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PSA: Gamestop $5 monthly PUR no longer applies to digital currency effective immediately

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Last Edited by rachaelm | Staff January 4, 2022 at 01:24 PM
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Using GameStop PUR $5 certificates on digital currency was a popular slick deal, turning a $15 membership into a $45 profit.

Effective immediately, $5 monthly reward certificates are no longer applicable to digital currency. I just tried to use it in store and was told it no longer works and I have linked a post from someone posting the internal memo.

Hopefully this PSA can save people some gas or rile up some protests from customers to change their policy.

https://reddit.com/r/GameStop/com.../cooooool/

https://www.gamestop.com/contact/

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autosaver
02-01-2022 at 11:54 AM.
02-01-2022 at 11:54 AM.
Quote from himy123 :
How do you use it for digital currency online? It's only worked in store for me previously.
When you check out online, the reward will show up as an offer. Click apply.
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himy123
02-01-2022 at 12:39 PM.
02-01-2022 at 12:39 PM.
Quote from autosaver :
When you check out online, the reward will show up as an offer. Click apply.
Thanks! It worked for a $10 PSN Card.
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OzJodo
02-02-2022 at 07:32 PM.
02-02-2022 at 07:32 PM.
Quote from autosaver :
When you check out online, the reward will show up as an offer. Click apply.

I just tried it on $5 Nintendo eShop and while it shows correct in the checkout as $0, when I click to process the order it just hangs. Anyone else seeing similar?
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animeeee
02-02-2022 at 09:13 PM.
02-02-2022 at 09:13 PM.
$5 monthly reward works on digital currency (as of today, I just bought $5 xbox code), but your total can't be $0.00. You need to add something to bring your total above $0.00 to be able to checkout.
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OzJodo
02-03-2022 at 08:06 AM.
02-03-2022 at 08:06 AM.
Quote from animeeee :
$5 monthly reward works on digital currency (as of today, I just bought $5 xbox code), but your total can't be $0.00. You need to add something to bring your total above $0.00 to be able to checkout.

Lol if there was something I actually needed to buy, I'd just buy that rather than messing with the $5 eShop card. Ok I'll hold out until toward the end of the month and if push comes to shove I'll get the $10 eShop card. Thanks!
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MrS3V3N
02-05-2022 at 01:33 PM.
02-05-2022 at 01:33 PM.
Quote from himy123 :
Thanks! It worked for a $10 PSN Card.

How did u get it work? I get this message when adding the offer for 10$ PSN card .
The item in your cart doesn't qualify for your available discounts
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bszelda
02-08-2022 at 08:11 PM.
02-08-2022 at 08:11 PM.
Just a heads up in case no one else mentioned it.

I was able to use my $5 monthly reward in store on a $10 Nintendo eshop card.

I then used the code for the reward online for ANOTHER $10 Nintendo eshop card (digital delivery).

So I got $20 of eshop credit for $10 using February's monthly reward.
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Adeline86
03-02-2022 at 07:28 AM.
03-02-2022 at 07:28 AM.
Quote from bszelda :
Just a heads up in case no one else mentioned it.

I was able to use my $5 monthly reward in store on a $10 Nintendo eshop card.

I then used the code for the reward online for ANOTHER $10 Nintendo eshop card (digital delivery).

So I got $20 of eshop credit for $10 using February's monthly reward.
Are you able to check if this hack still works? It's not letting me do it for this month
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bszelda
03-02-2022 at 08:30 AM.
03-02-2022 at 08:30 AM.
Quote from Adeline86 :
Are you able to check if this hack still works? It's not letting me do it for this month
I haven't used my monthly reward yet this month but looking on the website, it looks like it's not working online this month. Maybe they fixed it or maybe it only works certain months? Not sure if they stopped it from being used in store on digital currency as well.
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bszelda
03-18-2022 at 04:27 PM.
03-18-2022 at 04:27 PM.
Quote from Adeline86 :
Are you able to check if this hack still works? It's not letting me do it for this month

I finally got around to using it and it worked. I used it in store and then the code online right after. Used both $5 discounts on a $10 Nintendo eshop code. $20 for $10. It's worked like this now for the past 3 months. 😁
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Adeline86
03-18-2022 at 04:30 PM.
03-18-2022 at 04:30 PM.
Quote from bszelda :
I finally got around to using it and it worked. I used it in store and then the code online right after. Used both $5 discounts on a $10 Nintendo eshop code. $20 for $10. It's worked like this now for the past 3 months. 😁

Yeah I got it to work too. For some reason, the coupon wasn't working online at the beginning of the month. But I got it to work on the 8th
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SplendidWater808
03-30-2022 at 11:20 PM.
03-30-2022 at 11:20 PM.
I was able to still use my "in-store only" $5 monthly credit for a $10 Nintendo eShop gift card. Just sharing this data point - thanks for sharing the info!

While I wish I could just get $5 only, I'll take 50% off over nothing + savings on gas for the car trip to GameStop.
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shastada
02-10-2023 at 11:58 AM.
02-10-2023 at 11:58 AM.
Seems this may be back? No longer working on digital cards online?
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02-11-2023 at 03:52 PM.
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