Ultimate Game Card for PWI rant

Wow dude, this is really interesting.

I was about to go and buy some Ultimate Gamer Cards too, where did you get yours? I'm going to check out Mac's and then Walmart if I get the time.

I knew there'd be some kind of problem regarding the conversion rate, but I would assume the store would take care of it for you or something =s

I doubt that PWI will do anything about it, it seems like they'd say it's our fault for not factoring in the conversation rates, as on the Charging Zen page it does say that everything is in USD, it's only common sense that it'd cost us more (Which sucks since the CND lost value again vs. the USD -_-)

So, how much did zen did you actually get from both cards 2000 + 1000, with a balance, or just 2000 with the left over balance?

Sorry to hear that >.<

My parents dont like using their cridit card, so now they just take me to blockbusters and I buy the game cards

Why do the stores not allow you to select the amount you want?

My understanding of the matter is limited, but from a mechanical viewpoint, the stores are typically only given a limited number of cards and only have the ability to set a given card as active. Since stores likely have a limited number of positions for merchandise and a highly limited amount of tech support or sales manpower that can be devoted to the development and training of a new system, the most economical result is to keep the system for enabling cards simple and to retain a fairly small variety of charge values.

There are some methods which allow cards to be "charged" with a certain amount of currency, but there are some other issues (primarily setup time) involved with them.

Except, if I was to theoretically spend 100 Canadian, that's about 81 US, meaning that what, I'm going to get at the most 80 zen because those are the only two accepted intervals on the website?

The remaining value from an unspent card is saved within the PayByCash system as Perfect World dollars, meaning that they can be used later.

Also, although currency markets are currently volatile, I'm getting $19.72 US Dollars = $26.10 Canadian Dollars from PayByCash. Depending on how you set it through Pay By Cash, that should come out between 7000 ZEN (70 Gold) and 7600 (76 Gold) depending on how you process it (the latter number assumes a 5000 Zen purchase, which I have not personally tested with PayByCash Ultimate Game Cards), with 5+ Canadian dollars remaining on the account.

i've been purchasing ultimate cards in 20dollor us i bought both legendary pets with them but was curious since i have to exchange 1 at a time,
is there anyway to bouns zhen say from buying like 50zhen at a time u get more than individual 50zhen purchase using the cards? since the cards only give 10 or 20 at a time

But then again i used the 10 dollor one like my paybycash acc balace is 00.01 b:laugh so yea LOl

If I was to, for example, mail money to a certain address, that would be an option for me, however it'd be via post, not Western Union or a similar agency as there are no places like that nearby.

PayByCash does support Cash through Post payments for the Canada region. You'll need to contact them or the support ticketing department for further information on this method, though, as I'm not experienced at all with it.

AsugoXXX - Heavens Tear wrote: »

HAHA yea same thing happend to me but i figured out if you use a diffent email it works i truied like i bought 10 doller and told me i had 6 bucks topay bough another used a diff email and it works

*Note sorry to bump and old thread

But are you saying you commited a fraud? From what I can tell your saying You lied about where your from if what i believe you said is true thats no better then stealing if you ask me and I'm sure since you just outted yourself they will deduct the money from your account incase u decide to buy a card again.

Hi
I want to buy zen by alertpay.com. How can I do this? Is there a way to do this?

Fintan - Lost City wrote: »

Actually, can someone actually explain the real benefits of the Game Card approach? Due to all the excess fees and everything (even in the US), it almost seems cheaper to just buy a prepaid Mastercard with like $250 on it and process that via Google Checkout or Paypal...

Though, I suppose the answer is irrelevant to me since I'm boycotting new Zen purchases until PWE stops annoying me. (First, no more charm packs and then mishandling it. Then, a still unanswered Xmas event support ticket which lost me a lot of coin which was made from selling gold purchased with real money. I'm not giving them a third chance with my money with this sort of track record.)

I am using The Ultimate Game Card from a long time. It's is powered by PayByCash.com which is the easiest way to pay for over 300 popular online prepaid games and it's available in 20,000 retail stores near you.

With the help of a Ultimate Game Card, you can play top-rated multiplayer games with your friends or gamers from halfway around the world. Pick up a game card and you are ready to play. Ultimate Game Card gives you the instant payment advantage of a credit card without requiring personal information.

But I also agree that there are some problems.

wow i went to get one today in mac's but LUCKILY they didn't have them for some reason... i was disappointed and went home. i came home and saw this thread, started reading every post and i realized if the game cards were there i would've bought them and have been ripped off. THX FOR THE WARNING AND ALL THE OTHER POSTS THAT ARE AGAINST THIS PROBLEM! b:victoryb:thanks

Actually, for all you Canadians out there.....there's a much better option with Paypal if you don't want to use your own credit card, or your paypal account that is attached to your bank account.

There are Mastercard prepaid gift cards that work like credit cards. You can buy one for $28.75 ($25 + 3.75 authorization fee), and at today's exchange rate (about 0.8USD to 1CAD), it will convert to about 2000 zen...

Of course, there's that minor problem of the paypal authorization fee of $1USD, but that gets refunded to you eventually. So you can get 1000 Zen the day you buy the card, and then another 1000 when that dollar gets refunded back.

Just don't be silly and buy Zen when the exchange rate is lower than 0.8USD-1CAD, or you're going to end up with less than 12$ on a card you can't use.

Thought I'd post this as an alternative to the Ultimate game cards; those things just seem to be a complete disaster waiting to happen when you purchase them.