You must use PayPal, you can send the gift card to yourself, requires iTunes to be installed, etc. Click on the link at www.apple.com/itunes if the one below doesn't work.
<strike>Nice. Will pick myself up one at least.</strike>
Worked without a hitch. I picked up two for myself, so basically you get $150 in music for $100. The bonus is instantly credited to your account etc. and all rdy to be used. Thanks.
RUN-DvdMC
12-20-05, 12:59 PM
Does it work automatically? I don't see it advertised anywhere and when is the expiration date? Thanks.
SpaceBoy
12-20-05, 02:52 PM
Does it work automatically? I don't see it advertised anywhere and when is the expiration date? Thanks.
I'm not sure when the expiration date, but it works automatically if you use the link the initial poster posted, and buy the gift cert paying via paypal. I did this already, as soon as I paid, I received the bonus credits. So it says 50 songs right away. Then a few minutes later I received the 2 certificate emails, which I simply clicked on the link to redeem, so now my itunes shows a balance of 100 + 50 songs. So it worked right away for me. Obviously you have to pay using paypal, and send them to yourself to get the results I did.
Also, if you go the apple.com/itunes website, you should see a little snippet for it, I did.
Deadpool
12-20-05, 02:58 PM
I hope this is still working by the time I get home...
mikeporter
12-20-05, 03:16 PM
Dwhen is the expiration date?
Free song codes expire May 31, 2006.
PJsig08
12-20-05, 03:56 PM
Could I buy the $50 card, sell it on eBay and keep the 25 free songs for myself?
Or no?
Michael Corvin
12-20-05, 05:01 PM
sounds like it is all put in your account since you are buying it through iTunes.
SpaceBoy
12-20-05, 06:41 PM
Could I buy the $50 card, sell it on eBay and keep the 25 free songs for myself?
Or no?
Sure you can.
I've seen a few people selling certs that I'm sure are doing just that.
When you buy them you just get a certificate for the value you buy, and you have to redeem that to get the money out of it, the credits happen to your account automatically.
So if you got the certificate email, don't redeem it, you could sell it to somebody no problem.
rfduncan
12-21-05, 07:25 AM
Whoa - what a hassle! In order to connect my iTunes account with PayPal I had to go from an IE browser to iTunes and then BACK to IE to link the accounts. I use Netscape, so when it jumped back out of iTunes, I lost the connecttion. Resetting IE to be the preferred browser through Internet Settings finally fixed the problem if anyone is having similar issues.
Goldberg74
12-21-05, 11:01 AM
Can you use the credits for videos?
SpaceBoy
12-21-05, 02:13 PM
Can you use the credits for videos?
I haven't tried, but i would guess not since the bonues credits are listed differently then actual money on the account. So I currently have $100 (which can be used video I'm sure) & 50 songs (this is the bonus, and would guess it has to be songs, that's why it's broken out)
Goldberg74
12-21-05, 05:37 PM
Might have to get one. Thanks OP.
IDrinkMolson
12-21-05, 06:32 PM
I'm interested in doing this, but I'm kind of new to the iTunes thing. If I download a song, can I only play it on my computer or can I burn it to a CD and play it in my car or home stereo?
SpaceBoy
12-21-05, 07:36 PM
I'm interested in doing this, but I'm kind of new to the iTunes thing. If I download a song, can I only play it on my computer or can I burn it to a CD and play it in my car or home stereo?
Yes, you can listen to them on your computer or burn them to cd. I believe you can only burn them to cd like 5 times or something?! I might be wrong about though.
Goldberg74
12-22-05, 05:44 PM
You can burn the same playlist up to five times. I think.
mick0016
12-22-05, 09:10 PM
Just burn them onto a CD-Rom and then you can rip it back onto your PC unprotected in a mp3 format (not AAC) and then you can do whatever you want with them. You can do the same thing with Real Player and MSN as well for what its worth. Sound quality my deteriorate a little, but its not noticeable to me through headphones.
It's kind of a hassle, so I'll wait until I have around 15 songs downloaded before going through the process.
IDrinkMolson
12-22-05, 10:14 PM
Thanks for the replies!
teechur
12-23-05, 01:47 PM
Excellent! My husband got me this last night. I had to help him since we use Firefox. Just reset IE to my default browser and it worked like a charm. Best part was, he did it through my iTunes account so I got the free songs AND the $50 gift certificate! Now I wish I'd known about it when I bought my sister a $30 certificate. I would have bumped it $20 and enjoyed 25 more songs!
heavywear
12-23-05, 02:26 PM
Just burn them onto a CD-Rom and then you can rip it back onto your PC unprotected in a mp3 format (not AAC) and then you can do whatever you want with them. You can do the same thing with Real Player and MSN as well for what its worth. Sound quality my deteriorate a little, but its not noticeable to me through headphones.
It's kind of a hassle, so I'll wait until I have around 15 songs downloaded before going through the process.
Nice tip! thanks...
Sirgey
12-27-05, 08:08 AM
Do the 25 songs credit have to be used to buy individual songs, or can it be used to pay the whole album price. If an album is 9.99 but has 20 songs will it take away 9.99 from the 50 dollar credit or 10 songs from the 25 free songs? Sorry if this is a stupid question but I'm new to iTunes.
Thanks,
Joe
heavywear
12-27-05, 09:59 AM
It appears you have to use your $25 credit first. I'm well into mine :)
neiname
12-27-05, 11:37 AM
Will do this when I get home, thanks
Sirgey
12-28-05, 09:38 AM
It appears you have to use your $25 credit first. I'm well into mine :)
So to iTunes the 25 freesongs looks just like 25 dollars of credit so I could get 2 itunes originals albums? That's pretty cool.
Sirgey
12-29-05, 08:45 PM
Just so anyone else is notified, the 25 free songs cannot be used to pay the "buy album" price, you would need to buy each song individually (fine for disks 10 songs and under, but not good for longer disks or itunes originals where you can't get some tracks without buying the whole album at once). Since I'm not a "single" sort of guy, I will try to find some shorting things to use my free credits on.
kilcher
12-31-05, 11:25 PM
Got it. Thanks for posting!
FYI - The whole process didn't work too well in Firefox, had to past the url's into IE.
tboogie
01-01-06, 12:44 PM
Got it. Thanks for posting!
FYI - The whole process didn't work too well in Firefox, had to past the url's into IE.
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