Was thinking recently that Apple is able to do something quite odd. When you buy an iTunes gift card at $XX the money has left your hands and is now in Apple's so you make an exchange of cash for what is essentially Apple credit on the day of purchase, although they still refer to them as dollars and that's where the problem occurs.
As far as I know you cannot get these cards or portions of the value of the card refunded for cash unless Im mistaken.
The odd part is that Apple can still make adjustments to the relative dollar value of this card compared to the US$ after you have purchase by way of increasing or decreasing the local cost of apps, whilst its true that it can go both ways this just seems bizarre they are able to do this.
What we should really be buying is genuine apple credits that have the same value the world over and cannot be up/down valued depending on currency exchange rates.
Do any other gift cards work under a similar system or is apple unique here? How about Google Play cards?
That applies to anything when using a gift card, you could but a dick smith gift card the exact price of an item you want only to find they changed the price the following week.
It's also pretty standard for digital content to have a different price for US and Australia. Steam do this for example