Uh I've heard that you can't buy apps with these, although yesterday my friend bought her first ipod touch and an itunes card along with it in a vancouver london drugs. do they work now, have i missed a major news update?
I'm pretty sure they still don't work - I bought an app a couple of days ago and it still charged to my credit card rather than my gift card balance. MacRumors or TouchArcade would probably put up a news story if anything changed.
Correct, you still can't buy apps with Canadian iTunes cards. Something to do with Canada's tax laws or some ridiculous thing. I'm hoping it'll change but I'm not holding my breath.
Cifuang, maybe your friend was right. According to iPhone in Canada . . . I told one of my friends at school about this news and he said he bought an app a couple of weeks ago and it didn't charge his credit card. Article: http://www.iphoneincanada.ca/iphone-news/canadian-itunes-gift-cards-now-work-for-apps/
I can confirm that apps charge to the gift card balance - just bought an app and my balance went down.
Huh. Interesting. Maybe I should buy a gift card and give it a shot. I really don't want to ding my credit card and I'd like to bump my balance.
Well, I'll be damned. Given that I don't think any laws changed that quickly (the "speed of government" being somewhere between molasses in January and suspended animation) then I must conclude that Apple blaming Canadian tax laws was a sack of Cleaveland steamers. Next paycheque I think I'm going to pick one up. Got $4 left on my US account and I know there are some good'uns being released soon.
Their excuse really wasn't a great one from the beginning, there were several other stores that you can buy software with gift cards, like XBLM, and PSN. I wonder if promo codes work as well now. EDIT: Nope.
I still have no idea why promo codes don't work here -- or anywhere else. I do know there are certain issues regarding free promotional things where either the company holding the event in which the freebie is won or the retailer where the thing that gave the freebie was bought had to still pay the taxes on the value of said thing (which they often passed on to the consumer). Furthermore Quebec has still different laws from the rest of Canada regarding prizes in which those prizes must be held in escrow, though I don't know how that works for intangibles or consumables; I assume it's either waived or something symbolic, such as the total value of all prizes is held in lieu.
