I redeemed another 12 months for myself yesterday. Discounted price is 87€ for EU (could vary depending on vat rates) with the downside that the promocode can only be used once per account. There will be no changes to your current subscription plan.
Link for convenience:
https://www.humblebundle.com/membership/checkout?gift=true&duration=annual&promo=holiday22
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Can I buy it as a gift and redeem at a later date, e.g. to start with the next bundle instead of the current one?
"Humble Choice plan begins when customer redeems gift." this would suggest so, but humble has always been clumsy with terms.
[edit] I bought it, doesn't seem to have an expiration date, on checkout it said "Plan begins when redeemed." too, so I think I'm good.
Now I hope the December monthly will be good...
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Quite expensive. I think I get a better deal by taking $4 off coupon when I try to pause, which brings price down to €6. And even then, I'm pausing since June. Easy skip for me
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If you're subscribed and paused previous month, try to pause this one too, they might offer you $4 off coupon (or $3 or $2), or lock your price down to $8 or $6 for a certain nimber of months. Not sure how they decide. Try this, maybe you'll be lucky
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I think I get a better deal by taking $4 off coupon when I try to pause
...if you get the coupon all the time, sure, but I can't say I've heard of anyone who gets the coupon consistently.
Even so, what's to say that Humble won't scale coupons back sometime in the next year? I'm not a fan of prepaying anything annual, but its not without some benefits.
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You can pause this, right? Gonna last until 2034 if so.
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Stop being ridiculous. The subscription will be fully utilized by no later than 2032.
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I would if it had games i wanted to play more often.
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This is my issue. I have skipped about 5 months in a row now.
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How did you get it to add to a current membership? It's not letting me add 12 months to mine.
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I bought it as a gift, then gave it to myself, My next bill is in December 2023...
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They're not letting me add it to my account, contacted humble support of it.
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If they wont let you add it the gift link never expires so you can use it when your current plan ends
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When you use ADJ link, don't forget to choose "this plan is a gift". Use the promo code and pay. You will receive an email with a link. use that link and log in as yourself, confirm the gift.
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I just got deal and gifted to myself next Billing Date:-
Your next billing date is December 26, 2023. Saved quite a bit 👍😃😃
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You can't redeem it until your current plan expire.
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89 USD.
Of course I am going to jump on that.
And to think that just 2 months ago I made the switch from annual to monthly sub.
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It wouldn't let me add it to my account as it says it is not compatible with my current plan.
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if you cancel your membership
then the ad will pop up at the top of the site.
then you can resub and apply the code HOLIDAY22
And tick the box that says "gift"
Redeem the gift yourself.
I guess don't cancel your membership if you have like 9 months left.
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Same error here, even after cancelling. Might have to wait for the annual subscription to fully expire first
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Perhaps yes.
I got lucky that my annual sub of 4 years expired a few months ago.
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Seems to be an issue of classic plan. Won't work if you're still on that. I am active annual sub but not on classic plan, that would expire on April 2023, now it moved it to April 2024 after I successfully gifted this to myself.
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Ahh, that could well be it. Unfortunately can't seem to charge away from classic til it expires, but at least gift subs last forever.
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The new Humble Choice promo code is valid only until December 2nd, 2022
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Good deal but bad timing, I really, really don't want the current bundle.
Last month I would have grabbed it, next month we'll see, but today? Pass.
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Can't you just uncheck "This plan is a gift. Send me a gift link." if you want it to apply to your account directly?
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just did it. Bought it as a gift and sent it to myself, worked just fine despite me having a active monthly subscription
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are you on classic plan? i want to buy it but dont want my classic plan to go away
-- update
just bought it and gift it to myself. i can redeem fine. currently month to month classic plan
now after redeem change to Classic Annual
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Payment Information
You're skipping November 2022 Choice. Your next bill is for €109 on August 29, 2023
iirc i've subrscribed via this same deal (€89)... an hella good deal for a first subscriber, still
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First subscriber, you using a creditcard with a continous subscription?
Every end of the year i just pay with paypal wallet and gift myself a year, worked for 2 years in a row so far.
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Let's say I've already skipped this month.
If I apply the gift right now I will get this month or it'll start next month?
And if 1st, then can I apply the gift later on, or gotta redeem it before the deal ends?
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No idea about the first question but... There is no expiry on redeeming a giftlink, you can redeem it next month or next year and you should be fine.
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I couldn't find information about it in the Humble Choice FAQ, but according to this 3-year old reddit post, you automatically get the current month when you pay for the annual membership, leaving you with 11 credits. i.e. you have no choice to skip November.
Not ideal for me because I already got most of the games I care about from this month's selection, but even then, it's still too good of a deal to pass up.
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I had such situation last time I used such promotion. You will receive current bundle when you will extend it.
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Can't claim it. Currently I'm on classic and paused on this month, still have remaining month left.
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If I left the link untouched until renewal, will the link still be accessible ? I want to claim it later after my classic expires.
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It seems that the link will not expired, so I will wait until my classic finished then claim the link.
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It worked for me, and I had classic plan and still 4 months of annual sub
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perhaps this is the issue, gonna resume this month then. Thanks for the info bro.
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I don't even remember the last month I didn't pause (I think I forgot in September) so I'm fine not paying 10 euros a month instead of paying 9 times that in advance for the next 5 years of pausing.
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Almost exactly my view. Since these monkeys forbid giving away leftovers, I've been pausing every month or so, since years. When I want a game, I usually get if from Group Buys. I guess I took (with the "don't pause 4 USD coupon") the monthly 2 or 3 times in the last 2+ years.
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Am i reading this correctly? You are not allowed to give away keys from games you dont want on your account? Do you have to activate every game for the month on your account?
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These morons want you to either activate the key on your account, or to give it to friends (as in "real life friends"). But giving away here on SG is, for them, considered trading. They wrote it black on white when directly asked through support.
In the old days I was buying every monthly from them, and was happy giving away my leftovers here. Now I make sure to avoid at most buying anything directly from HB.
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Got it, thanks! Whatever saves me pausing and waiting for coupons 😁
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You'll find it in settings, just above logout button.
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it says 0 monthly credits - does that mean it didn't work?
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You could go to your billing history and see what happened, it shows every pause/skip/claim.
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thanks it mentions the gifted plan for 76.00 but says plan status inactive
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should it say in the settings as Sallachim said about the 12 months i just bought because i i have 0 months remaining in credit even though i'm sure i had December as my last monthly before buy this deal?
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Thank a lot! My annual plan was almost up, and the gifting to self worked with the promo code.
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Please help me understand!
I got November choice with their recent 7$ coupon. Now I can not join 89$ deal, unless I cancel my subscription and send gift link to myself.
If I do this, wouldn't it mean that I pay for November month twice? 7$ with recent deal and 7.41 as part of 89$ thing?
Meaning, for one year I pay 96$. It's 96 / 12 = 8$ a month, a standard deal that I get every month by waiting two weeks after new choice launch.
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When I did this last year, it paid me for that month. So yes, you probably would pay for november second time.
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I think there is some misunderstanding about subscription. I can say that there are 2 things: choice credit and subscriber's benefits.
Buying annual subscription means that user will have +12 choices and +12 months of subscriber's benefits.
If you already unlocked current month, after activating gift subscription you'll have 12 choices and months. In other words - gift will just add 12 months/choices to your account on top of existing plan (if you have one).
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Maybe you are right. Next billing date is 27.12.2022. It is for december or january bundle? I bought year sub 21.12.2021. I had december 2021 unlocked.
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Next billing date is 27.12.2022. It is for december or january bundle?
I assume that you have 0 choices left. So HB will charge you next month if you'll try to unlock December choice.
I've rejoined on December 8th 2021 (also got December 2021 choice) and at the moment I've used all choices (got all 12 choice bundles).
So now I need to rejoin and after clicking Rejoin button, I see the same date like you:
"You will be charged on 12/27/2022 when your recurring membership begins."
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IIf next charging is for january, then it is as you said. January was paid from 1year, till december it was 12 choices. I assumed automatic billing is for actual month, not next one. Thanks for clereance.
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So your initial guess was correct. If you subscribed in December 2021, then November 2022 is your 12th claimed month (1 dec2021, 2 jan2022, 3 feb2022, 4 march2022, 5 april2022, 6 may2022, 7 june2022, 8 july2022, 9 aug2022, 10 sep2022, 11 oct2022, 12 nov2022)
It means with annual subscription deal you don't get +12 month, you get 12 month. So by subscribing to 89$deal, I'll inadvertently pay for November second time.
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That is the thing I'm talking about :) Subscriber's perks will not end for Gurthfin or me in November, they will be active until end of December, but we will not be able to claim December's choice bundle (since no choice tokens left).
You will always get 12 choice tokens and 12 months of perks. I'm subscriber from 2018, and each year I'm resubscribing in December. And if your statement was correct, then my perks should shift 1 month back each year, but I always had these perks during these years in December :)
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is it possible to keep the gift link and not activate until next month?
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Answered in their FAQ:
Q: Is it possible to gift myself a month of Humble Choice, even though I already claimed the current month?
A: It's not possible to receive two sets of games or another set of games to choose from. If you already have the current month of Humble Choice and claim another gifted month, it will add a credit to your account instead. That credit can be used as payment for a future month of Humble Choice at a later time.
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No, it says it right there in the FAQ, you get a month's credit instead. If you don't or you "waste" a month's credit on November then contact support as that's not what's supposed to happen.
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I'm paying monthly. I get that it's profitable, but I don't think I'm gonna go for this.
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No, thanks. I'm glad when my sub runs out eventually, so that I don't have to skip every month again and again anymore, and only buy the bundles that I actually want at a discounted price that everyone but the loyal subscriber seems to get.
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Considering they kept throwing 6-7$ coupons at monthly subscribers for the past year, what's the benefit of upfront payment of ~7,40$/month other than being able to claim the bundles on day one? New coupons are for a single month, so it's not even the case that you can't skip like with the old 3 months long deals
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well those coupons are not always certain. For example during Deathloop month i didn't get a cancel/pause discount, and the only email discount they sent that month as a 1€ discount one.
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Can confirm you can redeem this to your own account.
Classic subscriber active but did not buy Nov yet. Purchased as a gift and gifted it to me. Next Billing = Nov 28, 2023
I usually do not get $6 coupons, $8 or $9 are there sometimes so this will help definitely, and I can always skip!
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thanks, was wondering about this as i couldn't just add it directly to my active account :)
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Does the 'Plan Type' change when you redeem it? Mine is currently 'Classic Annual', just wondering if it'd change to something else.
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I did this and it successfully added a year (minus 1 day...), and the plan type remained 'Classic Annual'.
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Heya, was your subscription inactive at this point or did it redeem on an active sub? I already got the nov bundle, but if I get a link and activate in december when my sub is to be renewed, it stays on the same plan? Thanks.
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If you're on classic, but you already bought November and your sub is still active at least until mid December, it wont work at least in the USA.
I tried to buy it earlier but when I try to redeem my gift it says "Cannot Redeem We're sorry, this gift is incompatible with your current membership plan and can't be applied to your account".
I tried it myself because like 4 or more people said it worked for them and added onto their classic plan, but never provided proof or mentioned whether their sub was or not active at the time and whether their plan changed to annual, stayed classic, skipped a month, canceled existing sub first, etc. So now I'll probably have to refund and renew when it asks me to.
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The gift link does not expire. Just redeem it next month or whenever your current subscription runs out.
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I mean yeah I know, but I don't want my classic plan to run out or change my plan.
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It wouldn't necessarily. I am pretty sure you could prolong it that way. But even if it did: why do you want to keep the Classic plan? It has no benefits over Choice anymore.
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Hey, sorry for the late reply - my subscription was/is active (I did not skip a month), but had not yet gotten the November bundle. I did not cancel the sub or do anything other than purchase the membership as a gift, click the link that was sent via email, and confirmed that I would like to redeem the gift.
My plan was due to expire in February 2023, but now expires in February 2024 after redeeming the gift link. As mentioned, the 'Plan Type' still shows 'Classic Annual' (so far, at least...not sure if it might change come March after my current plan expires and the new one comes into effect).
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Awesome thanks for the reply, I'll try to redeem it in December maybe it works then.
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Yes, it shows annual (but no classic keyword). However, 20% remains so, we'll see.
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Edit:
I saw it on ggdeal, and the direct link is here: https://www.humblebundle.com/membership/checkout?duration=annual&promo=holiday22
Not only new membership, you can gift the annual plan to yourself, it will added to your humble account. I tried it, and get another 12 months credits.
When you use this link, don't forget to choose "this plan is a gift". Use the promo code HOLIDAY22 and pay. You will receive an email with a link. use that link and log in as yourself, confirm the gift.
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