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Bit of a Class Retraining/Boon question here...

So last night, I completed Pathfinder Society Scenario #7-25 "Orders from the Gate", and received the following Boon:

(No Spoilers, Removing the lore/story elements of the boon, and posting only the part relevant to me)

Hellknight's Respect: You may cross off this boon from your sheet to Retrain Levels into the Hell Knight Prestige Class, for free so long as you would qualify for the prestige class (Heavy Armor Proficiency, BAB +5, Kill a Demon with a higher hit dice than your own in front of a hell knight); so you could not retrain a character into a Hellknight 8 with no other class levels. You may also freely retrain as many feats and skill ranks as is necessary in order to qualify for the prestige class.

Here is my character sheet as it stands now:
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Here's what I want to do, Retrain levels 6-9 into a Hellknight, which would require me to remove 10 overspent skill points, and redistribute 1 point into K.Planes to qualify for the class.

But without the Evangelist prestige class, Deific Obedience is not longer needed.

My question is this: Is it kosher when changing the skill points to remove one point from K.Religion (Deific Obedience requires 3 ranks) to disqualify myself for the feat so that I have to change it out for one that I am qualified for (I want to take Critical Focus in its place).

The Boon does state that I can freely change skill points so that I can qualify, so does that include disqualifying myself for a feat I already have since I'm removing the Prestige class that feat was a pre-requisite for?

This post isn't saying that you guys shouldn't have done this second Bundle, donating to charity is a good thing, but I seriously have to ask, why?

You are hurting the brick and mortar stores by doing this, you're literally biting the hand that feeds you. The stores sell your product, sometimes at a loss to them, and then you sell hundreds if dollars of product for a mere fraction of the physical cost. That drives down demand and the stores can't sell what they have in stock.

Now, I admit, I bought the last Humble Bundle, it got me into Pathfinder, and I love it, the two FLGS I go to lost a lot of potential sales from the reduced demand. When I realized that, I immediately bought a physical core rule book and a beginners box despite getting both in the bundle. One owner was even told directly by a Paizo rep that you guys didn't anticipate that it would hurt retailers so much and would not do another Bundle again.

He believed you, and after a few weeks, things got better sales wise, and attendence for PFS is strong (we sit two tables of 5-6 people every week).

But the morning of the new humble bundle, he felt betrayed, and not just that store, but the only other one in town too.

Now they aren't keeping your product stocked anymore save for the core book and beginners box, the rest being special order.

You guys knew this would hurt the retailer, so again, why?

I bit the bullet and bought the whole bundle, then was totally shocked to find that the shipping price for the beginners box was $45 USD.

That's obscene. Especially when I can get the Beginners box at my local game store where I usually play Magic and Table Top games for less than that. Something that I fully intend to do.

It does not cost that much to ship something from the States to Canada. I've bought things significantly more expensive and heavier and had it shipped through USPS and it did not come out to that much.

Hell, that's a price I would expect to ship something from Canada to the UK, something I do quite regularly. There's no reason for it to cost that much.

I would be more inclined to have paid more on the humble bundle itself, if the shipping was included in the original price then to be shocked when it came to paying for the shipping.

If that is the norm for your shipping outside the US, you will not have me making purchases to your online store for physical merch.