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Sn0wGl0be: Of course not. But normally with the last day of a sale, you'd expect to have the full day. Just increase the limit so people aren't caught off guard. (if I knew I wouldn't be able to participate past 6:00, I'd have bought everything yesterday)
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GR00T: But if they extended it so, say.. 6 PM your time zone, then what about us on the west coast? That would be 3 PM our time. Not enough time to get home from work and make the purchase. And so it would go, as hummer010 noted.

It baffles me as to why people wait to the last minute to make their sale purchases.

*edit* Why are people downvoting this guy? It's not like he's being a troll. C'mon, goglodytes, let's try to be a little more reasonable here.
Perhaps "end of day" was poor wording on my part. I don't suggest accommodating one particular time zone, but an overall extended time for any time zone which ends before 12 PM Poland time. (Poland would probably have that extra time as well, I'm sure they'd like it =) ) Either way I'l be sure to use GoG's contact forum for this.

I normally wait for everything to go on sale before picking out and making a final purchase. (it's also cheaper to make one payment in Paypal, since they take a certain percentage)

And thanks, idk why people feel some need to downvote and tear down my rep. No need to take it so bloody personally folks.
Post edited June 19, 2018 by Sn0wGl0be
This reminds me of the Futurama episode where Bender drunkenly crashes the space-oil tanker.

"It tore through all 300 hulls!"

Fry: "The fools! When will they learn to have 301!"
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Sn0wGl0be: I normally wait for everything to go on sale before picking out and making a final purchase. (it's also cheaper to make one payment in Paypal, since they take a certain percentage)
While I think they did add some games part way through, once we hit the "Finale" phase that should have been your cue to finish up your order. Also as drmike pointed out, there was a countdown. :P

I've voted up your OP just to counter the downrepping, I agree you haven't done anything to deserve that.
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hummer010: So, you want GOG to have a sale that ends at 24 different times around the world?
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Sn0wGl0be: Of course not. But normally with the last day of a sale, you'd expect to have the full day. Just increase the limit so people aren't caught off guard. (if I knew I wouldn't be able to participate past 6:00, I'd have bought everything yesterday)
There was a timer. You can't add hours to your current time to figure this out? Even better, the sale was 2 weeks. With a 3 day finalé. The failure is all yours. The world doesn't revolve around those of us in the Eastern time zone (it is currently EDT, not EST, btw), and they ran the sale till end of day.
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Sn0wGl0be: I normally wait for everything to go on sale before picking out and making a final purchase. (it's also cheaper to make one payment in Paypal, since they take a certain percentage)
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SirPrimalform: While I think they did add some games part way through, once we hit the "Finale" phase that should have been your cue to finish up your order. Also as drmike pointed out, there was a countdown. :P

I've voted up your OP just to counter the downrepping, I agree you haven't done anything to deserve that.
Thanks. I didn't get a chance to see the countdown, but assumed the last day would go on until the final hours of that day. I'll check earlier next year. =)

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Sn0wGl0be: Of course not. But normally with the last day of a sale, you'd expect to have the full day. Just increase the limit so people aren't caught off guard. (if I knew I wouldn't be able to participate past 6:00, I'd have bought everything yesterday)
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paladin181: There was a timer. You can't add hours to your current time to figure this out? Even better, the sale was 2 weeks. With a 3 day finalé. The failure is all yours. The world doesn't revolve around those of us in the Eastern time zone (it is currently EDT, not EST, btw), and they ran the sale till end of day.
I didn't see the timer. No I don't expect the world to revolve around one time zone, as I explained in a previous post. It was just a suggestion regardless of my personal circumstance.
Post edited June 19, 2018 by Sn0wGl0be
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wait nvm
Post edited June 19, 2018 by tinyE
GOG is not capable to support different timezone.

In fact, they often set wrong clocks even in Polish time.

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/list_of_wrong_countdown_timezone_promo_of_gog
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Sn0wGl0be: I normally wait for everything to go on sale before picking out and making a final purchase. (it's also cheaper to make one payment in Paypal, since they take a certain percentage)
I do understand waiting until the last day or two of the sale to see if GOG adds more games (and they usually do). But I've seen it time and time again where people miss out because they waited too long.

So does Paypal charge the buyer? I use Paypal for my purchases, but my Paypal account is tied to a credit card, and I don't get charged anything at all to make a purchase.
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Sn0wGl0be: Thanks. I didn't get a chance to see the countdown, but assumed the last day would go on until the final hours of that day. I'll check earlier next year. =)
You shouldn't have to wait for a year. The Fall/Halloween sale is just months away, and then there's the Winter/New Year's sale. You'll get plenty of opportunities. Not to mention the weekly sales, which occasionally have historical low discounts.
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Sn0wGl0be: I normally wait for everything to go on sale before picking out and making a final purchase. (it's also cheaper to make one payment in Paypal, since they take a certain percentage)
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GR00T: So does Paypal charge the buyer? I use Paypal for my purchases, but my Paypal account is tied to a credit card, and I don't get charged anything at all to make a purchase.
No they don't charge. Even though PayPal has an option to include transaction fees in the buyer's total, big companies like GOG don't operate that way. The customer pays the same amount no matter which form of payment is chosen.

There can be, of course, some transaction fees that banks have. The OP could have transferred some one time sum to his PayPal account, and then used that balance to pay for his games.

Also, GOG already operates exactly the way the OP wants. Most GOG sales end on Monday to give chance for people on different time zones to buy from sales which are meant to end at the end of the week usually. If one fails to take advantage of this already given extra time, giving even more extra time is just going to postpone the same problem by some hours.
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Sn0wGl0be: Thanks. I didn't get a chance to see the countdown, but assumed the last day would go on until the final hours of that day. I'll check earlier next year. =)
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MadalinStroe: You shouldn't have to wait for a year. The Fall/Halloween sale is just months away, and then there's the Winter/New Year's sale. You'll get plenty of opportunities. Not to mention the weekly sales, which occasionally have historical low discounts.
And, I hope, prices will be cheaper with a lot more selection of newly added games!
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Sn0wGl0be: (Poland would probably have that extra time as well, I'm sure they'd like it =) )
No, we won't as we would also need to wait longer for every sale to start.