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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Let me get that right. You're saying that if someone is not willing to pay the highest price possible, then they're automatically cheapskates? There's no middle ground? Like, you know, having a limited disposable income (most people do) and choosing on what and how much to spend? Nooo... you must pay the highest price or you're cheap. Wow. Really wow.
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Nope, that's not even remotely close to what I'm saying. Both the co-workers that I mentioned in the post you are quoting made good money so limited income has nothing to do with it, they simply wanted to pay as little as possible for everything.
There is a huge difference between willing to pay the highest price possible and only be willing to pay the cheapest price possible, even if you have plenty of money. That's the difference between being a cheapskate and not. No where in this thread has "limited disposable income" been called cheapskate, indeed, people with limited income have been explicitly excluded a number of times.
I certainly don't always play the highest price possible. But I do frequently buy multiple copies of a book that I like by authors I'm a fan of - Hardback, ebook and audio. I tend to think of that sort of thing as being more of a minor patron than anything else. I certain have no expectation that other people would do the same. It's just one of my little quirks.
The major point that I would make is that if an author can't make a living writing, he or she isn't going to write many books. If I'm a fan of a particular author, I'm going to support that author as much as possible. That doesn't mean that I'm being ripped off. That just means that I want more of their books. The converse of that is that if the only time someone buys an author's books is on the remainder table or from the library, then that author isn't going to write many books. Maybe you care about a specific author, maybe you don't, but that's the what's going to happen.