Netflix gift cards for South Africa are nowhere to be seen

[Bradley Prior]

Netflix gift cards for South Africa are nowhere to be seen

Netflix announced in October that its was launching Netflix gift cards in South Africa.

The cards provide a way of paying for the streaming service besides credit card, and were said to be available with denominations from R150 to R1,000. The card were also said not to expire.

 

[eg2505]

saw one at my local PNP, its just plastic with a voucher loaded onto it,
like uber vouchers or CNA voucher.

 

[Brown Fox]

I have see loads in Pnp stores.

Not sure how they get to "nowhere to be found"

 

[Dan C]

I have see loads in Pnp stores.

Not sure how how the get to "nowhere to be found"

Exactly. PnP sells them.

 

[Drifter]

Maybe OP tried to buy at a Multichoice store.

 

[stefan9]

Seen them at pnp and cna

 

[saor]

The card were also said not to expire.

they had no record Netflix gift cards coming in.

Facts & grammar.
Everyone in holiday mode already .

 

[TedLasso]

Yup bought and loaded one from PnP this week. I hope the 1K loaded on it actually works for the gift recipient.

Was hoping for Checkers so that it could have counted to my checkers spend (ebucks!)

 

[lws]

I see them often enough at Builders

 

[deweyzeph]

What's the point of them though?

 

[ekske1]

Maybe OP tried to buy at a Multichoice store.

Or OP never left his safe room.

 

[dj2381]

Staff writer at it again, "MyBroadband visited the online stores of several of the retailers which were listed as having the cards from Netflix, but could not find the item." If you are looking to buy the gift cards online then there is no need to buy the gift cards online because you then use your debit/credit for subscription, they are in store, there aren't enough facepalms in the world to explain this stupid.

Edit: "The absence of the cards in South Africa was further confirmed when we visited Netflix’s help section on their website. " Did the multichoice staff writer phone any of the stores mentioned to find out if they are in stock? no mention of that.

 

[mercurial]

saw one at my local PNP, its just plastic with a voucher loaded onto it,
like uber vouchers or CNA voucher.

Same. Yesterday,

 

[Dan C]

What's the point of them though?

You can watch Netflix without having a credit card

 

[deweyzeph]

You can watch Netflix without having a credit card

You can use a debit card though, which even my domestic worker has through Capitec. So I fail to see the appeal of them. If you're so poor that you don't even have a debit card then you're highly unlikely to be streaming video through an internet connection. So the whole thing seems kind of pointless to me.

 

[Dan C]

You can use a debit card though, which even my domestic worker has through Capitec. So I fail to see the appeal of them. If you're so poor that you don't even have a debit card then you're highly unlikely to be streaming video through an internet connection. So the whole thing seems kind of pointless to me.

It is a gift card, to spoil someone else.

 

[Markd]

Disappointing piece of writing from MyBroadband, essentially amounting to Fake News, because the assertion is that "these aren't available as promised" but the truth is that they are, just not where your lazy eye looked. Really really bad "journalism".

 

[ekske1]

Disappointing piece of writing from MyBroadband, essentially amounting to Fake News, because the assertion is that "these aren't available as promised" but the truth is that they are, just not where your lazy eye looked. Really really bad "journalism".

And yet it continues. I blame the whites

But then there is this: https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/threads/netflix-gift-cards-now-available-on-egifts24.996126/

 

[Jake45]

It appears that you can also purchase them online from eGifts24
https://www.egifts24.co.za/netflix-gift-card/

 

[PoppieChoffel]

You can use a debit card though, which even my domestic worker has through Capitec. So I fail to see the appeal of them. If you're so poor that you don't even have a debit card then you're highly unlikely to be streaming video through an internet connection. So the whole thing seems kind of pointless to me.

My Netflix sub comes off my Capitec savings account. I think these are more to placate those still not comfortable sharing their banking details "in the wild" (read: paranoid).