I'm holding out hope that this is a bug and the impacted parties will get the bonus items they paid for.

I don't see any legitimate reason why the system should even allow this scenario. There should be no option at all that leads to "you spent $20 but we're not going to give you ANY of what you what you paid for". The fact that this can happen is either a huge oversight or SE being incredibly snaky and trying to make extra profit from people not reading the fine print.

I'm really hoping it's the former.