Anyone have experience with cancelling a pre-order for games on Battlenet?
Wondering if you can pre-order Black Ops: Cold War, get the free skins/levels and then cancel the order and get my money back?
Is it possible to cancel Pre-Orders on Battlenet?
LBuzzkill on 28/08/2020 - 12:03
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I’ve never heard of any kids doing that?
I'm going to guess you weren't buying games during the Gamecube/Wii/PS2/XB360/PS3 era?
I'll be surprised if Blizzard hasn't thought of that loophole. Sounds like a great way to get your account blacklisted.
They would likely remove the skins from your account if you did it. Is it really worth the effort for a bunch of 1s and 0s?
Isn't everything inside of the universe just a bunch of 1's and 0's?
I see people put effort into life and 'society' everyday when they don't need to?I suppose at the end of the day we're just a bunch of atoms taped together.
I think my wallet a long time ago that cosmetics in games aren't worth spending money on. Especially loot boxes.
Dude. Too much Matrix.
Blizzard will allow you to cancel a pre order if the product has not released as yet.. however they will 100% remove any pre order bonuses you may have already gotten
have experienced it first hand…. and in some cases they can refuse the refund if anything from the product has been redeemed. (this is why if i pre order i get the standard edition first and upgrade to collectors etc later if the game is what i wanted)OK thanks. If they take the stuff back, so be it. Your point around the "if something has already been redeemed" thing was the thing I was concerned about. I'm not even sure you'd get the option to redeem some sort of code, or whether it just gets chucked on to your account and you have no choice but to redeem it.
Interesting you mention "if it hasn't released yet". I would have thought Activision would have to comply with the same rules as Steam when it comes to Consumer Law in Australia. If the game is released and it's a buggy piece of shit, I still would have thought they'd need to refund you money. Which game did you get a refund for that gave you the first hand insight?
I'm genuinely surprised with the moral high ground that exists on this thread and elsewhere. This the home of people discussing the popular practices of:
- Using alternate email addresses to re-sign up to free trials
- Using VPNs to access TV content on overseas streaming platforms
- Signing up to services and immediately cancelling to score free Google Home Minis, Kayo subscriptions, Android Apps, eBooks etc.
- Changing the region of Kindles, Amazon Accounts, Consoles etc. to buy content from other countries.
- Pouncing on clear printing errors en masse to score cheap stuff and force price-match retailers to comply
- Buying grey market electronics, camera equipment, games etc.
Surprised at the downvotes also
A local car dealership was offering a free barbeque with the purchase of a car.
I can't go a purchase a car, get myself a barbeque and then return the car the next day and keep the barbeque can I?The only thing I'm not guilty of from your list is continually signing up to services with new accounts for free trials. I prefer to just pay for the services I like and not have to worry about creating a new account every 2 weeks/month.
All of the other things in the list are fine as money is being exchanged for goods. With a VPN/grey market you still are paying for content, whether you pay 75% less is irrelevant.
There isn't a refund policy for cars though?
It's not irrelevant at all. Every single one of those is defrauding people of funds that they are otherwise entitled to, whether it be ripping off companies that have paid money for the right to sell said product in the local market or ripping off the makers themselves that have priced something in a market in order to serve the population that has a lower standard of living (and subsequently punishing the people in those countries because it leads to universal pricing and they'll be forced to spend 2 months salary on a video game).
And don't forget buying 10 cheeseburgers without the patty to get 1 cheeseburger for free
I didn't downvote but let me try to address your observations.
Using alternate email addresses to re-sign up to free trials
Generally, ozbargainers are neutral on this one. We don't condemn those who do it but if someone gets discovered and their credit card charged, we tell them they've got it coming.
Using VPNs to access TV content on overseas streaming platforms
Not stealing. It's like buying a grey import. The local distributor gets shafted because the consumer will always look for the cheapest option. The one that is screwing the distributor the hardest (or screwing themselves) is the manufacturer themselves.
Signing up to services and immediately cancelling to score free Google Home Minis, Kayo subscriptions, Android Apps, eBooks etc.
Not stealing. Does not violate any terms and conditions nor legal standards.
Changing the region of Kindles, Amazon Accounts, Consoles etc. to buy content from other countries.
See above re VPN.
Pouncing on clear printing errors en masse to score cheap stuff and force price-match retailers to comply
Many of us do not even bother with price errors. We condemn those that try to use price errors to force a price match.
Buying grey market electronics, camera equipment, games etc.
See above re VPN.
The reason why you are being negged is you are trying to score something that comes free with a purchase, except you are not making a purchase. Personally, if you get away with it, more power to you but some consider it stealing as the items were never considered to be "free" unlike the "free trials". It was part of a purchase.
Hope that helps.
So in that sense, I guess its also ok to short change a blind person and use their disability to your advantage.
A less risky approach might be checking physical retailers. Pre-order bonuses usually get printed on the receipt as a code you can claim, and in my experience though don't invalidate when you cancel your pre-order.
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What you are doing is wrong. Can't express it any plainer then that.
Isn't that stealing?