Gem cost increase [Archive]

carabelle

01-14-15, 01:47 PM

Sorry if this has been discussed but I have only just noticed that the cost of gems has gone up!!! It now costs ?3.99 for 24 gems. This is a lot of money considering I could open a box and get the dreaded 4th prize and pay nearly ?4 for the pleasure! Not happy! 😁😁😁

ElaineCarrel

01-14-15, 06:23 PM

Is this w or w/o the 30% off sale?

LalaSmooth

01-14-15, 06:28 PM

ElaineCarrel

01-14-15, 06:46 PM

http://i780.photobucket.com/albums/yy88/jasella123/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_2015-01-15-01-24-10_zpsacqkxgd6.png (http://s780.photobucket.com/user/jasella123/media/Mobile%20Uploads/Screenshot_2015-01-15-01-24-10_zpsacqkxgd6.png.html) so 24 is ?2.99 but for 50 it's ?6.99 :/ clearly ripping us off here!!

Wait a minute those prices aren't in dollars. I believe those prices R in pounds. Look at the symbol in front of the price. That's not a $ that's a pound sign.

Will a Moderator or Community Mgr clarify this for us plz.

jandtandn

01-14-15, 07:12 PM

This is what I have:

http://i59.tinypic.com/2ihnqr6.jpg

sweetypies97

01-14-15, 07:31 PM

This is mine.

aiyoosha

01-14-15, 07:36 PM

This is mine.

thats yours/?? i never seen that before, mine are like jandtandns up there

barbaraann72

01-14-15, 08:01 PM

This is mine.

Yikes... looks like you're getting gouged. Weird!

sweetypies97

01-14-15, 08:09 PM

I am in Australia but even with conversion we still pay a significant amount more. I've always thought it was unfair.

filochick1982

01-14-15, 10:13 PM

Us Australians pay more for everything. It sucks. Be thankful your gems aren't as expensive as ours.

filochick1982

01-14-15, 10:14 PM

This is what I have:

http://i59.tinypic.com/2ihnqr6.jpg

woops. Quoted the wrong person

filochick1982

01-14-15, 10:16 PM

This is mine.

Why don't you have the 580 gem package?

barbaraann72

01-14-15, 10:22 PM

I am in Australia but even with conversion we still pay a significant amount more. I've always thought it was unfair.

Ahhhhh.. Australian Dollar - that makes more sense. When doing the currency conversion, it does come closer to what we pay in the US.

filochick1982

01-14-15, 10:28 PM

Ahhhhh.. Australian Dollar - that makes more sense. When doing the currency conversion, it does come closer to what we pay in the US.

Only now because the Australian $ has depreciated against the U.S. but when our dollar was $1.10USD, we still paid these rip off prices. The value of the currency is never taken into consideration, nor is the price ever changed to reflect it.

sweetypies97

01-14-15, 11:11 PM

Why don't you have the 580 gem package?

no idea. I'd like to know as well.

sweetypies97

01-14-15, 11:11 PM

Only now because the Australian $ has depreciated against the U.S. but when our dollar was $1.10USD, we still paid these rip off prices. The value of the currency is never taken into consideration, nor is the price ever changed to reflect it.

exactly.

StrangeLittleGirl

01-15-15, 01:23 AM

17742
This is what we pay in euros now. Quite sneaky and unnecessary it's not as if gems were cheap before the price increase!

filochick1982

01-15-15, 02:25 AM

17742
This is what we pay in euros now. Quite sneaky and unnecessary it's not as if gems were cheap before the price increase!

If I do a currency conversion back to $AUD, that's even more expensive than what we pay! Here I was thinking that Australians get ripped off the most but I think the Euro price is the worst.

LalaSmooth

01-15-15, 03:41 AM

Wait a minute those prices aren't in dollars. I believe those prices R in pounds. Look at the symbol in front of the price. That's not a $ that's a pound sign.

Will a Moderator or Community Mgr clarify this for us plz.

Because I live in the UK and we have the British pound Stirling (?)

sweetypies97

01-15-15, 07:31 PM

17742
This is what we pay in euros now. Quite sneaky and unnecessary it's not as if gems were cheap before the price increase!

Yes that is higher than what we pay, when you calculate the conversion!

PennyLane1900

01-17-15, 10:09 AM

Wow TL!!! I wanted to buy 24 gems,it says it cost 3,99 €.When i pushed the buy botton it says 4,99€ ???? What the heck?? Are you kidding me? Very upset.

LalaSmooth

01-17-15, 02:51 PM

Wow TL!!! I wanted to buy 24 gems,it says it cost 3,99 €.When i pushed the buy botton it says 4,99€ ???? What the heck?? Are you kidding me? Very upset.

Same here! I went to purchase them with my bank card and it went up 3.99 so I'm now trying to get gems by mastering the recipes

PennyLane1900

01-17-15, 03:46 PM

Same here! I went to purchase them with my bank card and it went up 3.99 so I'm now trying to get gems by mastering the recipes

This is ridiculous! Gems were expensive before,but now they're even trying to fool us with wrong prices? I'm so mad right now! :mad:

carabellexo

01-17-15, 03:53 PM

I've just noticed this as well. I play another game and there prices have gone up as well. They said it was something to do with VAT going up so they had to adjust those prices accordingly. Maybe it's something similar here, but it is ridiculous.

PennyLane1900

01-17-15, 11:57 PM

Will you guys still buy gems for the new prices? I won't. I just bought gems for the first time a few weeks before and only when they were on sale.With these prices? No chance! I'd rather spend my money on really important things.

Skoeby

01-18-15, 03:00 AM

:mad::mad::mad:

Skoeby

01-18-15, 03:02 AM

A warning would have been nice!!!
Without us people your company would not even exist.
And this is how you treat us.
Very upset about this.
Another punch in the face.

:mad::mad::mad:

PennyLane1900

01-18-15, 04:16 AM

A warning would have been nice!!!
Without us people your company would not even exist.
And this is how you treat us.
Very upset about this.
Another punch in the face.

:mad::mad::mad:

Word! They are so greedy! When you increase the prices you should make the right price tags.Some maybe don't look twice and think they're buying gems for the old prices.What a nice company TL is.... :mad:

carabellexo

01-18-15, 05:20 AM

Word! They are so greedy! When you increase the prices you should make the right price tags.Some maybe don't look twice and think they're buying gems for the old prices.What a nice company TL is.... :mad:

I don't think I will be buying gems at all anymore unless they put the prices down. It's so ridiculous :mad:

filochick1982

01-18-15, 05:24 AM

I never buy gems at full price anyway, only minimum 30% off.

PennyLane1900

01-18-15, 07:07 AM

Even the sale now is ridiculous expensive! Wrong proce tags inclusive,of course! Wish they would say something about that.

carabellexo

01-18-15, 07:30 AM

Yeah because the sale prices are now similar to what the full prices used to be.

LalaSmooth

01-18-15, 01:28 PM

Nah I wouldn't buy gems unless I really needed them. I'm not paying 3.99 for 24 gems

carabellexo

01-18-15, 04:04 PM

Nor me, think I'd only consider it if there was a sale like the christmas one. I'd rather earn my gems from mastering recipes.

orleansparish

01-18-15, 04:26 PM

24 gems without a sale was always 4.99 in America. With a sale it's $3.99. I have bought those when in a pinch. I usually get the $6.99, $13.99 and $34.99 gem packages. On dragon I've gotten the $49.99 package a few times. And a couple occasions I got the $69.99 package on bakery and fashion.

Overall the prices are the same on android. If you have it or access to a phone, switch over and use it. Almost all TL games are on android now. I have both devices and rsrely buy gems on my iPad. I do it on my phone to avoid ios taxes.

filochick1982

01-18-15, 04:50 PM

These prices are so much better than Australian prices :(

I never really buy the small gem packages because I think of the unit cost of the gems instead of the gem package price, the 580 gem package gives the most value for money and sadly, even at 30% off, it's still $74.99AUD ($61.70USD) on Android and $90AUD ($74USD) on iOS. Why is there such a price difference between platforms? Thanks goodness for my husband's Galaxy tablet. I always buy my gems from Android.

24 gems without a sale was always 4.99 in America. With a sale it's $3.99. I have bought those when in a pinch. I usually get the $6.99, $13.99 and $34.99 gem packages. On dragon I've gotten the $49.99 package a few times. And a couple occasions I got the $69.99 package on bakery and fashion.

Overall the prices are the same on android. If you have it or access to a phone, switch over and use it. Almost all TL games are on android now. I have both devices and rsrely buy gems on my iPad. I do it on my phone to avoid ios taxes.

PennyLane1900

01-18-15, 11:03 PM

Know what? A 580 gem package here in europe costs approx. 100 USD !! That is beyond expensive!!

filochick1982

01-19-15, 12:50 AM

Is that the normal price or at 30% off? The prices I quoted for Australia were 30% off the normal price.

Know what? A 580 gem package here in europe costs approx. 100 USD !! That is beyond expensive!!

silverblue77

01-19-15, 06:18 AM

I am sick of spending money on this game anyway. Thanks TL for making It so easy for me to save my money! ;)