YMMV 50% off any movie Google Play

[crazylikeafox11]

Originally Posted by Kellz

thanks.

welp. i bought a movie because i had a paypal coupon offer of $3 off and i bought a non-disney movie. coupon didn't come off and then they cancelled my order and refunded me. now i have no coupon deal.

great first experience with GP lol

edit: and now i got an email recpt that shows the discount had gone through. but i can't figure out why they cancelled it lol

I purchased a DMA movie using paypal (first time using it on GP) for the code and everything went through on paypal's end. I got sent back to the page for the movie and it was stuck on "processing" for a bit and then told me that my payment couldn't be confirmed and gave me the option to rebuy it. I got an email from paypal that all was good. I contacted Google via the Google Play live chat because it wasn't showing up in my order history either. They told me to contact the seller directly through Google wallet. I had to ask if Google is not always the seller on the Google Play store because I thought I was contacting the seller. The live chat took like 20 minutes and basically all they could tell me was there was like 5 stages of order processing (I didn't copy it but it was like added->processing->chargeable->charged->something final) and my order was in the chargeable stage. During all of this, I finally got an email from Google that the order went through and the movie showed up in my account history and on my connected vudu account.

I don't think I'll ever use paypal to purchase something via Google Play again since every other payment I've ever made to Google Play was instant. But it might be good to note that if you use paypal, it might tell you that your payment couldn't be confirmed and then it will go through like 15 minutes later.

Google Play will just waste your time without any sort of apology for the inconvenience if you do try to contact them (after they tell you that you have to contact the seller, which is them) if you do experience an issue. Really not worth it for $3 in savings.

[Seth F.]

Originally Posted by crazylikeafox11

I purchased a DMA movie using paypal (first time using it on GP) for the code and everything went through on paypal's end. I got sent back to the page for the movie and it was stuck on "processing" for a bit and then told me that my payment couldn't be confirmed and gave me the option to rebuy it. I got an email from paypal that all was good. I contacted Google via the Google Play live chat because it wasn't showing up in my order history either. They told me to contact the seller directly through Google wallet. I had to ask if Google is not always the seller on the Google Play store because I thought I was contacting the seller. The live chat took like 20 minutes and basically all they could tell me was there was like 5 stages of order processing (I didn't copy it but it was like added->processing->chargeable->charged->something final) and my order was in the chargeable stage. During all of this, I finally got an email from Google that the order went through and the movie showed up in my account history and on my connected vudu account.

I don't think I'll ever use paypal to purchase something via Google Play again since every other payment I've ever made to Google Play was instant. But it might be good to note that if you use paypal, it might tell you that your payment couldn't be confirmed and then it will go through like 15 minutes later.

Google Play will just waste your time without any sort of apology for the inconvenience if you do try to contact them (after they tell you that you have to contact the seller, which is them) if you do experience an issue. Really not worth it for $3 in savings.

Is your default payment bank or credit card?

This was also my first purchase with PayPal yesterday on google play. When I first went to checkout it sent me to the terms of service, well I read some of it. It says it will use your default payment, well that was my bank. I've had problems before on orders using my bank.

Before I checked out I had to go to PayPal and change my default wallet payment from my bank to my credit card for online orders.

[IndyMLVC]

Both coupons (GP and Paypal) worked for me!! Thank you!

[tribalnoise]

Originally Posted by Seth F.

You should be able to buy $5 in google play and then split payment to put the additional $1+tax on credit card. I was able to split payment the other day to purchase Toy Story 2 when my credit was higher then the remaining amount.

I decided to try your suggestion and bought just $5 to make my total credit balance $9. now it won't let me select credit to pay with (says "$9 - insufficient balance"). check out the screenshot i took.

[Seth F.]

Originally Posted by tribalnoise

I decided to try your suggestion and bought just $5 to make my total credit balance $9. now it won't let me select credit to pay with (says "$9 - insufficient balance"). check out the screenshot i took.

I do not know why it let me split payment on a Toy Story 2 then. I know last week it wouldn't let me split on Star Wars. There has to be something that kicks it on and off but I guess my theory was wrong. It's madness that google has it set up that way. You would think all payments to the store would come out of your credits first automatically.

[crazylikeafox11]

Originally Posted by Seth F.

Is your default payment bank or credit card?

This was also my first purchase with PayPal yesterday on google play. When I first went to checkout it sent me to the terms of service, well I read some of it. It says it will use your default payment, well that was my bank. I've had problems before on orders using my bank.

Before I checked out I had to go to PayPal and change my default wallet payment from my bank to my credit card for online orders.

Credit card. It just had the "default" wording without saying what that was and I wasn't sure so I had to go check to confirm.

[nbungerko]

Took advantage of this and picked up Guardians of the Galaxy for $7.49.

[TheLaughingMann]

I'll wait for the next 50% off promo. Now that I know about having to re-establish my Google Play account every 6 months or so, I won't lose out on a DMA title ever again.

[Undeadcow]

Originally Posted by TheLaughingMann

I'll wait for the next 50% off promo. Now that I know about having to re-establish my Google Play account every 6 months or so, I won't lose out on a DMA title ever again.

Can you explain the 're-establish' part? How does one keep up eligibility for these promos?

[TheLaughingMann]

Originally Posted by Undeadcow

Can you explain the 're-establish' part? How does one keep up eligibility for these promos?

I had this happen twice on buying the Avengers and Captain America: TFA. For whatever reason, they wouldn't add to my DMA.

When I bought Vudu DMA titles, they added instantly. Those DMA titles would THEN show up on DMA and then on Google Play. By that logic, I would assume Google Play talked back to DMA.

Not in this case. I bought the two titles above on the last two 50% off promos. Didn't add. I refunded and then proceeded to buy on Vudu since they had DMA flags I could confirm. Those titles then added.

It wasn't until after I did the buys that I was told that DMA may...MAY...need a connection refresh to Google Play. Every six months with any possibility. Now, even though those titles showed DMA enabled on DMA's side, I operated under the presumption that somehow, Avengers and Cap 1 escaped the DMA add for whatever reason on Google Play's side. They don't state any of their titles are or are not DMA. So it was a gamble I thought failed badly. And others confirmed afterward they bought Avengers, Cap 1, and so on and they all added on DMA from Google Play instantly, give or take a few minutes.

Only Google Play has needed this on my end. Otherwise, I have done Vudu and there were no problems. I redeemed on DMA and they added to both Vudu and Google Play.

So...keep that in mind.

[michaeljoo]

Originally Posted by Undeadcow

Can you explain the 're-establish' part? How does one keep up eligibility for these promos?

Originally Posted by TheLaughingMann

It wasn't until after I did the buys that I was told that DMA may...MAY...need a connection refresh to Google Play. Every six months with any possibility.

Only Google Play has needed this on my end. Otherwise, I have done Vudu and there were no problems. I redeemed on DMA and they added to both Vudu and Google Play.

So...keep that in mind.

How do you re-establish the link or (as the email I received from VUDU put it) "renew your link from you Disney Movies Anywhere account"?

Do I simply log in to my DMA account, go to the part with the linked accounts, deselect/unlink them, save, and then reselect/relink them, and save again? Is that all I need to do to renew the links to iTunes/Vudu/AMZ/GP/etc... from within DMA?

[Greyman]

Originally Posted by michaeljoo

How do you re-establish the link or (as the email I received from VUDU put it) "renew your link from you Disney Movies Anywhere account"?

Do I simply log in to my DMA account, go to the part with the linked accounts, deselect/unlink them, save, and then reselect/relink them, and save again? Is that all I need to do to renew the links to iTunes/Vudu/AMZ/GP/etc... from within DMA?

Yes.

[TheLaughingMann]

Originally Posted by michaeljoo

How do you re-establish the link or (as the email I received from VUDU put it) "renew your link from you Disney Movies Anywhere account"?

Do I simply log in to my DMA account, go to the part with the linked accounts, deselect/unlink them, save, and then reselect/relink them, and save again? Is that all I need to do to renew the links to iTunes/Vudu/AMZ/GP/etc... from within DMA?

Yup. They recommend once every six months, for whatever reason.

But make sure the account you add in is the right one. Once done, it's going to need six months before you can try again.

[Greyman]

Originally Posted by TheLaughingMann

Yup. They recommend once every six months, for whatever reason.

But make sure the account you add in is the right one. Once done, it's going to need six months before you can try again.

Where do you see the 6 months renewal recommendation? It should be good for 2 years.

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[michaeljoo]

Is this still good, and at what point does the 50% off show up?

I'm on the edge about pulling the trigger on the Star Wars bundle, but am leaning more towards getting it since today might be the last day at the sale price.

Before, when I was browsing the collection, it showed as $39.99 (half off the $79.99 price) right on the product page. Now when I refresh the page it just shows up as $79.99, but it says "You can apply your movie reward at checkout."

I can't remember if it said that before and still showed the $39.99 price, or if they changed things and now it shows the regular sale price on the page and with the disclaimer that now you have to wait until checkout before seeing the 50% discount.

Or, even worse, that maybe they pulled the SW bundle from eligibility altogether.

I click on the "$79.99 Buy HD" button and it takes me to another pop up that asks "HD or SD" and just gives me only the option of "$79.99 HD." I'm a little afraid to click on that button as I don't know if I click on that button if I'm actually submitting the order, or if there is another check out screen.

I'm leaning towards buying at $39.99 (and then buying ANH separately on iTunes), but I definitely don't want it at GP at the $79.99 price (if I were going to pay $70-$80, I'd just buy it directly at iTunes, my main digital copy service).

Does anyone know if the SW bundle is still eligible for the 50% discount (it used to show $39.99 on the product page before, even earlier today, so I'm a little concerned that it's showing $79.99 now), or it that has changed? And do you now have to wait until checkout before seeing the 50% discount applied?

Also, if I click on this "$79.99 HD" button in the pop up box, will it take me to a final checkout screen where I submit my order, or is this the order submission?

[michaeljoo]

Originally Posted by tribalnoise

i already redeemed the offer that was emailed to me. now code G7BYVK2UC2S1UJENMUYE4XQ works too!

OK, called Google and someone there walked me through it.

For some reason, the discount now doesn't show up until you actually check out. Up until even this morning/afternoon, it was showing the $39.99 discounted price right on the product page for me.

But tonight, when I went purchase and refreshed the screen it started showing up as $79.99.

But after clicking the Buy button, and then the Buy button again on the next pop up window which asks if you want HD or SD (even though there is only an HD option), it then takes you to a 2nd/final pop up which is the actual checkout page.

On that checkout pop up window, it shows the discount and it also shows your payment options. In case anyone else had the same questions.

I then went to try the other code above but unfortunately it seems like that one is expired now. Rats, should have done this all before 1/1/17, when that PayPal promo was still active and probably that second 50% off code too. I was going to get National Treasure. (Maybe I still will since I have $10 GP credit sitting in my account from somewhere that I never used). At least the title will port over via DMA to my other accounts and also give me DMR points too. Wish I did it while the other 50% off code was still active.

Is there another 50% code floating around somewhere that is still active?

[michaeljoo]

Nice, just got 5 emails for each of the 5 DMA eligible titles saying they movie is ready to watch and that I got 150 DMR points (for each one).

Too bad IV: ANH is not included in DMA, I'm going to have to buy that one directly on iTunes.

I haven't been following the prices on the SW titles, is $15 a good price for ANH, or are they usually at that price? Trying to decide if I should just get that now or wait/hope for a better price.

[Greyman]

Originally Posted by michaeljoo

Nice, just got 5 emails for each of the 5 DMA eligible titles saying they movie is ready to watch and that I got 150 DMR points (for each one).

Too bad IV: ANH is not included in DMA, I'm going to have to buy that one directly on iTunes.

I haven't been following the prices on the SW titles, is $15 a good price for ANH, or are they usually at that price? Trying to decide if I should just get that now or wait/hope for a better price.

Buy ANH now!
The sale is scheduled to end today 1/3. Regular price is $20. There will not be a better price on iTunes.

[TheLaughingMann]

Originally Posted by Greyman

Where do you see the 6 months renewal recommendation? It should be good for 2 years.

When I went to reassign my Google Play, it stated on the prompt that I could only add one account every six months. So you can change it once every six months on Google Play. Vudu is another story, but Google Play is what told me six months.

[TheLaughingMann]

Originally Posted by michaeljoo

OK, called Google and someone there walked me through it.

For some reason, the discount now doesn't show up until you actually check out. Up until even this morning/afternoon, it was showing the $39.99 discounted price right on the product page for me.

But tonight, when I went purchase and refreshed the screen it started showing up as $79.99.

But after clicking the Buy button, and then the Buy button again on the next pop up window which asks if you want HD or SD (even though there is only an HD option), it then takes you to a 2nd/final pop up which is the actual checkout page.

On that checkout pop up window, it shows the discount and it also shows your payment options. In case anyone else had the same questions.

I then went to try the other code above but unfortunately it seems like that one is expired now. Rats, should have done this all before 1/1/17, when that PayPal promo was still active and probably that second 50% off code too. I was going to get National Treasure. (Maybe I still will since I have $10 GP credit sitting in my account from somewhere that I never used). At least the title will port over via DMA to my other accounts and also give me DMR points too. Wish I did it while the other 50% off code was still active.

Is there another 50% code floating around somewhere that is still active?

Nope. There was one that got issued several weeks ago, and then the one for the holidays. Those were the only two that were available that I know of. But given its popularity, no reason Google Play won't do another one soon.