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Originally Posted by shalym
When I was looking for a new clothes washer, I went to 3 different brick and mortar stores and looked online as well. I talked to salespeople in every store, and used a lot of resources from Best Buy.com, Amazon.com, and Sears.com. By your logic, I should have just purchased it in the first store that I went to, as anything else would be unethical.
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No, that's something dfferent -- each of the stores you went to, had a
chance of selling you the clothes washer, and, in a fair fight, the best one won. Next customer, next product, is a new game, and one of the other two stores may win -- so, on average, they'll invest salesperson time in three potential customers to make one sale, and their sales margin will have to cover this. The customers' money gets distributed among them, and you pay for their service by
possibly buying from them. But if someone already
knows they'll certainly buy someplace else, isn't this like selling lottery tickets which they know to be blanks?