»[Shop] Buying Coupons

Discussion in 'Suggestions & Feedback' started by minion325, Jun 26, 2016.

  1. minion325

    minion325 Developer Member

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    Ill start off my suggestion with an example.

    Player1 would like to buy a x4 anni booster for 12.00 EUR. He looks at his paypal balance to check if he has enough to buy it. When he checks, he has 9.00 EUR. What is he supposed to do? Buy a x3 instead? No.
    That is where this suggestion comes in. If implemented, players will be able to buy "coupons"(shop balance) of any value.
    So, Player1 sees that Player2 is selling euros for prison items. Player2 makes an offer to trade for 3.00 EUR. Player2 buys the coupon for him. Player1 can now buy his booster.

    What am I suggesting: Players should be able to buy shop balance for themselves(others) so that if they are short of money for a purchase, they can make up for it.

    Tips: No sales on the coupons. It is not exactly a coupon and do not have codes, you buy it directly for the player just as any other store item.

    Example 2: Player1 would like a penguin companion and doesn't have any money. However, he has enough ingame money to buy 20 EUR(the penguin) but no one is selling 20 EUR. What does he do?
    Again, with this suggestion being implemented, he could get the 20 EUR by buying 5 EUR from 4 players, etc.

    PS. Sorry for my bad english//grammar ill edit this post after is get some sleep.

    @aXed
     
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  2. dany

    dany Addict Member

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    Gr8 idea always wanted this to be implemented
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  3. minion325

    minion325 Developer Member

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    Bumpity Bump!
     
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  4. XxMasterMCxX

    XxMasterMCxX ULTRA NOOB Member

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    Not a bad idea.
     
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  5. SteveThatCoolGuy

    SteveThatCoolGuy Ancient Poster Member

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    good idea +1
     
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  6. Bad7Leroy4Brown

    Bad7Leroy4Brown Faithful Poster Member

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    Agreed and it would allow two or a group to go in together on some items, e.g. drops

    Have to be careful though, Paypal will take their cut of each transaction, and that is USD 0.30 per transaction PLUS 1.9-2.9% depending on how much Paypal you take each month. So, at the best rate, a 3€/$3 transaction would cost 0.30 + 0.057 or 36 cents plus additional 1% (3 cents) for international transaction. Assuming GC's home country is Netherlands, then all American and other Euro transactions get this 1% fee.

    At the worst rate, let's say the USD 0.90 sale price for the obsidian pickaxe drop in survival, the fees are 0.30 + 0.02 + 0.01 leaving only 57 cents for GC.

    Unless you set up with microtransactions, which all have to be <$5, and use a different fee schedule.

    I don't mean for this to be confusing, but it's important to consider when you break transactions up into two or more fee charges.
     
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  7. minion325

    minion325 Developer Member

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    The benefits of this system is still worth it though.
     
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