Are third party digital gift card sites ethically and practically different from buying direct?
I’d like a more serious take on something that usually gets discussed in a very casual way. There are quite a few websites that sell digital gift cards for platforms like Apple, PlayStation and Steam, sometimes with small discounts or region specific codes that aren’t easily available in everyy country. On the surface it looks harmless but there are layers i don’t fully understand: where the cards originally come from, how much fraud/chargeback risk is being pushed onto the end user and whether using these sites meaningfully increases the chance that someone in the chain is getting treated unfairly,.. I’ve used one such site…CardDelivery for a low value test and have seen others mention services like CardCash or Gift Card Granny as normal but i’m not sure if this ecosystem is basically a legitimate secondary market or if it’s built on dynamics most of us would be uncomfortable with if we saw them up close. From an ethical and practical standpoint, do you see a meaningful difference between buying digital gift cards directly from the platform versus through these intermediaries?