3) The consolation for the Silver portato is 15%, I paid 21.53, but received as consolation only 1.05LTC.
That threw me for a loop the first time until I re-read the rules. The consolation prize is a % of each amount of PROFIT that the website* gains.
So if a potato bought for 1 LTC sells for 2.5 (0.5 LTC to the website), and the consolation is 50%, the consolation prize has gone up 0.25 LTC!
*edited my mistake.
