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Originally Posted by samhy
But if I follow you're "buy one, get one free" example, I end up with a 50% discount, not a 100% one. Am I the only one here?
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I think the difference here is that the audiobook offer becomes available only after the purchase of the ebook, which is standalone.
In a "buy one, get one free" I'd be happy that it could be considered either way, either as a 100% saving on the second item or as a 50% saving on the bundle.
However, here, the audiobook is clearly a second transaction. The purchase of the ebook is unaffected whether you go on to buy the audiobook or not. So here, I think it's a big stretch to consider the saving as applying to the bundle, and I think Amazon's justified in showing the discount percentage as relating entirely to the audiobook.
To extend the supermarket analogy: if you were given a "50% off your next purchase" voucher on checkout, you wouldn't consider that 50% off items in the basket you've just bought. At least, I wouldn't.
Graham