boutique item refund

No ---> Buyer Beware

Just sell for in-game coins.

Than sucks to be you..... All sales are final. Next time, don't buy something you do not want.
A little personal responsibility will really not hurt you....

LloydAsplund - Sanctuary wrote: »

Then you try harder or keep the item.

This gold refund will ruin the balance of coin to gold even more. For example a panther, normally costs 800k-900k (not sure of current gold prices). But, mounts are never the price of gold x amount of gold. It is often cheaper same as fashion items and items that go on sale. (ex. esos, charms). This means that a player can easily buy tons of cheap esos/mounts during sales/when its cheap, then refund it a for heck load of gold. Or, it will just bring gold prices/mount prices even higher.

You forgot to mention the obvious.
1) Pay $50 for 50 gold.
2) Buy mount/fashion.
3) Use mount/fashion until new mount/fashion comes out.
4) Refund gold.
5) Buy new mount/fashion.
6) Repeat steps 3 to 5 until PW dies.

I know a game that had this feature. You had 24 hours to return the item to get your cash shop money back or you were stuck with it.

Amandalion - Heavens Tear wrote: »

actually that might be a better idea, give you a certain amount of time to refund it, like if you accidentaly bought the wrong thing, then you could refund it and buy what you wanted to, but it has to be in exactly the same condition, and make the refund time like 30 minutes or near that, otherwise you are stuck with it forever

WHAT??? Then people would keep buying and refunding lottery ticket, essentially make it pointless to have the chance element.
If you want to allow refunding, the game need to change the system for lottery ticket too.

what i'm thinking is that you could only refund mounts or clothes withing a set period of time.. as for randoms or consumables... sorry your stuck... socket stones are to be kept so are charms.. only mounts and clothing... even a wedding outfit should be returnable... or if you wanna get technical... always can buy it in the actioning!!

FatherTed - Dreamweaver wrote: »

What's to stop someone from buying an article of clothing and returning it over and over until it came in the exact color they wanted?

The game would record what color the fashion/dye was when you got it and no matter how many times you return it, force you to have the same color no matter what

Ikurei - Dreamweaver wrote: »

You forgot to mention the obvious.
1) Pay $50 for 50 gold.
2) Buy mount/fashion.
3) Use mount/fashion until new mount/fashion comes out.
4) Refund gold.
5) Buy new mount/fashion.
6) Repeat steps 3 to 5 until PW dies.

b:sad so true.... the game would die if that happened

Amandalion - Heavens Tear wrote: »

i meant like only clothes and mounts similar items, not other stuff like charms and everything that can be abused

People would buy and get a refund of their clothes until they get the color they want. That would kill the dyes bizness...

However, a renting system... For a lower price, you get a mount or a piece of clothing for like a week. That way, no abuse.

Edit: just saw Zoe's suggestion on fixed color, that could work...

Zoe - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Charm returning could not be abused. Once equipped you cannot take it off. Impossible to return.

As for other consumables, you'd have to return the entire group of them if you got them in a bundle. They'd have to be the EXACT ones that you bought from the cash shop yourself.

Each cash item, when bought, would have a timer labeled on it,and for bundles of consumables, a quantity as well. That timer is how long of a time you have to return the item to the cash shop. Once the timer is no longer displayed, the item is unreturnable.

Certain rules would be used to avoid abuse of course.

If the item with the timer ever changes from the posession of one player to another, the time runs out instantly.

If you got a bundle of consumable items, if the quantity that you have with the synchronized timers (showing they are from the same bundle) ever goes below the amount you bought, the timer instantly runs out. Charms cannot be returned once equipped because they are bound.

Yea, if they make it so that no one can take advantage of it, yes, that would be nice...

But then again, that would mean more work for them, with no upside. They will probably just tell us ''be careful when you buy something from the boutique''.

Or... They will introduce a ''get 90% back refund'', and not a 100%.

I suggest an improvement to the OP suggestion.
Make all clothing/dye purchase from CS to be purchasing ticket instead (for example if you buy a wingspan top you will get a wingspan top ticket). This ticket once open will give the item of a random colour. Implement this ticket to anything from CS that are random. You can only refund the ticket not the item.
For comsumable, make it so that only fully unconsumed item can be refunded. If you even lose 1 HP from a HP charm for example, it won't be refundable anymore.
Now change currency for CS to platinum where 1 Gold=1000 Platinum. The purpose of this is to help to handle tiny transaction.
Now for every thing you bought and want to refund you will get back platinum equivalent to refunded_platinum=floor(original_price*(1-1/(1+exp(-time/24)))).
refunded_platinum and original_price is measure in platinum, time is amount of hour between purchasing and refunding (not necessary an integer).

This meant that the item reduce in value quick enough that people won't do the wait and see method to see if they should sell it to someone or refund it (since the economy in-game flunctuate easily within hours), yet someone who purely make mistake should get almost all money back, yet still have lose some money so that they won't make purchase carelessly.