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I just got my replacement N7 today and when I was setting everything up I opened up the Google Wallet app and sure enough when it finished setting up my account it showed another $10 on my prepaid card. It's especially nice since i spent $8 and change from my first Wallet account filling up my Buell last night.
is your replacement device free of any issues. I'm about to return mine due to screen separation and death pixels
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Order 20 more replacements and your N7 is free.. lol
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Lare2 said:
is your replacement device free of any issues. I'm about to return mine due to screen separation and death pixels
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So far so good. I've only had it for 3 hours tho so we'll see how it goes but all seems good now.
Yea the money is linked to the NFC chip. It will reset back to $10 when you switch to a custom rom.
My Galaxy Nexus did this and I got $15 twice. I used the N7 to buy McDonald's and after switching to CM10, Wallet reset my balance to $10.
So if you play your cards right, you can maximize your gift cards.
I wouldn't try to take advantage of the process but I also won't turn away a free buck. My Galaxy Nexus and N7 have 2 different balances even though I use the same account. Why they don't limit it to one free gift card to any one account is beyond me. Google is smart so I'm assuming this was intentional.
They are trying to push their Wallet system so what better way to increase usage then to give people free money to use it with.
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Are you receiving another $20 Play Store credit for each replacement device after activation?
hullbay said:
Are you receiving another $20 Play Store credit for each replacement device after activation?
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Actually, I first signed into my wife's account on the replacement and it gave her $25 to use then when I unlocked and rooted it I used my account like usual. I got my original and my replacement from gamestop so I don't know if it it work would or not on a unit straight from google.
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Yea the money is linked to the NFC chip. It will reset back to $10 when you switch to a custom rom.
My Galaxy Nexus did this and I got $15 twice. I used the N7 to buy McDonald's and after switching to CM10, Wallet reset my balance to $10.
So if you play your cards right, you can maximize your gift cards.
I wouldn't try to take advantage of the process but I also won't turn away a free buck. My Galaxy Nexus and N7 have 2 different balances even though I use the same account. Why they don't limit it to one free gift card to any one account is beyond me. Google is smart so I'm assuming this was intentional.
They are trying to push their Wallet system so what better way to increase usage then to give people free money to use it with.
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This is... interesting.
Do the replacements usually come with another play store credit? I thought that play store credit was tied to your account and not per device?
goinskiing said:
Do the replacements usually come with another play store credit? I thought that play store credit was tied to your account and not per device?
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It is tied to your account, but if you use a different account when first signing into your replacement, that account will get $25 credit. I used my wifes's account, signed in, she got the credit then I turned on usb debugging, then unlocked/rooted and signed in on my account.
neilrl79 said:
It is tied to your account, but if you use a different account when first signing into your replacement, that account will get $25 credit. I used my wifes's account, signed in, she got the credit then I turned on usb debugging, then unlocked/rooted and signed in on my account.
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I too was able to get another $10 wallet and $25 play credit on my replacement signing into another account.
I pre-ordered a nexus 7 8G and it came last Friday. I logged into playstore and got notified of my 25$ credit. Seeing it's a solid tablet I decided to give it to my parents. The next day, I walked into bestbuy and got a 16G, but I didn't get any credit after I linked it w/ my Google account.
I checked the playstore online and didn't find a place to complain, because it wasn't ordered from the playstore.
I'm wondering if anyone else is on the same boat as mine? Is there a way to claim the credit?
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Same thing happened to me.
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There was a glitch where a factory restore would allow you to get extra credit so to combat that they probably took away the ability to get multiple credits to one gmail account. Just a guess'
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I bought two from play store.. one connected to my google one to wifes.. only got one $25 credit.. CS told me it was one $25 credit per Credit card...
My understanding is that you only get the credit once per google account. So if you linked the 1st tablet to your google account and were given the credit than you're done no more credits because it's linked to the account not the device.
Do a factory data reset, have your parent create their own Google account and sign in with it. They should get the $25 credit during initial setup once they link a credit card. Just activated my 2nd unit yesterday with my other Google account and got the credit right no problem.
Two different CC cards? Or the same CC on the two google accounts?
Use your parents Google Account to activate, should load the credit on their account.
It's one credit per account, due to all these replacement units... People would be getting $25 credits for each defective unit they'd received.
I had my family buy a bunch of google play gift cards for my son for Christmas.
We've been purchasing apps without a problem until today. I went to purchase Greedy Spiders for $0.99 and I could not use the Google Play gift cards. The card was greyed out with a message right below the cards stating "This payment method has been declined.", but noting a balance of $12.05.
I called Google Play support and had to go through 3 calls and 6 support reps before one finally addressed the problem. The developer of the app is not allowing payment using Google Play gift cards. The developer of the app only accepts payment by credit card. This seems crazy to me. It's kinda like going to BestBuy and being unable to use BestBuy gift cards to buy a Sony TV because Sony only accepts credit card payment.
I'm not sure how many other developers are not accepting Google Play as a payment method, but I wanted to share the story.
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I had my family buy a bunch of google play gift cards for my son for Christmas.
We've been purchasing apps without a problem until today. I went to purchase Greedy Spiders for $0.99 and I could not use the Google Play gift cards. The card was greyed out with a message right below the cards stating "This payment method has been declined.", but noting a balance of $12.05.
I called Google Play support and had to go through 3 calls and 6 support reps before one finally addressed the problem. The developer of the app is not allowing payment using Google Play gift cards. The developer of the app only accepts payment by credit card. This seems crazy to me. It's kinda like going to BestBuy and being unable to use BestBuy gift cards to buy a Sony TV because Sony only accepts credit card payment.
I'm not sure how many other developers are not accepting Google Play as a payment method, but I wanted to share the story.
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Wow that's pretty ridiculous. First I've heard of that. I guess greedy spiders isn't just the name of the game haha.
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Wow that's pretty ridiculous. First I've heard of that. I guess greedy spiders isn't just the name of the game haha.
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yep. Aren't those gift cards supposed to help protect you from compromising your personal information online? ID theft is a pretty huge problem nowdays. I would be wary of doing business with that developer....
While I'm certain this vendor is the exception to the majority as I've had an Android phone for years and never experienced this, there will always be some vendors unless Google changes their policies to prevent developers from doing this. IMHO, I blame Google more than anyone. Google should not be providing developers the option to exclude Google Play gift cards when developers sell their products through the Google Play store.
I just came across this issue too but it seems to be for EVERY app or movie i have tried to download. I have a google play balance of $85 that seems to be utterly useless now! I need to do more research into this because this is just not acceptable and i feel extremely cheated. This is the first thread i came across so thought i would share my experience. If anyone has any input or an alternate reason as to why i can no longet use my play credit to make purchases i would be very interested to know.
Well with respect, Google Play is more like Amazon or EBay as such they allow anyone to write an app and publish it. And since Google is a world wide service, some countries may not or be able to accept that gift card service.
It happens but it is rare. We dealt with this with the initial $25 Play Store credit we got with our Nexus 7s. A very few developers wouldn't/couldn't accept the Gift Cards...
Or maybe it is a time factor. Maybe the listings have to be updated to accept gift cards?
I don't see a huge issue with this. I personally like the idea that devs can choose their method of choice.
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My problem with that is that i cant find a single app, movie, or song i can download with my play store balance. If there is NO devs that are going to accept gift cards as payment then Google needs to reimburse me for the money I already put out on their gift cards to download from their store which now seems to be completely void. If i knew i was going to be put in this position when i spent $150 on gift cards i would have never bought them. They claim on the card they are good for all purchases from the store apart from tangible products and when outside the US. I will be calling them tomorrow during business hours to bring this issue up.
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err.....just stay away from that app?
if a dev is only accepting credit cards and not gift cards from the google market theyre app is being sold on...seems very dodgy
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err.....just stay away from that app?
if a dev is only accepting credit cards and not gift cards from the google market theyre app is being sold on...seems very dodgy
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I agree. When I got my N7, I had no problem using my $25. Seems fishy to me. It shouldn't matter if the money came from a gift card, green is green.
And I was just thinking about getting a gift card for the Play Store. After reading this though, maybe I should try something different.
Well now.. that is pretty retarded.
If your goal in writing an app is to harvest credit card information, it makes perfect sense.
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rmm200 said:
If your goal in writing an app is to harvest credit card information, it makes perfect sense.
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Well isn't the the name of the app called "Greedy Spiders " don't trust it I'm not getting stuck in his web!
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SOLUTION
BostonDan2 said:
I had my family buy a bunch of google play gift cards for my son for Christmas.
We've been purchasing apps without a problem until today. I went to purchase Greedy Spiders for $0.99 and I could not use the Google Play gift cards. The card was greyed out with a message right below the cards stating "This payment method has been declined.", but noting a balance of $12.05.
I called Google Play support and had to go through 3 calls and 6 support reps before one finally addressed the problem. The developer of the app is not allowing payment using Google Play gift cards. The developer of the app only accepts payment by credit card. This seems crazy to me. It's kinda like going to BestBuy and being unable to use BestBuy gift cards to buy a Sony TV because Sony only accepts credit card payment.
I'm not sure how many other developers are not accepting Google Play as a payment method, but I wanted to share the story.
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Hi, I know it's a bit late but I have just found a SOLUTION to this problem. You can solve this by creating another Gmail account and using the same payment method as this problem is not related to the the payment method but the account as I have found. Go into Settings>Accounts>Add Account>Google>New. Then create a new Google account which will work alongside your present Google account and NOT replace it. Go to the Play store and swipe right across the screen and you will see a drop down menu from your present Google account going into the Google account you just made. Use this new account to purchase the application. The application will be downloaded to your phone hopefully without your "payment method being declined" .
First I've heard of sellers even getting that opton. It's not on my developer console. How would the developer know anyway? The income isn't broken down by method of payment. nothing related on the merchant account either.
I suspect a glitch rather than anything deliberate.
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rmm200 said:
If your goal in writing an app is to harvest credit card information, it makes perfect sense.
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App writers never see credit card information. Only the payment processor (in this case google) does.
Title pretty much sums it up, can i use a Play Store gift card to pay the Google Developer fee?
Asking this because I don't have a credit card.
VanManenDevelopment said:
Title pretty much sums it up, can i use a Play Store gift card to pay the Google Developer fee?
Asking this because I don't have a credit card.
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in your country, you can't create a cc in bank?
I hurried to order my 5x in order to get the $50 Google promotional credit, thinking I could use the credit balance to purchase from the Google store the USB-C cables I knew I would need.
Today, I went to order my cables, and the store wouldn't let me check out, saying "invalid payment method."
I went back to the offer, and in the fine print on the terms it says: "Items ineligible for purchase using promotional balance include certain subscriptions (see the Help Center for more information), as well as items in the Google Store." (emphasis added). You can only use the credit to buy intangibles, not actual things.
I feel ripped off, like it was a cheap bait and switch. Was I unreasonable to think I could use a Google credit to buy things at the Google store? You can use the Google credit from their marketing questions (Google opinion rewards) at the store. I don't need any games or movies, but I do need new cables.
That's my rant.
This has always been the case.
pretty sure it is google PLAY credit, not google STORE credit. so no, you won't able to spend play credit at the store.
I discovered that as well. Google Play credit, regardless of whether it was from this promo or the Opinion Rewards, cannot be used at the store. I called customer support to see if it could be applied to the type C wall charger they sell, and they wouldn't budge. Oh well.
I'm not happy that I can't use the balance on a charger, but I'm also not surprised. Physical equipment costs them a lot more than apps.
With the right cables, you can get away with using an older charger and a minimal difference in charge time. Most of those cables cost way less than google's quick chargers on the store.
chocmatic said:
This has always been the case.
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yup
What was the cutoff to receive this credit? I thought it was if you purchased in October? Anyway, I ordered on the 29th and got it on the 30th. Haven't heard anything about it.
antiseen said:
What was the cutoff to receive this credit? I thought it was if you purchased in October? Anyway, I ordered on the 29th and got it on the 30th. Haven't heard anything about it.
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You'll get an email to redeem the offer from the Googs. If you don't (say within a week or 2) I'd contact customer support
If you are a Play Music subscriber you can use it to pay that subscription, I was able to switch my recurring payment method to my Play credit balance.
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You'll get an email to redeem the offer from the Googs. If you don't (say within a week or 2) I'd contact customer support
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I'm pretty sure you had to order by the 25th to get the play store credit.
To the OP, how can you feel ripped off for something you got for free? Entitled much? It's said for play store use only since the beginning, it's your own fault for not reading. Everything has fine print these days.
Yeah it definitely was the 25th. Any free money is good money. Paid for Nova Launcher prime for me!
Picked up Ellie Goulding album with some of my credit. I also had a promo for half off an album so total cost was less than $9 Play credit
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If you are a Play Music subscriber you can use it to pay that subscription, I was able to switch my recurring payment method to my Play credit balance.
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how did you do this? I can't find an option to use my play balance?
solara1973 said:
Yeah it definitely was the 25th. Any free money is good money. Paid for Nova Launcher prime for me!
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I ordered mine on the 18th of October and had to call Google about the credit. It turned out there was an email with a redeem code. I bought nova prime as well! Love it.
And yes it's just Google play apps, BUT, if you're into dating apps, you can use the money towards ok cupid I know for sure but maybe some others as well. That's a plus as I'm trying to buy apps, but now I can't find any worth buying except nova launcher prime of course!
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I ordered mine on the 18th of October and had to call Google about the credit. It turned out there was an email with a redeem code. I bought nova prime as well! Love it.
And yes it's just Google play apps, BUT, if you're into dating apps, you can use the money towards ok cupid I know for sure but maybe some others as well. That's a plus as I'm trying to buy apps, but now I can't find any worth buying except nova launcher prime of course!
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If you want a camera app with more manual controls, check out ProShot. I used my Google credit to purchase that as well. And Tasker so I can double tap the screen to turn off the phone.
kellybrf said:
how did you do this? I can't find an option to use my play balance?
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Go to payments.google.com, click Bills and Accounts on the left, click Music subscription, and switch "Pay with" to Google Play Balance.
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