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Ultimate Game Cards, Canadians Beware (possibly anyone else)
ruex128
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BE AWARE you still get taxed on a 20 dollar card as a service fee, you aren't really getting a 15% bonus with ultimate game cards service fee ( in canada anyways)
if you spend 20 dollars on a game card you aren't getting your moneys worth you'll be asked at the checkout for $21.77.
if you spend 20 dollars on a game card you aren't getting your moneys worth you'll be asked at the checkout for $21.77.
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It also apparently happens to american users as well with the ultimate game card. PW cards don't tax at checkout.
it allows you to change your country at the checkout, switching it to united states makes it 1.66 lol
so there you go.
Fair enough, although my guess is the problem still lies with your government, not the company.
PW cards do not charge a service fee.
And nothing else of note.
I've bought game cards on several occassions. I've been taxed every single time.
Straight from PWE: $20 for 2000 Zen = $1 per 100 Zen
UGC w/ tax and promo: $21.77 for 2000 Zen + 300 bonus Zen = @ $1 oer 105.65 Zen
Result: You are still doing better with the promotion to purchase the UGC with the tax than just PWE since the promotion is only with UGC cards. If there was no promotion, or the Zen promotion included other methods of payment, or your sales tax is more than 15%, then it would be better to purchase straight from PWE.
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There is no tax for the US. If you use the card to buy 50 bucks worth of zen you get 6050 zen.
any time i buy a playstaion card or xbox card i never had to pay anything but what the card says in the corner i never bought the random game cards tho but does kinda push me away from it if i do have to pay xtra for really nothing
This doesn't quite make up for our over-inflated US Medical Insurance, and physicians who are so terrified of malpractice suits that they have to charge $60 for Tylenol, and we end up with multi-thousand dollar medical bills any time we are unfortunate enough to end up in an American hospital. Figure all that in your math, I dare ya.
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I was more trying to address the original poster. But yes, I'm from the US and I didn't get taxed on my card.
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It's not Canada's fault that the U.S. doesn't give a you know what about their tax payers. I mean if you really break it down, that is all we are to the government anyways no matter where you live. And it isn't all roses up here in the great white north either. We are literally taxed to death, (Especially in Ontario) but that is a separate issue.
The fact we get taxed on these cards is just nuts, and yet I am not surprised.
ZOMG you don't get it. You don't have to use the UGC site. The freaking perfect world site has an option to directly use the UGC card. It was USER ERROR if you went directly to the UGC site. This is definitely not the case for US redemptions as I redeemed 100 bucks worth of cards for full bonus and additional bonus.
Then after you click the UGC you go to this:
Then when you click the amount you get this:
Then when you hit checkout you go right to this:
Now I didn't screen shot entering the codes earlier but at this point I got the zen it states on the top of the screen for 50 dollars. If you didn't its something with your locality which perhaps they didn't make you aware of. Or you used the Ultimate Game Card site itself which certainly does look like it will charge you extra.
Why act surprised? Not even the stores themselves seem to know. For example I have several stores in my town that sell cards for different games. All within a few blocks of each other. Some of them tax cards, others don't. One store taxes some cards, but not others. lol
Once I'm sure the issue with the bonus is cleared up then I'll check around and see if I can find one that doesn't tax these cards. If not, then its cheaper to just buy the zen from PW. No tax when buying from their website.