Clients:
If you send a deposit via X gift card, the SP has to cancel and sends you a Y gift card by mistake instead of a X gift card. Same amount on both cards, would you say you have been ripped off?
I think it really depends. I think you need more context here.
What are X and Y even if they are different by mistake and how big of an amount for the deposit are you talking about? 50 dollar deposit for transportation or 20 percent of a 3000 dollar overnight?
If a SP requests a gift card X for a deposit and then cancels I mostly want my cash back in my bank account not a gift card that commits me to using a service or buying something. I guess if Giftcard Y is something I use a lot like Amazon then fine but, you don't necessarily want your hand to be forced into a purchase you don't want to make at the moment and say the client doesn't have much money, rarely hobbies and had to save carefully for this appointment? Maybe the SP could have sent the amount back in PayPal where you can pay in almost any currency even for a cross border transaction if it isn't in same country.
I will feel ripped off though if gift card Y is for Agent Provocateur, because how am I going to explain that to anyone??