stusue wrote:

Tirama, just like Wendy you posted right before me!    But I see that we are totally of the same mind.  I agree that I'd much rather get a punch whenever I use a PCC than have to wait for a BPM and only get a bonus punch, which seems weird as we get a punch either way, unless they're stopping BPMs. 

As soon as I've finished using all my GCCs I'll be stopping my membership and only rejoining whenever ... IF ... they have another BOGOF, which is what I've been thinking for a while.  I just have to use them all first. 
 

Your GCCs are good for 6 months whenever you cancel.  BF makes it very easy to stop and start membership.  You just hit the button and you also have an area where you can tell them why you're quitting.  They even sent me emails when my GCCs were getting close to expire.  The only thing is when you rejoin make sure you rejoin before your 6th punch to get the PCC.  There's really no advantage to being a full time member except for building up GCCs.
I understand why they did it, I've been wondering how they could even afford to be doing it, but changing it right before the end of the month?  With no warning or heads up?  That angers and disgusts me.  It's like they tried to pull one over on their customers(and did).  And we're not just one-time customers, we're repeat, long term customers.  That's just not the way a company should do business.   I was intending to drop my membership again in a few days anyway, and what serendipitous timing this is.  Can't wait to fill out that "Reason for Leaving" section
 

WendyDarling wrote:

Your GCCs are good for 6 months whenever you cancel.  BF makes it very easy to stop and start membership.  You just hit the button and you also have an area where you can tell them why you're quitting.  They even sent me emails when my GCCs were getting close to expire.  The only thing is when you rejoin make sure you rejoin before your 6th punch to get the PCC.  There's really no advantage to being a full time member except for building up GCCs. 

Wendy, I've only recently finished my half-price credits and am now just starting my 3/4-price credits, so I still have a few to go ... although they're certainly dwindling.  But I've been meaning to ask you something about that and now's the perfect time.

If you stop your membership when you still have GCCs, can you restart your membership before the 6 months is up and then once again they don't expire?  Or, once you've stopped your membership, if you restart, any GCCs from before you stopped that are due to expire will still have the same expiry date?

So, say you cancel 1 March and you have 10 GCCs.  They'll then expire 1 September.  If you don't use any of them in the interim and you rejoin, say, 1 August, will the 10 GCCs still expire 1 September or will they once again be like normal GCCs and not have an expiry date?

I hope that makes sense. 
 

Tirama, once I've cancelled my membership I certainly won't be buying many games at all, which is the main reason to cancel.  I'll be much choosier, and just play games with my FunPass and maybe, just maybe, start reducing my unplayed games list. 

A lot of the SEs I got were SEs of CEs so there not being many straight SEs I wanted to get didn't worry me so much.

However, as Wendy said, you only have to rejoin for one month to get the last punch for a PCC then you've got 2 months or whatever to use it.
 

Well, I've just used a PCC to finish my last punch card for the month so now I can go to .  It's so late here now that I know I won't hear from BFG before tomorrow - if they reply at all - and I didn't want to miss out on finishing my card.  Remember the good old days when they had Live Chat?    Fortunately, I only needed one more punch and had several games I wanted so got one of those.
 

TiramaSue wrote:

Just found this on the top of the Help home page:Due to recent changes in the Game Club Punch Card program, redeeming a Punch Card coupon code for a free game will no longer earn a punch on your punch card. You can still get a bonus punch for using your Punch Card coupon code during a Bonus Punch promotion.

I've been on that pge the past couple of days sending emails to CS, I could swear it wasn't there earlier when I cantacted them today about my missing punch.  Anybody else notice it before now?

Tirama, I just checked out the Help page and I'm sure that message wasn't there when I sent my first email to CS.  I'm sure I would have seen it!    I'd say so many people have complained that they've just put that there within the past few hours.