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Originally Posted by hermes
Current experience trying to buy a Sony gift card = no go.
Best Buy: Sony cards are either out of stock or not sold. The staff seems a bit, er... unsure.
Sony Store: Clerk does not know what is the maximum dollar value is of gift cards. Sounds like they are custom made. I ask if 'my sister' will be able to make purchases on this card in Singapore. He asks what she is going to purchase, and I tell him ebooks and audiobooks. I am told that Canadian Sony stores do not sell gift cards with that capability. He does not advice me whether US cards are activatable in Canada.
Future Shop: Even less knowledge.
My preliminary conclusion from this is that people on this forum know more about ereaders than salespeople of them, and that it appears that Sony gift cards are not universal in use, to put it mildly.
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If you're in Canada, and I'm going to assume so based on this post, you cannot buy Sony Reader gift cards anywhere. They are sold ONLY in US funds and stores in Canada cannot sell goods in US funds. They only come in $25 and $50 denominations. I've bought them at some Walmart stores in Buffalo and Best Buy in the US usually has them. Not always as they seem to be unloading their Sony readers.
In Canada however, you cannot buy a Sony Reader gift card. I think you confused the Sony salesperson by asking for a generic gift card. Sony stores sell gift cards that you put $X value of your choice on for the recipient to use at a store or online to buy items not to buy books at the Sony Reader store.