Re: bundling is inherently unfair to consumers

["Norm" <normanmo@clark.net>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:32:35 -0500 (EST), Paul Rickard wrote:

>>>      AH..HA!!!  So now you're *FINALLY* getting it (albeit probably
>>> without realizing it yourself).  You've been arguing about how *ALL* or
>>> *ANY* bundling is harmful to consumers (and have even gone as far as to
>>> claim it's against some unwritten 'consumer right'), but now you've
>>> qualified it by stating that it's different when done by a
>>> monopolist...with *THIS* I can agree.  This distinction (a monopolist)
>>> is the defining issue, but to use it as an example for non-monopolistic
>>> products is to engage in what we use to call 'pseudo-deductive
>>> reasoning'.
>>
>>Why did it take this long to get this out of him?
>
>   I suspect it just took a while for Lewis to get confused about his own 
>arguments. Something like a cartoon where the characters are having a 
>yes, no, yes, no, yes, no debate, and then one says yes instead of no and 
>it throws the other one off.


     One of my High School friends use to do the same thing.  You could
always tell when you were winning the debate because he'd start taking
your side and try to convince you that you were arguing his original
position.  It didn't work for him either ;-).

--
 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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