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Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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Fri, 12 Nov 1999 22:12:41 GMT
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However, Mike has noted before that his and his wife's choices in movies are quite
different, so they might as well be separate collections.
Naji Norder wrote:
> 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:
> >
> > 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.
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> 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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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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| (...) Yup. I like (and may soon buy) Horror movies - she can't watch them AT ALL. I also like other really violent mobster movies - she doesn't. About the only place we intersect fully movie-wise is Sci-Fi. She likes Musicals for Pete's sake. Ught. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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| Then I see nothing wrong at all - or at least no more wrong than our voodoo3 purchase. My wife and I both maintain our own computers, and we both happened to need video cards at the same time. Naji (...) quite (...) my (...) the (...) the (...) (...) (25 years ago, 16-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well, any rights I do have weren't given to me by any god, God, goddess, or pink elephant. Thought I'd mention that. (...) I'll address this more fully in response to Larry's post, which, while wrong, was a bit more thought-out than this one. (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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