My Secret Santa got me a PSN gift card which is pretty nice. However, they failed to realize that the actual code is printed out on the receipt and the card itself is worthless. It's been over a week now and I've just found out. Not really sure what to do because they've probably discarded the receipt already. I guess I could try asking around and find out who my Secret Santa was but it would probably only upset that person. Kind of an awkward situation lol, although it's not a big deal for me — still a nice gesture. Huh, that's dumb they don't actually load the card.
Never heard of that before (but never bought a PSN card either). Do they not know how people give gift cards?
I don't think I've ever gotten a gift card with an attached receipt. You can never return them, why on earth would anyone think to do that? It is indeed awkward.
I think your best bet is to try and quietly find out who your Secret Santa is, maybe suggest it's important you find out but don't actually tell anyone there is a problem with the gift. I thought about maybe posting something like on an employee message board but you don't want to risk embarrassing this person. But I think you are in a situation where your SS is going to be bummed the gift didn't work out either way, and it's best to give them a chance to fix it.
They thought they got you a good gift that you will actually use, and may someday ask you what you bought with it (even if it's against the rules, that often happens anyway). It would suck if that came too late to fix the problem and the money they spent went to waste. As far as I understand, all European PSN giftcards work like that (at least that seems to be the case in Germany).
They used to be scratch card and they changed it up a couple years back for some reason. Good point about the customer support — I'll try that first. Finding out who my SS was should be fairly easy — I can just ask in the general chat on Slack. But I'd rather exhaust my other options first. Would the retailer even be able to reprint the receipt though? Never heard of something like that.
Activate Stolen Playstation Network Card
So yeah, the Sony support says they don't provide spare codes and suggests contacting the buyer to 'locate the receipt'. I'm still not sure if I should go ahead with it. Matching was completely random, so even the organizer doesn't know who my SS is.
Basically, the only way to find out is to post in the #general Slack channel. I'm not super comfortable with EVERYONE reading about this (might make my SS feel uncomfortable for starters and/or might make me appear ungrateful). Plus half the office is on vacation – chances are, the SS is not even in town and/or doesn't pay attention to the corporate messenger. Just awkward all around! (note that this is Russia and everything is upside down – New Year is a substitute for Christmas, so the actual start holidays start January 1 and last for A WEEK, hence many people taking a week off prior to that). Originally Posted by Yaboosh How does this cut down on card theft?
The card has to be activated by the sale anyway.People would steal the unactivated card and sell it to people who didn't know it needed to be activated. Since the card had to be activated anyway, they moved to printing it on the receipt to save time from having to swipe it and activate it through their POS.
Gamestop had this system since about 2007 or 08, I used to buy the Halo 3 DLC for contest and stuff and you just brought the placeholder card over and they'd print the 5x5 code on the receipt. Originally Posted by FyreWulff People would steal the unactivated card and sell it to people who didn't know it needed to be activated. Since the card had to be activated anyway, they moved to printing it on the receipt to save time from having to swipe it and activate it through their POS.
Gamestop had this system since about 2007 or 08, I used to buy the Halo 3 DLC for contest and stuff and you just brought the placeholder card over and they'd print the 5x5 code on the receipt.Sooo why have the cards at all then?