Advice for Folks who preordered either console on Amazon.

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/348115192028229632

https://twitter.com/aegies/status/348114304031154176

found this from resident troll arthur gies's twitter, gotta hand it to him its pretty good advice.

for those that don't wanna swallow the whole price of whatever console you preordered, you can apparently buy amazon gift cards and use them towards lowering the price of your preorders, that way come oct-nov (ps4 rumored for oct) you wont have much to pay for or you wont have to pay for nothing.

that is all.

That's smart. Just as easy to put that money aside in a console fund, but this ensures zero temptation. Thanks for the heads up.

exactly, i wager we're not the only ones that would be tempted to blow their console funds :P.

Internet layaway.

kind of :P

Had no idea you could do that. I might do that some. Thanks for posting about and to Arthur for tweeting it.

Yeah, I heard about this. Thanks for the reminder!

I'm doing this every preorder i place for the rest of my life.

I haven't preordered, but that deserves the goddamn Nobel Prize.

lol

its a genius idea to pay off for a game piece by piece.

So wait, can you retroactively apply gift cards to pre-orders after placing the order or do you just buy the gift cards over a set period of time and then use them before the console launches?

im guessing both, as in once you have your preorder in you can apply gift cards to it to chip away at it,

a bit of confusing wording

@themanwithnoplan: drag and drop it into where your writing comments and the gif would work.

Yeah starting doing this the other day. Forgot I had £120 in Amazon Gift cards, so tossed them onto the PS4 pre-order, now only £229. After I get paid next week I'll toss anther £100 on to it.

Good idea Arthur Gies, for once. Thanks OP for sharing this, otherwise I would have never saw it.

You buy the gift cards now, so Amazon would charge you now. You can then redeem them on the bottom of your order details page. While you can get that credit back if you cancel the pre-order, they'll be locked to that order otherwise so you can't accidentally spend it on a different order.

What exactly is he doing?

@chrismafuchris: He's chipping away at his pre-orders with gift cards in the months leading to release.

This was one of the reasons I couldn't quite understand people saying 'DONT PREORDER YOU IDIOTS!!!!1111!!!'

You can cancel anytime, if you preordered early enough you're going to get it Day 1 and you get the lowest price if you preorder through Amazon. There's literally no risk... Well other than the console malfunctioning day 1, catching fire to your house and giving you lung cancer... But I mean, come on... They've surely worked out all the bugs in this day and age... Wait, what do you mean my PS3 was bricked by a firmware update!?! -throws shit- :P

Absolutely. Some co-workers were reluctant to pre-order and finally I asked them "you do realize you don't pay for it til it ships, right?" Then they all pre-ordered. As for the gift card thing, paying about $55 a week starting in July through the beginning of November would pay off both my pre-orders. Makes it sound more reasonable. Just a little more reasonable, though...

i believe gamestop requires a 100 bucks up front though for the console.

yes you can get it back, figured id mention it though.

Thanks for the tip.