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Re: Purchasing from Elite pro shop menu.

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Sun, Dec 1 2013 9:30 AM (5 replies)
  • zzturk
    150 Posts
    Sat, Jul 27 2013 12:13 PM

    By the incredible prices for Elite items from the pro shop, every purchase (IMO) represents some form of affectation.

    Example: I like the look of the WGT logo caps, but you don't wear one indoors while you're playing - you wear them theoretically when on the real golf course (for me, less than twenty times per season, at my age).

    Yet if one were to purchase the necessary credits to buy one of these caps (just as an evaluation), that would be 120.00 for a cap that cost about 2.00 to produce, and even the highest priced selling "official" pro merchandise cap sells for less then 1/4 of that 120.00!

    Now, there is a counterpoint - that most WGT credits are not paid for.

    But that only means in cash, which totally discounts the 100s of hours of video viewing, survey taking, and the constant play to earn credits from filling up the "cookie jar" of carousel views to reach enough credits to shop the Elites..

    All I'm asking of WGT for the purchase of any Elite collection item is that they also include (with purchase) two complimentary sleeves of virtual balls from Tailor made Lethals or higher in price/value. Most players, I imagine would prefer Nike, if programming can only be done for one particular ball.

    The cost to WGT should be ... zero, but it might be enough to make someone "bite" on an Elite item rather than waffle, like I am currently doing.

     

  • ZioMio
    4,680 Posts
    Sat, Jul 27 2013 1:11 PM

    Have you looked in  WGT Fan Store

  • zzturk
    150 Posts
    Sat, Jul 27 2013 1:50 PM

    I just visited it - but it's cash sales only - so that's not going to happen.

    Thanks anyway. (I was tempted to go for the golf shirt, but alas, they do not have 6XL, and they charge way over advertised for oversize shirts - my bane.)

     

  • gedi83
    277 Posts
    Sun, Dec 1 2013 8:38 AM

    ZioMio:

    Have you looked in  WGT Fan Store

    It's a big mystery to me why can't other items in the WGT Fan Store be added to the Elite Collection at similarly calculated prices? As I understand they are readily available, so why only these 4 items, which are by any standard far from the nicest even in this store...

  • alosso
    21,094 Posts
    Sun, Dec 1 2013 8:59 AM

    IMHO the Elite section is not about sales but about disburdening players of their credits collection. And it's about the illusion of coveted reward for playing. The Maserati was such an item, nobody may ever have come near to earning 70,000,000 credits necessary (The player of top of the money list has accumulated a display of 4,200,000 now, maybe (wild guess) the same in challenges(?)

    The top items now are ridiculous but they are there, the illusion to get a value for manymanymany credits.

    The real items have always been traded at a 1:6 ratio - 500 $ gift cards were 300,000 credits, and a cap for 120,000 12,000 XPs may be equivalent to 20 $, and it includes worldwide shipping ;)

    (corrected)

  • gedi83
    277 Posts
    Sun, Dec 1 2013 9:30 AM

    Generally agree, but I can live with the ratio (btw, the cap is 12000, not 120k :) )

    I would just like to have some options. Alright I get they don't wanna give back the giftcards to avoid limitless cashing-out from top players, but could at least give something, some variety... Not just 4 ugly-looking items.

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