You can gift yourself a cheaper Google Play Music subscription
play.google.com/music/gift?u=0#Posted Feb 12, 2016, 4:52 PM UTC
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Totally worked! I wonder if it I can gift myself more than once.
Does YouTube red still work? I imagine it would.
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yes you can. I've gifted myself 4.
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looks like the 3 and 6 month offers went up.
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Yup. Still, I gifted the one month option to myself 12 times. A year of Music for £60 :) Not bad!
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Why is one month $4.99 but 3 months is $24.99? Shouldn't you get a discount (or at least the same price) for buying more months at once?
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You can just keep rebuying the 1 month gifts to get essentially the same price. They just keep extending the time until my next bill when I add them.
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Thanks for the tip, it worked!
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They just raised the prices. I paid $15 for 3 months (gifted) and $30 for 6 months (my account)
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looks like the prices changed. I got 6 months for 30 bucks, now its 50. I was going to buy some more but too late :( hah
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You can still get more if you're quick. The one month option is still $5! Which is the same as 6 months for $30! So you redeem that for yourself 6 times :)
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Just got a years Google Music subscription for £60 :) Would of cost me me £120 normally!
The 3 month and 6 month subscription's were showing as normal price, but the 1 month was still discounted at £4.99... Weird! I just gifted it to myself 12 times :D
Next bill date: 14/02/2017 All for £60 :)
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Just did this - do I have to cancel my current subscription too?
It shows that I purchased the six months, but it's also showing that my next bill is $10 on March 2.
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Did you redeem the offer? My account settings say
Account status: Next bill on March 7, 2018
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I dunno, I ordered it, got an e-mail but I'm not seeing much in the way of anything to redeem?
EDIT: Hah, shit - didn't notice the second e-mail they sent... with a redemption code.... -_-
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This is the redemption email I got. https://i.imgur.com/YDQ6VDs.png
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Does anyone know what would happen if you extend an existing subscription with this offer, and then convert the account to a family account? Would you end up with any savings, or will it just bump each month up to the full $15 and bill the difference?
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It just extended my exiting subscription
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Woah, glad I got in before the prices raised. Just looked again and they've gone up a fair bit.
At first it was half price for the six month, so I jumped on it but now it's only $10 cheaper.
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One month option is still discounted. So if you gift that to yourself 6 times = $30 :)
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Can I gift this to myself If I'm currently subscribed to YouTube Red?
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No, I just tried and was unable to redeem the code (http://imgur.com/j9RkEma). Does anyone know if there are differences between having a YouTube Red account vs. a Play Music account? Each gives access to the other, right? Now, I'm trying to decide if I should cancel my Red account and buy the gift subscriptions.
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Worked great for me.
I was able to purchase 24 one month subscriptions at $5 each. I added a year to my account and now I have 12 codes left for gifts or when my preloaded stuff runs out.
I spun up a bookmarklet that lets you purchase the 1 months in bulk, enjoy!
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Well that worked great. Do you know where I can go to see how long my subscription was extended? My Play Music settings isn't showing any change unless I need to wait a little longer.
It only covers the purchasing side unfortunately. Your subscription codes have been emailed to the account you purchased them with.
That being said, there is an email titled "Copy of gift email sent to ..." In Gmail I was able to click on that email, then click on the 22 older messages button, and copy 22 out of 24 of my codes.
The codes are listed in the titles of the emails, so if you dont open individual emails you can just copy them all at once and paste them into excel (it will line all of the parts you want into the same coloum for easy use)
From there, you hit https://play.google.com/redeem?code=CODEHERE to redeem them. You'll have to open and confirm the redeem on these manually.
You can speed this up a bit if you get the codes into the format of a list of links with excel. Once your codes are formatted as links you can paste them into a live edit box like the one on reddit. Ctrl+click the links to open them up in new tabs quickly.
That makes more sense now. Thanks!