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tiff3110 on 16 October 2015
ethomaz said:
Hiku said:

How are they able to do that? Last time I tried, you needed a US credit/debit card in order to be able to buy the PSN cards. So I bought from Play-Asia instead.

I never had issue bying things in Amazon with International Credit Card there... they even ship to Brazil.

You don't need an US one.


It wass different for codes/digital purchases. You needed a US credit card and they used to send you the code via email. Apparently now you can use an international credit card, I just noticed...since when idk.



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Imnus on 16 October 2015
binary solo said:
ethomaz said:
Halo 5 LE Bundle didn't entered in the movers and shakers... less than 12% boost in sales from yesterday.

moving a couple of places inthe charts doesn't necessarily mean an increase in sales, because items ahead of it may have dropped in sales while Halo 5 held steady. I think an item needs to move up 5 or more places to be confidenrt that the movement definitely represents an increase in sales.

Halo 5 bundle starting to make its run with half the month to go. As long as the bundle is available for purchase all the way through October I don;t see why it can;t have a significant effect on sales for the entire month. Currently sitting at 40 on the monthlies there is a decent chance that the Halo 5 bundle will end up being at least the #2 hardware sku for the month, and factoring in 2 previous months of pre-orders that would be good enough to predict an Xb one win for October.

Normally that would be the case, but keep in mind there is three PS4 Bundles in the Amazon Best Sellers in Video Games for October 2015 [Destiny (#24), The Last of Us (#26) & Uncharted (#49)] that count to the PS4 sales for this month. The sum of these three bundles could be enough to be over the Halo 5 Bundle including pre-orders [August (#24) -  September (Not in the Top 10) - October (#36)].

Also according to Abdiel (NeoGAF's Insider), while the Halo 5 Bundle pre-orders are good, they're nowhere near the levels of the PlayStation 4 White Console Destiny Bundle of last year, which Amazon seems to corroborate since the White Destiny Bundle was in Amazon Best Sellers for 4 months [June (#23) - July (#23) -  August (#8) -  September(#6)].

So it seems pretty much impossible for the Xbox One to reach the sales of the PS4 on September 2014 [538K] with the White Destiny Bundle release or the sales of the Xbox 360 with the Halo 3 launch on September 2007 [528K]. Then the Xbox One sales should be around [450-480K], and I think the PS4 with the price-cut could be around that too, for reference the PS3 Slim sold [492K] when it released on September 2009, yes it was a redesign including a price-drop, but the PS4 is a lot more healthy than the PS3 in the US.



rccsetzer on 16 October 2015
tiff3110 said:
ethomaz said:
Hiku said:

How are they able to do that? Last time I tried, you needed a US credit/debit card in order to be able to buy the PSN cards. So I bought from Play-Asia instead.

I never had issue bying things in Amazon with International Credit Card there... they even ship to Brazil.

You don't need an US one.


It wass different for codes/digital purchases. You needed a US credit card and they used to send you the code via email. Apparently now you can use an international credit card, I just noticed...since when idk.

Important message about the item you would like to purchase

We noticed you're shopping from Brazil. This item is not available for purchase due to geographical restrictions. 

Not Shopping from Brazil? 
So, you can't buy if the adress is not from US.


JRPGfan on 16 October 2015
Roronaa_chan said:
Ali_16x said:

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That doesn't make sense..we don't know any kind of gap between positions. #1 could be 10k vs 100 on #10, or #1 could be 50 and #10 40, wildly different situations

There are also other things to take into account such as the inverted performance of TLOUR/NDC bundles compared to other retailers as well as the fact that Amazon doesn't have stock of white Destiny and some other retailers do. Amazon looks a bit shaky for October predictions. That's usually the case in holidays anyway, this year it just started one month earlier in a way.


But you cant ignore that, if something is ranked higher than the one below it, its sold atleast that much and then abit, to put it head.

If there are 3 PS4 bundles higher ranked than the highest Xbox one, theorically the sales should be like 3 times as high? on amazon atleast.

Then factor in the more bundles in the top100, and it really does look like the PS4 is beating the Xbox one in sales atm.



ethomaz on 16 October 2015
rccsetzer said:

Important message about the item you would like to purchase

We noticed you're shopping from Brazil. This item is not available for purchase due to geographical restrictions. 

Not Shopping from Brazil? 
So, you can't buy if the adress is not from US.

Myabe it is because my adress in Amazon is US... my cousin adress because whne he travel to here I sent things to him delivery to me.
But I shiped to Brazil somethings already too.



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AEGRO on 16 October 2015
ethomaz said:
Hiku said:

How are they able to do that? Last time I tried, you needed a US credit/debit card in order to be able to buy the PSN cards. So I bought from Play-Asia instead.

I never had issue bying things in Amazon with International Credit Card there... they even ship to Brazil.

You don't need an US one.

 

When you buy a PSN Card from Amazon with Gift Cards, they always request a credit or debit card, but is a formality.

You can google "Credit Card Generator"and thats it!

100% of my Ps4 games are digital, im always buying PSN cards on Amazon. You being a brazilian know very well how are things on my country (Venezuela). There is no fucking food here, much less a retail Ps4 game.



celador on 16 October 2015

Star Wars bundle is going to be massive. Preorders must be seriously stacking up already.



tiff3110 on 16 October 2015
rccsetzer said:
tiff3110 said:
ethomaz said:
Hiku said:

How are they able to do that? Last time I tried, you needed a US credit/debit card in order to be able to buy the PSN cards. So I bought from Play-Asia instead.

I never had issue bying things in Amazon with International Credit Card there... they even ship to Brazil.

You don't need an US one.


It wass different for codes/digital purchases. You needed a US credit card and they used to send you the code via email. Apparently now you can use an international credit card, I just noticed...since when idk.

Important message about the item you would like to purchase

We noticed you're shopping from Brazil. This item is not available for purchase due to geographical restrictions. 

Not Shopping from Brazil? 
So, you can't buy if the adress is not from US.


right, I didn't read the disclaimer on the "product detail" so is the same. You can not purchase a digital code if you have no US credit card, I was excited for a sec because before it said specifically in the description section that you couldn't.



ethomaz on 16 October 2015
AEGRO said:

When you buy a PSN Card from Amazon with Gift Cards, they always request a credit or debit card, but is a formality.

You can google "Credit Card Generator"and thats it!

100% of my Ps4 games are digital, im always buying PSN cards on Amazon. You being a brazilian know very well how are things on my country (Venezuela). There is no fucking food here, much less a retail Ps4 game.

To be fair my credit card always worked on PSN too... and I know a lot of friends that have issues with that.



AEGRO on 16 October 2015
rccsetzer said:
tiff3110 said:
ethomaz said:
Hiku said:

How are they able to do that? Last time I tried, you needed a US credit/debit card in order to be able to buy the PSN cards. So I bought from Play-Asia instead.

I never had issue bying things in Amazon with International Credit Card there... they even ship to Brazil.

You don't need an US one.


It wass different for codes/digital purchases. You needed a US credit card and they used to send you the code via email. Apparently now you can use an international credit card, I just noticed...since when idk.

Important message about the item you would like to purchase

We noticed you're shopping from Brazil. This item is not available for purchase due to geographical restrictions. 

Not Shopping from Brazil? 
So, you can't buy if the adress is not from US.


Buy a Gift Card.

Then, add the PSN Card to the Cart.

When checking out, Amazon will request an American Credit Card, just Google "Credit Card Generator" and copy and paste whatever number you find there, from Master, Visa, whatever.

At the end, Amazon will just debit the money from the Gift Card that you bought earlier and thats it. The american Credit Card number is just a formality from them.

I do it all the time.

P.D. You can actually have some fun with the "Credit Card Holder" name. My last purchase was bought by no other than John Marston himself.