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Uh, nothing there disproves a word I've said. And he's an authority exactly why? Because it's on the internet?
I've granted that the $5 represents a 25% credit on a (very unlikely) purchase of exactly $25. But it really is snake oil. If you ignore the 25% and look at the essence, it's a $5 credit on a minimum purchase of $20. The percentage is just an attempt to make people think they're getting more than they are.
Generally when people talk percentages, it's in terms of a discount or savings on total outlay, and in this case, the best you can do is 20%. You can't just ignore the reality that you likely didn't get 25% off the first purchase, even as a future credit, and even more you can't ignore that you're going to have to make another purchase to convert that credit into actual savings. So I really don't understand these attempts to seemingly rebut what I've said, which just reiterate the very dead horse of how Amazon describes the credit, couched in rather fictional terms based on the minimum initial purchase, but doesn't deal with the underlying arithmetic of the discount Amazon is really giving people once they've bought the two books necessitated by the terms of the deal. I like to know what I'm getting.
Five bucks is five bucks and very nice at that. You save that on two purchases. The discount or savings as a percentage of total outlays, however, is going to be at most 20%, and most likely less and perhaps significantly less. But again, five bucks is five bucks and have at it. Just don't kid yourself that it's a bigger discount than it is.
I admit I'm ready to throw in the towel. I don't know how I could be clearer and anyway, I'm about to go out for a third day of eatin' with family.
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