I Tried Redeeming A Decade Old Minecraft Gift Card

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[cubedimensions]

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This video was supposed to be finished 2 WEEKS AGO, I edited the first 5 minutes and hired an editor to edit the rest of this entire video. They told me it'd be finished in the next day, for 2 weeks, up until the editor I hired backed out at the last minute due to "issues" after supposedly finishing the project. Days before my editor backed out, I learned Davinci Fusion which is Davinci Resolve's version of After Effects. Usually the edit quality is supposed to go down as a video goes on, however, with just 2 days of some YouTube tutorials I watched and tested, I have managed to improve my editing.

I have NOT sent out a physical letter yet and have tried redeeming the code again, and, I get the same error message. I spent over 2 weeks waiting for the rest of this video to be made, which adds to the irony of the topic of this video.

This is the best month for YouTubers and ironically I had no video ideas I felt that were good for the month. I hope you enjoy this video!

[goofy_ahh_cat]

imagine a website being so untrusted that devs just say “pirate our games instead.”

[AIGeneratedart-zf]

imagine an old father buying this for his son, only to figure out that it doesn't work.

[builder]

This is the equivalent of when dad says "ask mom" and mom says "ask dad" 💀

[yamunajolicoeur]

this is the evolved version of trying to talk to roblox support :

[melogavenue]

That contract you “agree to” should be illegal. How hard it is to get proper customer support nowadays from companies like Microsoft and Sony should ABSOLUTELY be illegal. Super gross stuff. I swear I remember reading that you can’t legally think that everybody will read your 300 page ToS every time, so they can’t actually hold it against you. Meaning you can actually still sue. Don’t recall the details however I’m sorry to say. I seriously hate the world we live in though, my god…

[KylerBro]

About a month ago i saw a $25 iTunes gift card from 2014 just lying around in my house. I decided to redeem it to see what would happen, and it actually worked! $25 was added to my account balance! Good on you, Apple.

[celestynairlines]

my name is [redacted]
*proceeds to show Bryan*

[Sea_Captain]

When the disputes take more money than the gift card, you know ur powerless

[Nanagos]

The customer support loop is so dystopian. Imagine it wasn't 30$, but your entire life depended on the outcome. That would be terrifying.

[kyrzixo]

This sort-of reminds me of SalC1 not migrating his Minecraft account for 3 years.

[Rikaisan]

2:40
Correction here, it's not "Fake keys" that are damaging. The real issue is that A LOT of the codes are stolen. They are either bought with stolen credit cards or received for free by deceiving the developer.

[Fierce_Minecraft]

Microsoft Support is really ass. Sorry but i lost my account worth over 50$ and they just gaslit me and i never got the account back.. They told me some "legal reasons" which i looked up and were not true. I actually had a reason to sue them, but i wont do it because i really don't got the money for a lawyer rn. Thanks for making this video and informing the players about Microsoft's terrible support. Thank you.

[kA-r-sun]

Bro just went in more circles than me playing minecraft trying to find my house

[SparkingSparks]

I think if you had continued to contact Mojang support, they eventually would have solved the issue. Neither Walmart nor Microsoft would have the know-how for something so specific to Minecrafts change in systems.

[builder]

The fact that gift cards make money solely off people not using them is insane

[Andiandru]

It's kinda impressive how customer support has become worse by the year instead of improving.

I had a problem back in the X360 era and not only the issue was handled fast as heck, but all the convos were with humans who knew what to do

[Sonictheoofhog]

Imagine finding an old, unredeemed Minecraft gift card in your house, trying to redeem it, and you fall down into the the same rabbit hole as this guy

[dodowz]

This is actually insane. Im honestly happy you put yourself through this because this is the type of "investigations" we need to be doing. Everything that happened should be illegal "even though its not". This was a great video.

[seadffsa]

whats funny is with a free trial of xbox game pass (idk if it has to be ultimate or not) giving you access to a minecraft bedrock account, you can from there make a permanent java edition account with subsequently also gives you permanent access to the bedrock edition as well. furthermore, as long as you have enough emails to make new microsoft accounts for free trials of game pass, you can continuosly make alts for java lol