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Aeromech
Oct Member 2005

Aeromech

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When you buy a bond, the price is $6.99 US each. But it offers "upgrades." The price for three bonds is $20.99. Five bonds are $34.99. Ten bonds are $69.99.

What do you notice about this? If you buy more than one, it costs you MORE per bond than if you buy them individually.

If you are not quite following me, consider this. One bond is 6.99. If you bought ten at that price, it would be 10 x $6.99 = $69.90. But if you buy the "upgrade" it actually costs $69.99. Nine cents more to buy them in bulk. What a deal!

Normally, when you buy more of something, the price per item goes down, not up. I realize that I am talking about a difference of pennies here. It's just the principle that bothers me.

Jagex, if you really want this to be a true upgrade (meaning a true savings), consider lowering the price per bond enough to make a useful different. Something like this:

Quantity / Total Price / Price Per Bond / Savings over Single Bond Price
1 / 6.99 / 6.99 / 0.00
3 / 19.99 / 6.66 / 1.00
5 / 31.99 / 6.40 / 3.00
10 / 59.99 / 6.00 / 10.00

06-Dec-2019 08:32:12 - Last edited on 06-Dec-2019 08:33:49 by Aeromech

Aquarosediva

Aquarosediva

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Current bond prices

______1_____ 3_____5_____10
AUD 7.99__23.99__39.99__79.99
GBP 3.99__11.99__19.99__39.99
CAD 7.39__22.19__36.99__73.99
EUR 5.69__17.09__28.49__56.99
USD 6.99__20.99__34.99__69.99

07-Dec-2019 05:39:22 - Last edited on 18-Dec-2019 02:40:35 by Aquarosediva

Aquarosediva

Aquarosediva

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This is what today's GBP exchange rates would make them.

1 Bond 3 Bonds 5 Bonds 10 Bonds

AUD 7.66 23.02 38.39 76.79

CAD 6.95 20.88 34.82 69.65

EUR 4.74 14.25 23.75 47.52

GBP 3.99 11.99 19.99 39.99

USD 5.24 15.75 26.27 52.55

Huge difference!

07-Dec-2019 07:07:10

Malua
May Member 2006

Malua

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Aquarosediva said :
Funny how this is being completely ignored. Jagex Mods do not read or reply in this forum.
This is the Community Led Payment Support forum.
We are all players here.

My comment on the topic:
You have probably already noticed that all Jagex prices end in 9.
It has been like this for years.
This means that multiple item purchases aren't 9 + 9 + 9 = 27, they still end in 9 i.e. 29.
I don't know why Jagex ends all payment amounts with 9 and I don't know why they choose not to give an advantage to players buying in larger quantities but I do know the OP won't get a answer in this forum.

The exchange rate issue is separate.
Jagex uses another company to collect and process payments made in other currencies.
They have to work with this other company but Jagex get to say "we want the equivalent of xxxGBP for this sale and yyyGBP for that sale" .
Ok, they don't give us the option to buy our own GBP and physically post banknotes to them to pay with GBP.
The international electronic payment system is what it is.
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01-Jan-2020 00:35:40 - Last edited on 01-Jan-2020 00:36:58 by Malua

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