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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
So 300 coins = just $3? 300 sounds like a lot. Reminds me of the "points" that I get on one of my credit cards. I accumulate, say, 10,000 of them and I think, "wow, I've got a lot of points! I can really do something with these!" Only to check the catalog of what I can buy with points and find out that I can buy only a pair of (wooden) chopsticks or something.
It's obvious why Amazon and MasterCard and other companies use such high numbers. If Amazon said that you had 3 coins, you wouldn't think that they would be as valuable as 300.
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While Amazon's coins program is pretty straightforward, being 1 coin = 1 penny, you're absolutely correct as to why companies use these programs and why many use the high values. It's all about confusing the hell out of the consumer to make it hard to mentally calculate what you're
really spending on stuff. People are more likely to overspend that way, and they know it. It's, overall, quite greedy and mercenary.
Even Amazon's, if you buy the coins yourself at a discount, works the same way. If you got them at the normal 10% discount or 20% discount on sale, how much are you really spending when you buy an app for 500 coins? ($4.50 or $4, respectively, but I had to take the time to calculate it. And it gets harder with odd amounts.)
Still, I like Amazon's coin program and even bought some last year since I was planning to buy a bunch of apps. It saved me some money, and I also like that I can share the apps across mine and my mother's devices instead of having to rebuy them for both of us from Google.
