{"id":32775,"date":"2018-08-21T12:17:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T19:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=32775"},"modified":"2018-08-21T12:35:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T19:35:56","slug":"prime-perk-alert-amazon-cancels-20-off-game-preorders-replaces-with-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/bens-bytes\/prime-perk-alert-amazon-cancels-20-off-game-preorders-replaces-with-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Perk Alert: Amazon cancels 20% off video game preorders, replaces with credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/prime-cancelled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32777\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/prime-cancelled.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"prime-cancelled\" width=\"1048\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/prime-cancelled.jpg 1048w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/prime-cancelled-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/prime-cancelled-768x383.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/prime-cancelled-1024x510.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1048px) 100vw, 1048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Announced this week, Amazon will no longer offer a 20% discount on game preorders as of August 28, 2018. On August 28, Amazon will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?node=17911060011&amp;=vg63_primevideogames_tc_lp_em&amp;j=6917\">start offering<\/a> a $10 promotional credit with full-priced preorders, hitting user accounts after the order has been fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>There are some caveats. The $10 offer will be available on &#8220;select&#8221; preorders instead of all preorders. This means Amazon will pick and choose which preorders will receive the credit.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Amazon has up to 35 days to send the credit to a user&#8217;s email address. Once the credit is received, the user has to spend it on Amazon within 60 days or the credit expires.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely that Amazon&#8217;s shift in this discount policy is related to the discontinuation of Best Buy&#8217;s\u00a0Gamers Club Unlocked program. That service also offered a 20 percent discount on preorders and was replaced with a similar $10 credit system on select games, pretty much identical to Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, several popular, upcoming titles are currently unavailable on Amazon for preorder including games like Spider-Man and Red Dead Redemption 2. It&#8217;s possible Amazon is holding off on preorder functionality on some titles until after August 28th.<\/p>\n<p>You can still find the preorder discount on titles like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fallout-76-PlayStation-4\/dp\/B07DD9571S\/\">Fallout 76<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Super-Smash-Bros-Ultimate-Nintendo-Switch\/dp\/B01N5OKGLH\/\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a>, ideal if you want to save more money than the $10 credit. The 20 percent discount will be available on all video game preorders for the next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announced this week, Amazon will no longer offer a 20% discount on game preorders as of August 28, 2018. On August 28, Amazon will start offering a $10 promotional credit with full-priced preorders, hitting user accounts after the order has been fulfilled. There are some caveats. The $10 offer will be available on &#8220;select&#8221; preorders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[537,685,2021,2022,25],"class_list":["post-32775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bens-bytes","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-prime","tag-preorders","tag-prime-perk","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32775"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32783,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32775\/revisions\/32783"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}