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Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 13 Nov 1999 02:55:26 GMT
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Naji Norder <n.norder@computer.org> wrote:
> > 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.
Actually, my wife and I do maintain separate DVD collections. She
has the movies she likes, I have the movies I like. My collection
is a great deal larger than hers, but then again, she's not into
movies like me in the sense that she doesn't enjoy seeing very many
movies over and over again. I'd say she has .. 3 movies in her
collection. I have about 50 in mine. :) I do let her watch mine,
of course, although some of the time I think she's humoring me. She
made me watch one of her's once - Ever After. A better movie than I
thought it would be.
As for any bending of the rules goes, I would agree that, in
essence, having my father-in-law buy a DVD then sell it to me at
cost is logically no different, and, in the end, just as much
against the true "spirit" of the limit as it would be for both me
and Rachael to order one and have one shipped to work and one to
home.
I don't know, I agree with Larry that this is the extreme of
splitting hairs, but I guess I'm a little more into the whole issue
because I actually had an order cancelled because Rachael and I both
ordered DVDs using a promotional code (in good fait) the later found
out it was only one per household. 'Course, the retailer made a
HUGE mistake and sent out mail to all the people who got their
orders cancelled and basically accused them of fraud, then when they
noticed hundreds of messages on popular Web discussion forums
talking about how people were cancelling huge amounts of preorders
because they were offended by that tone from a retailer, they
reversed themselves and sent out new promotional coupons to every
customer along with an apology, asking them to please continue to
shop there.
We used both of ours right before they expired - Raising Arizona for
6 bucks, Casino for 10. A little more than I would have liked to
pay for Casino, but I've wanted to see that movie for a while.
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