Credit to Ausdave for the photo in the main link. The deal is now live in-store.
Found this from Vooks.
3-day deal starting Boxing Day tomorrow at JB. Most likely an in-store promo only as it's not showing up online. In-store promo only
Nintendo eShop gift cards are available in $15, $30 & $60 denominations. They are used to purchase digital games for the Nintendo Switch (as well as other digital goods, such as subscriptions and DLC packs).
Yes you can
New ti Nintendo, is it regular/good discount? Can you get more?
This is the normal discount. Never goes higher.
Has actually gone higher before (15%), but not for a very long time. 10% is standard discount for a while now.
3 years ago, same jb boxing day sale iirc. Yep, so, not happening again
If you have stocked up some ultimate kids/him giftcards from coles this is a good time to use them. Also if you give them ur phone number and save the electronic receipt to a new jb hifi account you can get some vouchers ($5/$10 depends on current promo)
There’s no “digital receipt” promo as far as I’m aware.
No more? Too bad then.
As others noted this is standard. Note too that there aren’t many of these discounts a year. Probably 4/5 opportunities a year to get 10% off at JB or EB.
Any one know if the eShop gift cards have an expiry date?
The cards themselves do not, thankfully. The sale from JB will.
That's why you should only buy exclusives on the Switch. And third-party games on systems like PS/Pc/Xbox.
But the game cartridges second hand, sell them once you finish them. I made $10 playing Zelda Breath of the wild and $13 on Batman Tell tale.
Is Batman Telltale worth it? I saw that it’s part of the current sale, and I’m hesitating on it. (The telltale series and enemy within are currently $7.40 each, for reference.)
All 5 episodes for $7.40. Definitely. I pulled the trigger and gave enjoyed the enemy within. Already played the first season on ps4.
@julz15: Thanks! With the 10% off gift cards, that’s ~$6.70. I don’t know why I’m even hesitating, that’s only 1.5 coffees, next to nothing.
Publishers set prices….
No they don't. It's Nintendo and the distributors which are involved in collusive bahvaiour. Nintendo has been sued for this before along with the distributors.
They behaved with the ds/3ds. Now they're back to the old tricks.
ACCC needs to bring down the hammer again.
Yeah. Chem trails. Flat earth.
Publishers set prices.
I would call in smart business. They’ve owned their market environment for decades… and they did it through some pretty savvy tactics. Sure, sucks for the consumer, the game makers etc, but it works for them, and they haven’t gone out of business. There’s a HBR article about it somewhere, I’ll see if I can dig it up.
It's actually highly illegal what they're doing. Hence why they've been sued 22 million dollars and distributors over 12 million each.
Also hoping it happens again. As a matter a fact I know it will 😊 they don't comply with consumer law.
Why do you care? If millions of people wanna pay $79 for Zelda because it's one of the greatest games this generation let them.
@scuderiarmani: Pfft Zelda wasn't worth that. Totally not even GOTY worthy. Thank God you can buy and resell physical carts still so it cost me only $5 in the end.
Start game broken. Middle game good. End game easy. It was far too out of whack.
Better hope you trigger the korock seed quest else you're done for with the weapon durability being so broken it makes you avoid fighting.
The only thing it is #1 at is being overhyped.
@justtoreply: You are entitled to your opinion.
Should thank yourself someone else will give you a good sum for it…
Lemme know how that goes for a 3 year old game from the other systems….
@Ninternet: Stop projecting? Like everyone that says it's GOTY does? Lol.
Frankly, early and end game being broken is fact, durability broken until amassing korock seeds or getting the light sword, also fact.
Ok mate, a few things…
It’s not illegal what they’re doing, they’re just controlling their supply chain. It’s their product and ecosystem, they can do what they like
Just cos you’re sued doesn’t mean it’s illegal
$22m is about the profit they made off sales of Zelda this week… not really an issue
Enjoy your opinion, probably won’t change anyone or anything.
Merry Christmas!
Also, here’s the article
https://www.scribd.com/document/340446685/Nintendo-Case-solu…
See section: Monopoly Strategies
Here is an article too which proves you're totally wrong:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_02_…
@[Deactivated]: They were weren’t sued, they were fined. Looks like you were totally wrong also.
They actually breached a European Union law, so fair enough.
That single offence doesn’t make the rest of their supply chain management illegal, it still makes it smart business… so I fail to see how I’m wrong?
Also, per your article, wouldn’t that make YouTube also “illegal”, since many of us are getting YouTube at $2 a month from India, whereas it’s $17 here?
Totally agree! Wanted to get Donkey Kong, Captain Toad, Zelda, Mario Maker. Most of these games are 3+ years old/ports yet they cost $70-90…pathetic!! And what's worst is I wanted to get them all digital for convenient, yet they cost even more on eshop!! Ridiculous nintendo!
So? They are popular, they dominate charts still. Why should Nintendo give them away? To suit you?
Yes, you can.
My son got a Switch for Xmas and now wants some games for it. Which would out cheaper for most games do you think? Nintendo online shop with these discounted cards or physical games from EB/BigW etc?
Probably looking at Supersmaash, Zelda, Marioo maker2 etc..
Check the big digital sale atm in case something you want is included, if so, purchase the discounted credit too…
Generally the bigger first party titles you listed don't discount much though.
With those I would say you are best off waiting for Amazon sales for the physical copies if you don't need them right away. That way it leaves you open to re-sell if you want to. Even still I'd pick up some of the cards when they're on special as there are some good digital only games, or others heavily discounted on occasion.
If you want AAA titles I'd check Ebay too. You can often get them cheaper than Amazon by a few bob.
@OzViper
Nintendo eShop is having a massive sale on right now:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/507038
Will this discount be matched by OW or Coles anyone reckons?
It's like the big retailers have been taking turns taking on this discount. Target had it for a week or 2, the week after that Big W had it for a while (ended last Wednesday). Now it's JB's turn
Officeworks don’t stock these IIRC.
Historically, Coles has never discounted these before (but Woollies have). Unless we have working crystal balls, there’s no knowing when and where they are discounted next.
Is this definitely in-store only? Don't really fancy going into a shopping centre on Boxing Day, with 10 millions other shoppers….
Yes; you can't buy third-party gift cards online. Go buy it on Friday or Saturday
Any steam gift card discounts for boxing day sales?
EB games will price match and also accept gift card,
I did this when Big W had the 10% off.
8% off EB Games via Suncorp
It's now Boxing Day, but I can't find any reference to the offer on JB-HiFi's website.
Hopefully it is still happening. I guess I'll have to make a trip to JB's store.
The vooks link appears to say the article was from 2018? If anyone goes in store, give us an update!
Hi all,
Just bought a few gift cards from a Melbourne cbd store.
I've uploaded the advertisement in store, it should be nation wide:
https://imgur.com/gallery/OHMsE9N
https://imgur.com/gallery/Im0Ong1
Awesome, I'll update the main link.
Thanks, mate!
Does anyone know if we can pay in JB gift cards?