Quoted from Eryeal:A bait and switch would imply fraud and CGC knowingly prepared to offer the topper separately prior to selling the LE in order to get more LE sales. I don't think that was the case here - I think after the launch they realized, based on public comments, that the topper was more integral to the game and more desired than they thought, and they viewed satisfying a majority of their customer base by offering it separately than the few LE buyers who would be disgruntled. And I'm willing to wager that over half of the LE buyers that are disgruntled bought it simply to resell. Maybe even 75%+.
It's not even that. When they unveiled the game and told the price they said that they were considering making the topper available for SE owners to purchase. This was before companies had their allocations and before preorders officially went live.
The issue is the website had ambiguous wording which many interpreted as the topper being forever exclusive, instead of the intended, the topper only comes with the LE.
It just boils down to bad marketing due to ambiguous language. I don't think CGC ever had bad intentions here.
As a side note, they don't own LE owners anything more than they're getting. People are being too entitled. They're already giving us a hell of a game for the price.