Should points be refunded to entrants when a giveaway is deleted?
Points are constantly regenerating, and are free to boot.
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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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