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Personally, I think making use of of the staff in one store in order to buy in a cheaper store without such staff is just plain rude. You're deliberately wasting the store's resources for no benefit, not even a potential benefit, to the store. It's little different from going into a restaurant, sitting at a table, and unpacking a box lunch. Yes, stores budget for a certain amount of this. They also budget for a certain amount of shoplifting. That doesn't mean either one is right. If you're going to ask the staff questions, buy from that store. Don't expect one company to pay for your questions while you give an entirely different company your money.
I'm sure, Stonetools being who and what he is, him starting this thread was somehow a setup for a post defending usage restrictions, cabal pricing, or the publishing industry at large. I'll pre-empt that: they're not the same, Stone. They're not even close to the same. They have nothing to do with each other. I don't act the way I do because some publisher or store owner told me to do it that way -- I do because it's morally right. The positions you advocate are not. Let's leave it at that.
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