MaverickRazor: Whether GOG can or cannot provide refunds is beside the point,
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The original post amounted to little more than a rant and I think the vast majority of the responses here are perfectly reasonable in response to that.
Disconnected: The OP essentially said: "I find the service here lacking, enough so that I'll take my business elsewhere. Since you're customers too, here's the basis for my decision."
That GOG could provide refunds, but chooses not to, is half the point. The other half would be the casual tone of the support staff. I agree the former is poor service, but I much prefer the latter to the alternative. You will notice the OP didn't contest GOGs right to behave as they do, he simply disagreed that they ought to.
The OP wasn't terribly emotional. It really doesn't qualify as a rant. In contrast, many of the replies have been borderline rants, highly antagonistic in tone and full of baseless personal attacks.
Then again, I'm often wrong about a lot of things. I just didn't think the guy deserved to have his head bitten off.
Here is the final paragraph of the OP:
"Okay, no refunds, it's $6, I'm not heartbroken. But the snark about a 'fair deal' is a bit over the line. A FAIR deal is actually following through on the promotion you advertised, and delivering what the customer wanted to pay for. Not acting like the customer is fortunate to have to pay extra for something they didn't want because your shopping cart is buggy. I expect I'll get $6 out of Arx Fatalis, as well as the other games I bought this weekend. But in the future I'll be spending my money elsewhere."
This is how I interpreted it; he accepts the lack of a refund purely on the basis that it is of relatively small value, not the fact that he agreed to the "
Terms of Use" of this service which clearly states "all sales are final". The use of capitalisation (which is internet shorthand for shouting) is also unnecessary and I completely disagree with his assertion that did not follow through with their side of the deal. They simply charged him for the items in his basket.
As I stated previously this is all based on the assumption that the original poster put Arx in his basket at some and didn't remove it or check the contents of his basket. This is certainly the most logical scenario and the original poster was asked to clarify this point and has failed to respond. Which also leads me to believe that the OP was simply designed to vent steam and not to look for advice, support or consolation.
I understand where you are coming from with regards to the more antagonistic or personal posts, however focusing only on those would be unfair on others who were trying to help or at least give an honest appraisal of the situation given the information provided.