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Amazon.com PLEX sale, US only :(

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Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#1 - 2013-09-26 15:21:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
So hats off to CCP allowing Amazon.com to sell plex at 25% off with direct-link deposit to an EvE account...(i.e. 6 plex for $75!)

However, after being blocked from buying this outside the US by the site and talking to an Amazon dude -- they advise they can't allow purchase outside the US due to contract obligations?

HUH?

CCP, why did you limit this discounted PLEX purchase to US only customers? What giveth?

Grrrrrrrrr......must, buy, plex....
Myriad Blaze
Common Sense Ltd
Nulli Secunda
#2 - 2013-09-26 15:47:49 UTC
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen wrote:
So hats off to CCP allowing Amazon.com to sell plex at 25% off with direct-link deposit to an EvE account...(i.e. 6 plex for $75!)

However, after being blocked from buying this outside the US by the site and talking to an Amazon dude -- they advise they can't allow purchase outside the US due to contract obligations?

HUH?

CCP, why did you limit this discounted PLEX purchase to US only customers? What giveth?

Grrrrrrrrr......must, buy, plex....

Amazon.de is selling 6 PLEX for €76.99 ...
regular price for 6 PLEX from CCP shows as €104.97
current reduced price from CCP shows as €99.99

Hope that helps.Big smile
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#3 - 2013-09-26 15:58:49 UTC
Myriad Blaze wrote:
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen wrote:
So hats off to CCP allowing Amazon.com to sell plex at 25% off with direct-link deposit to an EvE account...(i.e. 6 plex for $75!)

However, after being blocked from buying this outside the US by the site and talking to an Amazon dude -- they advise they can't allow purchase outside the US due to contract obligations?

HUH?

CCP, why did you limit this discounted PLEX purchase to US only customers? What giveth?

Grrrrrrrrr......must, buy, plex....

Amazon.de is selling 6 PLEX for €76.99 ...
regular price for 6 PLEX from CCP shows as €104.97
current reduced price from CCP shows as €99.99

Hope that helps.Big smile


Can't find it on Amazon.de, is it called something other than PLEX? URL/link appreciated...
Alec Freeman
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2013-09-26 16:37:12 UTC
€77 is $106

You can buy 2 plex from any game time reseller at any time for $35

3x35=$105.

So yeah €77 isn't really a discount

Amazon UK is still only selling 60 day timecards for £34.99 and I wont even go into how much of a rip off that is. (£35=$56)
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#5 - 2013-09-26 16:41:06 UTC  |  Edited by: Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Alec Freeman wrote:
€77 is $106

You can buy 2 plex from any game time reseller at any time for $35

3x35=$105.

So yeah €77 isn't really a discount

Amazon UK is still only selling 60 day timecards for £34.99 and I wont even go into how much of a rip off that is. (£35=$56)


Right. The Amazon.com deal is pretty sweet and constitutes a real 25% discount on normal PLEX prices. What sucks is it appears its only available to people with a US credit card and US mailing address...

I would really like CCP's response on this, why only US based game players are able to take advantage of this PLEX sale (especially when as mentioned Amazon subsidiaries existing in almost every country....but there's no PLEX w/ 25% discount there...)
Phext
SIGBUS
#6 - 2013-09-26 16:45:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Phext
Quote:
Can't find it on Amazon.de, is it called something other than PLEX? URL/link appreciated...


http://www.amazon.de/30-day-Time-Card-Exclusive-Ship/dp/B00EKT6GAA

Select "6 Plex" instead of 30 day Time Card

:wq!

Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#7 - 2013-09-26 16:55:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Phext wrote:
Quote:
Can't find it on Amazon.de, is it called something other than PLEX? URL/link appreciated...


http://www.amazon.de/30-day-Time-Card-Exclusive-Ship/dp/B00EKT6GAA

Select "6 Plex" instead of 30 day Time Card


Sadly that is regular price, as Alex mentioned above. It appears only the Amazon.com US site is offering a 25% discount.

The question for CCP is why are US folks the only ones able to access this substantial PLEX discount...
eeteepeell
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#8 - 2013-09-26 21:05:36 UTC
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen wrote:
Phext wrote:
Quote:
Can't find it on Amazon.de, is it called something other than PLEX? URL/link appreciated...


http://www.amazon.de/30-day-Time-Card-Exclusive-Ship/dp/B00EKT6GAA

Select "6 Plex" instead of 30 day Time Card


Sadly that is regular price, as Alex mentioned above. It appears only the Amazon.com US site is offering a 25% discount.

The question for CCP is why are US folks the only ones able to access this substantial PLEX discount...


I second that question. It's a "strange" move to make a discount only available in a particular country.
Amber Hills
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#9 - 2013-09-26 21:48:11 UTC
So Amazon is the replacement for the NeX? Smart and scary at the same time.
Herr Esiq
Viziam
#10 - 2013-09-26 21:57:53 UTC
Previous topic was closed by ISD for rumor mongering. Really.. Even though the sale was already ongoing.. Now we euro's can watch the plex market crash and not reap the benefits.
Freako X
Doom Inc
#11 - 2013-09-26 22:59:10 UTC  |  Edited by: Freako X
Don't worry. I bought some PLEX from Amazon early in the day. Still no joy even though they said it would take up to 4 hours .... 11 hours and counting .....


Maybe it's not real .....

Edit: It is real. I put in a petition after 12 hours. Went to bed and ... guess what?!? ... they were delivered the next morning. Not super fast, but it is real.
Lord LazyGhost
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2013-09-26 23:07:28 UTC
and why do the US guys pay only 10$ and i pay 10£ for my sub when 10£ is much more then 10$ it sucks
Amber Hills
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#13 - 2013-09-26 23:36:55 UTC
Freako X wrote:
Don't worry. I bought some PLEX from Amazon early in the day. Still no joy even though they said it would take up to 4 hours .... 11 hours and counting .....


Maybe it's not real .....

Tried it... Then logged in an hour or so later... PLEX present, it's a real offer. Other users mentioned they had difficulty with it going to the wrong account and had to petition it. Something about back-end code with Power-of-Two accounts.
Ilaister
Binary Aesthetics
#14 - 2013-09-27 04:15:03 UTC
Chorusing the above.

Granted tax regimes differ, but the disparity between EU (specifically UK) pricing on Subs, and more glaringly it seems, PLEX, is a bit of a downer.

I can pay Markee Dragon in USD anytime, why is CCP/Amazon forcing us out of this deal?
ShaneAlpha
Thiebault Research Corp
#15 - 2013-09-27 07:49:08 UTC  |  Edited by: ShaneAlpha
And add tough S**t to us poor bastards who don't have a local Amazon at all.

Disappointing and wildly unfair to all the Eve players outside the U.S. , but typical of the geo-blocking bulls**t that goes on these days.

Would have been nice if they had said "U.S. Only" before you link your account.
Pytria Le'Danness
Placid Reborn
#16 - 2013-09-27 08:16:54 UTC  |  Edited by: Pytria Le'Danness
$76 are around €54, so that is one heck of a discount, so CCP is ripping off the euro customers again.


So, do you need to be in the US to order?
Actually you only need a shipping address in the US and need to come in through an american IP.

Whether you trust an unknown proxy with your Amazon credentials is a different matter.

Caution: changing the shipping address to a Starbuck's on Wall Street, changing my password, using a proxy, ordering and reverting the password not using the proxy worked but rings alarm bells with Amazon and they will cancel the transaction because they assume it's fraud. Err... not that I actually tried that or so, naaaah...

After that I actually wanted to buy some PLEX using a Somer referral, but then I read that aparently T20 joined Somer.
Anke Eyrou
Hades Sisters
#17 - 2013-09-27 09:31:00 UTC
Restricting it to the Amazon US market only is discrimination against the rest of the world playing population plain and simple. I have a US credit card but a UK address and was also refused as living outside the UK.

I expect to get this post deleted or locked. So much for freedom of expression.

Spy 21
Doomheim
#18 - 2013-09-27 10:33:27 UTC
Anke Eyrou wrote:
Restricting it to the Amazon US market only is discrimination against the rest of the world playing population plain and simple. I have a US credit card but a UK address and was also refused as living outside the UK.



I have to agree this seems reallly unfair.

But I really do like the deal. Big discount to buying them directly from CCP. One has to wonder why in the world they would undercut thier own website :) ... really, I mean really...

(so I just bought 3 plex for $40 US after paying the TX sales tax) ....

That's a good deal right?

Maybe I should turn it into isk and go gamble it away now?

S

Obfuscation for the WIN on page 3...

0mez
Doomheim
#19 - 2013-09-27 11:24:45 UTC
This is pretty lame from CCP, are they expecting their only future customers to be from the US? Europe and UK stay with rip-off prices but US gets the same in game item for half the price. I see someone posted about VAT, I'm pretty sure last time I check the VAT that it wasn't @ 100%.
Klyith
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2013-09-27 11:32:02 UTC
Pytria Le'Danness wrote:

So, do you need to be in the US to order?
Actually you only need a shipping address in the US and need to come in through an american IP.

You don't need an american IP, so going through a proxy service is unnecessary. Amazon only cares about the address.


If your purchase got cancelled it's actually on the end of your CC, because ordering something with a shipping address in a different country is an easy fraud warning. You'd need to contact your CC provider and tell them you plan to order things in the USA (like to be sent to a friend). Of course, this might be a drawback for actual fraud.
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