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I bought a couple 1 year Netflix gift card codes from this guy on ebay and used them up and they applied to my account and everything was golden. Until I checked my account again the next day and I see it shows I have no gift balance on my Netflix account. WTF I JUST APPLIED 2 YEARS WORTH.
So I contacted Netflix and what happens is these ebay clowns sell you the gift code and then they contact Netflix and Netflix for whatever stupid reason will allow them to invalidate the codes and issue them full refunds even if they've been applied to an account. So they get a refund for the code plus keep the money you paid them. Why the hell Netflix let's that happen (especially after the code is already used...) is beyond me but they do and people are taking advantage of that.
So just wanted to share and give a heads up I guess.
Edit: I forgot, but if you have bought one of these make damn sure you have a gift balance showing up and are not actually getting charged the normal 7.99. I wouldn't have known if I wasn't paranoid and decided to check on it again.
Netflix didn't send me any notice or anything, they simply removed the gift balance and set my charges back to the normal payment method. after contacting Netflix about it they were nice enough to give me 2 months free so good on them for that, but it's still odd they let people do that and then don't notify about it.
So I contacted Netflix and what happens is these ebay clowns sell you the gift code and then they contact Netflix and Netflix for whatever stupid reason will allow them to invalidate the codes and issue them full refunds even if they've been applied to an account. So they get a refund for the code plus keep the money you paid them. Why the hell Netflix let's that happen (especially after the code is already used...) is beyond me but they do and people are taking advantage of that.
So just wanted to share and give a heads up I guess.
Edit: I forgot, but if you have bought one of these make damn sure you have a gift balance showing up and are not actually getting charged the normal 7.99. I wouldn't have known if I wasn't paranoid and decided to check on it again.
Netflix didn't send me any notice or anything, they simply removed the gift balance and set my charges back to the normal payment method. after contacting Netflix about it they were nice enough to give me 2 months free so good on them for that, but it's still odd they let people do that and then don't notify about it.
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