Anyone else notice the cost of tokens has gone up?

Back in June I bought 30 tokens for $24 at a 20% discount. Now, in order to get the same discount I'd have to spend 3x as much. Are price hikes going to become a trend as time goes on?

cost of tokens has stayed the same as always $1 per token; however, i believe the discounts have been halved

Are they still a dollar each?  Then the price hasn't gone up. 

The available discounts have been limited.  That doesn't mean the price has gone up.  It's just like everything else.  You have the going rate of $1.  If you want to spend less, you wait until it's on sale.

Well I would consider halving the discounts to be relative to increased cost, but I suppose that's arguable. For someone like me it's a difference of 10 cents per request over a long period of time, but what about the heavier traders? There are some people that do 50-100 trades a month which can increase their bottom line for using the site by up to $25 a month. When I first joined trade tokens could be earned via referrals, it's since been changed to points only. The only people that aren't affected are the ones who buy a token here or there, and therefore don't use the site very often. I'm wondering if nickel and diming your biggest traffickers is really the best strategy.

How are they nickel and diming the high traffic people?  They are still giving you a discount, that they don't even really have to do.  Plus that is how the site makes money.   And you can't buy a token here or there you know.  5 is the minimum, and even then its 1 dollar per trade.  I just don't get how you see how you are getting the big screw job here.

Its not nickle and diming anyone, it is just lowering the discount.  If you dont like it then dont buy any trade tokens.

shytface:

When I first joined trade tokens could be earned via referrals, it's since been changed to points only.

Really? For me, it still says this on the refer a friend page: Invite your friends to join Goozex and receive a bonus of 1 trade token when your friend completes their first positive trade (*)!

 

I-Weapon-X:

cost of tokens has stayed the same as always $1 per token; however, i believe the discounts have been halved

Hmmm, yeah it used to be 50% off 120 tokens and now it is 25% off. I don't feel so bad now for buying 120 tokens at $60 a few weeks ago XP. It may take me a long time to go through them all, but I am happy knowing I got a considerable discount!

/gloat