Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

DO NOT BUY THESE GIFT CARDS. AMAZON WILL NOT HONOR THEM. My father spent $175 to purchase 4 gift cards from Amazon - one $25 card and three $50 gift cards. NOT ONE OF THE $50 CARDS is redeemable! My husband and I were the recipients of three of the cards. When we tried to apply the Claim Code the only one that was "valid" was the $25 one. We had Amazon contact us and I was told by Joe, in a foreign land, that he could see the money on the cards, but they were sold buy a third party vendor and therefore he couldn't activate them. HELLO! MY FATHER ORDERED THEM FROM AMAZON.COM. We have the documentation to prove it. Joe told me I'd have to take them to the store my father purchased them at and have the store activate them. HOW THE HECK DO WE CARRY THEM TO AMAZON TO ACTIVATE?! Then to add insult to injury we discover from the receipt that the gift cards were sold by ACI Gift Cards, Inc. - a subsidiary of AMAZON. Double injury to insult # 2: one of the serial numbers on one of the cards that was sent doesn't match any of the serial numbers on the Order Details. Major SNAFU. Imagine being and elderly senior on a fixed income who spends important money on Christmas gifts for the family only to realize Amazon has denied use of cards (in one case hap haphazardly issued) by their gift card subsidiary. Amazon snatched Christmas away from my dad's family. I will be sharing this experience on all my social networking venues. New word for Amazon: SCROOGE, SCROOGE, SCROOGE.