08-22-2018, 10:06 AM
Amazon removes its 20 percent preorder discount on games
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/amazon-removes-its-20-percent-preorder-discount-on-games.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p><strong>Newsbrief:</strong> <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/263522/Amazon_challenges_retail_game_stores_with_20_discount_on_preorders.php">Two years after the perk was introduced to Amazon Prime members</a>, Amazon has announced that it will be discontinuing its 20 percent preorder discount on physical copies of video games on August 28. </p>
<p>It’s a pretty big change for Amazon, with the decision coming only a few months after Best Buy shuttered Gamers Club Unlocked, a competing service which also provided a 20 percent discount on games.</p>
<p>The change is essentially a reduction in value for Amazon customers, since there no longer seems to be any guarantee of saving money. The $10 store credit offer is still less than the estimated $12 shaved off from a regularly priced $60 game.</p>
<p>According to the retailer’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=as_li_ss_tl?node=17911060011&=vg63_primevideogames_tc_lp_em&j=6917&sfmc_sub=41056001&l=15_HTML&u=139118&mid=100002038&jb=400&linkCode=sl2&tag=sec2002-20&linkId=dd5ad630e432215ac14984937e195c8d&language=en_US">updated terms and conditions</a>, Prime members will instead receive store credit as an incentive to preorder video games through Amazon, but only preorders of “select video games” will come with the $10 store credit promotion.</p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/amazon-removes-its-20-percent-preorder-discount-on-games.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p><strong>Newsbrief:</strong> <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/263522/Amazon_challenges_retail_game_stores_with_20_discount_on_preorders.php">Two years after the perk was introduced to Amazon Prime members</a>, Amazon has announced that it will be discontinuing its 20 percent preorder discount on physical copies of video games on August 28. </p>
<p>It’s a pretty big change for Amazon, with the decision coming only a few months after Best Buy shuttered Gamers Club Unlocked, a competing service which also provided a 20 percent discount on games.</p>
<p>The change is essentially a reduction in value for Amazon customers, since there no longer seems to be any guarantee of saving money. The $10 store credit offer is still less than the estimated $12 shaved off from a regularly priced $60 game.</p>
<p>According to the retailer’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=as_li_ss_tl?node=17911060011&=vg63_primevideogames_tc_lp_em&j=6917&sfmc_sub=41056001&l=15_HTML&u=139118&mid=100002038&jb=400&linkCode=sl2&tag=sec2002-20&linkId=dd5ad630e432215ac14984937e195c8d&language=en_US">updated terms and conditions</a>, Prime members will instead receive store credit as an incentive to preorder video games through Amazon, but only preorders of “select video games” will come with the $10 store credit promotion.</p>
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