shug.
Caveat emptor. You get the deal you get. It has no bearing on deals others get.
Anecdote ahead: My roommate bought a new car. It was nice and I was young so I went and bought one too. I had no business buying a car since I was broke. So when the salesman pulled the "I need to talk to the manager" trick I kept coming back with, it's close, but I can't quite swing that. The net net was my car cost me forty bucks a month less than my roommates: 2,400 on a five year loan. Same car, same model, same dealer etc. Just a cheaper car because, through no particular intent on my part, I had negotiated a better deal. My roommate was not entitled to renegotiate.
You get the deal you agreed to. No more no less.
It's a sticky wicket. I agree that restricting international sales and region locking to control prices is wrong. I agree that the guy buying bubble gum standing in the same line as me should pay the same price as me. But I just don't see the moral high ground here. Cromcrom bought a product at one price, then it went on sale. Happens all the time, and there's always some old guy at the register waving yesterdays receipt and today's sales flyer at the cashier. He might get a refund, but only as a path of least resistance. And he'll walk out chest held high thinking he's won some great moral victory, but really he's just a self-entitled whiny bully.
Edit to add: the guy at the register is a "self-entitled whiny bully". Cromcrom has a point. I'm just not sure I agree. But I don't see him as a whiny bully. More just venting.
Last edited by bargeral; 22/06/14 12:02 AM.
