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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 2723642" data-attributes="member: 18549">That's not what he was getting at.&nbsp; I have no obligation at all to buy a product from someone.&nbsp; Even if I have access to the product and use it through that access, through a friend or a library for example, I still have no obligation to buy it.&nbsp; With that in mind, it is clear that if I don't like the product or have no use for it, I have no obligation to buy it.&nbsp; With that in mind, I have no obligaiton to buy something without first checking it out to see if I want to own it.Saying that I should buy stuff impulsively because to do otherwise somehow hurts the industry is kind of crazy.&nbsp; And that's what I read Digital M@ as saying.&nbsp; He was responding to someone who says he uses PDFs to browse books because he has no access to the books otherwise and can't browse them physically, and won't buy them without browsing them.&nbsp; He said that doing that hurts the publisher and that the poster should instead impulse-buy, because &quot;impulse buying and poor purchases probably make a significant chuck of the RPG products sold.&quot;&nbsp; Therefore, failure to impulse buy in favour of considered purchases is somehow doing a disservice to publishers, who aren't making the money that they otherwise would have made if purchases were made impulsively.&nbsp; I don't buy that argument.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 2723642, member: 18549"] That's not what he was getting at. I have no obligation at all to buy a product from someone. Even if I have access to the product and use it through that access, through a friend or a library for example, I still have no obligation to buy it. With that in mind, it is clear that if I don't like the product or have no use for it, I have no obligation to buy it. With that in mind, I have no obligaiton to buy something without first checking it out to see if I want to own it. Saying that I should buy stuff impulsively because to do otherwise somehow hurts the industry is kind of crazy. And that's what I read Digital M@ as saying. He was responding to someone who says he uses PDFs to browse books because he has no access to the books otherwise and can't browse them physically, and won't buy them without browsing them. He said that doing that hurts the publisher and that the poster should instead impulse-buy, because "impulse buying and poor purchases probably make a significant chuck of the RPG products sold." Therefore, failure to impulse buy in favour of considered purchases is somehow doing a disservice to publishers, who aren't making the money that they otherwise would have made if purchases were made impulsively. I don't buy that argument. [/QUOTE]

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