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Subject: 
Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:47:03 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@NOVERAspamless.COM
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Mike Stanley wrote:

But on those that won't work I simply have her parents order the DVD
with the coupon and have it shipped to their address, then they
bring them up whenever they visit.  Some might say that's breaking
the "rules" but I say the rule itself is stupid if it denies two
adult consumers who happen to be living in the same home the ability
to purchase separate items.

Wonder where the Great One who Makes No Mistakes would stand on that
little issue?

I THINK he meant me, and I missed it the first time (1). Anyway...

<bzzt>

It's wrong. You're cheating the organization when you use different
shipping addresses to make it look like you're not in the same
household.

Thanks for playing, though. See Vanna for your lovely parting gift and
better luck next time.

1 - actually I deliberately ignored it, because to miss it would be a
mistake. and.... I don't make misteaks.

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Message has 3 Replies:
  One item per... (was: Blue Hopper Car Mania)
 
(...) However, in your dotage you are forgetting to use the spell check functionality of your e-mail software, if any. :-) Seriously, I have to disagree with you, Larry, on the "one per household" item referenced above. If I ship to my work address, (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
 
(...) While I agree that cheating the company when you are actually a family is wrong, I also think that the method of limiting something to one per address is also wrong as well. If you are married, even if you have seperate paychecks and seperate (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
 
(...) Ok, I THINK you're responding to something else I wrote above that, maybe me saying Rachael and I could use our different work addresses as shipping addresses to get around a one per household deal. Certainly you're not saying that if I get in (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
 
(...) And in many cases this is an almost completely empty gesture meant to stop the obvious scalping (or the non-persistant scalping) and the whining of parents who didn't make it to the store on time to get the coolest new thing their kids must (...) (25 years ago, 9-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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