Chinese New Year Bundle - False Advertising of discount. | Forums

[bunnyhop90-]

...but if you are into this kind of thing then you'll get it just because you can.

exactly

[timohthey]

Because there are laws against false advertisement. And rules for the Apple Store against false advertisement.

What B8ZZ brought up is the truly shady thing. They advertise these packages as a sale when they were never available at the initial price. That's a form of false advertisement as well.

Good point. B8ZZ too. I guess I'm approaching this from a perspective where I know the price was never really an offer price, so I don't see the big deal. But to someone who is new to the game the 'special offer', 'limited time offer' stuff could very easily influence their decision to buy something. In fact, I remember buying the flaming tango paint job bundle because I thought it was a good saving at the time. Doing a quick search of Google I was able to find U.S and U.K laws against this practice.

[B8ZZ]

Good point. B8ZZ too. I guess I'm approaching this from a perspective where I know the price was never really an offer price, so I don't see the big deal. But to someone who is new to the game the 'special offer', 'limited time offer' stuff could very easily influence their decision to buy something. In fact, I remember buying the flaming tango paint job bundle because I thought it was a good saving at the time. Doing a quick search of Google I was able to find U.S and U.K laws against this practice.

Yep, the "content" has to be at the original price for a certain amount of days before it can be advertised as a "sale", otherwise it's against the law here in Ireland.

[timohthey]

Yep, the "content" has to be at the original price for a certain amount of days before it can be advertised as a "sale", otherwise it's against the law here in Ireland.

Yeah, I used to work in a Currys electronics shop. The price tickets that had offers on used to have a note at the bottom stating the dates that the product had been at the original price for before it was reduced.

[CasuallyDressed]

Yeah, I used to work in a Currys electronics shop.

You poor bastard. Former Maplin here. That should mean I'm more cleverer than you

[timohthey]

You poor bastard. Former Maplin here. That should mean I'm more cleverer than you

Lol! Honestly, you probably are. I only worked there because a couple of mates from school worked there. It was my first job, and my last job in retail.

Anyway, I doubt RL will do much about this besides alter the next bundle so it more accurately reflects the offer.

[IT-ElioC]

I think the discount logic works pretty much like this:

How much should 600.000 coins plus 200 gems cost?
Considering 750.000:20€ = 600.000:x€ x = 16.
So 600.000 coins worth 16€ + 5€ for 200 gems = 21€

If we change the referring price of the coins we have different results.
360.000:10€=600.000 =x€ x = 16,666...7 = 16,7€.
The final price would now be 21,7€

Is this all clear? Am I wrong somewhere?