Privileged chapters
This is stupid you pay for 50 adv chapter and you still need to fking pay those 50 chapter again in order for you to read. i think i will just go fking read raw and make my own fking sentence. sorry for my bad english and fuck you webnovel.
Here in Germany it would fall under Scam even if it was a mistake in the Explanation, in Consumer Rights with high punishment.
OverseerRose
Wohoo I am not the only german! 
Can we ask the consumer center about this?
Maybe they can influence something for a central regulation.
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Not only this https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/online_fraud_2017.pdf
We can even go and let this http://hschuster.userweb.mwn.de/Gesetze%20pdf/DS-GVO.pdf handle them.
Cause GDPR is not only for EU it is also for Companys/Websites outside the EU.
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OverseerRose there wasn't a mistake. People just didn't read the Rules thoroughly. Even with the old one it was stated you need to Unlock the chapters.
The old Rules said "After purchasing Privileges, readers can UNLOCK stockpiled chapters" I highlighted the word unlock personally for emphasis.
That may be it but this practice falls under Fraud to pay to pay again here in Germany.
Also alone the GDPR in the EU is very harsh when you look into the GDPR here it is full of holes and the entire Website could get sued EU wide also blocked for the entire EU.
Article 3, Paragraph 2.
EU GDPR
"Territorial scope"
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junnakurokawa The old version of the rules were ambiguous and could be misleading. Not every reader here is a native English speaker (heck, sometimes the original authors/translators/editors can't even get it right), so you can't expect these people to be able to read between the fine lines. It's WN's responsibility to make this clear to their customers. Stop defending the old rules, you're just victim blaming and it won't give WN the incentives to improve their service and do better.
OverseerRose you pay for the PRIVILEGE to see the chapters. Then you UNLOCK the chapters as normal.
Think of it as a VIP status in games. You still need to pay for stuff buy the fact is, you have access to certain Privileges.
There really wasn't a mistake. It's just two wholly different things.
Cantiara do they? Or they did not read the Rules at all since that's what I'm seeing in the novels I'm reading.
Level of English comprehension needed for that bit was not high. And while the new clarification is better, it wasn't ambiguous.
The old Rules said "After purchasing Privileges, readers can unlock stockpiled chapters". Which part of "can unlock" is unclear?
junnakurokawa Ist not a VIP Service here in Germany and the EU it falls under Onlineshop because you buy something and the other Person gives you something in return.
So to explain when you buy something the law says:
"The Dealer/Shop must! say the incurred Costs (In $) that can occur after the purchase you have done. So simply put, you buy the Privilege and at this Moment they must tell you before you click on yes (Popup Notice) that you could have a cost of X$ after you purchased the Priviledge.
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Yes, it was ambiguous. That sentence in your example was part of rule #4. But before you get to rule #4, you have to read rule #1 first, which then stated:
"Readers can become loyal readers of our authors and receive advance chapters by purchasing Privileges"
"Receive advance chapters" insinuates that they would be getting the chapters as they are, without having to do any other efforts to read them.
Moreover, even before they could get to the Privilege Rules page, these people bought the Privilege from the Privilege page. That's where the amount of SS is shown per tier and they can actually click to buy. And what was shown there before? The header said "Read X advance chapters". Yeah, and do you think the word "READ" is not misleading?
Of course you may be right, in most cases these people probably didn't bother to go to read the Privilege Rules again (hey, it's an extra click, but that's another discussion), but the info on the Privilege page itself was already misleading enough to make people feel like they've been duped.
Again, stop the victim blaming.
Scam!
Cynical_Taste Because I'm not staff, I don't have the time to always be here to explain stuff.
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OverseerRose The purchase is for Privilege, and the price is clearly listed.
The second purchase for the chapter is also clearly listed.
It's unfortunate that the old rules weren't clear enough, but it was written there that "readers can unlock stockpiled chapters" in #4.
For that oversight, Webnovel has changed it to make it as obvious as it can be.
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@CKtalon, do you know if WN will implement the functionality to hide the Privilege chapter count in readers' library if they are not Privilege members? This has been requested by a lot of people. Besides the argument that it's annoying, if you check the chapter comments of the Privilege novels, it seems that a lot of people misinterpret the Privilege chapter count as mass release and get confused and/or disappointed afterwards when they realize that they can't see the chapters and unlock them.
CKtalon
Pricing and payments
When you buy goods or services in the EU, you have to be clearly informed about the total price, including all taxes and additional charges.
For online purchases, you should explicitly acknowledge – for example by pressing a button – that you are aware that placing your order implies an obligation to pay.
https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/shopping/shopping-consumer-rights/index_en.htm#bought-outside-eu
EU consumer rules cover goods and services that have been bought in the EU. However, if you buy from a non-EU online trader who has specifically targeted EU consumers you should also be covered by EU rules, but you may find it difficult to assert your rights with a trader who is based outside the EU.
I Don't see any clear Information how much it can cost after you buy the Privilege.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL But it’s still a massive rip-off with no actual value becuase your basically charging ~50-80SS a chapter to just see it. From what I see is that you are trying to rope idiots into a thing with no value. 
who even comes up with this stuff.
