Customer Ratings & Reviews

Perfect amount to buy sims 3 pets (not including tax)

So, I rated this 2 stars because the cards work (scratch the stuff off, enter the key, have money on account), and it has nothing to do with Best Buy or anything, but Electronic Arts (EA), which runs Origin, is a sorry, low-down company... I bought a $60 card, and easily added it to my EA/Origin account. Here's my issue (and the more I think about it, the more I want to rate this product 1 star)... I've used Steam for years if I'm buying a computer game. Steam also has pre-paid cards like this, in several different denominations. Most brand new AAA title games cost $59.99 (a few dollars over $60 after tax). On Steam, you can put a (for example) $50 card on your account, and if you want a $60+ game, when you check out you can apply that $50 to the total, and pay the remainder with a credit card or PayPal, or whatever. Simple. Until I dealt with this scenario with EA/Origin, I couldn't imagine any company doing it differently. Well, that thought was wrong. A game came out recently on Origin that I'd like to have. It's an EA game, so it hasn't made it to Steam yet. It's a new, major franchise game, so it currently costs $59.99 plus tax. So I grabbed a $60 Origin card and planned on getting the game from Origin as soon as I got back home. After adding the $60 to my account, I selected the game, and went to check out. Obviously I knew I'd have to still pay a few dollars on top of that to cover tax. The problem is that EA is such a greedy, sorry company, my plan of buying the game like that (like you'd buy anything ANYWHERE ELSE if you had a gift card to apply to the total) didn't work. If you buy a game from EA on Origin, and you use a pre-existing balance on your account (like you have when you add one of these cards to your account) to make a purchase, that's all you can use. To make it more clear, I put the $60 card on my account, tried to buy the game (which was approx. $62 after tax) by applying the $60, and then paying the balance with my already-on-file credit card... NOPE! I couldn't do it like that. On Origin, you can't use a gift card unless the card covers the ENTIRE amount of what you're buying. Since I was $2 short, my options were to just leave the $60 in my account and pay for the whole game with my credit card, or go buy another Origin card to add to my account, so the entire price would be covered by my account balance. This is a completely blatant and underhanded way to squeeze their customers out of every dollar they can. Think about it... they sell $60 cards (and a couple of other amounts) KNOWING that after tax their $59.99 games will cost just over $60. Then they won't let you use your gift card/account balance in conjunction with another form of payment, unlike literally every other company, online or not, that I can think of. It's an extremely pathetic tactic that I hope somehow costs them drastically in the long run. So now I sit, about 2 months after I bought the $60 card, and I still don't have the game I got it for. I've spent plenty of money on Steam since then, but not a single penny on Origin. I'm waiting on the price to drop on that game, then I'll buy it with my balance. I'll never add another card to Origin though, and honestly, this has turned me off so much toward EA, I'll avoid them as much as possible from now on. IF AN EA EXEC, OR WHATEVER, HAPPENS TO SOMEHOW SEE THIS... THAT "POLICY" I DESCRIBED ABOVE WILL COST YOU. EVEN IF I'M THE ONLY PERSON IN THE WORLD THAT CARES, I'M ALREADY WAITING TO BUY THAT GAME FOR LESS, INSTEAD OF THE $60+ I WAS GOING TO SPEND, AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT THE RANDOM GAMES I'VE BOUGHT IN THE PAST WITH THE 'EA' LOGO ON IT WILL GET PASSED BY FOR SOMETHING ELSE FROM NOW ON. I'VE ALWAYS SEEN PEOPLE SAYING EA IS GREEDY AND WORTHLESS, AND I ALWAYS ASSUMED IT WAS JUST TYPICAL HATERS. CONGRATS THOUGH EA, YOU JUST PROVED THEM RIGHT.

My kid loves The Sims 4, and the only way to buy it or its expansions is online, through EA Origin. Since I don't want her playing on my Origin account (which means I can't play my games while she's playing The Sims), I got her a gift card so she could get The Sims. Everything worked smoothly, and she was able to play her game in no time.

Got this with a a reward certificate and some other gift cards I wasn't sure what to do with. Great gift for myself to get other games online from Origin later or to give to other gamer friends. Good idea for those who don't know what their gamer person is playing or what they really want.

It allows you to make purchases through Electronic Arts, to include game time codes, without using your credit/debit card. This way your credit/debit card information cannot be stolen through a hack and if your account is hacked, they only have access to your ea wallet and not your debit/credit card!

This was a gift for my daughter. She likes to play the Symms online so we got her 2 of these cards to help her 'buy' stuff for her game. It was easy to add to her account, instantaneously credited and she was busy buying stuff within minutes. A great gift idea if you have any EA games.

I love these EA cards. So much better than putting in your credit card or PayPal account to use. The only downside is that if a game is $60 and you have $50 in EA cards, you cannot use backup funding to pay the $10 difference. Have to buy another card. That's EA's mess.

I have been buying EA game cards for a couple of years. Best Buy has always stocked enough supply and these cards are great to use on the Pogo.com website. They allow you to buy gems to use on that site. I hope Best Buy continues to carry these for a very long time.

Made a world of difference for my daughter, adding this to her computer! And we didn't need the expensive controller that cost twice as much. One of the staff helped us find the less expensive controller otherwise we wouldn't have been able to buy one.

My son wanted Star Wars Battle Front 2 for Christmas, so I bought an EA Gift Card so he could buy the game online and download. He loves the game and by buying a gift card, it was a surprise.

I really liked using these cards. The one thing I noticed though when using them is that Origin does not realize they are there if you automatically use Paypal. You have to make sure you change that before using them.

This was the easiest video game purchased ever just buy the card and the recipient can set everything up online with no problems. The cards come in the denominations that the games are in.

Bought this as a Christmas present, so they would be able to buy dlc for their Sims game. Got here ok time and worked like a charm. This is great for people who don't want to use their CC

My son wanted Star Wars for his PC this was real simple purchase the card and hand it to him. These cards come in the same denominations that the games cost it couldn't be easier.

My wife uses these cards to buy packs for the sims 4. It keeps you from having to put your credit card info online and you get reward zone points from Best Buy. Awesome!

Using the code on the back of the card, I was able to get the $60 into my Origin account. You cannot go wrong with this card if you want money into your EA account without using a credit card.

The EA Origin Wallet Card ($20) - Multicolor is indeed multiple colors - it is orange, which is a color, and it is black and white which are "all colors" and "no colors".

Awesome for any person who wants to buy stuff off of origin and doesn't want to put their credit card or PayPal on it

Let them choose their own games with this EA gift card! Easy to use and make purchases with; a great gift for gamers for whom you have a hard time shopping.

I am such a SIMS fan. I originally purchased the cash card for myself to buy expansion packs for my sims 4 game. I got two expansion packs out of it. Definitely worth the money