Its been ruled time and time again that a business can refuse to sell you a product or service for any reason, including payment method. Now if you owed apple money and they refused to take cash it would be a completely different issue.
I think the problem is going to arise from the legalities surrounding gift cards. Recently laws have been made regarding accepting gift cards, expiration etc. I don't think that they can choose to not accept a form of payment that they themselves issue. It's disingenuous and I'm pretty sure illegal. Does anyone know?
I'm no lawyer, but I believe Paul is Right. Imagine if you went to Best Buy and spent $1000 on Gift Cards and the very next day Best Buy decided it will no longer accept their own gift cards and will not refund any outstanding values.
They would be sued in a micro-second. Just because Apple is limiting this policy to one product, that does not excuse them from the responsibility to accept their own gift cards.
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Brent Hollingsworth @ Oct 29th 2007 12:54AM
Its been ruled time and time again that a business can refuse to sell you a product or service for any reason, including payment method. Now if you owed apple money and they refused to take cash it would be a completely different issue.
Paul @ Oct 29th 2007 2:11AM
I think the problem is going to arise from the legalities surrounding gift cards. Recently laws have been made regarding accepting gift cards, expiration etc. I don't think that they can choose to not accept a form of payment that they themselves issue. It's disingenuous and I'm pretty sure illegal. Does anyone know?
venk @ Oct 29th 2007 3:39AM
I'm no lawyer, but I believe Paul is Right. Imagine if you went to Best Buy and spent $1000 on Gift Cards and the very next day Best Buy decided it will no longer accept their own gift cards and will not refund any outstanding values.
They would be sued in a micro-second. Just because Apple is limiting this policy to one product, that does not excuse them from the responsibility to accept their own gift cards.
John M @ Oct 29th 2007 10:07AM
Cant you just go to your bank and but one of those $1,000.00 reloadable credit cards??? There is always a workaround.
Why not just go to an AT&T store. Im not sure if they are also not accepting cash.