E-mail Gift Certificate To Yourself?

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E-mail Gift Certificate To Yourself?

Is it possible with iTunes to send an e-mail Gift Certificate to yourself?

It sounds like a weird idea, but I'd like to put £10 credit on to my own account, without going out and having to buy a physical plastic card each time.

 iMac 17" 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, Mac OS X (10.5.6),  16GB iPhone 3G  40GB Apple TV

Posted on Mar 11, 2009 9:40 AM

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Answer 1

Mar 12, 2009 1:06 AM in response to Reuben Feffer

I have done this and it works.

I do it because I want to make sure I don't spend more than AU$50 a month. When you just use your credit directly for purchase it's not easy to see how much you are spending over a month. You get many small transactions on your card. If you do the email gift certificate then you can see at the top of the iTunes Store how much money you have left until next time you purchase another gift certificate.

You might want to check out whether any retailers do any specials. JB HiFi in Australia had a deal recently of 2 $30 iTunes Gift Cards for $50. Apparently they do this from time-to-time.

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Answer 2

Reuben Feffer Author

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Mar 12, 2009 4:31 AM in response to Matthew Smith

Glad to hear it works. I'll give it a go.

I want to do it for the same reasons as you:

- I want to keep track of how much I've spent on iTunes, by giving myself, say, a monthly allowance.

- I hate the way iTunes purchases show up on a bank statement. You get lots of individual entries, which makes the statement unnecessarily long, complex and messy.

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Answer 3

varjak paw

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Mar 11, 2009 10:13 AM in response to Reuben Feffer

I don't see why you couldn't, but you'd have to have a credit card linked to your account to buy the gift certificate, at which point you might as well just buy using the credit card. Or just order iTunes cards from the online Apple Store; they don't charge shipping so it wouldn't cost you extra over physically going to the store.

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