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There is no "$5 'Welcome' GameStop Rewards Certificate (one-time signup bonus)" anymore. That ended on 10/1 and was replaced with the 10k points.
The 10k points will take up to 72 hours to post to your account. It usually takes only a day.
Your $5 monthly coupons will be under "Active Offers" on the 1st of every month - you do not get a coupon during the first month. The coupon can be used for almost anything in-store including digital currency (PSN, Xbox, eShop currency), but not online for digital items.
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expiredkenmikec posted Oct 3, 2021 11:06 AM
GameStop Stores: 1-Year PowerUp Rewards Pro Membership + $10 Rewards Certificate
$15
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As others have also mentioned, the $5 monthly rewards can't stack because they expire, and they also cannot be used to preorder something, they have to be used on something currently in stock. Which is a negative to me, easiest way to make sure the rewards don't get wasted in a month where I might not want anything is to just preorder something that I know I want in the future. I hear PSN cards don't come in anything less than $10, so if you're mainly a PlayStation gamer you can't just get your monthly $5 in PSN credit either unless you add cash to it.
Small print terms about the PowerUp Pro says you can request to cancel/refund your membership within 7 days. I may do that as I am disappointed already. (Oh, also the previous game I bought online had a release date of Friday Sep 24th and I received it Weds the 29th. For a business that caters to gamers, they should know it's not fun to be 5 days behind everyone else who starts playing a game on release day. The package didn't even start moving until Monday after release.)
So I'll be wasting my Monday morning getting on their live chat that is only available on weekdays to ask where all these rewards are. If that doesn't get sorted immediately, I'll be inquiring about the terms of refunding my membership, and if they mess around with that, I'll contact my credit card about the $15 charge I used to join. I recently got a PS5 and figured I'll be buying more physical games because of that and that this would be worth doing, but I'm already frustrated with GS service.
It tends to not let me use the credit on nintendo e-cards most of the time, sometimes yes, but I do it in-store every month without issue applied to the $10 e-card.
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That deal is good through 10/5/21 @ 8:59pm PDT / 11:59pm EDT.
Later on down the thread, I explain how you can you can use the monthly $5 with the credit to purchase $10 increments of gaming site credit (incl. PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Steam, etc) ... https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=
That deal is good through 10/5/21 @ 8:59pm PDT / 11:59pm EDT.
Later on down the thread, I explain how you can you can use the monthly $5 with the credit to purchase $10 increments of gaming site credit (incl. PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Steam, etc) ... https://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=
thank you
1) $5 monthly certificate no longer expires (I think he said it now converts into 5000 points if you don't use it). Before if you don't use it you lost it, now that's no longer the case. This means you can just walk into GameStop once a year and get a free $60 game Instead of being forced to go in every month for just $5. This is game changer!!!!!
2) You can use your points (and trade in credit) to renew your membership. you can't use the current month $5 certificate as I just tried and it failed but I was able to use the 10k points in my account which brought the membership down to $5 and then I just paid the $5 with my trade in store credit.
3) GameStop also sells $1 Xbox gift cards. this means if you want weird denomination like $6-$9 you can do it without having to fork over more than you want to. he told me Xbox is a little more flexible than Nintendo and Sony when it comes to that which is why they can do it. this means if you want a $6 Xbox card you can pay just $1 after using the $5 monthly certificate.
The membership is getting better overtime and yet the guy in front of me turned it down when it was offered to to him (I was laughing inside so hard when he said no).
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but i can pretty much guarantee when that "small percentage of customers like you" gets above their desired threshold they will screw us over somehow and that's when i stop renewing and walking into Gamestop for good.
but i can pretty much guarantee when that "small percentage of customers like you" gets above their desired threshold they will screw us over somehow and that's when i stop renewing and walking into Gamestop for good.
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as for multiple accounts it doesn't matter because they get $15 from you per account and you get $45 profit per account no matter how many accounts you have. it's no different than if you signed up your parents too and pretending to be your parents, but you can only memorize so many phone numbers before it's no longer worth it. the $15 is basically like the Costco club membership business model where they make their money off memberships and you getting $45 is the same as you going to their competitor and buying the same stuff for $45. just like Costco who is banking on you to spend thousands in their club in that 1 year, Gamestop is also banking on you to spend more than that $45 over those 12 months.
basically from what i can see Gamestop is trying to turn around their bad reputation and being more customer friendly with these changes, aswell as Price Matching that was added not that long ago (that too was told to me by the same Store Manager a while back). i think their doing a pretty good job trying to turn things around but until they prove themselves to me i still wanna watch them burn to the ground.
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