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Niantic still can't solve the problem of selling 100 Pokecoins for 0.99 yet also selling 550 Pokecoins for 6.99! Why?!?!?!
by msie 3y ago
Niantic still can't solve the problem of selling 100 Pokecoins for 0.99 yet also selling 550 Pokecoins for 6.99! Why?!?!?!
- jampa 3y agoThis is by design to create perceived value in the 100 for 0.99 bundle. Reminds me of an old joke: > His pricelist reads: 1 for $3, 3 for $10 > A young man stops by and asks to buy one watermelon. "That'd be 3 dollars", says the old man. > The young man then buys another one, and another one, paying $3 for each. > As the young man is walking away, he turns around, grins, and says, "Hey old man, do you realize I just bought three watermelons for only $9? Maybe business is not your thing." > The old man smiles and mumbles to himself, "People are funny. Every time they buy three watermelons instead of one, yet they keep trying to teach me how to do business..."
- differentView 3y agoWhat's the problem?
- bearjaws 3y ago100 Pokecoins for 0.99 yet also selling 550 Pokecoins for 6.99! 0.99 * 6 = 600 Pokecoins for $5.99 550 poke coins is $6.99 So more money for less tokens when you buy 'more'
- HDThoreaun 3y agoTheir goal is to maximize profit. Not to make the pricing "fair"
- accoil 3y agoAre the bigger packs selling? Could very well be working as intended.
- jaywalk 3y agoYou can buy 600 coins by purchasing 100 coins x6 for $5.94, more than $1 less than the cost of 550 coins.
- differentView 3y agoIs that not an intentional decoy pricing to make people think the 100 coin deal is a good deal?
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- georgeecollins 3y agoNewsflash: If you are a game company this is a feature not a bug. Also, if you want to get into a mobile game dark pattern try this: - 100 coins 0.99, 550 coins $6.99 After you buy 100 coins pricing switches to: - 100 coins 1.49, 550 coins $6.99 Usually you have mechanics like that with pseudo currency, not actual $ because it is too obvious. But understand their are no accidents in pricing at that level of development.
- vasco 3y agoSomeone who pays to skip some in-game waiting or grinding likely will pay to not have to go through a payment flow 6 times to save $1, I guess.