Board Thread:Eureka Moments/@comment-32952518-20171026020734/@comment-4974000-20171110034704

Just a warning about the seahorse in conjunction with TT - it behaves differently to other sales because it's linked to the amulet, which seems to behave like a talisman. So, if you have an offer when TT normally and then jump forward to the present, the offer will typically come back again with exactly the same time remaining. But if you have the seahorse, and for instance jump forward one day, the time goes down. (So 72 hours remaining goes down to 48). So presumably if you jumped forward two more days, it would vanish completely.

The problem with this is, at least on every device I've had, some internet services don't work properly if the date is significantly off-kilter (I believe it's to do with how SSL certificates interact with timestamps), and that includes Google Play Store and probably most other secure purchase situations. As far as I can tell, you can only complete a purchase with your device set to the current date.

I was able to work around this with the seahorse. I set up the purchase and got to the point of the Google Play Store password popup (ie, technically the game no longer had the active screen of the device, Google did). Then I switched screens and changed the date to the present. Then I entered the password. Then Google completed the purchase, then sent me back to the game. The game threw up an error that the amulet had run out, but the order had already gone through, so I had my rubies and bonuses.