Would it be possible to return the points entrants spent on giveaways that are deleted?
True, you may argue that every entry comes with an inherent risk: you are essentially gambling on the opportunity to acquire a game and points regenerate, yadda-yadda-yadda... yet when the giveaway turns out to be utterly spurious, the entrants have forfeited their points for naught.

I'm a staunch advocate of doing your research, thus a recent giveaway --- by a new member who had never provided anything before --- of Grand Theft Auto V raised more than a few warning bells. Even so, I chanced it. Lo and behold, ten minutes later the giveaway was deleted and I was out 60 points. Arguably, I should have known better, aye? Yet on that off-chance it was genuine, and the even more far-fetched chance I'd win, I tried.

Again, you might argue that as a contributor I should have known better, but try this example that occurred at nearly the same time: a giveaway for Magicite, a moderately inexpensive game, was sponsored by a member who had provided giveaways in the past. It too was deleted and abruptly I was out 10 more points.

Looking at my "Entered" giveaways list, roughly fifteen or twenty of the greater than one-thousand I've joined have been deleted. That is hardly, by any means, a terrible statistic and likely accounts for no more than 500 points total. Even so, those are hundreds that could have been spent on an entry to legitimate giveaways.

Thoughts?

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Should points be refunded to entrants when a giveaway is deleted?

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Yes.
No.

Points are constantly regenerating, and are free to boot.

9 years ago
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I quote:
"True, you may argue that every entry comes with an inherent risk: you are essentially gambling on the opportunity to acquire a game and points regenerate, yadda-yadda-yadda..."

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You also asked for thoughts.

9 years ago
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Indeed, I'm not attempting to be argumentative, mate, merely pointing out that I already addressed your comment in my post.

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9:23 PM - BoboFatt: What about point refunding from deleted giveaways?
9:24 PM - cg: hmm, that's not setup, I'll have to add it to the list

It will be implemented, it just hasn't been yet.

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Ta, bobofatt.
As this serves no purpose, I'll close the thread.
Thanks again...

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Closed 9 years ago by Graye007.