In Canada the cards are usually priced at C$25, so it's better to pay US$20 from the shop, but amazon.ca often has the cards for C$20, in which case I buy the cards. I've sometimes found the cards on ebay for less than US$20, and then I can avoid paying any sales tax too (13% in my province), so that's been the cheapest.
Yep, in the UK/EU there's a pretty massive mark-up if you buy a points card. I remember when they announced the new Nintendo Points card with "one price fits all" look and feel it was widely reported as a big price hike, but they never changed the shop price.
2000 point card is £20, but for £21 you can buy 3000 points in the Wii Shop (no clue if prices are the same in the DSi Shop). Pretty much rules out my ever buying a points card, I can tell you that!
I live in the UK and as mentioned above the points cards are dearer than paying online so I always use my debit card. I was planning on buying 1 lot of points from the shop so I could get a spare Wii game case to replace the cardboard case from my Wii sports, however I left it too long and they have changed the packaging now.
Here on the German Amazon Shop it looks like this... Nintendo Points Card 1000: 10,00€ Nintendo Points Card 2000: 19,88€ Nintendo Points Card 3000: 29,05€
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@Gh0stie: Uhh...why are the prices on Wii and DSi not the same? To me, that makes even less sense than the difference between Wii and card.
@The Fox: Okay, so those without any feeling of moral obligation can go that route if they want to. I wouldn't whether I thought I'd get caught or not, but that's just me, I guess.
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I wanna get a debit card for my own personal use soon, but for now, it's the store.
My mom allowed me to use $10 on her card for DSi Points once. I bought two Points Card in the summer (1 for the Wii, 1 for the DSi) and I plan to get a points card here in Jamaica on Friday if the store finally restocked.
Correction to a previous statement: Turns out there IS still sales tax on Microsoft Points cards here in Maryland. LAME-O! I guess it might have something to do with the fact that they still come in those stupidly huge plastic packages whereas PSN and Nintendo Points cards now use the activate-at-the-register system.
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