They've been offering up games from the Potato Pack as daily deals and through other packs. Chances are that they will offer the pack either on New Year's Day or January 2nd during the recap. (Why not put the pack up first and sell it piecemeal instead? Money. They make more money if people buy...
By completing tasks during their sale time, you get entered for a chance to win the top 5 games on your wishlist (up to 4 chances, 1 per task). If you do the tasks after, you won't be entered for the drawing for those days, since the drawing will already have happened.
Ninja Edit: As long as...
Cheapy, anyone ever tell you that you are completely insane?
No, not the crazy, murdering rampage insane. The good kind of insane that makes small children and adults alike believe in miraculous things, like Santa, and having one Thanksgiving where you don't incinerate the candied yams...
My target has one copy of Bioshock 2 LE (360), but it has had the absolute hell beaten into it. The outer cover is torn to shreds (only being held on by the spider security device) and I don't know how badly the outer box has been shredded. Worth $19ish? Not hardly.
So, today is the first time I've ever found it necessary to return a package to Amazon.
I got my copy of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II Collector's Edition in a bubble mailer, which was the first sign of trouble. I'd heard horror stories lately in the Amazon Credit thread about destroyed...
As long as it is still being offered on the item's page, you should be fine.
If you want to be really paranoid about it though, you can try calling up (or emailing) amazon's customer service and see if they can apply that credit to your active order. They did that for me a while back on Halo...