FAQ on the purchase and activation of the PSN Card for the American PSN Store

In this article I will talk in detail about how to purchase and activate the PSN Card.

PSN Card will allow you to pay for purchases in the American Store, regardless of your place of residence.
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To purchase a PSN Card, we will need an electronic currency (any suitable, but wmz is better) or a plastic card (credit and debit cards will not matter) with the possibility of payment via the Internet.

Further points:

If you have wmz or any other electronic currency
If you have wmz, go to Google, type in the PSN Card search (or related request) and choose the online store to your liking.
Monaural on the purchase of PSN Card through the online store.

If you have a credit card or debit card
If payment by credit or debit card is preferable, then, first of all, you need to register it on paypal.com PayPal's registration card plastic card.

After registering a credit card in paypal, go to ebay.com and buy a Psn Card
Monaule to buy PSN Card via Ebay.

Regardless of the method of purchasing a PSN Card (by a plastic card through ebay or wmz via the online store), cards are always sold at a premium, so before buying, look carefully at all the offers and choose the most profitable.

For comparison
Buying a PSN card with a nominal value of $ 20 in an online store for wmz, I gave 27.45 wmz (wmz equivalent of $)

Paying a PSN card with an ebay credit card for a $ 20 card gives away $ 23

PSN card come in different denominations. The greater the value of the card, the less we lose on the purchase due to margins.

After purchasing the card, we will not receive the card itself, and to speed up the procedure, instead of a PSN card, a PIN code of the following type will be sent to the e-mail specified when purchasing: VPGK-DBBP-ROHA

Moving on to activate the PSN Card in PlayStation Network
The first way to activate the PSN Card
We start the user on whom American PSN Store is registered

Open the “Playstation Network” section in XMB and select the “Account Management” category.


Open the item "Redeem codes"



In the window that opens, we drive in a pin-code (for example, VPGK-DBBP-ROHA) with 4 characters in each field, the fields are case-sensitive!



Enter 16 characters of the PIN code from the PSN Card and click "continue"

In the opened window click “yes”


If everything is fine, you will remove the window with the current balance on the account of the American PSN Store


The second way to activate the PSN Card
We go to the American PSN Store.

In the upper right corner, open the item "Redeem codes".


Further, as well as with the activation through the menu.

And now the main thing.

In the American PSN Store, the tax on purchased content is about 8.5%

Instructions for buying in the US Store without 8.5% surcharge using tax free zones



Example:
If you buy a PSN Card for wmz, and pay in STORE with a tax of 8.5%, then
for the purchase of the game in the American PSN Store, which costs $ 18.5, taking into account the tax in the Store and the mark-up, we will spend $ 27.45 when buying a PSN Card. In this case, the overpayment for the PSN Card face value of $ 20 will be $ 7.45

If you buy a PSN Card through Ebay, and spend this money in STORE without tax, then the game worth $ 18.5 will cost the same $ 18.5. In this case, the overpayment for the PSN Card face value of $ 20 will be only $ 3

Have a nice shopping!
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