Oh, don't you love it.
Apr. 1st, 2005 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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This twit of a girl posted asking if people had ever switched prices on books in order to steal from a used book store.
And one person replied that she had never thought of that, but it's not really stealing since you're giving them some money, and anyway, it's not like used books give any profit to the author.
And then had the nerve to get huffy when informed that, actually, it is stealing, because (as she put it) "I HAVE NEVER DONE THAT!!!!111". So what? You're still stupid if you don't recognize that it's stealing, and you still need those stupid ideas drummed out of your head now that they've been placed there.
And one person replied that she had never thought of that, but it's not really stealing since you're giving them some money, and anyway, it's not like used books give any profit to the author.
And then had the nerve to get huffy when informed that, actually, it is stealing, because (as she put it) "I HAVE NEVER DONE THAT!!!!111". So what? You're still stupid if you don't recognize that it's stealing, and you still need those stupid ideas drummed out of your head now that they've been placed there.
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Posted anonymously. How courageous.
Date: 2005-04-01 04:45 pm (UTC)To address the point, I don't think the loss of $3.50 (I retagged it at $3.99) is going to make or break Goodwill. They get lots of my money, regularly. My point was that by repricing, it was not "cutting into their profits" because there was no expense of restocking involved.
My other point was that this price was NOT reasonable. If it had been, I would have paid it. For something that is not only broken but incomplete, anything over $5 is too much.