Buying promo codes?

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  1. dogmeat

    dogmeat Well-Known Member

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    Hey all.

    My wifes birthday is on wed and I am going to hold a scavenger hunt with clues and riddles sending her around the house looking for little jacket shaped envelopes ( like a jacket you wear ) with % of the money I'm going to give her for her new jacket in each one.

    I got the idea that maybe I could put promo codes to some games I thought she might enjoy in the jackets as well but then realized that you may not be able to purchase codes for specific games.

    Or are you?

    How would I go about purchasing codes for individual games so I could give the gift of the game to her instead of a crappy itunes gift card.

    Thanks,
     
  2. DGH94

    DGH94 Well-Known Member

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    I would not be surprised if TA can chip in and send some promo codes to you.
    Any games in particular?
     
  3. Brazilian Rider

    Brazilian Rider Well-Known Member

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    Hmm...

    That's a really smart idea, but I dunno if you can.

    I know you can buy an app as a gift... but I really dunno how that works.
     
  4. superbad

    superbad Well-Known Member

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    I know for sure that promocodes cannot be SOLD at any case as their sole purpose is promotion only.

    I believe this is stated in the Developers contact thinggy devs sign. Best is to approach the devs here and tell them you're sweet idea. I'm sure you'll get a couple codes.
     
  5. MidianGTX

    MidianGTX Well-Known Member

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    I can donate a "Smashed" promo if you want it, but... it's probably gonna expire soon.
     
  6. drelbs

    drelbs Well-Known Member

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    I think you can buy music as a gift, but I've never been able to gift apps. (Gift cards are the best I think you can do.)

    I have gifted spare promo codes though.

    If anyone knows how to gift spare pennies from your iTunes account, let me know, I'd love to throw a few cents at some of the cool devs! :)
     
  7. dogmeat

    dogmeat Well-Known Member

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    She likes very simple and common games:

    cake mania
    bejeweled
    flickitty
    kaga mochi
    scoops

    I was thinking of gifting her

    textopolis
    2 others

    She can't handle soosiz, it makes her sick but stuff that's cute like that and has good production value.
     
  8. goldglover411

    goldglover411 Well-Known Member

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    #8 goldglover411, Nov 30, 2009
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    ive got some codes

    Pipe Builder
    TapDestruction
    Duel spinball
     
  9. Kamazar

    Kamazar Well-Known Member

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    You may not be able to get every code you want, but consider taking a gift card's code, and every time she finds an item, she gets 3 more characters for the card's code. Just make sure you label them so she knows what order they go in.
     
  10. eggzbacon

    eggzbacon Well-Known Member

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    I'll take it! ;)
     

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