Originally posted by Aubrey
Lilly's Dad, Aside from the fact that I don't appreciate your calling names just because you disagree with my opinion, I don't think you "get" what the Entertainment Card program intends to do. These are mostly small businesses advertising a very deep discount to a finite number of potential customers. Picture a mom and pop pizza place who offer a 2-for-1 coupon to what they are told is a group of 4000 potential customers with the Entertainment card for Orlando. They figure maybe ten percent or 400 new customers may be getting free pizza and in exchange, the business gets extra business but at a VERY low profit margin. Now imagine what happens to that business when the Entertainment numbers are posted on the internet and that potential customer group swells to say, 7000. This small business is not necessarily equipped to handle 700 free pizzas with little profit margin. And yes, the increase in customer numbers is accurate because the internet is allowing the potential customers to targt their search and thus increases the rate of coupon redemption. I can tell you do not have a background in coupon marketing and I disagree with your statement that there's "no harm in asking". This is not a victimless crime and the victims are the business owners and the legitimate purchasers of the book.
