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timark_uk
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Is there any way I can gift 10.7 Lion to someone?
I thought I could just do this, but I don't see how. I need to get it done today. *sigh*
Mark
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| Mon Nov 21, 2011 5:36 pm |
 
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timark_uk
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There's no virtual gift card outside the US either. I think I'm going to have to buy a physical gift card so they can purchase the gift.
Apple, you have failed me.
Mark
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| Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:11 pm |
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paulzolo
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"Gifting"? ! ? !
What's wrong with the word "giving"? Or even "giving a present"?
Also: this forum does not like the Interrobang.
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| Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:22 pm |
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timark_uk
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I was using the word Apple uses. Mark
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jonbwfc
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If you can do it, the way to do it is to go to the page for Lion in the Mac OS app store and there there's a small blue button with the price on. Click the small 'down arrow' also on the button. If that has the 'give as a gift' option that will do what you wish - it sends them an iTunes link in an email that allows them to download it IIRC. Note you need to have a registered CC for this to be available, I can't actually check it as I don't have one on my iTunes account any more.
Alternatively go to any supermarket and buy them a £25 iTunes gift card, they're good for App Store purchases too.
Jon
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timark_uk
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You only get two options; to e-mail a friend and to purchase it yourself. It's too late now. Apple lost a sale tonight. Mark
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petermillard
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If it's too late, it's too late, but can't an email gift certificate from the iTunes Store be redeemed in the App Store?
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jonbwfc
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I don't see why not - it's an 'Apple ID' account with a balance on it, so adding funds in iTunes applies to the app store too. They'll need to use the same login on both though.
Jon
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big_D
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I've been in Germany too long! I read "Poisoning 10.7"  (German "Gift" = English "Poison".)
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jonbwfc
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That could be socially awkward if you aren't careful... Jon
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rustybucket
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I read it as "Poisoning 101", as though it were a personal development course. _________________Jim
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big_D
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You should have seen a German friend's face, when I first met her kids, I had got them a Teddybear and a dog from the Bear Factory in Southampton and I blurted out "I have gifts for your kids"
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paulzolo
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Which reminds me of an episode of Playaway (with Brian Cant and Cloe Ashcroft) where they were somewhere in Europe with a similar kid’s show from that country. Brian had a gift and presented it as such. The Gift/poison confusion was explained with the kind of mirth that Playaway brought to such things.
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