After endless hours of searching, some dark corner of Reddit had one lonely comment where a user said you need to clear the cache. Here is the answer to getting your Spotify gift card to work: The more you search the interwebs, the more you’ll notice that the complaints are endless and the solutions are nowhere. Going to the store is not the solution (in this case, at least). What happens if you get a gift card as a gift? You probably don't have the receipt and if you do, there is a chance you don’t live near the store because Uncle George mailed you the gift card from South Dakota as a GIFT. Googling for answers to the problem will pull up pages and pages of similar complaints but only a handful of solutions, most of which are the above solution to go to the store where you bought the card or contact customer service.

I put the card in the drawer and it stayed there for six months before I had the time it would take to try again. After trying again and again, punching in the very exact redemption code, I still got the red box error. Maybe it was me. Maybe my '0' should have been an 'O.' Maybe I inverted numbers. And yet, any time I punched in the redemption code and zip code like it asked, it produced an error message.Īfter sitting in the drawer for a few weeks, I had the patience to try it again, chalking it up to user error.

I had the receipt from the local market that said it was an activated $30 card. I know that because I had just purchased it as a gift for someone in my house.