About the EU campaign for maid outfit and fat chocobo

[Niwashi]

Because people cheated, pre-ordering something and then canceling it after getting the code, Amazon probably did not like it, thank you guys /clap clap

Is there anything besides your making it up to suggest that Amazon didn't like it?

Amazon knows how promotions work, and they deliberately decided to give out the codes when an item is ordered rather than when it's shipped (probably because they'd prefer cancellations to returns). The fact that a number of people would order and then cancel was built into their plan, and as long as the cancellations were within their expected thresholds, then it wasn't a problem.

They got lots of people to their site, browsing a category (video games) which they already knew those people were interested in, and got a lot of orders out of it. The vast majority would, like myself, have found and ordered something they wanted, giving extra revenue for Amazon. Some may, once on the site, have browsed around and ended up buying a bunch of other stuff as well: yet more revenue. Cancelled orders (provided it's before they're processed and shipped) don't cost them anything, so they really couldn't care less about a few people using this so-called "cheat" you're talking about. So long as they got lots of real, paid orders out of the deal, it's a win for them.


As to the EU promotion, I agree it's horrible in multiple ways, but lets not pretend that the Amazon promotion is the reason for it.