[geeks] Rebates

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Feb 6, 2008, at 8:14 AM, Lionel Peterson wrote:

>> You don't get it.
>>
>> I'm talking about two sitautions: the item is only available  
>> through a
>> rebate offer, which is very common.
>>
>> Or two: the item is too costly without the rebate.
>
> Shannon - respectfully, you don't get it - you *always* have a  
> choice, you may
> not always like the choice. Rebates are opt-in. If an item is too  
> expensive
> without a rebate, well then, it is too expensive (if you don't like/ 
> trust
> rebates).

Sorry, but no...

The idea of choice is covered by logic and philosophy, and one of the  
requirements of a choice, or perhaps more correctly, a free choice, is  
that at least one is desirable.

If not, then you don't have a choice.  What you have is a dilemma.

-- 
Shannon Hendrix
shannon at widomaker.com