Promotions are a common business practice intended to drive "new" sales. You can choose to view this as a penalty, but this mentality will have you at odds with every company you have ever done business with as each of them will eventually offer a discount on a product you have already purchased. All pricing is decided by ALXSoftware whom you can email here at
support@alxsoftware.com. They do not have the same website shopping cart system or database system as HEM so they are working under a different set of constraints.
Although Full Tilt and Stars perform the same basic functions they are radically different. Just because something is possible on one does not mean it is possible on the other. We are constantly working not only on porting features from one program to the other but also to keep up with user requests. These are two independent programs and cannot be expected to work the same way.
Ultimately you need to decide if TableNinjaFT is worth $60 to you as an investment in your poker game. If it is not then we completely respect your decision to not buy the program.