Ha, I was composing my reply to point you at that comment just as you were editing yours! (For anyone else who's curious, here's the explanation if you got all the way down here but missed that reply one page back.) Don't ever worry about duplicate suggestions/questions/thoughts, though: if I have the energy I'm happy to explain it again in a way that hits the exact things someone brought up, if I don't have the energy I still do try to drop folks a link to my earlier explanation.
Ultimately, our traditional December holiday points bonus is kind of our way of helping out folks who are on a tight budget, especially if they pay for multiple accounts: every order made during December gets 10% of the order amount back in points to be spent later, so a lot of folks who are maintaining multiple accounts for RP or whatever will make their big paid time purchases in December and then use those points to get a month or two free for side accounts later on in the year. (Which just reminded me to go put in the ticket to do the setup work for this year's promo, so thank you!) It's just enough of a "discount on future purchases" to give folks a bit of help and not so much that it really eats into our revenue. Which makes me think that maybe if we do increase our prices, a nice compromise might be also doing a week or two of flash promo in May for our anniversary so people don't have to wait all year for it, hmm.
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Ultimately, our traditional December holiday points bonus is kind of our way of helping out folks who are on a tight budget, especially if they pay for multiple accounts: every order made during December gets 10% of the order amount back in points to be spent later, so a lot of folks who are maintaining multiple accounts for RP or whatever will make their big paid time purchases in December and then use those points to get a month or two free for side accounts later on in the year. (Which just reminded me to go put in the ticket to do the setup work for this year's promo, so thank you!) It's just enough of a "discount on future purchases" to give folks a bit of help and not so much that it really eats into our revenue. Which makes me think that maybe if we do increase our prices, a nice compromise might be also doing a week or two of flash promo in May for our anniversary so people don't have to wait all year for it, hmm.