Amazon.com Product Description
Amazon.com gift certificates can be used to purchase almost anything in our store, including most items sold by Marketplace sellers and Amazon Merchants (except The Bombay Company, Circuit City, Eddie Bauer, Newport News, Nordstrom, Spiegel, and Ultimate Outlet Brands). For more information, see the Fine Print [below / above]. Sending E-mail Gift Certificates: When sending e-mail gift certificates, please be aware that some e-mail programs may block or even delete e-mail messages which originate from an address not specified by the recipient as an accepted address. All Amazon.com e-mail gift certificates are sent from gc-orders If you are concerned that your recipient may have e-mail filters turned on, you may want to send or reissue the gift certificate to your own e-mail address and then forward it to them or print it out to give to them. Redeeming Gift Certificates: When you enter the certificate's claim code for the first time, the certificate is automatically redeemed onto your account, and this information is logged into our database, even if you don't place an order at that time. After you have entered the claim code once, you do not need to enter it again--even if you back up and change other information in the course of placing your order. If you receive an error message that the gift certificate has been redeemed, and the funds are not being applied to your order, it could be that you have more than one Amazon.com account, and that the funds are redeemed to one of your other accounts. Questions about purchasing or using a gift certificate can be sent through our Contact Us form online.

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1128 of 1301 people found the following review helpful: Great gift, easily delivered, and fun to receive, December 14, 2004 Reviewer: C. Coffman (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews    I live in Australia, and several years ago I got fed up with standing in the long Christmas lines at the Post Office, paying almost as much for postage as I had spent on the gift themselves, and then hoping that miraculously I had tracked the growing size of various children, the interests and preferences of others, and that all this effort might result in an enjoyable gift. Too exhausting, too expensive, and probbly not enough happy recipients of gifts from Australia! You can't expect to get it right every year . . . For three years now I have been sending Amazon.com gift certificates with electronic cards via email to my nephews and nieces, godsons, and to other adult family and friends. Now everyone tells me that they are happy. And for the kids, going over the Internet with their parents onto Amazon.com and choosing their own gifts is fun in itself . . . I read the review by the person who didn't know that his intended recipient hadn't received his gift and he or she wasn't advised by Amazon.com that it hadn't been picked up. It's true that Amazon.com doesn't advise you when the gift isn't picked up, but when you send a gift certificate by email Amazon.com does advise you by email when the email with your gift certificate is sent, and then Amazon.com advises you again by email when your intended recipient has picked up the gift certificate. So you have to keep track of it, but I have found that Amazon.com provides enough feedback along the way so that you know everything has gone well. (And of course sometimes you even get thank you emails and/or telephone calls . . .) One thing I will say is that if you go in from the gift certificate prompt, Amazon.com only allows you (as far as I can tell) to choose a very limited selection of e-cards. I prefer to start by going into the e-card hotlink and then clicking 'yes' that I want to send the e-card with a gift certificate. That way you have access to the very wide range of Amazon.com e-cards, which offer plenty of room for a personalised message and generally cool background music to accompany the card. The total package of e-card, personalised message, music, and an electronic gift certificate arriving by email has proven to be the right gift for all my family and friends. I have no qualms about giving the Amazon.com service for sending emails with an e-card and a gift certificate five stars. Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

410 of 532 people found the following review helpful: Never Had a Problem..., December 16, 2004 Reviewer: Philip Susemihl "philaphil5555" (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania United States) - See all my reviews    ...so I'm knocking on wood. I've sent Amazon Gift Certs electronically and by mail for several years and have never had a problem with lost certs or failure to deliver to the recipients e-mail address. I've always considered them to be wonderful holiday or birthday alternative to trying to buy the right thing and then packaging the item and hauling it to the post office where it proceeds to get the living stuff kicked out of it enroute. My daughter has told me how much fun she and my seven-year-old granddaughter have picking out her present(s) on Amazon. I know this sounds like I work for Amazon, but I don't. I was surprised to see so many negative comments regarding the quality of service, appearance of the certs, etc. Well, if the one I just ordered for e-mail delivery doesn't get there, I'll have to make like Ahnuld and "be back" with a negative review. Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful: worried, bought anyway, am happy, August 26, 2005 Reviewer: Linda D. Hardy (DEL a where? [Some people ask what state we're in!]) - See all my reviews    Like another customer, I read the nasty reviews about Amazon gift certificate and was worried. However, I wanted a book certificate that could be used on line, because it's a Christmas gift for a cancer patient and I think the person will not be going out much. So I ordered one and asked that it be sent to me so that I could wrap and enclose it in the family's Christmas box. It arrived in a week, and I'm confident that it will work. If there's a problem, I'll write ANOTHER review! NOTE to Amazon: I'll bet you have fixed a lot of the procedures. It might be nice if Amazon wrote a "review" of its own, to explain what happened to the customers who got zonked. Anyway, here's one satisfied customer. LH Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Paper certificate arrived quickly and was accurate, August 23, 2005 Reviewer: Grabthar "tufnel" (Menlo Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews I ordered a paper gift certificate on the afternoon of August 18th. It arrived at my house on August 22nd. The amount of the certificate and the message it contained were just as I ordered. No problem whatsoever. To prevent any possible frustration on behalf of the recipient, just read the fine print and make sure they know which merchants will not accept the certificate. No big deal. Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

19 of 23 people found the following review helpful: Easy to print E-Certificates, August 8, 2005 Reviewer: Mrs. Diane K. Kovacs (Brunswick, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews    I've been sending Amazon gift certificates for our 23 neices and nephews for 5 plus years now - I also find them amazing for last minute - oops we have a wedding to go to etc. gifts. What you do is your get the e-certificate and then go retrieve it and print it out :) I take a screen capture to just to make sure I got it. Never had a problem with doing this. Would be nice if Amazon would make my method 'official'. But the fact is that this gift is always welcomed among my friends. Of course not everyone has friends who'd rather get books than dishes and junk for wedding gifts... lol - but they can choose to get those instead. My one sister keeps using her little daughter's Christmas gift certificate from us to buy clothes for her through Amazon... can't stop that though. Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful: Easy and Much Appreciated by Person Who Recieves, August 6, 2005 Reviewer: Sharing Experiences (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews I have been ordering Amazon.com gift certificates for several years now for various occasions. They are wonderful if you forget someone at the last minute around the holidays because it can be emailed right away!!! :) :) Every time I purchase a gift certificate from Amazon, I get a thank you from the recipient that is much more sincere and excited than other places I have purchased gift certificates. They are also great for corporate promotions! Was this review helpful to you?  (Report this)

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