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In lugnet.market.shopping, Mike Stanley writes:
> Jasper Janssen <jasper@janssen.dynip.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999 04:44:37 GMT, cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com (Mike Stanley)
> > wrote:
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> 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.
Mike,
I certainly don't disagree with you. I have "bent" purchase resrictions
myself. (Marcia and I both bought Voodoo3s with the mail-in rebate; I used my
parent's address.) However, I think that the fact that the "end result is the
same" is what makes it "bending" the rules. In the case of DVDs, I think the
retailer's intentions are for only one CD from each sale to end up on a given
person's "rack". Thus, if two people live separately in a house, they probably
wouldn't mind that you both use the coupon. Since you and your wife likely
don't maintain separate DVD collections, I think they would mind. They limit
to "one per household" instead of "one per collection" because they don't have
any way to really control the latter.
Naji
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