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Mike Stanley wrote:
> My point would be that the end result is the same. I get both DVDs.
> Now you could say that we're actually conducting a separate
> transaction after he completes his with the retailer, at no extra
> expense to me (except for maybe all the free computer support he
> needs) but that's just a mostly irrelevant middle step. In the end,
> both DVDs end up on my rack, with the retailer making the exact same
> amount from shipping them to two locations as if they had just
> shipped them to one.
Just nitpicking here but the amount the retailer nets as profit may be
slightly more, or slightly less. It depends on a number of factors such
as what the cost to take an order is, the cost to fulfill an order, how
much less one box costs than 2 boxes, the difference in shipping charges
and a number of other factors (down to the extra table space in a
relational table somewhere to hold a few more bytes of info, which
probably changes the profit by +/- .000001 cent or so.).
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