@hblanco88
i agree with you on only 1 point...
Totem makes it's money Selling the Credits used to purchase the cards..
If A Valued Customer start with 0 credits
and a new Customer starts with 0 credits
Who will Spend the Most to buy enough credits to buy 30 cards?
The Valued Customer already knows the best value is the 500 credits for $49.99
But the new user might look at it..
This Promo of 5 cards will cost 94 credits, I'll buy 100 credits at $14.99
And they will do this 6 times to get their 30 cards..
$14.99 x 6 = $89.94
The Valued Customer will Buy the 500 credits 1 time for $49.99 to get the same 30 cards.
Also, don't forget that income and profit are too totally different things.
@hblanco88 - when you buy credits - that is income for them, not (entirely) profit
If you buy an old card, which has been bought by several hundreds of other users before you,
then most probably they have the production costs of that card already returned, so then it is good profit.
If you buy a new card, then you are one of the first ones, where their cost start to return, probably zero profit for a while. Not saying, that it wouldn't be important, because it is.
With this logic the higest profit is to sell older cards for new customers.
BUT it shouldn't be forgotten, that in not so much time you can become an "old" customer from a new customer. As a "new" customer you buy those cards without the high discount, that "old" ones have now. Now that they (the "old" ones) have bought very many of those cards.
We can go on with this forever. Let's just agree, that both customers are important, loyal "old" customers and new ones as well. Buy many cards and then you get high discount and become an "old" customer :)
As for your logic for not good promotion: every promotion is different, this might not be good for you or to me, but I am sure, it was good for some others here. You decide to take it or not. Good thing you will have another choice in one maximum two weeks later...