PSN store how to piss off your customers

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SvennoJ said:

After 5 playthroughs of the excellent RE7 and dabling into the DLC for a bit I figured let's see if there are any deals on psvr games. Lo and behold there were lots on sale until the 7th. That's today so let's shop. I start adding some stuff I wanted to try out, while I'm browsing things start to disappear. Confused I can't find what I wanted anymore I check my cart and my total has suddenly shot up to $127. All discounts disappeared. I restart the shop, go to the psvr game page, the discounts are still listed. But when I click on the game the discount is gone again. I check the fine print on the overview page, valid until Februari 7th 8 AM PT. Wth is that?

Is that normal to remove discounts from stuff you already have in your cart while continueing shopping? Needless to say I cancelled it all, not even gonna buy the game that wasn't on sale. Screw that, that's simply rude. Think anyone would accept that at retail? Heck at my go to store I usually get a bigger than listed discount as a valued repeat customer. Better discounts to begin with as well... Robinson was 30% off for ps+ for the low price of CAD 56, while it's standard 50 in shops since it came out lol.

This is just sort of one of the issues with online shopping. Can't expect them to create a system where the sale holds as long as the user has an item in the cart. That's just going to lead to abuse. Best bet is once you see discounts find out how long they last (that's what I always do). So you know just how long you have.