Best Bonus Buy Slots Australia 2026: A Mechanic Without a Licensed Australian Market

Bonus-buy online slot play is a search with no Australian floor under it. A punter typing the phrase in 2026 is shopping for a feature — pay a fixed price, skip past the base reels, drop straight into a slot’s bonus round — and the answer the law hands back is that the product itself is not licensed for Australian players anywhere. This page walks through what the feature actually is, why Australian regulation makes the comparison it pretends to offer impossible, which offshore operators the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has already moved against, and what an Australian reader who still considers this kind of play is buying into. Read it as background reading on a mechanic with no onshore shelf, not as a guide to a real-money product the writer has personally inspected.

Data current as of 4 November 2026, verified against the ACMA’s published register of formal warnings and blocking requests.

Legality and Regulation Around Bonus-Buy Online Slot Play in Australia

The Interactive Gambling Act and what it actually prohibits

The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, tightened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, makes it an offence to provide online casino games and online pokies to a person physically in Australia. No state or territory issues a licence for them — wagering on races and sport placed before the event, lotteries and keno are the only gambling products the regime licences, and most online bookmakers are licensed through the Northern Territory for tax reasons. Bonus-buy slot play is a subset of online casino games. The licence a site displays from Curaçao, Anjouan or Kahnawake does not alter that. The IGA targets the provider, not the player — an Australian punter is not personally at risk of prosecution — but a service the regulator treats as prohibited cannot sell what the regulator treats as prohibited to that punter legally.

The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament on 19 August 2026, with advertising and inducement measures commencing 1 January 2027. On a 2026 page that is law with a start date, not yet in force. What is in force today is the prohibition itself, and the prohibition has been in force since the 2017 amendments without interruption.

The ACMA’s blocking regime and what 1,751 sites tells the reader

Enforcement sits with the ACMA. Its tools are formal warnings to operators, formal warnings to publishers, and written directions to Australian internet service providers to block prohibited sites at the DNS level. According to the ACMA as reported in June 2026, a total of 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites had been blocked since the first blocking request in November 2019, and more than 230 unlicensed gambling services had left the Australian market since enforcement was strengthened in 2017. The round reported on 26 June 2026 alone added twelve sites to the block list — 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz.com, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino.

Translated into the reader’s position: an offshore site offering bonus-buy slots to Australians is exactly the kind of service the ACMA’s blocking list is built to reach. A site unblocked this month can be in next month’s list. A punter’s bankroll on that site is exposed to the same DNS-level block that closes the front door.

What the ACMA’s published register means for the comparison this page refuses to make

The ACMA publishes the formal warnings it issues. The register names the operator behind the brand, the brand itself, the date, and the section of the IGA relied on. That register is what this page leans on, because it is the only source that lets an Australian reader match a brand seen offshore to a regulator’s own record against that brand. Any comparison that ranks offshore bonus-buy slot sites by payout speed, bonus generosity or RTP is comparing them on claims those sites make about themselves — claims no Australian regulator has any jurisdiction to verify, and which affiliate marketing pages distribute without independent checking.

The brands the ACMA has acted against are listed below in the section on operators because that is what the regulator’s register contains, not because any of them has been audited by the writer. They are not a recommendation. They are the regulatory record.

The Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission and what it does not regulate

The NTRWC regulates 52 of Australia’s online bookmakers — including Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes — under Northern Territory licences taken out for tax reasons. The commission has no full-time staff and meets once a month in Darwin. What it does not regulate is online casino games. A reader who sees a “.au” domain on a sports book and assumes the same brand covers pokies is reading past the regime. Sports bookmaking and online casino are licensed under different rules, and online casino is not licensed under any.

Responsible Play, Help Lines and What Offshore Sites Cannot Offer

Where an Australian player can actually get help

The National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858 — free, 24 hours, with web chat at Gambling Help Online. It is staffed by professional counsellors and is independent of any operator, Australian or offshore. For a punter reading this page because bonus-buy play has crossed from interest into something heavier, that number is the one to call before any other step.

BetStop and what it covers — and what it does not

BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, has been live since August 2023. A punter registered with BetStop is barred from every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering service. The register binds Australian licensees. It does not bind an offshore casino operating from Curaçao, Anjouan, Costa Rica or anywhere else outside the Australian regime. Self-exclusion is a real tool against licensed operators, and a paper wall against the unlicensed ones.

Why offshore play sits outside the Australian consumer protection frame

An Australian punter playing with an Australian-licensed wagering service has access to a complaints body, an Australian regulator to escalate to, account closure on request, deposit-limit enforcement and the BetStop register. An offshore casino gives none of those. The site can refuse a withdrawal. The site can change its bonus terms after the punter has accepted them. The site can be blocked by an Australian ISP with a balance still on it, and the punter has no Australian body to complain to about that. “The house always has an edge” is true in every market; in an unregulated offshore market, the punter has no Australian backstop when the house stops paying out.

When an offer reads like a trap

A bonus-buy feature is, by design, a fast path to the high-variance part of a slot. The base reels are the slow, low-variance part. Buying the bonus skips them. Every bonus-buy spin is, mechanically, the worst-variance spin the slot offers, paid up front. For a punter whose budget is small, or whose session length is fixed, or whose play has already moved from casual to compulsive, that is a feature that compresses loss into fewer, larger purchases. The feature is not the problem in every case. It is the problem in the cases where the rest of the situation is already leaning the wrong way.

Bonuses, Free Spins and the Bonus-Buy Mechanic

What a bonus-buy feature is, in plain words

A bonus-buy slot is an online slot that offers, for an additional wager on top of the base stake, the option to skip the base reels and enter the bonus round immediately. The bonus round — free spins, a hold-and-win re-spin feature, a wheel, a pick game — is normally triggered by a scatter combination landing during ordinary play. The bonus buy lets the punter pay a multiple of the base stake (commonly 50× to 100×, sometimes higher) to bypass the trigger and drop straight in. What is purchased is one entry into the bonus round, not a guarantee of any particular outcome.

The mechanic first appeared in offshore-facing studios around 2020 and is now standard across high-volatility slots from providers whose games Australian-licensed venues cannot host. The reason an Australian reader sees the term at all is search volume around it; the reason an Australian reader cannot act on the search is that the law does not let them do so through any licensed channel.

Why the bonus round is the part of the slot the operator prices the highest

A bonus-buy slot’s bonus round is where the slot’s top prizes sit. Free-spin rounds with multipliers, hold-and-win features with sticky symbols, jackpot wheels — these are where the slot’s advertised maximum wins, often 5,000× to 25,000× the base stake, are reached. Buying the bonus is buying access to the high-variance part of the game. The mathematics of the slot are designed so that, over many entries, the bonus round pays out a percentage that combines with the base reels to deliver the slot’s stated RTP. Individual entries vary enormously. A bonus buy is, in any single session, the most volatile bet the slot offers.

What a casino “bonus” adds on top of the bonus-buy mechanic

A traditional casino bonus is a balance boost — deposit X, the casino adds Y, the combined balance carries a wagering requirement that has to be cleared before withdrawal. A bonus-buy slot adds another layer on top: not only does the bonus carry a wagering requirement, but the only way to clear that wagering requirement while staying inside the bonus round is to keep buying bonus entries. Each bonus buy counts toward wagering at the slot’s stake level, not at the bonus-buy price. Some sites exclude bonus buys from wagering contribution entirely. Some cap the bonus-buy stake while a bonus is active. The terms are site-specific, and on an offshore site they are the site’s own terms, with no Australian complaints body to appeal to.

For an Australian reader, the relevant point is not which offshore site has the most generous bonus terms. The relevant point is that any bonus terms attached to a prohibited product are, themselves, unenforceable in Australian consumer law. The punter cannot read the small print, accept it, and then expect an Australian regulator to enforce it.

The mechanic’s regulatory history offshore

The United Kingdom Gambling Commission restricted bonus-buy features in 2021, citing player-harm concerns. Other European regulators have moved in similar directions. The reason is straightforward: bonus buys compress loss into fewer, larger transactions, which the player-harm literature treats as riskier than the same stake spread across many base spins. Australia has not regulated the feature directly, because Australia does not license the products the feature lives on. The Australian regulator’s position is upstream of the feature: no licence, no product, no question of feature rules.

What an Australian punter who wants the mechanic can actually do

There is no licensed Australian channel. BetStop does not bind offshore sites. The credit-card ban that took effect on 11 June 2024 for licensed wagering services — penalties up to $247,500 for operators who breach it — does not bind an offshore casino. Crypto deposits and credit cards remain routes an Australian could use to fund an offshore site. Both routes are decisions the punter makes outside the Australian regulatory perimeter.

The Brands the ACMA Has Acted Against

How this section reads, and why it is not a top ten

This page does not rank offshore bonus-buy operators by payout speed, RTP or bonus generosity. Those numbers come from the operators themselves and from affiliate marketing pages that copy the operators’ own numbers. The ACMA’s published register of formal warnings is the only source that lets an Australian reader match a brand seen offshore to a regulator’s own record against that brand. The list below is drawn from that register, in the order the ACMA’s publications are entered in §6 of the research, with each operator’s published warning date. It is not a “best of” list. It is a “the regulator has acted against this brand” list.

A reader who clicks one of these names is leaving the Australian regulatory perimeter, and the section below each name says what the regulator’s record contains.

RocketPlay — the ACMA’s most recent published action

The ACMA issued a formal warning to Pulsup Ltd over Rocketplay.com.au in March 2026. An earlier warning was issued to Dama N.V. covering Rocketplay among other Dama brands in May 2022. The brand has changed operating hands between the two warnings. The product offered to Australian residents remains prohibited under the IGA. The ACMA warning concerns the offer of prohibited interactive gambling services generally, rather than any specific feature.

Level Up Casino — Dama N.V. operator from the May 2022 warning round

Level Up was named in the ACMA’s May 2022 formal warning to Dama N.V. along with Bambet, Dazard, Rocketplay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos. The brand is listed by Bgaming.com among operators carrying BGaming-developed slots. BGaming is one of several studios whose catalogue includes bonus-buy titles. No BGaming figure for Level Up is independently verified by the writer. The brand’s regulatory record is documented in the ACMA’s published warnings.

Woo Casino — Dama N.V. operator warned again in March 2025

Woo Casino received a separate formal warning to Dama N.V. in March 2025, after the May 2022 round. A site that has been warned once and warned again is, on the regulator’s own pattern, one that did not stop offering prohibited services to Australians after the first letter. The brand’s bonus-buy slot offering remains unverified by this site’s editorial standards.

Spirit Casino — Dama N.V. operator from the May 2025 warning

Spirit Casino received a formal warning to Dama N.V. in May 2025. The Dama N.V. group is the most-warned single operator in the ACMA’s register — a pattern of repeated warnings to the same parent company that the regulator’s own publications make plain. Like the other Dama brands above, the product offered is the prohibited interactive gambling service itself, not a specific bonus-buy title the writer has verified.

National Casino — Consolutetish S.R.L., warned in July 2025

National Casino received a formal warning to Consolutetish S.R.L. in July 2025. The brand is listed by en.wikipedia.org among online casino operators. National Casino’s bonus-buy slot catalogue has not been verified by the writer, but the ACMA’s warning establishes the regulator’s position regarding the operator.

Bizzo Casino — warned twice, to two different operators

Bizzo Casino received a formal warning to Consolutetish S.R.L. in July 2025, and had already received a formal warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V. in 2022. A brand warned twice, to two different operating entities, is one the regulator has had to revisit. The Australian reader’s takeaway is the same as the others: the brand keeps offering prohibited services to Australians and has now received two warnings, from two different legal entities, that this is not permitted.

Ignition Casino — Bamboo Media, warned in July 2025

Ignition Casino received a formal warning to Bamboo Media in July 2025. Ignition’s offering is the prohibited interactive gambling service. The brand’s bonus-buy specialist status has not been confirmed; the ACMA’s published warning remains the central fact.

Instant Casino — EOD Code SRL, warned in February 2025

Instant Casino received a formal warning to EOD Code SRL in February 2025. The brand’s bonus-buy slot catalogue has not been verified by the writer. The warning itself is the verifiable fact.

Jackbit — Ryker B.V., warned in April 2026

Jackbit received a formal warning to Ryker B.V. in April 2026, in the same action as CasinOK. Jackbit markets itself as a crypto-friendly casino; an Australian reader funding Jackbit with crypto would be funding a service outside the Australian regime on both the gambling and the payments axes at once — the IGA on the gambling side, and outside the licensed-wagering payment rules on the payments side. The credit-card ban does not bind Jackbit. Crypto is the route the brand promotes. Neither route is inside the Australian perimeter.

Casino Intense — Sterplay Holding Ltd, warned in April 2025

Casino Intense received a formal warning to Sterplay Holding Ltd in April 2025. The brand is listed by Abc.net.au, the ACMA’s own register and Crown Melbourne’s responsible-gaming materials among references consulted in this page. Casino Intense’s specific bonus-buy catalogue has not been audited by the writer.

Sky Crown — Hollycorn N.V., warned in September 2022

Sky Crown received a formal warning to Hollycorn N.V. in September 2022, in the same action as Blue Leo. The warning is the older of the eleven in this list. Hollycorn N.V. has not been the subject of a more recent ACMA warning in the register consulted for this page; whether the brand has changed its offering to Australians since the 2022 warning is not something the writer can confirm from public sources alone.

Reading this list as a whole

Eleven brands. Eleven formal warnings. Two of them warned twice, to two different operating entities each. None of them licensed in Australia. None of them offering a product the IGA permits an Australian-resident punter to be offered. The list is not a ranking. It is the regulator’s own record, in the order the regulator published it.

The ACMA’s Enforcement Record at a Glance

The brands, the operators behind them and the dates the regulator published

A reader who sees a brand here and recognises it as one he or she has deposited with should know that the ACMA has already published the regulator’s view of that brand’s Australian-facing business, and that any further deposit is made outside that regulator’s perimeter.

What the table cannot say

The table does not carry payout times, RTP figures, wagering requirements or bonus terms for any of these brands. Those figures come from the brands themselves or from affiliate marketing pages, and the page’s own standards do not let them in. The one quantitative figure the table carries is the date of the regulator’s published action, because that is the figure the regulator itself has put on the record.

Overview: How Bonus-Buy Slot Play Works, and Why It Has No Australian Floor

The feature itself, in one paragraph

A bonus-buy slot is an online video slot that lets the punter, for a multiple of the base stake, skip the base reels and go straight to the bonus round. The bonus round — free spins with multipliers, hold-and-win, jackpot wheel — is the part of the game where the slot’s top prizes sit. The mechanic compresses variance into a single transaction. A punter who buys 100 bonus entries in a row is, in those 100 entries, paying for the slot’s highest-variance spins back to back.

Where the feature exists, and where it does not

The feature is standard on offshore-facing online slots from providers whose games Australian-licensed venues cannot host. It is not a feature on any Australian-licensed land-based pokie. Australian clubs, hotels and casinos run pokies under state and territory approvals, and the games approved under those approvals do not include bonus-buy mechanics — the approvals cover machine configurations, not online-style feature buys. The 87,298 pokie-style machines outside casinos in New South Wales as of June 2023, the 26,380 in Victoria across 2021–22, the 21,122 in Queensland in October 2023, the 11,672 in South Australia in September 2023 and the 3,587 in the ACT in November 2023 are all land-based machines, all without a bonus-buy option. The total of about 150,000 machines in venues does not have a single bonus-buy game among them.

How Australian slot regulation got here

Pokies arrived in Australia later than in the United States. New South Wales legalised slot machines in 1956. By 2010 Australia operated an estimated 97,103 gaming machines outside casinos — a per-capita rate about five times that of the United States. The machines themselves evolved from Charles Fey’s late-19th-century three-reel design, through Bally’s 1963 “Money Honey” with its bottomless hopper and automatic payout, to Fortune Coin Co.’s 1976 video slot. Modern video slots can run five or more reels with 50 or more symbols per reel, producing odds as high as 300 million to one against a top combination. The bonus-buy feature is the most recent step in that evolution, and the only one Australia has chosen not to license for online play.

Why the ACMA’s numbers matter to a comparison that pretends to exist

H2 Gambling Capital’s 2025 report estimates that Australians lose about A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites, and that the share of gambling going through legal channels fell from 74% in 2021 to 64%. The reader who sits behind those two numbers — A$3.9 billion to illegal sites, a 10-point drop in the legal share over four years — is the reader this page is for. The A$3.9 billion is the size of the offshore market the ACMA’s blocking regime is trying to reach. The 10-point drop is the regulatory failure that A$3.9 billion sits on top of. A bonus-buy slot punter is, mechanically, a customer of that A$3.9 billion market.

The Blocking Rate: How Fast the ACMA Has Been Adding Sites

The arithmetic the page is built around

The ACMA’s first blocking request was issued in November 2019. By June 2026 the cumulative count of blocked sites and affiliate pages reached 1,751. Spread across the roughly 79 months between those two dates, that is an average of about 22 sites added per month. This figure helps a reader understand the scale of the regulator’s work, moving beyond the simple fact that the ACMA blocks illegal sites to see a measured rate of about 22 additions per month.

What the rate cannot say

The rate is an average, not a forecast. Some months add nothing to the list. Other months add a dozen at once. The June 2026 round alone added twelve. The rate does not say which brand on this page will be added next, or when. It says that, on the regulator’s own cadence, the brands already on this page are the kind of brand the blocking regime has been built to reach — and that more rounds are coming, on a roughly monthly cadence, for as long as offshore operators keep offering prohibited services to Australian residents.

The condition the rate is stated under

The 22-a-month figure holds under the condition that the ACMA continues to issue blocking requests at the cadence it has averaged since November 2019. If the regulator’s resourcing changes — if a court ruling narrows its authority, or a parliamentary reform strengthens it — the rate moves. The June 2026 total of 1,751 is the only published cumulative figure the page leans on, and the 79-month window is the only honest way to express it as a rate. The result is a band: somewhere between a steady dozen a month and a flurry of twenty in a single round, with about 22 a month as the long-run average.

The Cost of the Mechanic, Once the Reader Is Past the Prohibition

What a bonus buy costs, in slot-mathematics terms

A bonus buy priced at 100× the base stake pays for one entry into the slot’s bonus round. If the slot’s RTP is 96%, the long-run return on a bonus-buy purchase is 96% of the purchase price. The 4% is the house edge, applied to the most volatile single bet the slot offers. A punter who buys 100 bonus entries at $1 base stake — $100 in bonus-buy cost — will, over the long run, get back $96, and the $4 is the price of playing that exact distribution of bets. Real sessions do not look like the long run. They look like one entry that returned 5,000× and ninety-nine that returned nothing. The mathematics describe the average, not the next spin.

Why this matters more on a bonus-buy slot than on a base-reel slot

A base-reel spin at $1 costs $1. A bonus-buy entry at 100× stake on a $1 base slot costs $100. The punter who pays $100 for one entry has the same expected loss as a punter who pays $1 for 100 ordinary spins, but the variance is concentrated in a single transaction. The session that ends after a $100 bonus-buy purchase is one transaction long. The session that ends after 100 ordinary spins is 100 transactions long. The shorter session, at the same expected loss, is the higher-variance session. Bonus-buy play is, mechanically, the highest-variance way to play the slot.

What a session at this variance costs a small-budget punter

A punter with a $200 session budget, buying at 100× stake on a $1 base slot, buys two entries. The expected loss over those two entries is $8 at 96% RTP. The realistic outcomes are two bonus rounds that returned near nothing, or two bonus rounds that returned enough to end the session ahead, or one of each. The session is decided in two transactions. A punter with a $200 session budget playing ordinary spins at $1 a spin buys 200 transactions. The expected loss is the same $8. The realistic outcomes are spread across 200 decisions. The bonus-buy punter’s session has the same expected cost, but twice the risk of ending on a single bad outcome.

Why the marketing language around bonus buys reads the way it does

A bonus buy is sold as “skip the wait and get straight to the action.” That wording is accurate. It is also the most concise description possible of why the feature is regulated more strictly in some offshore jurisdictions than ordinary base-reel play is. The wait is, mechanically, the part of the slot that spreads variance. Skipping the wait concentrates it. A reader who values the action — the free spins, the bonus round, the screen-filling animation — is buying a faster trip to the highest-variance part of the game. A reader who values the long-run return gets the same expected return on either path, and a more even ride on the ordinary-spin path.

What Offshore Play Cannot Offer an Australian Punter

The protection frame an Australian punter loses on crossing offshore

An Australian punter using an Australian-licensed wagering service can file a complaint with the operator, escalate to the relevant state or territory regulator, claim deposit-limit enforcement, claim BetStop registration, and claim the National Gambling Helpline as a free, 24-hour backstop. An Australian punter using an offshore casino can do none of those things in Australia. The site may have its own complaints process; the punter has no Australian body to escalate to. The site may offer self-exclusion; the punter has no BetStop guarantee that it will be honoured. The site may refuse a withdrawal; the punter has no Australian regulator to complain to about that refusal.

The blocking frame an Australian punter walks into

An Australian punter using an Australian-licensed wagering service is using a service the regulator has approved. An Australian punter using an offshore casino is using a service the regulator is actively trying to make inaccessible to Australians. The DNS-level block is the bluntest tool — once applied, the site is unreachable from most Australian residential connections. A punter with a balance on a blocked site has lost the site’s URL along with the site. There is no Australian complaints body to approach about recovering that balance.

The payment frame an Australian punter walks into

The credit-card ban that took effect on 11 June 2024 binds Australian-licensed wagering services — and binds them with penalties of up to $247,500 per breach. It does not bind an offshore casino. Crypto deposits are likewise not restricted at the Australian perimeter for an offshore site — the licensed-wagering rules do not extend. An Australian punter funding an offshore casino with a credit card or crypto is making a choice the Australian regime has decided not to reach. That choice is the punter’s, on both sides of the transaction.

The tax frame, briefly

Gambling winnings of a recreational player are not assessable income in Australia under section 6-5 of the ITAA 1997, and losses are not deductible, unless the punter carries on a business of gambling. The model is recreational-only — “check with the ATO” is the standing advice for any individual case. An Australian punter playing offshore is on the same tax footing as an Australian punter playing onshore, in the recreational case. The difference is the consumer protection frame, which is not a tax question.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does a bonus-buy feature let a player skip straight to a slot’s bonus round?

A bonus-buy slot lets the punter pay a multiple of the base stake — commonly 50× to 100× — for one entry into the bonus round, bypassing the scatter-triggered path on the base reels. What is purchased is a single entry; the bonus round’s outcomes are determined by the slot’s own mathematics on that entry, not by the punter’s purchase decision.

Is bonus-buy slot play available on any licensed land-based pokie in Australia?

No. Australian pokies in clubs, hotels and casinos are approved under state and territory regimes that do not include the bonus-buy mechanic. The roughly 150,000 pokie-style machines outside casinos across New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and the ACT are land-based, not online, and the bonus-buy feature is not part of any of their approved configurations.

Why have some regulators restricted or banned bonus-buy slot features overseas?

The United Kingdom Gambling Commission restricted bonus-buy features in 2021 on player-harm grounds. The mechanic compresses variance into fewer, larger transactions, which the player-harm literature treats as riskier than the same stake spread across many base spins. Australia has not regulated the feature directly, because Australia does not license the products the feature lives on.

Does buying a bonus round change the underlying odds of that slot’s bonus game?

No. The bonus round’s outcomes are determined by the slot’s RNG and the symbol distribution the provider set; the buy is a paid entry, not a change in probability. What changes is the punter’s variance on that single entry, which is the highest variance the slot offers.

Can an offshore site legally offer bonus-buy slots for real money to Australians?

No. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, as amended in 2017, makes it an offence to provide online casino games — bonus-buy slots included — to a person in Australia. The IGA targets the provider, not the player, but the offshore site is offering a prohibited service regardless of the licence it displays from another jurisdiction.

Is a bonus-buy purchase treated as a separate bet under Australian gambling law?

A bonus-buy entry is treated as part of the prohibited interactive gambling service — the same product as the base reels of the slot. The IGA does not break the product down feature by feature; it prohibits the whole service. A site that offers base reels only is in breach; a site that adds the bonus-buy layer is in breach of the same section.