Amazon giving away $5 MP3 Download Credit for most Video Game Purchase Includes XBL

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How to Redeem Your $5 Amazon MP3 Music Downloads Credit:

To Qualify:

* Add at least one qualifying video game product to your Shopping Cart and complete the purchase or complete the purchase through 1-Click ordering. The products that qualify are all products Video Games category including downloadable content and hardware sold by Amazon.com that display the offer message on their product information pages. Items not displaying the offer message and all other types of items fail to qualify for this promotional offer.
* After completing your purchase, you will receive an e-mail indicating that a $5 credit for Amazon MP3 music downloads has been applied to your account automatically and providing instructions for redeeming your credit.
* Promotional offer is valid from August 5, 2009 through August 31, 2009 and subject to change. You must redeem the credit by September 30, 2009.

To Redeem:

1. Browse for your favorite music.
2. Find the music you want, click the "Buy" button, and your credit will automatically be applied to your purchase.
3. If you have not used the full value of the promotional credit, we will automatically apply the remaining balance of your credit on each of your additional Amazon MP3 purchases until you have used its full value or until the credit expires, whichever occurs first. You can check your credit balance by clicking "Redeem Your Amazon.com Gift Card or Promotional Code and View Balance" button, visible on every MP3 detail page. You can check the expiration date of the credit in the confirmation email message we sent to you regarding your credit.
4. After your purchase, you can confirm that your credit was applied by checking your order confirmation, which will be sent to you by e-mail.

Terms and Conditions

* Limited time offer. You must redeem your credit or code by no later than the expiration date indicated in the promotional offer message for this promotion.
* If the promotion provides you with a promotional credit, the credit will be automatically applied to your account until you have used its full dollar amount value. Your credit card will not be charged for Amazon MP3 purchases made through the expiration date until the full dollar amount of the credit has been used.
* If the promotion provides you with a promotional code, follow the redemption instructions provided with your code. Once you have entered your code, the code will be automatically applied to your account until you have used its full dollar amount value. Your credit card will not be charged for Amazon MP3 purchases made through the expiration date until the full dollar amount of the credit has been used.
* If you received a credit or code as a result of a qualifying purchase, then Amazon MP3 downloads redeemed by this promotional offer will not be reflected on the final order checkout page. If you received a credit, you will receive an email from Amazon at the time of purchase of the qualifying product that indicates the dollar amount of the promotional credit for MP3 download has been added to customers account and provides instructions on how to redeem the credit and download Amazon MP3 products. If you received a code, you will receive an email from Amazon at the time of purchase of the qualifying product that indicates the dollar amount of the promotional credit for MP3 download and provides instructions on how to redeem the credit and download Amazon MP3 products.
* You may need to have, or download from Amazon, MP3 software in order to download certain Amazon MP3 products.
* Offer valid for customers located in and with billing addresses in the one of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia only. Customers must open an amazon.com account and accept the Amazon MP3 Service Terms of Use to redeem the promotional credit or code.
* Promotional offer limited to one Amazon MP3 promotional credit or code perpurchase.
* If you pre-order or order the qualifying product and place it in your Shopping Cart but do not complete your purchase of the qualifying product, or if you return the qualifying product, you will not qualify for the promotional offer.
* Promotional offer applies only to qualifying products sold by amazon.com displaying the offer message on their product information pages on the amazon.com website. Qualifying products not displaying the offer message, or sold by other merchants or third parties, and all other types of items, do not qualify for this promotional offer.
* Offer good while supplies last; no substitutions or rain checks permitted if supplies of any particular qualifying product run out prior to expiration of promotional offer period.
* Offer is not transferable, not exchangeable, and not redeemable for cash, and is void where prohibited by law.
* Additional taxes apply in certain jurisdictions to physical items and/or digital items ordered.
* We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to terminate or modify this promotion.

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Everyone make sure you keep tabs on how much MP3 download credit you get. I have often had problems with Amazon not giving me the credit. But to check your balance click on any MP3 download. For example this link:

http://www.amazon.com/I-Gotta-Feeli..._m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=171XR8YHA747HTYFDW52

On the right side under the Cart button, you will see this green panel. See the "Redeem a gift card or promotion code & View balance" make sure your signed-in and click on that, it will tell you, your download balance.


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Here is a list of Cheap ($5.00) XBL Games
Assault Heroes
DOOM
DIG DUG
Geometry Wars Evolved
Zuma
Feeding Frenzy
GALAGA
Worms
Gauntlet
Golden Axe
Jetpac Refuelled
Robotron: 2084
Marble Blast Ultra
MS.PAC-MAN
Paperboy
Joust
Small Arms
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
UNO
Sonic The Hedgehog
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1989
Streets of Rage 2
Space Giraffe
Ultimate MK3
Undertow

Link: http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1249663...642,n:!44263011,n:979417011,n:14220271&page=1
 
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I bought Battlefield Bad Company Gold Edition the other day. I had no idea about the free 5 mp3's thing. A few hours later I got an email from amazon telling me about it. You just choose buy mp3 for 5 mp3's. I think the credit is hidden in your account. Then a few hours after that they sent an email with a receipt of the mp3's and the balance was $0.00 I got to download songs that are hard to find. :O
 
[quote name='Strell']Dammit CAG, you're failing me! I full well expected someone to find a three cent item that qualified by now![/QUOTE]

I don't know about three cents, but there are items under $5 that qualify.

Red Bull BC One (DS)
DS Lite Case
Boogie (PS2)

Not worth it as a money-making scheme, IMO, but anyone with Prime and/or an interest in these items might want to take a look.

ETA: I feel extremely clever for finding this: qualifying Rock Band guitar skins for $2.00.
 
XBL games only work if you contact Amazon Customer Service. So sort of not worth the hassle. I've purchased several games so far and found this to be the case.
 
Bought a ps3 controller, 5$ mp3 comes with it. The purchase comes with a cheap guitar controller for free, which comes with 5$ mp3 credit as well. So for buying the one controller, I get 10$ in amazon mp3 credit and the guitar(and 1.70$ cheaper than without the guitar, because eca stacks with the guitar even though it already has the full price discounted).

So dualshock3, nyko guitar, 10$ mp3 credit for 36$.
 
Big Kahuna Reef [game download] is free and has the $5 MP3 special offer listed. I figured I would give it a try. I'm not holding my breath though.
 
[quote name='Llamaw00d']Big Kahuna Reef [game download] is free and has the $5 MP3 special offer listed. I figured I would give it a try. I'm not holding my breath though.[/QUOTE]


This should work, just email CS and they will give you the credit if it does not.
 
[quote name='ps2emotions']I purchased assault heroes a few days ago and still no credit that I can find and no email.:cry:[/QUOTE]
You will have to call them and get them to manually give you the credit. For some reason they aren't automatically sending them out for Xbox Live Arcade digital download purchases.

[quote name='samisdumm']do these apply to marketplace orders, (amazon merchants)[/QUOTE]
No, only buying directly from Amazon.
 
[quote name='Llamaw00d']Big Kahuna Reef [game download] is free and has the $5 MP3 special offer listed. I figured I would give it a try. I'm not holding my breath though.[/QUOTE]

Llama, email them and tell me what they say
 
Sami- I didn't have a lot to do today so I just called CS. After about 10 minutes and 3 different people (probably as many continents as well) they credited my account $10 ($5 for Big Kahuna & $5 for the MvC2 that I purchased)
 
Does it take several days to receive the 5 dollar MP3 credit? I ordered Trials last night, but never received the MP3 credit. I called amazon and the chick told me it could take up to 5 days to get the credit.
 
I like that they are doing this a lot. Great job amazon.
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[quote name='freedomexplosions']I like that they are doing this a lot. Great job amazon.
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Well Amazon is going to win e-tailer of the year for sure. But they are doing this, and more with games, to make up for the dismal economy. Clearly Amazon isn't afraid to get down and dirty to make that little extra dollar. I can see me making at least $20 MP3 money this month thanks to this. Not to mention making $20 with the gift cards from the two preorders. That's $40 bucks, although limited to Amazon, back in my pocket.

I think the ECA is going to win deal of the year though. It almost makes up for the loss of Speedy (the Sunday ads guy) and the ghostly disappearance of Amazon's XBLA deals.
 
[quote name='MIX_MASTER_ICE']Does it take several days to receive the 5 dollar MP3 credit? I ordered Trials last night, but never received the MP3 credit. I called amazon and the chick told me it could take up to 5 days to get the credit.[/QUOTE]
More than likely you'll never get that credit for the XBLA unless you keep emailing customer service. What I would do is after 2 days (which is how long I was told it would take as well as several other members) email customer service and say that you ordered the game and waited two day like they said you should, but you never got your credit. This should most likely fix the problem and you'll either get your $5 MP3 credit or they'll just credit a $5 giftcard to your account.
 
I've bought several XBL games now and credit should apply but doesn't! So you have to contact customer service for XBL purchases. The two times I contacted customer service it was fairly hassle free, but ymmv.
 
Ok, it does work now. I purchased assault heroes online code for $5 and it took a few days for my $5 credit towards mp3's to show up but last night it did so I purchased a couple of tracks and need to find a couple more I want. Great deal.
 
If you buy multiple of the same item, but on different orders will you still get credit? I got the $5 credit on my first order with said eligible item, but 2 other orders I placed and added the same item have not given me the $5 mp3 credit. Not a digital download purchase.
 
I bought Sonic 2 (a $5 download), 1600 MSP ($20), and Big Kahuna Reef (free). I got $5 in my account so far, and I guess I'll wait until tomorrow to see if I get at least one more credit before emailing.
 
[quote name='Techsticles']If you buy multiple of the same item, but on different orders will you still get credit? I got the $5 credit on my first order with said eligible item, but 2 other orders I placed and added the same item have not given me the $5 mp3 credit. Not a digital download purchase.[/QUOTE]
I have bought ten games since this started and I only automatically got credit for one of them. But I kept up with emailing customer service and in the end I ended up with $45 in Amazon credit, not MP3 credit, but credit that could be used on anything in the store. To me that's a heck of a lot better than MP3 credit. So in the end, if you keep up with customer service, you'll end up with your credit, or maybe even something a little better.
 
[quote name='velvet396']ha - wow - hope Big Kahuna Reef works... can't beat free[/QUOTE]

I just did it and instantly got a $5 credit. YAY!
 
Not bad, from Big Kahuna Reef:

Hello,

I am sorry about the difficulty you've had with the Amazon MP3 Music Downloads promotion and the time it took to resolve it. We have manually applied the $5.00 credit to your account and I've also applied an additional $1.99 for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Click to expand...
 
Took me about 10 mins on the phone to get credited for the stuff I bought last week, but the item I bought today resulted in an immediate credit.
 
Under my gift card balance it shows my previous balance before the $5, but if I click on that view balance link on a mp3 page as mentioned in OP, it shows my gift card balance + $5 added to it. Is this right, does it add it to your regular gift card balance but only use it on music? If I buy an MP3 it won't use my earlier regular gift card balance before the new mp3 credit, will it?
 
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[quote name='Disneyboy']I have bought ten games since this started and I only automatically got credit for one of them. But I kept up with emailing customer service and in the end I ended up with $45 in Amazon credit, not MP3 credit, but credit that could be used on anything in the store. To me that's a heck of a lot better than MP3 credit. So in the end, if you keep up with customer service, you'll end up with your credit, or maybe even something a little better.[/QUOTE]


I ordered 5 accessories and 1 game in one order. 5 items shipped and I only got $5 in credit. I just sent off an e-mail to CS, let's see what they do...
 
[quote name='Disneyboy']I have bought ten games since this started and I only automatically got credit for one of them. But I kept up with emailing customer service and in the end I ended up with $45 in Amazon credit, not MP3 credit, but credit that could be used on anything in the store. To me that's a heck of a lot better than MP3 credit. So in the end, if you keep up with customer service, you'll end up with your credit, or maybe even something a little better.[/QUOTE]
They keep telling me the credit I got for another purchase is the credit for orders I never got the credit on... I bought 4 qualifying items and got the $5 credit for 2. The 2 I know I didn't get it on because I never got the confirmation e-mails for them. I've e-mailed them again, hopefully I get this settled in the morning.

I shouldn't be this greedy about free MP3s, but damn free is free. :lol:
 
[quote name='Techsticles']They keep telling me the credit I got for another purchase is the credit for orders I never got the credit on... I bought 4 qualifying items and got the $5 credit for 2. The 2 I know I didn't get it on because I never got the confirmation e-mails for them. I've e-mailed them again, hopefully I get this settled in the morning.

I shouldn't be this greedy about free MP3s, but damn free is free. :lol:[/QUOTE]
They did the same thing to me. I ended up sending one very long email in which I stated that I made ten separate orders for ten separate games and had only received credits for three orders. I then listed the order numbers for the orders that I had received credit for. Then I listed the order numbers for the orders that I did not receive credit for. That was the last email I sent and they gave me my credit after they read the email.
 
huh, I did it and selected download later and ended up with 10 dollars mp3 credit, very odd, I know I bought a few other things but pretty sure I had already gotten my credit for them, maybe I missed one.
 
[quote name='whymustiregister']I ordered 5 accessories and 1 game in one order. 5 items shipped and I only got $5 in credit. I just sent off an e-mail to CS, let's see what they do...[/QUOTE]


Darn it, 3 e-mails and no luck. They are saying the promo codes are 1 per order. Guess I should have broken the order up into 2 or 3 orders (no Prime). Oh well, I needed everything except the PSP case ($5.25 before ECA), so I guess it came out even...
 
[quote name='whymustiregister']Darn it, 3 e-mails and no luck. They are saying the promo codes are 1 per order. Guess I should have broken the order up into 2 or 3 orders (no Prime). Oh well, I needed everything except the PSP case ($5.25 before ECA), so I guess it came out even...[/QUOTE]

the fine print says one per purchase, I dont see anything about per order, might not be seeing it though.
"Promotional offer limited to one Amazon MP3 promotional credit or code perpurchase."

I've made quite a few purchases, including several xbox live games. I've never once gotten the 5 dollar credit for downloaded purchases automatically. I just keep on emailing them and ive gotten 5 dollar credits for everything Ive purchased that can be used on anything on Amazon(even though the email calls it mp3 credits)
 
I didn't bother listing my orders, they have that in front of them and they should be able to figure that out. I just basically asked them to review my orders that already shipped and pending orders for additional $5 credits. I will keep this thread updated.
 
I should have had $25 in MP3 credits... only got $5. So, I emailed customer service... they're trying to tell me it's one offer per person! They actually quoted the text that says one per purchase and then told me, "see it's one per person."

I just sent another message to them.
 
I've had the same problem...ordered Batman a little bit ago..didn't get a mp3 promo email. Boguth the Big Kahuna Reef game and got it instantly.

hmmm..

any more freebie games?!
 
[quote name='jcp42877']I've had the same problem...ordered Batman a little bit ago..didn't get a mp3 promo email. Boguth the Big Kahuna Reef game and got it instantly.

hmmm..

any more freebie games?![/QUOTE]

You will get the promotional email when Batman ships.
 
[quote name='thenockmlb']You will get the promotional email when Batman ships.[/QUOTE]

ahhhh, cause i preordered. That makes sense. Since i coudl just opt out of buying Batman, i'd still have the $5 mp3 credit.

gotcha. no worries though :)
 
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