What they miss is that the advent calendar is itself a randomized prize. Like packs of baseball or magic the gathering cards. You buy a lot of stuff you didn't want for the thing you do want and you don't know what it is in advance.
That was not true of the advent calendars. With them you did not have to buy any cards in advance of their normal release date - indeed you could wait until the last day of advent, preview all 24 cards and buy any that you liked. If you bought all 24 then you got the SEC - no gambling involved at all.
The August pre-purchase was a different matter and did entail the sort of gambling that you referred to.
It's true the timeline going forward meant that people could wait until the end of the offer to buy all of the cards and get the SEC card for free.
It was a fair offer and absolutely correct.
People knew ahead of time that they were buying the cards they wanted within a month, and if they decided not to buy them all, they didn't get the SEC card.
This card was never to be available again following this offer.
It is the breach of this promise, to buyers like me, that has led these cards to drift towards a casino and gambling strategy by Totem.
C'est vrai le calendrier de l'avant impliquait que les gens pouvaient attendre vers la fin de l'offre pour acheter l'ensemble des cartes et obtenir la carte SEC gratuitement.
C'était une offre équitable et tout a fait correcte.
Les gens savaient à l'avance, qu'ils achetaient les cartes qu'ils voulaient dans le mois, et s'ils décidaient de ne pas toutes les acheter, ils n'obtenaient pas la carte SEC.
Cette carte ne devait plus jamais être disponible suite à cette offre.
C'est le manquement à cette promesse, à des acheteurs comme moi, qui a ammené à la dérive de ces cartes, vers une stratégie de casino et gambling par Totem.
