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[AntoineDodson]

Just got this offer this morning. Can't imagine not buying this.

 

Wife will be annoyed but oh well. Can't buy much with $20 anymore.

[Ookla_the_Mok]

AntoineDodson, on 01 October 2020 - 02:09 PM, said:

Just got this offer this morning. Can't imagine not buying this.

 

Wife will be annoyed but oh well. Can't buy much with $20 anymore.

 

Pro Tip:

Possibly different in Corona era, but everyone should be aware of this strategy regardless.

 

Go to CVS or Walgreens and buy a ton of products for cleaning, health, snacks, whatever. It must be a large haul of goods with some expensive medicines mixed in with everything.

 

Both stores sell gift cards for Google Play, IOS, etc. Add those to your purchase and let the expenditure blend in with the "errand" you ran for the wife to keep the house running.

 

Both stores also spit out a receipt that is ten miles long and nobody is going to read that even if you forget to toss it in the trash on the way out of the store.

 

You are welcome.

[RonaldusMaximus_]

Ookla_the_Mok, on 01 October 2020 - 03:36 PM, said:

 

Pro Tip:

Possibly different in Corona era, but everyone should be aware of this strategy regardless.

 

Go to CVS or Walgreens and buy a ton of products for cleaning, health, snacks, whatever. It must be a large haul of goods with some expensive medicines mixed in with everything.

 

Both stores sell gift cards for Google Play, IOS, etc. Add those to your purchase and let the expenditure blend in with the "errand" you ran for the wife to keep the house running.

 

Both stores also spit out a receipt that is ten miles long and nobody is going to read that even if you forget to toss it in the trash on the way out of the store.

 

You are welcome.

 

Been using that strategy for about a year now

Also the $10 gift cards really add up because each Google Play card comes with bonus points.. 100 points equal a dollare to spend in the play store.

 

 

Edited by RonaldusMaximus_, 01 October 2020 - 08:54 PM.

[Venstar21]

AntoineDodson, on 01 October 2020 - 03:09 PM, said:

Just got this offer this morning. Can't imagine not buying this.

 

Wife will be annoyed but oh well. Can't buy much with $20 anymore.

I got a 3.5k gold one. Also I noticed they look different now.

[BAR_001]

[____Zer0____]

My God guys.   Do you really have to hide spending $10 from your wives?

[Mako__Reizei___]

Your money, your call. You shouldn't have to hide what you spend and you should be able to spend it on whatever you wish (just not the outrageously expensive stuff).

[generalhonks]

I got a 7.5k for $10. Looks ok. I still want to save my money ( I make a monthly “budget” if how much I can spend on entertainment), and I need to save for the October stuff in Wotb and the Kerbal Space Program DLC. So I won’t be getting it. It does look enticing, and 7.5k can easily get a solid tier 8, and 16k can obtain some rarer tanks like the SU-130PM and the Skorpion.

[AnathsHairy3rdLeg]

There are plenty of lonely people on the streets. There are easier ways of making hidden income.

[Vacazion]

While my wife usually carries my balls around in her purse and lets me see them on rare occasions like Super Bowl Sunday, she has yet to put them in the blender on my spending habits for pixel tanks.

[Matt99TJ]

I never get the gold box,offers, and it pisses me off.  Id buy em if they were offered to me, but I giess WG doesn't want my money.

[AntoineDodson]

I don’t have to hide anything, I’ve spent over a thousand on this dumb game. She just gets annoyed.

 

I make enough that she works part time, she can’t complain too much or I’ll make her work 40 hrs. Lol

[Ookla_the_Mok]

____Zer0____, on 01 October 2020 - 06:35 PM, said:

My God guys.   Do you really have to hide spending $10 from your wives?

 

This is a tragedy of imagination on your part.

 

You think anyone does anything to hide ten bucks. Think a couple hundred bucks.

 

Now, lets get bigger. Lets consider an entire lifestyle built around hedonism and wish fulfillment. In that scenario, one would reasonably enact a strategy that mitigates full exposure of all frivolity so that one could deny or obfuscate when the time called for it.

 

If I accumulate enough small offenses how do I push back when she buys another purse. How do I justify that arrest for [redacted] and [redacted]? You get the picture - think big and inoculate for future transgressions. Didn't you get marriage counseling before tying the knot? This is basic stuff, man.

[Popcann]

I just stop by the General and pick up a iTunes card with misc cash in pocket, scan with phone and toss the evidence. Old lady has no clue what I spend on the game.

[____Zer0____]

Ookla_the_Mok, on 01 October 2020 - 11:01 PM, said:

 

This is a tragedy of imagination on your part.

 

You think anyone does anything to hide ten bucks. Think a couple hundred bucks.

 

Now, lets get bigger. Lets consider an entire lifestyle built around hedonism and wish fulfillment. In that scenario, one would reasonably enact a strategy that mitigates full exposure of all frivolity so that one could deny or obfuscate when the time called for it.

 

If I accumulate enough small offenses how do I push back when she buys another purse. How do I justify that arrest for [redacted] and [redacted]? You get the picture - think big and inoculate for future transgressions. Didn't you get marriage counseling before tying the knot? This is basic stuff, man.

Sorry,   This whole leverage for future transgressions is foreign to me.  If I want to buy a tank every once in a while I just do it. Same with her (not tanks though).    We’re are both very responsible with our income though.  Maybe I’m just lucky with that I guess.  Although she’s a doctor and I’m an engineer at a metallurgical lab so maybe our disposable income is different than others also.  Our 25th anniversary is next March by the way so I think the state of our marriage isn’t in question
 

[twirlingtowardsfreedom]

Both of the gold box deals (7500 and 16k) are leagues ahead of any other gold purchase in cents-per-gold ratio. The 7500 one even easily outpaces the giant $99.99 chest. These should be insta-buys for any non F2P players, and even irregular ones. I just wish I knew how to trigger the 16k one over the smaller chest! The only gold deals that ever beat these are the winter fair gold accumulators, and who knows if they'll keep coming back. They already got cut in value from 2018 to 2019.

 

Do keep an eye out for cost changes or inflation..that current gold sub package (7500, free xp, 30days) is running at $13.99 in the US; I bought it for $11.99 as recently as July this year.