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TheEmu
Mitglied seit in Jul 2012
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Special Event Card - Why?

Alles über iStripper
6. November 2019, 70 antworten
@Boorlom

We are not taking issue with you disliking certain aspects of the way on which Totem make certain cards available to their customers, only to your assertions that this it is a bad business practice and that is rarely if ever encountered in other businesses. That which you are objecting to has long been a very common practice in all sorts of businesses.

Consider, for example, Pokemon cards. Some of these are extraordinarily rare because the company making them quite arbitrarilly decided to only produce a very small number of them rather than the thousands or millions that that could have produced.

The website https://www.ranker.com/list/most-expensive-pokmon-cards/mariel-loveland has the following when talking about one particular card

How Much It's Worth: Up to $195,000

Why It's Worth So Much: This card was given only to winners of the CoroCoro Comic Illustration Contest in January 1998. Only 20 to 39 of these cards exist in the world and only 10 are in mint condition. As of October 2019, it is the most expensive Pokémon card ever sold.

What Totem are doing with the Special Event cards is entirely analogous to the above - and much less extreme. What they are doing in the gambling games in general, for non-special event cards, is also very close to the way Pokemon cards were sold in packs where you did not know exactly what you were buying until after the purchase. Please note I said analogous to, not identical with.
Corbomite
Mitglied seit in Aug 2015
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Special Event Card - Why?

Alles über iStripper
5. November 2019, 70 antworten
Totem is one company, but it has two different businesses:
  • Selling stripper shows (cards & VR)
  • Running gambling games

In a similar fashion, CBS is one company, but they have two different businesses:
  • The CBS network - a television network funded by commercials and distributor fees
  • CBS All Access - a premium streaming service funded by customer subscription fees
Although I am a customer of the CBS network, that doesn't give me any rights to view shows on the streaming service (e.g. Star Trek: Discovery or Picard). @shodan084, your statement "Totem is a company, and as a company it needs to reach out to ALL it's customers." might not be applicable to the SECs because customers of Totem's first business are not automatically customers of their second business.

@Boorlom, you appear to be objecting to Totem (and potentially any other company) running gambling games with prizes that cannot be obtained through any other means. Unfortunately, that situation is not particularly uncommon. I've seen raffles, door prizes and radio station contests that feature fairly unique items like back-stage passes to concerts, instruments used by famous musicians, photo sessions with celebrities and movie props. Are you objecting to that gambling model in general, not specifically to its use by Totem? Or is it that Totem could make the SEC cards available through their primary business but chooses not to? (The latter would be similar Star Trek fans ***** that CBS should show Discovery on their commercial network and shouldn't be trying to create a streaming business.)
stefnev1
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