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gammaleak: The money-back guarantee states that you can return any game for any reason within 14 days as long as you didn't download the game. Very cool.

What about this scenario:
- I buy a game at the "normal" Winter Sale price, for instance 50% off.
- Two days later it becomes part of a "special" sale at 75% off
- I return the game at the price I originally paid and then immediately buy it again at the cheaper 75% off price

Is there anything to stop me from doing exactly that?
Well, the delay time would probably preclude you doing that. Also, hopefully, your kindness. It costs us, like, a buck? a buck fifty? to refund money back to you. It also costs us around fifty cents to process a credit card transaction, I think. You can see how, if we're selling games for $2, that means we've actually lost more money than the game sold for, much less our personal share of the revenue.
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TheEnigmaticT: Well, the delay time would probably preclude you doing that. Also, hopefully, your kindness. It costs us, like, a buck? a buck fifty? to refund money back to you. It also costs us around fifty cents to process a credit card transaction, I think. You can see how, if we're selling games for $2, that means we've actually lost more money than the game sold for, much less our personal share of the revenue.
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spindown: In view of these high transaction costs, how come it's often impossible to combine special promo deals with other purchases in the same shopping cart? For instance, when you add one of the current surprise deals to your cart, you cannot add anything else without losing the special discount. So if you want to buy several games at the same time you have to create two separate transactions instead of one, adding to the processing fees GOG has to pay.
"Reasons" >.>
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TheEnigmaticT: "Reasons" >.>
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Fesin: is that what the tech guys told you? :D
Yes.

To be fair, what you're seeing is old crazy legacy code that's been quilted together in ways it was never meant to work, trying mightily to succeed. There is a complete site re-write in progress which will address this--among many, many issues--and which should launch sometime next year. But in the mean time, you've got wonky promos like this. Sorry, dude.