{"id":1318,"date":"2011-10-25T10:05:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2011-10-25T10:05:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:05:58","slug":"itunes-gift-card-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"iTunes gift card settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like it or not, when a company issues a gift card they have to realize that they could potentially be around for a long time, especially now that the federal gift card laws require they don&#8217;t expire for at least 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>That is the lesson Apple learned when it advertised 99 cent songs on some of its gift cards or their packaging and later increased the prices on some songs.<\/p>\n<p>If you happened to be one of the customers that bought or received a 99 cent gift card, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/tmo\/article\/itunes_gift_card_class_action_settles_for_3.25_per_customer\/?utm_campaign=feature\" target=\"_blank\">a class action settlement<\/a> has been reached valued at $3.25 per customer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like it or not, when a company issues a gift card they have to realize that they could potentially be around for a long time, especially now that the federal gift card laws require they don&#8217;t expire for at least 5 years. That is the lesson Apple learned when it advertised 99 cent songs on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1320,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}