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Where did you find that 5 rubies a piece?

In the store I see several offers, from 3 rubies a piece to 1.25 a piece. Still expensive but not that expensive. Personally I prefer to play. Thanks to playing I have a huge pile of rosebuds and think will make it to first 200 with what I have. My 2 weekend games for small competitions made me realize I got better at this location... If I could only achive speed...



The last one is 200 for 250 rubies...

I wasn't defending a company just pointing out that these are 2 different offers:

1. 2 cakes, 10 eyeglasses and 700 rosebuds for 363.27

2. 2 cakes, 10 eyeglasses and 350 rosebuds for 182.64.

If you have seen them like this and chose to get them, everybody would chose 2 offers 2 instead of offer 1. With the discount, clearly everybody would chose offer 1.

My question is where can one see these offers before the discount? Here in the UK it is illegal to state something is discounted if it was never previously available at full price.

In terms of your generic comment Zeva, I agree. But that is just the way it is really, Nobody cares about loyal customers - that is why I always change car and home insurance every year, mobile contract when it expires... In supermarkets, I always try to avoid what is at eye hight and look at less accessible shelves...

In the games, when they have you 'hooked' they only want you to spend more not save your money. There are books and courses for app developers on how to make addictive games and maximise profits. E.g. common stragegy is to invent game currency so that people lose connection between that and real money spent.