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Re: Blue Hopper Car Mania...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 16 Nov 1999 14:34:44 GMT
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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
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
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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.
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> Naji Norder wrote:
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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
>
> --
> | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp
> | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer
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| <slrn82mo7i.75t.cjc@...s.utk.edu> <FL3EHw.BM9@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit However, Mike has noted before that his and his wife's choices in movies are quite different, so they might as well (...) (27 years ago, 12-Nov-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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