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Hey, It's A Premium Membership Sale!

It's been a while but the time has come!

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It's that time of year again! Well, one of those times of year, at any rate: another Giant Bomb Premium membership sale is upon us. For the next two weeks, you can extend your current membership for the low, low cost of $35. You can find out more information here, or just head over here to sign up. This sale will last until May 23rd. If you would like to extend your subscription, go here

If you're new to Premium or haven't subscribed in a while, there's a ton of new stuff to explore! Everyone's favorite murderer has gutted her way through the staff in 13 Deadly Sims (and the first episode is free if you want to check it out! We have somehow almost reached 30 episodes of The Exquisite Corps! Monster Hunter streams! Arcade cabinet construction! Ad-free Podcast feeds! You can always find plenty of other Premium-exclusive videos in our Premium video section as well!

Note: sale memberships do not come with the normal store discount code. That's what enables us to reduce the price! We do have Paypal available for new memberships! Unfortunately it cannot be used to extend memberships if you're already signed up with a credit card, though, due to the way our payment processor works. (If you want to shift your membership from a credit card to Paypal; email me at support at giantbomb.com and we'll work something out.)

If you're on the fence, feel free to check out our free trial system; we don't think there should be any issues but please let us know if you run into any! If you start a free trial during the sale, you should get the sale price when your full membership kicks in, even if that happens after the sale is over. But again, let us know if there are any issues at support at giantbomb.com.

Note that gift memberships are full-price during a sale, but you will get an extra few months of time when buying a yearly sub during sales. Unfortunately that's the way the new gift sub system works!

Also we recently had an issue with renewals going out without store codes or premium renewals going out without an email reminder due to an error in our payment processor. If you were affected by either of these, hit me up at support at giantbomb.com and I'll get you sorted.

If you have any questions about this sale, or have any issues taking advantage of it, please get in touch with me at support@giantbomb.com; that'll get you a much quicker response than any other method of reaching out. We get a high volume of support emails during sales, so please have a little patience as I work my way through them, especially this first few days!

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Edited By kblosnack

I wish I had remembered to cancel my auto renewal D:

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@kblosnack: yeah me too, got renewed a few hours ago :/

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Awesome, my renewal was on the 24th.

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@reddin said:

@kblosnack: yeah me too, got renewed a few hours ago :/

Email me at support!

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Perfect timing. Mine comes up on the 13th.

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I renewed/extended my membership switching from credit card to paypal and got a store discount code. I guess that feature was fixed after you posted this, unless I misunderstood?

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rorie i love you

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@mattchops: It looks like you got sent an older code that you still haven't used yet!

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@rorie: Shot you an email when I saw the post. Thanks in advance.

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hmm looks like mine expires early December... The question becomes, another sale before then? decisions decisions.

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that's great, think you could let me watch infinite again rather than blocking me with an update screen?

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Cool - mine ran out earlier this month, so I switched to monthly hoping there'd be another sale as we got closer to E3.

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Am I the only one who likes the 15 dollars credit? It enables me to buy some GB swag I couldn't justify otherwise. I realize how money works, but it's an emotional thing.

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My auto-renewal kicked in a full price year a couple days ago. Take my extra $15 dollars. I feel like I've been fleecing you guys at that sale price point anyways.

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I had a feeling this was coming as my membership auto updated itself less than a week ago

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Weird. My card was declined a few weeks ago but my sub kept going. Just updated my payment details to use PayPal and it straight up charged me the full amount. Also it looks like I can't go back to card payments now I've paid with PayPal.

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@rorie I signed up with the free trial and the email says I'll be charge 50 instead of 35, is this just an issue with the email template?

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Good to Nov 2019 now Love this site

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Good timing! Only had 2 days left on my subscription and our dollar exchange rates went off the roof in the last couple of months. Games cost a lot more too. Bad times.

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@skinnersweet, @rorie: I had the same problem - if I'm auto renewed why don't I get autorenewed at the lower price? Also it's not a template thing because I was actually charged $54.17 even though I received a $15 coupon that I never even had the opportunity to use.

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Matt, what time on May the 23rd will the sale end?

Just want to set myself a reminder, to buy during the last few hours of the sale.

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@skinnersweet, @rorie: I had the same problem - if I'm auto renewed why don't I get autorenewed at the lower price? Also it's not a template thing because I was actually charged $54.17 even though I received a $15 coupon that I never even had the opportunity to use.

It's an issue with our payment processor. Email me at support.

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@bugbarbecue: I'm not sure what you're referring to. Make a post in the bug reporting forum with a screenshot and tag in user "wcarle."

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Yay! I auto-renewed last week!

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Ooooooo good timing for me, I run out next month. Yay!

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Thanks for the sweat deals, Rorie!

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@rorie The sign up and extend URLs are the same in the post, so I can't seem to manually extend at the sale price

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"Unfortunately it cannot be used to extend memberships if you're already signed up with a credit card, though, due to the way our payment processor works. (If you want to shift your membership from a credit card to Paypal; email me at support at giantbomb.com and we'll work something out.)"

Does this mean if we have previously used Paypal, we can extend with Paypal?

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@rorie The sign up and extend URLs are the same in the post, so I can't seem to manually extend at the sale price

Try this link:

https://www.giantbomb.com/billing/add-to-subscription

Sorry about that!

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@trace17 said:

"Unfortunately it cannot be used to extend memberships if you're already signed up with a credit card, though, due to the way our payment processor works. (If you want to shift your membership from a credit card to Paypal; email me at support at giantbomb.com and we'll work something out.)"

Does this mean if we have previously used Paypal, we can extend with Paypal?

If you're already on Paypal you shouldn't have any issues, but let me know if you do at support at giantbomb.com!

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I've been a monthly subscriber for half a decade now and I don't know why this seems like such a no brainer dunno why I didn't realize how much I would be saving all this time for some reason always just thought it was easier to keep my current sub than change to gold. I read but didn't see it answered what does a monthly person with PayPal used need to do to change to a gold next week? Will the monthly payment for silver just be a wash? I was renewed monthly a few days ago whenever the new billing cycle started.

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So I am a duder of diminished means And a 35 buck debit would totally fuck my monthly budget but I have long since factored in 5 bucks a month and pay it gladly.

For some reason if you pay monthly even though you pay more you get a silver medal instead of a gold one. I would love to give a yearly sub. But it would fuck me. So I guess my second class medal is my reward?

Look, honestly this is a small complaint about a manageable expense, and I definitely get extreme value from my subscription, but maybe let's lose the colored medals? I pay sixty bucks a year to giant bomb, and my avatar literally designates me as second class.

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Well, now I'm officially good til December of 2019! thanks guys! this membership has paid for itself a dozen times over, there isn't a day that goes by at work that the bwest or the beast crews are getting up to some kind of shenanigans in the background.

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For some reason I keep getting a 404 for the link "click here to extend" I just went in through the drop down menu and added an extra year manually and all seems well.

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@rorie The extend link in the article has a slash at the end causing it to not work.

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@drowsap said:

Good to Nov 2019 now Love this site

Same here! Easily worth double to me, no qualms about subscribing well in advance.

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Ah, the season of rorie deals with support emails for two months and almost loses his sanity. :)

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Was going by the month for two months now and just got my first yearly membership! Thank you Giant Bomb.

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Anyone else in the UK getting charged an international payment fee for any sort of payment to GB? It's only 5% or so but it sucks!

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@rorie I'm getting "page not found" when clicking on "extend"

edit: apparently someone else already said it, but the problem was the slash at the end.

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@skinnersweet@rorie: same here, signed up for the trial with paypal as my payment method but the email says I'll get charged the full price where as my GB account says the discounted one, little confused.

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Extended my subscription by another year <3 xoxo

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The new gift system sucks.