It isn’t much, but I have to give Target credit for trying yet another unique approach to gift cards. This time, they are attempting to make the card two gifts in one with remote control functionality.
Why pay pull price for your music, movies and apps from the iTunes store? Dick Smith are selling iTunes gift cards for 20% off up until August 8.
[DSE – Thanks Chris!]
If you’re an iTunes junky, there’s simply no better way to buy stuff than picking up a heap of gift cards on special. According to Gus at Lifehacker, that’s what’s happening at JB Hi-Fi and Kmart at the moment.
Who is the consultant that told all of the big boxers that it would be a good idea to turn this year’s holiday gift cards into some sort of tangible object? They are raking it in right now. First Target made this year’s gift cards into digital cameras, and now Best Buy’s are a cheap-o speaker with a 3.5mm jack to plug into whatever audio player you plan on replacing with said gift credits. What could possibly be next?
Is it a gift card with a digital camera, or a digital camera with a gift card? We’re not quite sure, but this holiday season, Target will begin selling a combo gift card/digital camera, giving customers something to do with their gift certificate other than just spending it while being insulted that a loved one didn’t put a little more thought into the present.
An iTunes customer survey suggests that Apple is looking at selling iTunes gift cards for specific music, shows and movies. A nice branding idea, but I could definitely see some tragedies coming out of this—your mum buys you a card for the this entire season of Heroes, but halfway through it, you give up because you just can’t take Hiro and Ando’s ineptitude anymore. Or, your girlfriend gets one for Sex in the City even though she’ll never watch it on iTunes, and then you can’t use it for something better, like watching George Lucas rape Indiana Jones on South Park. Like I said, tragedies. – Thanks Alaska!
