$10 PSN Cards Spotted At Retail
10/07/2009 Written by Anthony Severino
Back in August of this year, we told you about PSN cards possibly appearing in $10 denominations. The smaller increment value cards would allow for gamers on a tight budget to purchase from the PlayStation Store in smaller transactions. Now, just in time for the launch of the PSPgo, they’ve appeared at retail.
The new $10 PSN cards are adorned with the same background used during Sony’s E3 Press Conference, and are currently available at Best Buy and other participating retailers.
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wow
This wouldn’t do any good in NYC. We have to pay tax on the PSN store
I know Canada, my friend lives there, they also have to play tax on purchase from the PSN store. This is why a points system should have been used like MS and Nintendo, so we don’t have to pay tax
@TheHater. The tax is already included in the points system. Why do you think everything is overpriced on the 360 and Wii? I’d rather just regular money than a points system.
They’ll make a nice holiday gift for your friends with PS3′s, especially when your broke
but still want to spread a little cheer.
@TheHater
In Canada you pay tax on pretty well everything, some provinces more than others, but a couple cents tax shouldn’t bother you.
cool
@Paralex
lol…I just realize that
@JohnnyTruant5
couple cents tax defeat the purpose of a $10 PSN card in the States in which you have to pay tax. Buying a $10 PSN card to buy a $9.99 game, will get you nothing because you will not have enough money for the tax.
Those cards look good!
No tax in Tennessee
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@The Hater
No tax down here in Florida, either, if you buy from Wal-Mart or Best Buy. Only Target has charged me cents over the listed price and that’s because of a tourist tax here on the beach where I live.
@Hater
true, but don’t you have a credit card on there anyway? it’s iike less than a dollar, or somewhere between 60-85 cents, depending on your state/country’s/province’s taxes.
.80c > $10.00 I’d gladly foot the extra cents.
Notax in Georgia!
@joinsideke
Sorry dude, I don’t put credit card information on my account. Plus, I can just walk out the house and purchase a PSN within 5 minutes.
@TheHater
I don’t understand what you mean. If you live in a state where you pay retail taxes, you should be used to the fact that 10$ won’t get you something that’s 9.99$. Not trying to start anything as I have no idea what taxes are like in the states, but I immediately recognize 9.99 to be over 10$ with what taxes are like here.
Great! I was planning to buy $30
@JohnnyTruant5
Well when you purchase a game that is $9.99, it comes up to about $11.10. Now, I am ware of this, but people just using the store for the first time and buy a $10 PSN card will not be aware of this. That why I am saying this $10 PSN card is useless unless you purchase more than one of them for a $9.99 game. Purchasing games or contents that will total under $9, will not be a problem.
@TheHater
On the PSN taxes apply by where you live, so for the same reasons that you and I are aware, anyone else would be. And the 10$ card is useless for something 9.99 if you’re taxed yes, but they’ve been selling a 20$ card for some time now, guess you hadn’t heard. This card is for someone that doesn’t want to/can’t spend 20 on the PSN just for a 5 dollar add on, or like Kirobz spending 30 instead of 40. Surely you have no problem with that.
@JohnnyTruant5
nope, not everyone is aware. When my friend first got his PS3, he bot a $20 PSN card to buy Tekken 5: DR. The game at the time was $19.99. He was not aware of paying tax in NYC because he was in Virgina for a month and purchase the game on his Cousin PS3 for the price of $19.99. I was not aware of it until the first time I purchase the Resistance Fall of Man map-packs a few years ago. New comer to the PS3, will not be aware neither. That they point I am trying to make. People that have not use the PSN before, and have use either MS or Nintendo marketplace, will not be ware of that facts that you have to pay Tax in some states.
And no, I am not ware of $20 PSN cards. Just look, I just purchase $60 worth of PSN card last week to put in my account to re-subscribe to Qore and purchase several PSN game.
@TheHater
“People that have not use the PSN before, and have use either MS or Nintendo marketplace, will not be ware of that facts that you have to pay Tax in some states”
……wow……
To start, taxes are state specific, so the only taxes that matter to you are the ones that apply where you are. It doesn’t matter how much they pay in north dakota unless thats where you are. The only thing being a newcomer to the ps3 would have to do with it, is if you spent your first 10$ card in a state with taxes. The point i’m trying to make is on the PSN taxes are the same as your state, so newcomers will see no difference on the PS store than an actual store. And since you recognize the 20$ cards, you realize why complaining about not being able to buy something with a smaller amount is redundant.
well in California, the PSN cards are treated just like any other gift card purchase, they’re sold for face value with no tax added. And purchasing content from the store does not have any tax.
But the point card systems and Nintendo and Microsoft use do add tax if you buy those cards from a store, however if you use a credit card to add points directly on the console, then there is no tax added.
@JohnnyTruant5
And once again, you fail to see my point.
Not everyone buy stuff online. When I first purchase content from the PSN store, I wasn’t expecting to pay tax. I didn’t expect to pay tax because I was not familiar with online purchase and how it works. A lot of people who are going to be purchasing content from the PSN store, might have never purchase an product from an online retailer before. They will simply see a content for $9.99 and buy a $10 PSN card thinking that $10 is all they need. They might not know that you have to pay tax.
@TheHater
No, I see your point, what I was saying is that they also might be used to the fact that 9.99 isn’t ever under 10 dollars, and they might see the 9.99 in store and automatically think over 10. You said the cards are useless because some people won’t know about the tax, when all that does is cause a bit of a delay in the purchase, or you could just buy one of the 400 things under 9.99 on the store. You also failed to ignore my point of it saving money on cheaper purchases, which is a perfectly good enough reason to have them.
haha failed to ignore. I meant failed to see, which is an honest mistake, or ignored, which makes you dumb. Take your pick
nice shot, i like it!
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