Buy an Apple Gift Card at Best Buy, get a free Best Buy e-gift card
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Retailers are effectively subsidizing entry into the Apple ecosystem to drive their own downstream electronics and services sales. If you sell into Apple-heavy consumers, promotions like this are a cheap way to pull forward demand—treat them as acquisition levers, not just margin hits.
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