Instead of ***** Totem for making you pay for things without a greater discount, please remember the following:

Totem gives members these incentives:

• bigger discount the more cards one has
• big discount for new cards when premium member
• buy a number of cards and get cashback on one
• buying credits and get a bonus
• free previews which sometimes show boobs
• attractive banners (featured tab)
• videos and pictures that are a bonus and not paid content
• free unlimited number of downloads for purchased cards

Members get loads of free or cheap stuff. Why ask for more discounts or more freebies?

@JonC001 absolutely right. Crazy complaints currently about the cashback.
People are getting a card for FREE!
Many seem to just watch the previews and never buy anything.
Some don't even know about the photos and videos.
I certainly remember one who had no idea until I told them.
The likes of you and I have possibly posted too many photos on Discord that are now available for FREE!
Crazy world we live in. I thought I was bonkers. 😆👍

Les gens reçoivent une carte GRATUITEMENT!

Ne dites pas cela, on ne reçoit pas de carte gratuite, on obtient une ristourne de maximum 20%. Vous devez acheter 4 cartes de toute façon. Rien de bien vraiment exceptionnel.
Don't say that, we don't get a free card, we get a maximum discount of 20%. You have to buy 4 cards anyway. Nothing really exceptional.

@realnovelist
You mentioned about the 'gambling promotion'. It does not seem like a promotion to me. Lots of users ***** about spending too many credits and/or not getting the SEC or a joker.

This is the only thing about the company that I detest. I wish they never considered doing this; no going back now.
(that is also why I did not mention it in the above list)

@JonC001

Where do you see lots of users *****, I only see a very small number of people *****. There may well be a large number of people who are unhappy about it, but only a tiny fraction of the users make any post at all on any subject let alone a complaint.

Les gens reçoivent une carte GRATUITEMENT!

Ceci est vrai car la 5ième carte sur un plan comptable est totalement gratuite. On ne dépense aucun crédit pour l'obtenir et de plus on peut la choisir, alors!

Maintenant il est aussi vrai de dire qu'on achète plus de cartes qu'initialement prévu tenant compte de cette incitation commerciale. Perso je ne m'en plains pas j'achète plein de cartes non prévues et comme l'argent est fait pour être dépensé et que la vie est courte, alors!
😆

Recevoir quelque chose gratuitement implique pour moi que vous ne devez rien faire pour obtenir ce quelque chose. ce qui n'est pas réellement le cas ici. Sur le plan comptable, si vous voulez 😊 Mais il ne faudrait pas induire certains membres en erreur. Et si vous pouvez vous permettre de dépenser sans compter, alors la vie est belle en plus d'être courte 😀 Je vous la souhaite néanmoins longue 😉

@Philours
is correct.

The Current Promotion is NOT a Free card.
It must be very clear that it is NOT a FREE card..

A Member MUST have enough credits to complete the purchase all 5 Cards.
and that is the Important Difference.

all 5 cards must 1st be purchased.
Then After the Purchase of the 5th card.
A refund is made in the Amount of Credits of the Lowest Priced Card.

It is a REFUND AFTER purchasing the 5th card.

The Final Net results might be the same.
But there is an Important difference on how that is accomplished.
and yes it matters.

The Current Promotion is NOT a Free card.
It must be very clear that it is NOT a FREE card..

ON S'EN FOUT! Qu'il faut avoir les crédits pour acheter 5 cartes CAR au final il nous en coûte que le prix de 4 cartes!!!!

Tu peux jouer sur les mots, MOI je résonne avec mes crédits dépensés pointBarre! La 5ième c'est du GRATIS!

La 5ième c'est du GRATIS!

Non, la moins chère des 5 cartes achetées sera remboursée 😊
No, the cheapest of the 5 cards purchased will be refunded 😊

I guess some members was planing on using cashback to get the Naughty Classmates card as the cashback card, sneaky - but I can't blame them for such a plan - Things have now changed to the cheapest card getting the cashback. No reason to ***** about that change. iStripper is still good value, regardless if there is a cashback or not.

once the high priced cards are not blocked when using gift cards it's fine.
i also ***** having to gamble for an SEC. they shoud be able to get some other way imo. maybe return to offering jokers instead of gift cards for first bar fill. but i can accept the odd high priced card. it is a business. if the odd high priced card gets me wylette take two i'll buy all of them.

@Sexy3DBoy

I agree with your Final Accounting
If all 5 cards are the same price, then the Net result is
You got back the Cost of one of the cards and in Accounting Terms it ended up costing nothing.

But it was NOT FREE.

If you only have enough Credits to purchase 4 1/2 cards.
You can't purchase 4 cards and get the next one for No Credits.

You have to FULLY PAY for the 5th card.

You have to BUY all 5 Cards.

And that is the Difference

It is BUY 5 get refunded for the Least Expensive one.
Not
Buy 4 and the 5th one is free..

I guess some members was planing on using cashback to get the Naughty Classmates card as the cashback card, sneaky - but I can't blame them for such a plan - .

You can Still use the Cash back offer and get the Naughty Classmates card for 50% discount.
Pay full price for 4 regular cards
Pay full price for the Naughty Classmates card
then get refunded the Price of One of the Regular Cards

which is 50% the cost of the Naughty Classmates card.

So you got the Naughty Classmates card for 50% off.

@Sexy3DBoy

To expand slightly on @Wyldanimal 's response.

There is a very big difference between getting one of the cards "for free" and getting a refund. The difference is that if you do not have enough credits to buy the final card then in order to benefit from the refund you have to give Totem real money - and rather more of it than the equivalent cost of a single card. The difference then shows up in the state of your bank account (and Totem's).

For those that buy often this will normally just be a ***** difference in the timing of purchasing credits but for others, particularly those that only buy infrequently, it can be very significant. In extreme cases if you can't afford to buy any new credits or are in some way prevented from doing so you can't get that 5'th card.

I guess some members was planing on using cashback to get the Naughty Classmates card as the cashback card, sneaky - but I can't blame them for such a plan - .
You can Still use the Cash back offer and get the Naughty Classmates card for 50% discount.
Pay full price for 4 regular cards
Pay full price for the Naughty Classmates card
then get refunded the Price of One of the Regular Cards

which is 50% the cost of the Naughty Classmates card.

So you got the Naughty Classmates card for 50% off.

I should have been precise and have written "full cashback", so everyone would have understood the meaning of my words. Sorry. 😉

big discount for new cards when premium member

Unless things have changed at the end of the year everyone gets that new card discount you just have to wait.

I would say everything else is a really required to do buisness. Would people buy as many cards if you only got a single down? I would expect it to be less expensive then.

Additionally discounts and such are simply fairly good marketing. The person who thought of the tiers as an example should get some extra pats on the back as it will drive additional purchases for many.

People are getting a card for FREE!

Its actually a discount not for free. Its also a fairly sizeable change as the discount went from upwards of 30-35% down to capped at a max of 20%.

They can do what they wish and my bigger complaint remains not posting odds for games of luck. I have stopped playing these games outright. Also issues with what the games drop as a variety of cards are "worthless" since they have no ability to scale size based on resolution which makes older clips fairly poor quality when so large.