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US/CAN Club Nintendo Thread: New and improved. Read the OP.

iphys said:
If they announced 7 more 30 cent games to keep it going through the holiday season, that would be sweet. They still need to sell more Wii U systems.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they keep the 30 cents promotion going. Surely those were profitable as hell.

To see this in the first page is to open it with the deluded hope that the prizes will have been announced ... Smartest route to take, I guess, it's just to forget about 'em for a bit. Doubt it's going to be mindblowing stuff in either case.
 
Richie said:
I wouldn't be surprised if they keep the 30 cents promotion going. Surely those were profitable as hell.

To see this in the first page is to open it with the deluded hope that the prizes will have been announced ... Smartest route to take, I guess, it's just to forget about 'em for a bit. Doubt it's going to be mindblowing stuff in either case.
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Um... Unlikely? The credit card processing fee alone probably ruined any hopes of profit.
 
I should have just added 5 bucks to my wallet from the get-go and used that to fund all those 30 cent games. I thought about it. But i was an asshole and never did it. Feelsbadman.
 
grandjedi6 said:
Furthermore, this is why Microsoft only sells points in increments of 400/500 and why Sony has a $5 minimum purchase. Because anything less wouldn't be profitable due to the credit card fees. So at 30 cents a pop, I imagine Nintendo lost money on this promotion.
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Why wouldn't they just make them free, then?
 
HoJu said:
Why wouldn't they just make them free, then?
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Then everyone would just download them for the free CN coins. Coincidentally, I value 10 CN coins at about 30 cents, so I still consider these games effectively free, yet there were people that still refused to buy some of the games anyway. Also, I imagine they sold a lot of $20 eShop cards because of this promo, which then led to people looking for things to spend the rest of the money on.
 
So! I just bought a 3DS for Animal Crossing and registered both. I then discovered that I could register a bunch of my Wii games too. But I don't have the original box for my Wii anymore. Is there any way to register it and get points through a serial code or something?

I already "linked" the system to my account, but I assume this is just for future Wii VC purchases (of which I doubt there will be any)?

Also, I bought Star Fox VC way back when... any way to do a post-play survey?
 
Mike Works said:
So! I just bought a 3DS for Animal Crossing and registered both. I then discovered that I could register a bunch of my Wii games too. But I don't have the original box for my Wii anymore. Is there any way to register it and get points through a serial code or something?

I already "linked" the system to my account, but I assume this is just for future Wii VC purchases (of which I doubt there will be any)?

Also, I bought Star Fox VC way back when... any way to do a post-play survey?
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All you need is the club nintendo pin that comes with your wii box game. If you can't find it, sorry, you wouldn't be able to register the game.

You should have received a post-play for that game 1 week after you registered the game. You should have at least "linked" your cn account first before purchasing the game since you wouldn't be able to get the survey if you didn't do that.
 
Just realized that I bought my Wii before 2010 and that's why it's not working out by putting the serial number in. Thanks for the help though!
 
I live in Brazil and I have a US 3DS XL. I usually buy my games digitally from the Canadian store (only bought Animal Crossing so far).

The new MiiPlaza games were released, so I hopped on the Brazilian Store to buy them for a nice 5 USD discount.

Of course, since there's no Club Nintendo down here in Brazil, I couldn't re-associate my 3DS to my Club Nintendo account while on the Brazilian e-shop store.

After the games are downloaded and installed, I'll hop back onto the Canadian store (as all Physically released games are much more expensive on the Brazilian store and there's no Club Nintendo in it).

I know all about that. I just wondering if the MiiPlaza games had any type of Club Nintendo Coin value.

Also, if I buy a Digitally Distributed game on the Brazilian Store (Harmoknight, for example), since there's no Club Nintendo association, I wont get the coins on my US Club Nintendo account, right? Not even when I got back to the US account? (I imagine the coins are associated to the club nintendo account at the moment of the purchase, not when associating a system to the account).
 
drizzle said:
I live in Brazil and I have a US 3DS XL. I usually buy my games digitally from the Canadian store (only bought Animal Crossing so far).

The new MiiPlaza games were released, so I hopped on the Brazilian Store to buy them for a nice 5 USD discount.

Of course, since there's no Club Nintendo down here in Brazil, I couldn't re-associate my 3DS to my Club Nintendo account while on the Brazilian e-shop store.

After the games are downloaded and installed, I'll hop back onto the Canadian store (as all Physically released games are much more expensive on the Brazilian store and there's no Club Nintendo in it).

I know all about that. I just wondering if the MiiPlaza games had any type of Club Nintendo Coin value.

Also, if I buy a Digitally Distributed game on the Brazilian Store (Harmoknight, for example), since there's no Club Nintendo association, I wont get the coins on my US Club Nintendo account, right? Not even when I got back to the US account? (I imagine the coins are associated to the club nintendo account at the moment of the purchase, not when associating a system to the account).
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mnmnm, since you´re used to flip the countries, i guessed you already had an answer to that...

Im in the same situation. Up until now i had no need to flip to the Brasil eshop, but im also curious to see if buying Brasil can get you coins once you flip to Canada again...
 
grandjedi6 said:
Furthermore, this is why Microsoft only sells points in increments of 400/500 and why Sony has a $5 minimum purchase. Because anything less wouldn't be profitable due to the credit card fees. So at 30 cents a pop, I imagine Nintendo lost money on this promotion.
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The fees aren't that much. Nintendo probably got something per game sold, I doubt they were loosing money on each transaction. When I worked retail, our deal with the CC companies was around 10 - 12 cents per transaction. I'm sure Nintendo being a much larger organization and dealing with way more transactions per day/month than we were gets a better deal.
 
cacildo said:
mnmnm, since you´re used to flip the countries, i guessed you already had an answer to that...

Im in the same situation. Up until now i had no need to flip to the Brasil eshop, but im also curious to see if buying Brasil can get you coins once you flip to Canada again...
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Actually, I don't. It's the first time I did this. Also, I only bought two things on the eShop: Animal Crossing on the Canadian Store, and MiiPlaza games on the Brazilian Store.

I don't even know if MiiPlaza games are supposed to give you Club Nintendo coins or not - that's mostly what I'm asking.
 
DidntKnowJack said:
Sweet. Finally found a copy of Mario galaxy 2. Used, but the code still worked. I say again - sweet.
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I would say that upwards of 90% of the time, if a game is traded in with a code still in the box, the code has gone unused. I've found this true with not only Club Nintendo, but also with digital content for other systems.
 
Do we get surveys for Wii VC games on the Wii itself? I traded in 200 coins for F-Zero X from Club Nintendo last month, but I have no post play survey for it.
 
Shin Johnpv said:
The fees aren't that much. Nintendo probably got something per game sold, I doubt they were loosing money on each transaction. When I worked retail, our deal with the CC companies was around 10 - 12 cents per transaction. I'm sure Nintendo being a much larger organization and dealing with way more transactions per day/month than we were gets a better deal.
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Depends. Card not present (Internet) interchange is 1.95% + 18 cents + 1.5 cents network fee + 0.45 cents depending on the network route taken.

Nintendo also probably pays around 2 cents gateway + 1 cent processing (1 cent is around what Wal-Mart pays and realistically Nintendo probably doesn't get the same processing rates because they are higher risk and have less volume).

This is just for standard debit and credit cards with no rewards programs attached. The Visa/Mastercard interchange fees are non-negotiable, everyone pays the same. AMEX on the other hand tends to negotiate and they have no flat fee for card-not-present swipes and that's usually around 2.75% - so for those of you who used an AMEX - congratulations - you (possibly) made Nintendo some money.

The gateway/processing charges are up to the agreements they have with the processors, handlers, etc. But honestly I am on the very low end of the scale - Authorize.net/Paymentech charge around 4-5 cents for most major eCommerce websites that do far more volume than Nintendo does on the eShop.

Assuming that there were people who literally just paid the 30 cents - the raw cost of the transaction, including bandwidth, probably amounted close to 27 cents if people paid with a standard debit card. That doesn't even get into the time and effort they put into advertising the promotion, etc.

Still not bad for Nintendo since they got their users to "practice" transacting on the eShop and introduced it to them which will pay dividends later. The only way Nintendo probably ended up making money on this particular promo was when people decided to get $10 dollar cards or $20 dollar cards or put in a higher amount into their wallet and bought other things on the eShop.
 
tehrik-e-insaaf said:
…so for those of you who used an AMEX - congratulations - you (possibly) made Nintendo some money.
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Unfortunately for Nintendo, they only take MasterCard and Visa. (Unfortunate for me, too—they're one of like two or three companies I can't use either my Discover or AmEx on—both preferred due to superior rewards and service.)

But, closer to the topic at hand, it's worth noting that instead of making a bunch of 30¢ charges, I went ahead and got an eShop card (since I wanted some other titles as well) and have just been using that credit instead. So, no per-transaction fees from me.

Either way, Nintendo probably wouldn't be profiting much, if at all, even if they got the full 30¢. VC engineering costs money, running the eShop costs money, etc. This is a marketing thing to promote the eShop and VC, not a money-earner in itself.
 
I'm not sure how the WiiU eShop works, but for 3DS you have to buy in increments. If the WiiU is the same, wouldn't that mean they have like $10 of your money from the get go?
 
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Stop bumping this thread!
 
ngower said:
I'm not sure how the WiiU eShop works, but for 3DS you have to buy in increments. If the WiiU is the same, wouldn't that mean they have like $10 of your money from the get go?
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Both shops use the same system: buy credit in fixed amounts, or add credit in the amount of the exact difference if you are short.
 
Speaking of platinum rewards, if anyone wants to part with their Luigi's Mansion poster from last year's reward, I'll be happy to take it off your hands.

Please. It kills me to know I missed something so awesome. I need that poster. ;__;
 
Poltergust said:
Speaking of platinum rewards, if anyone wants to part with their Luigi's Mansion poster from last year's reward, I'll be happy to take it off your hands.

Please. It kills me to know I missed something so awesome. I need that poster. ;__;
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That's the only one I wanted. The other two I will gladly sell but that one is great.
 
Last week, I think the maintenance was a Tuesday am, rather than a Monday am, so this is a very good sign it's not a regular weekly maintenance. The rewards are coming. I feel it.
 
Steam sales have been keeping me up, now I feel like staying up a ltitle longer just in case these are prizes. lol
 
Poltergust said:
Speaking of platinum rewards, if anyone wants to part with their Luigi's Mansion poster from last year's reward, I'll be happy to take it off your hands.

Please. It kills me to know I missed something so awesome. I need that poster. ;__;
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NoRéN;70359351 said:
That's the only one I wanted. The other two I will gladly sell but that one is great.
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I would love the Kid Icarus Uprising one. :(
 
Poltergust said:
Speaking of platinum rewards, if anyone wants to part with their Luigi's Mansion poster from last year's reward, I'll be happy to take it off your hands.

Please. It kills me to know I missed something so awesome. I need that poster. ;__;
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First night I hung mine up I woke up in the middle of the night and saw these crazy glowing ghosts looking at me from 2 feet away. It scared me half to death because when I put it up I didn't know it was glow in the dark. Wish I could give up mine, but I like it too much. Hope u find one.
 
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