US, for myself in the UK. And you have to give them the snail mail and/or e-mail address of the person who they are to send the gift voucher to, so obvious who will be receiving it.
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