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In lugnet.market.brickshops, David Laswell wrote:
> Given the vast number of sellers who do just that (especially in terms of
> S&H/insurance surcharges), without getting into trouble over it, I'm guessing
> from that that it's okay to say "If you buy X, you must also buy Y", but that
> it's not okay to say, "You can't buy this particular copy of X". Anything
> that's listed in your store must needs be purchasable at any given moment
> (though I've run into one or two stores where quantity minimums had been applied
> to parts that didn't divide evenly, so the last couple parts couldn't be added
> to your cart at all).
I read the TOS again yesterday and didn't see any of this mentioned. Again, I
think it's unfortunate that the TOS doesn't spell out what types of additional
rules are allowed and what types aren't.
> I wonder if it would be acceptable to sell half-kits with a 2-unit minimum
> (instead of buying full kits, you buy two half-kits at a time). This would
> allow the seller to list an odd quantity, leaving that last half-kit physically
> unpurchasable. The downside to it is that you'd have to list the half-kit with
> half the cost, so it'd be more confusing for buyers to figure out what they were
> going to be paying in the end, and you'll almost assuredly get at least one
> customer who, no matter how clearly you word the description, complains that
> they order two kits and only got one.
I have a feeling that this wouldn't be "acceptable" either. That's the problem
with "unwritten rules". You see others doing similar things, so you add your
own "twist" to what they're doing, and it could end up getting you in trouble.
Jeff
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