BStone: I'm really glad GOG has a Wallet system now, but it is useless to me because of the minimum amount requirement ($5) they have placed on it.
I have a stack of Credit "gift" Cards that have a few cents to a dollar or so left on them, and I was hoping to pour them into GOG.
Thank you.
B.Stone
If GOG pays a fixed fee per transaction for wallet transactions then depositing very small amounts of money would cost GOG a lot of money in return to allow the transaction and not get much of what is left when someone eventually buys a game with it. GOG's cut of gross revenue on games sold, like Steam is 30%, so for example on a game that costs $5, that would be $1.50. If the transaction cost they pay was $1.50, then their entire revenue for the game eventually purchased with that $5 would be $0. If the cost was $0.50, then it'd eat 1/3 of the profit they receive out of that $5, making their net cut of revenue only 20%. We may not know what the exact fee is that they pay for this, but it is reasonable to presume that they're not going to accept transactions that eat a significant portion of the actual revenue they receive, and cost them profit. By refusing smaller transactions, they then lose less money than any losses caused by people who don't buy anything who were only going to put 27.9 cents into their account or whatever.
Contact GOG support and tell them that you'll pay the processing transaction fees if they let you put cards with pennies on them into your account. Watch the transaction fees cost more to you than the money you have on the cards. :)
