Amazon gift cards, no value on these gift cards, stolen Amazon gift cards

My Amazon gift cards have no value! What’s going on?

Michelle Couch-Friedman

Michelle Couch-Friedman

Chief Fiasco Fixer / Consumer reporter

When Deborah Kahn bought two Amazon gift cards at her local mom-and-pop pharmacy, nothing seemed amiss. But then she got home and tried to load the $100 value into her online account. That’s when she discovered something was very wrong — those Amazon gift cards had no value. None at all.

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