I believe if your school is part of the MSDN Academic Alliance, students get a free license. You need a login though. If you don't know if your school is part of it, here's a link to search for your school:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/dd861349.aspx
If you're considering buying...
Not sure if anyone noticed this one. I had a leftover ECA code in my account and tried to order a game out of my Goldbox. It looks like Goldbox and ECA may no longer stack...
EDIT: Disregard my comment. I just read the ECA Update thread.
Thanks for the tip. I should be receiving my gift CC from a rebate in a week and I was planning on swapping it for Amazon gift cards as well and had no idea about this.
Glad you got it. I thought that would be the case. The mailman probably saw it after delivering your mail and decided, "screw it, I'm not walking back, he can wait". Gotta love the post office.
I've been working for weeks to get God of War 3 in my quick picks and finally got it today for some reason... I have already pre-ordered it. My question is though, since I lucked out, my prior GOW3 order has 3 other games in the order with two stacked ECA coupons. Will the two ECA codes...
I believe so. The codes probably just need to be redeemed by 10/31. Once you enter the coupon code, they are associated and redeemed with your account and should still apply when your card is charged.
Holy crap! Thanks for the heads up on this. For those of you it's happened to, I hope you're able to get your money back. That is seriously bulls*@t on the part of half.com. Unauthorized funds should be the responsibility of the place collecting the funds. I mean, what the f%@k are their...
Just looking at my purchase (haven't received it yet), and considering this seller has multiple names, I'm assuming pieceofmindbooks is also the same seller as pieceofmindmedia. I thought I'd clarify just in case.