Hi there.
I've been following the thread about using the iPhone to get and redeem cards and certificates. Most folks were steering the conversation to the iPhone/iPod/iPad. I had some funds come along this month that I wanted to set aside for iTunes, and since I use it for my downloading of things I decided to figure out how to buy and redeem gift certificates. It's very easy to do. This is with the latest iTunes, so there's no problem there. First, make sure you have the side bar visible. You can find this in the View menu. Next, arrow down to the iTunes store. Playlist. On my system I'm directed to the browser area of the screen. You don't want to be there yet. Hit F6 to get back to the tree view that has the iTunes store playlist. Now hit TAB. If you have any credit in your account it will show up here. TAB once beyond this read only box and you'll be on a button called iTunes Store Home button. Press ENTER on it. You'll be placed into the browser window, and mine has over 600 links. Don't let this discourage you. Just do a search on the page for account. You can purchase what you need here by going down the list with the arrow keys until you find "Buy ITunes gifts." Hit ENTER on that, and follow the prompts. You can buy multiple certificates this way. You'll also notice there's a redeem a certificate in this area. If you've purchased a certificate and want to redeem it for yourself, here's a real easy way to do it. Make sure you're in the iTunes Store Playlist option, then TAB until you find your user name. Now hit the application key on your computer. You'll get a menu where you can redeem the account. Just follow the easy steps on the browser page and it's all done. I should mention that this is being done on a Windows 7 64 bit home premium PC, so MAC computers will have a slightly different way to do this. I thought this would be useful for folks. I'm quite happy it's so straightforward to purchase and redeem iTunes cards. One word of warning, and I think this goes for both MAC and PC. You may not want to use the email certificate. I tried this once, and never got an email of the certificate. I did get an email acknowledging that I did purchase certificates, but I never got them. I had to call Apple and find out how to look those up. Trust me, you don't want to do this unless absolutely necessary. It can be done, but it's quite confusing, at least it was for me. Hope this is useful for some of you out there. I'm gonna go to bed now. GO CATS and GO BENGALS! Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en.
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