Seasonal promotions 99% of the time are tactical initiatives unless your business is built around festivities i.e.
you sell pumpkins. These promotions do 2 things offer an additional benefit to the consumer i.e.
compelling offer and also to the company i.e.
additional revenue As ION don't sell pumpkins I see this promotion as a tactical initiative. A great opportunity for the customer to buy some ION and an opportunity for ION to make some money.
Ionomy is a business not a charity. A Business needs money not good will to survive.
As a whale I don't want to live in a pond, I want to live in an ocean.
I'm glad you've been reviewing my old posts you might learn something
I'm just another lying shilling "whale"........... that's rich coming from you
Happy Halloween and enjoy your special day..... it's the day you get to walk down the street and people don't run away so make the most of it

Your shill piece is missing an important detail. The "promotion" has nothing to promote. "Buy these IONs so you could get more IONs that we're inflating from our free stash of premined IONs" doesn't offer any value to the "investors".
Of course I'm not expecting you to admit that you shilled yourself into a corner with bullshit like "Ionomy don't need money". Need or not, they are taking that money and giving out IONs far cheaper than during the ICO.
As I've always said, it didn't make sense to buy ION even if you strongly believed in it. Should have just waited to get it cheaper later. And you kept repeating how it's gonna be too late or some such nonsense. But that's fine, maybe one day you'll learn to never bet against greed and stupidity.