Purchased a $100 Apple Gift Card, packaging had not been altered in any way, stripe was still in place. When stripe was removed, my daughter tried to redeem it and it said "Not Activated" . Took card and receipt back to store and was told "Sorry, we cannot help you". was also told that this was not the first Apple gift card with this same issue.
I contacted Target Guest services with the same result. As a last resort, I contacted the Master card company I used to purchase the giftcard (RedCard) and was told I could not dispute the charge. Finally I contacted Apple and was told that the card had been fraudulently used. This Target store has a fraud problem and should take it a little more seriously in my opinion.