Trying to buy a gift certificate with a store credit....is it possible?

Please help.

Sorry but no. From the Apple Store:
"You cannot use Apple Gift Cards to purchase another Apple Gift Card, an iTunes Gift Card/Certificate, or music at the iTunes Music Store.

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Same problem here and it seems to be a problem that has been occuring, intermittently, for quite a while. I received the following reply from Apple Support
"You will receive an email after the matter has been investigated and further information is available."
As I believe that strength comes in numbers, please open a support ticket:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

Associate a gift certificate with a promotion

We need to extend a gift certificate object and associate a promotion with it. For example, $100 for a GC, but the GC can only be used for category X.
Somehow we need to run the promotion rules, get a true or false value and determine whether the rules are applicable to the order.
The reason we need to use GC is that the amount needs to be a fixed amount, that can be used across multiple orders within a fixed range. Eg: GC has $100 with a promo for category Y, $75 for one order, then they can come back before the promo expires and use the remaining $25 for cat Y again. We also need to make sure this $75 value is only applied to the relevant products, in the event there are other products not under cat Y. We pretty much need a coupon to have a re-usable decreasing monetary value.
Any thoughts on how this can be achieved?
We are on 9.4.
Cheers,
Dom
Edited by: dominiclovell on Jul 5, 2012 11:57 AM

Technically when GC is claimed, a new electronic group is created and deducted. To implement the functionality you want to achieve, lot of code changes are needed.
1. Add a new promotion property in "giftCertificateClaimable" linking to "promotion" item-descriptor in claimable repository
2. Add an attribute "category" in "promotion" item-descriptior in pricingModels.xml to recognize the categories the promotion belongs to and make this promotion be usable many times.
3. Over-ride handle method (such as handleMoveToConfirmation())when you are trying to claim the gift certificate and do the following.
handleMoveToConfirmation(){
RepositoryItem gcRepItem = claimableTools().getClaimableItem("giftcertificatecode");
RepositoryItem promotionItem = gcRepItem.getPropertyValue("promotion");
promotionTools.addPromotion(profileId, promotionItem);
repriceOrder();
super.moveToConfirmation();
Use promotionTools to remove the promotion from the Profile.activePromotions ( Reason for doing this is, when the registered user comes back, the promotion is not
applied on the order without user entering the GC. This is your decision, either you can keep this or remove this piece of code);
splitPG();
updateOrder();
splitPG(){
Split the paymentgroup across commerce items and populate relationship payItemRelationships of the order.( Look for API's to split the PG's across the items to send it to fulfillment);
Use the attribute defined in step 2 to check if a particular sku belongs to that category or not and then split it.
Hope this gives you starting point for this task. Look into API's for more details.
-karthik

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If you're unwilling to use a gift card or credit card to complete the transaction, you need to click here and ask the iTunes Store staff for assistance.
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I have been trying to purchase gift certificcates... and all of a sudden Im getting a message "This Apple id not eligible to purchase gift certificates".
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You might want to hit dictionary.com and look up the definition of "help", 'cause you clearly don't have a clue what it means. Great guys, for promoting yourselves as such an amazing company with amazing products, your support sure does go lacking. I'm trying to give you $20 by buying a $20 gift certificate for my nephew. Everything appears to go as expected until I click the "Buy" button at the end. "This account is not authorized to buy a gift certificate. iTunes gift cards are available at retailers." ?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? Why on earth would you block me from spending money with you?? I'm trying to get a gift to my nephew on his birthday, TODAY. I'll just call your 24 hour toll free "how to give us money" hotline, oh wait, you don't have one of those. That's OK, I'll just hook up with one of your super-dynamic chat specialists, 24/7, oh wait, you don't have that either. All you have is this lame feedback form that won't likely get checked for 7-10 business days, and then all I can expect is one of your canned responses, perhaps you'll send me Response # 218843cd7! Oooh goody goody goody. LAME! Pompous, self-righteous, holier-than-thou jerks ...the lot of you. Amazon.com MP3 downloads will be getting this $20 and all future $20 I decided to spend on friends and family. I haven't seen a rotten apple for years, now I remember what I don't like about them. Mushy, smelly, slimy and they sure don't make good gifts!

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I don't think that prepaid credit cards will work - iTunes validates that the name and address that the credit card is registered to is the same as on your iTunes account, and prepaid cards tend not to have a registered address so will fail that validation. Depending upon what country that you are in you might be able to use the card to purchase iTunes gift cards and then use those as your payment method on your iTunes account.

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Has it been 24 hours?
I take it this was a gift card. iTunes Store: Invalid, Inactive, or Illegible codes http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1292 - gift cards
I don't know if this provides an alternative means: https://expresslane.apple.com ; select 'iTunes' in the first column; 'iTunes Store' in the second column
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Or from the online store of your country.
If in USA: http://store.apple.com/us/personalize/itunes?product=ITUNES_GIFT_CARDS-101703

I keep trying to buy a song on the itunes store but every time I enter my apple id it says "Cannot connect to iTunes store" help please!

I keep trying to buy a song on the itunes store but every time I enter my apple id it says "Cannot connect to iTunes store" help please!

Hello seth53,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
For more information on this, take a look at:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1368
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iTunes Store Support
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My credit card is from El Salvador And I can't buy english movies?
Your credit or debit card credentials must be associated with the same country where you reside.
"Although you can browse the iTunes Store in any country without being signed in, you can only purchase content from the iTunes Store for your own country. This is enforced via the billing address associated with your credit card or other payment method that you use with the iTunes Store, rather than your actual geographic location."
From here > The Complete Guide to Using the iTunes Store | iLounge Article

I purchased an iTunes gift certificate with my Canadian-based American Express card (I live there) and had it emailed as a gift to someone at a hotel in the U.S.; Now, he cannot seem to use it. Apple online said it is cause it's only usable in Canada! Wha

I bought a gift certificate from iTunes, online, for someone travelling in the U.S. temporarily. He is a Canadian, I am a U.S. citizen, and I bought it using my Canda-based American express account, as I live in Canada. Now he is told by Apple on the telephone that he cannot use the certificate to buy anything as it was purchased on a computer in Canada. This seems utterly impossible! Does Apple have walls between countries? It seems to me that someone stuck in a hotel, with his iPhone, might want to purchase stuff from iTunes, but now it seems this cannot be done and he will have to return to Canada to use the certificate. What the heck kind of instant gift service is that!?
Anyone know how to deal with this? The person travelling is gone another couple of months. Anyone ever try for a refund from iTunes?

When you tried to contact Support with the card's images how were you trying to do it, on your phone or a browser on your computer ? And have you tried a different browser to see if you get the same error message ?
As well as images of the card they might also want an image of its receipt.
And to contact Support you were using : http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/ , and clicked on Contact iTunes Store Support on the right-hand side of the page, then iTunes Cards And Codes ?

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