Hello everyone,

I thought i would share with some of you the benefits of purchasing game cards from Australia. Firstly, i am not biased in anyway to a particular online shop but merely a casual wow player that would like to share ways to cut costs in these times of economic turmoil.

The Aussie dollar has been plummeting against the Ringgit while the US dollar has been strengthening. The savings that people have enjoyed, via credit card subscription through the blizzard website, have eroded. All these have prompted me to think, "why not buy game cards from Australia?"

A quick google search offered many places that sell game cards online ranging from 36-39 aussie. At current exchange rates, that is Aus38 x 2.3 = Rm87.40 compared with Rm115(recommended retail price in Malaysia). That's a saving of Rm27.60!

This is cheaper even when subscribing via credit card! Using 2month as a reference period,
1month US15/mnth x 3.6 = 54 x 2 = Rm108
3month US14/mnth x 3.6 = 50.4 x 2 = Rm100.80
6month US13/mnth x 3.6 = 46.8 x 2 = Rm93.60

Please do note that variables used in the above calculations that will fluctuate on a day to day basis are;
Aussie to Ringgit conversion rate used 2.3 (not so long ago, it was around 3)
US dollar to Ringgit conversion rate used 3.6 (not so long ago, it was around 3.2)

Well anyways, just thought to share the above info with my fellow wow kaki's!

Happy hunting!

Ninjapod from Aman'Thul


ps. i do realise there is a pinned thread regarding game cards but i think it gets glossed over too frequently, but feel free to remove this post and to add it there instead.

This post has been edited by ninjapod: Oct 28 2008, 08:44 PM

i checked out the forex only today and i was like "WHOA WTH IS THIS"?

seriously, it went from as low as 3.3 to 3.6 from early august. forex isn't even supposed to be this volatile and this is a 10% change in 2 months (which is huge).

totally regretted not taking the 6-month subscription earlier.
the only problem is i don't know if im gonna cont playing this game for another 6 months since my uni is starting.

i support this post

as for myself, im on half a year sub too, so nothing much i can do

But how in the world are u going to purchase a prepaid card from aussie?

use ur credit card to purchase a aussie game card, online...

Ah dammit.. my 2nd 6mths subs gonna end by Dec. So I gotta start cracking my brain on how to get cheaper subs (ie prepaid cards) and so on since I've never subscribed via any other way other than credit card (6mths x2). And since Ive quit working and continue studying, I'm no longer in possession of any credit card x( So, anyone that might wanna do orders for game cards over from Ausie, do let me know

Purchase them now and wait for them to send over the cards via shipment right?

Maybank's Visa Debit can be used in WoW's billing system.
It comes together with a savings account so just open one.

when i was in aust i used to buy form a website there from a local game shop when you purchase you only get the codes not the card.

Yeah, what he said, you can just buy the codes online.

WTF, uni is the period with the most free time

i find that to be the most unreal statement in the world, unless you are doing business courses i srsly do not think you have alot of free time or you are one of the genious that do not go to class and always get high grades.....................

sorry man but it's the hard fact, uni life cannot compare to working life

True, when i was back in uni i had time to game all i want and still have time to figure out on my studies but working life you can't dedicate as much of your time to the game because most of the time in my field i am required to work till late hours.. damn.. but it pays.

@Jas2davir : which site is that, could you PM me the link? gonna take advantage of the currency flop now.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 14 2017, 06:42 PM

I'll just use Paypal.

^

this lol.

i can buy them for you if needed. there's a cybercafe near my house that sells gamecards.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 14 2017, 06:44 PM

Nice dude, if possible could you get them for us

Could someone list some of the online game stores that sells gamecards, the ones that emails the codes of course.