I love the rapid pace of these sales, and the great prices, but my credit card shuts down when it registers the very small transactions coming in from Cyprus. Last sale I was able to buy one game before it shut down my card when I tried to buy a second, but this time first game and the credit card company froze the account, which screwed up some other stuff too.

I know the whole point is that it moves fast and furious, but is there some way (to put this in the form of a question) to keep a running cart to make multiple purchases or some work around so that I can take advantage of these sales?

thanks for any suggestions

Just use paypal account to pay here on gog. There you can use the same card you will be using anyway, just that for bank it would be transaction from paypal and not "some random transaction from cyprus" ;)

If you don't want to create paypal account, you can proxy payment through paypal without creating one - you need to fill in payment form as usual, just on paypal site, not directly on gog.

You can only buy one game at a time during the insomnia sales. You can try something like paypal or another service that won't throw up fraud alerts.

Alternatively you could use somebody else's credit card if you don't want to get fraud alerts.

Well, you could try picking up a Paysafecard with say ~20 USD on it for these occasions; lots of e.g. supermarkets sell them. Personally I intend to have one or two of those ready for the next blink-and-miss-it sales event(s). :)

You can't keep a running cart, for the following reasons:

-1. Each game on offer is associated with a unique to your account checkout ulr, i.e. you're not putting games into your cart but directly checking out every time you click on the "buy now".

-2. The price of each game on offer is valid for as long the game is on offer and reverts back to the nominal price tag once the next game comes up.

My advice would be to have a couple of alternative ways (perhaps more than one credit card and/ or funds in a PayPal account) for purchasing games on GOG so that you can take full advantage of such sales.

Flip your card over and call the 1-800 number. One call and you'll likely solve the problem forever without having to get a separate method of payment.