Just do the right thing Valve and don’t pull the typical gift card BS with activation fees, monthly ‘maintenance’ fees, expiration dates, and other crap. Consumers have another option with which to buy games.
I found this out the hard way thanks to this comment. DO NOT DO THIS Amazon does not allow you to buy gift cards using gift card balance. Buy those with the Amazon gift card (plus the 5 activation fee) and use the visa card on steam. GS can generate some revenue in a market they didn’t have before with an item that takes up very little space and costs very little (I assume) to stock. One of the easiest ways to add funds to your Steam account is by buying our Steam Wallet codes AKA Steam Giftcards, steam prepaid cards, Steam wallet cards or. It looks like you can buy generic visa gift cards on Amazon. Tough noogies for PC gamers, as there are many more worthy titles than can fit on a rack.įrom other posters, it sounds that a store might make a few dollars over wholesale on the sale of a new game, compared to the relatively juicy profit margins of trade-ins and pre-owns so why dedicate more shelf space to low margin items.Īs for Steam cards, it sounds like a win-win all around. With all the online activation/DRM BS that nearly all PC games are saddled with now, the GS business model (pre-owned games) just doesn’t work because you cant resell most recent PC games anymore.
Click to expand.Not surprising why GS doesn’t seem to have much more than a small token rack of PC games.
