ECA Update: Amazon discount gone "for the time being"; in process of self-destruction

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(I know this probably isn't the best place/way to post this but I don't know how many people check deal discussions/graveyard/etc-- maybe this should be a closed sticky for a week or two?) Please don't turn this into a flame war...

Latest update, direct from the ECA:
Amazon has decided to suspend their discount offering for the time being. The exploit in the coupons was/is too large a detractor until a new solution can be determined.

Separately, several new merchant partners will be coming online this and next week with discounts and special promotions that they'd like to offer members.
 
Might as well lock this topic because no good discussion will come of it. Thanks for the update, just saw that they labeled the Amazon discount as no longer available
 
Well, since all of their other discounts are completely useless, I don't see the new ones being any better. Sigh...
 
(sheds a tear)

Amazon was pretty much the SOLE reason I got an ECA membership. To be fair, I jumped on the "Free for a year" bandwagon, so I didn't lose a thing but the 5 minutes that it took me to sign up.

HOWEVER, if one of the new companies coming on board is NetFlix, it'll be WELL worth it :)
 
Gah

Very disappointed but not surprised. I'm sure Amazon started noticing people getting 20-30% off orders and weren't too happy. Just to think that codes that were only entered once and could be tied to your account for the lifetime of your membership would have fixed all of this.

I have little faith in the rest of their new offers even being close to Amazon's but my membership goes through April so I'll hang on in the hope that Amazon comes back.
 
[quote name='Jackie Chandler']There's still B1G1 free on Fandango, right? That's pretty nice.[/QUOTE]

If I remember correctly, that's an offer that's available to anyone with a Visa Signature card. ECA just directs you to that site, but anyone can get the discount.
 
NOOOO
i too signed up for eca because of amazon. i am so disappointed they decided to discontinue this promotion. the sole solution would be a unique code that only allows for one use per day.
 
Thanks for the update. I got a lot of use out of my 10% off, so I don't feel bad about signing up for the deal when it wasn't free. I had plenty orders shipped WELL before it became free.

Hopefully the new deal will be a good one or the community will get better. Where it is now, it's not that great. All I really see from them is an email wrapping up the daily gaming news AFTER I've read it elsewhere.

Thanks again.
 
The problem with the "other" discounts are that they are with sites that mark their product up 60% more then you can get at other places, so the so called discount is not one. With amazon you knew you were getting a good deal. I guarantee that what ever discount they bring on will be for a company that is overpriced, or a discount you can find anyway at some other place.
 
damn it will be missed, although on a side note i atleast hope they get the PAX and Comic Con discounts back since i was interested in going to those.
 
[quote name='silentspork']Nice work everyone! You know who you are.[/QUOTE]

That information was also revealed on other websites, such as FatWallet. The FW community is a juggernaut.
 
Well, at least I got $5 off ODST and $30 off MW2. Although I will start calling Amazon and seeing if they will apply the discount.
 
[quote name='doodofdoods']My only regret is that I didn't stack more.[/QUOTE]
Way to be proud of being a thief

If you can't afford games perhaps you should have picked another hobby
 
[quote name='sinned47']NOOOO
i too signed up for eca because of amazon. i am so disappointed they decided to discontinue this promotion. the sole solution would be a unique code that only allows for one use per day.[/QUOTE]
That wouldn't fix much. Pre-orders would be more exploitable than ever if they were like that. What Amazon needs to do is provide one code per member and address. That way, Amazon could be sure nobody is "sharing" codes (thanks to the address), and if only one code works per address, stacking wouldn't even be possible.
 
Just got an email Stating

"...As indicated on the Entertainment Consumers Association website, no ECA member discount is currently available, nor is one planned. ..."
 
Just a reminder that ECA memberships are set up to auto-renew by default, so be sure to cancel your membership prior to the 12 months if you were among those of us who actually paid to join.
 
That is too bad. Though, it was pretty clear that the deal wasn't going to last very long in its current form (getting batches of codes every few months). That just seemed like a hack job from the get go. The stacking ability and free membership made it painfully clear that this collaboration lacked the personnel and foresight to keep it alive.

Hopefully something new will come from this. I know my Amazon orders skyrocketed after I joined.
 
I bought a subscription, and only used the amazon discount twice. Only did a 30% stack once.

I'm sad to see it go, but it's understandable.
 
Now that it's officially gone (for now) I personally think all ECA/Amazon discussion should be banned from this forum. Each and every deal thread is littered with the same ECA topics and it's getting pretty annoying.

Having a dedicated thread for ECA discussion is fine, but bringing up the same three topics in each and every deal thread is not. Hopefully I'm not alone in feeling this way.
 
While it's fair for Amazon to do this, the end result is just going to be them losing a ton of sales.

I bought about 30 games while I had my ECA with working codes. I haven't bought a single game since the codes have been gone and "on the fence" or "impulse" purchases are now going to be gone and I'll just stick to the games I definitely want. 10% off made those other types of games purchases far more likely.
 
i find it hysterical how in the halo odst thread, almost every person talked about how they stacked eca codes on their order, and no one said a word. now that the eca discount is gone, the moral police just erupted. i wonder how many of them actually were aware of stacking and actually refused to stack the codes when making their videogame orders, or would refuse to if they had made an order during that time period.
 
[quote name='Jackie Chandler']That wouldn't fix much. Pre-orders would be more exploitable than ever if they were like that. What Amazon needs to do is provide one code per member and address. That way, Amazon could be sure nobody is "sharing" codes (thanks to the address), and if only one code works per address, stacking wouldn't even be possible.[/QUOTE]

simply clear the buffer which would eliminate the previous code if people try to stack.
 
Yeah, this blows. I never even got to use a code for my God of War Collection which I only ordered because it was in my Quick Picks. ECA codes were down at the time and now, I'm losing hope they will ever come back.
 
[quote name='bojay1997']Just a reminder that ECA memberships are set up to auto-renew by default, so be sure to cancel your membership prior to the 12 months if you were among those of us who actually paid to join.[/QUOTE]
Even if you joined for free make sure to cancel it as then you will get charged after your free year.
 
Wish they would just put it on the account only or account/address.

I never stacked the codes and when I attempted to delete a Pre-order to get on the Tekken Deal I lost that code. It really is a shame that it fell through.
 
The biggest issue to this I think started with the free give-away.... if they didn't give out free 10% card, then we wouldn't have ran out of codes. If we didn't run out of codes this soon, then well we wouldn't have stacking. If we wouldn't have stacking, we wouldn't have no codes now...

So... I paid for mine... not even a student discount.... full 19.99. But I did get a membership free to give away... and I definately got that $20 back.... but that could be that I'm $20 richer if I would have waited a month. But by then I probably couldn't get any codes.... how cruel.

In either case, losing Amazon makes me sad. all the other "offers" are lame, besides maybe PAX or something....

I was really hoping to reap the rewards during black friday with codes and prime... guess I'm going Prime only.

:cry:
 
Well, I still had a code attached to my account that I never used, so I ordered MW2 with it. We'll see if it goes through. That was the only time I ever got a chance to use it, oh well.
 
while i didn't think it was a good idea to open up ECA membership for free to everyone (i was one of the paying members), it would be neat if Amazon considered offering something like a 10% discount on all gaming purchases for an annual price, just like Amazon Prime.

I'd certainly pay $20 (or even more) to get 10% off on every gaming order over a year for game orders from Amazon. Why bother with the ECA at all? People paid to join the ECA primarily for the Amazon discount.
 
Can somebody tell me how do you cancel the auto-renewal? I see a cancel button in view under my account but I don't know if that cancels the membership or the auto-renewal. Thanks
 
I guess the free membership offer gets the blame. It exhausted the coupon pool too rapidly, which forced the untimely new batch to out and opened up the stacking opportunity.

The program was fairly problem free until the free membership rolled along.

Well. I hope Amazon will reconsider a re-participation later on, especially when they see a decline in their game orders.
 
At least they've admitted its dead, I won't have to keep checking if its coming back.

$20 initial cost saved me $84 in the end, so that's not bad.

This thread should probably be locked or at least moved now.
 
Drat, I was waiting on a code for DJ Hero. At least I was able to get my membership fees back in discounts before it became free. At least I won't be waiting around for the codes to come back anymore.
 
[quote name='eau']I guess the free membership offer gets the blame. It exhausted the coupon pool too rapidly, which forced the untimely new batch to out and opened up the stacking opportunity.

The program was fairly problem free until the free membership rolled along.

Well. I hope Amazon will reconsider a re-participation later on, especially when they see a decline in their game orders.[/QUOTE]


Spot on.


[quote name='benjamouth']At least they've admitted its dead, I won't have to keep checking if its coming back.

$20 initial cost saved me $84 in the end, so that's not bad.

This thread should probably be locked or at least moved now.[/QUOTE]

I hope Amazon offers their own membership. I'd join for $20 or even $30 and bypass the ECA.

No mea culpas from the lady at ECA who said "don't worry, the benefit is definitely coming back"? She seems grossly incompetent on all fronts.
 
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