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Re:Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A p... by Aurornis on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:26AM (#46255185)
> You do not like person x, send them some Apple gift cards... :o

99.999% chance they happily redeem them and go about their lives.

These stories, while frustrating, are clearly edge cases. Yes I know you can find more if you search social media, but I don’t think a lot of these HN commenters realize the volume of gift cards Apple sells and redeems without problem every day.

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Re:Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A p... by generic92034 on Sunday December 14, 2025 @04:29AM (#46261883)
Maybe that hypothetical, bad person needs to find out what is triggering the account locking, first. Many small sums per gift card? A sum over a certain threshold? The point is, in reality it will not be up to pure chance.

However, I personally would not do that anyway.

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