Freebie hiding trickery

I saw this banner on the top, to Claim a course

There was some nice page, with many interesting courses to click on, but when I did, it asked me for money!!

I went back, maybe too much, and clicked on the banner again and... The view is completely different for the second time I entered! I don't have the screenshot from how it initially looked like, but it looks completely different now, with only one course shown and I can't see anything to Claim anywhere

With "Your Courses" and the same face shown as on the banner, I suppose that this is the free course you can claim and it did?

Why for the first click it took me somewhere else then, with many courses shown, nothing to Claim, but asking me for money instead? Is this some yet another chesscom's "scam" or trickery, to have you pay money or make you think you have to pay first, while they hid the claimed free course, so that unless you go back-and-forth you don't even see it?

Or just a "convenient" interface glitch?

I actually wanted to check it out, but with them conveniently hiding the freebie they bait you with, so that they can ask you for money instead, I kinda lost the interest...

What are your experiences with them? 

OK 👍 منم زیاد دیدم این صحنه را اما نهایتا یک پیش نمایش تبلیغی به شما نشان می دهد که ارزش دیدن و گذر کردن را دارد ..مثل تصویر یک منظره در راه مسافرت . 😅

The way things are worded it certainly gives one the impression of being able to choose any free course. Rather what it offers you is a course the site believes is best suited for you. Not the same thing at all and it is misleading which isn’t a good look.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-courses

Diamond members get access to the Short and Sweet courses and can try out a small amount of some courses.

Hello @Martin_Stahl, yes this was started over on Chessable after an uproar over there due to some policy changes which did not go over well. That is putting it mildly.

I am lower tier member, do you mean that I am seeing advertisement banner that is not supposed to be seen by me? Like a glitch or website bug?

No - Everybody has free access to our starter kits. You can find them on the shop:

https://www.chess.com/courses/all?search=Starter+kit