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Originally Posted by moonshot
I think you will find that you are referring to second hand goods; if I buy something new, I want a guarantee.
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Well, there's good news! If you buy a e-book from Amazon, and you don't like it, you can return it within a week and get your money back. All the things you say you want already exist.
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That makes sense. I would rather buy a badly written book rather than a badly build house as well.
But why should badly written books that I would have to pay for be allowed through the net, where as badly build houses should not? 
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That's rather
blindingly obvious. Houses cost a great deal more than does a book. If you don't like a book, you're out a few dollars (that is assuming you didn't return the book for a refund). If the house is improperly built, you can be out hundreds of thousands of dollars. A house that is not build to code is also dangerous. If a house collapses because it is structurally unsound or catches fire because it was improperly wired, that is a rather more serious consequence than reading a book you didn't like.