{"id":652172,"date":"2010-02-02T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001407"},"modified":"2010-02-02T01:44:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T06:44:56","slug":"neweggs-gift-card-policy-frustrates-pedro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/652172","title":{"rendered":"Newegg’s Gift Card Policy Frustrates Pedro"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Things were looking up for Pedro. Not only have most people forgotten Napoleon Dynamite and thus stopped taking his name in vain in catch-phrase-employing jokes, but he had a Newegg gift card loaded with the exact amount of a pre-order-only item he wanted. Life was swell right until he was about to check out and discovered Newegg doesn’t let you use gift cards on pre-orders.<\/p>\n

He writes:<\/p>\n

If you need another reason to hate gift cards, Newegg doesn’t accept them for pre-orders, back-orders, and cell phone orders. That’s fantastic, especially since the only thing I want is a limited edition item that must be pre-ordered that costs exactly what my gift card is for!<\/p>\n

The message I’ve attached only shows up once you’ve added a non pre-order item to your shopping cart, so it was pretty much hell trying to figure out why I couldn’t use my gift card. The gift card field doesn’t even come up unless you add something that isn’t a pre-order item.<\/p>\n

I hate gift cards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whatever is the opposite of an ode is what Pedro just wrote to gift cards. Any suggestions for Pedro to circumvent the policy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things were looking up for Pedro. Not only have most people forgotten Napoleon Dynamite and thus stopped taking his name in vain in catch-phrase-employing jokes, but he had a Newegg gift card loaded with the exact amount of a pre-order-only item he wanted. Life was swell right until he was about to check out and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2JEU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}