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07-24-2005, 06:16 PM
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Is this unethical?
I love going to batting cages. It's a good way to get some stress out, and get a little bit of exercise while I'm at it.
What I do not enjoy is buying the tokens for $2.50 each to buy me only 25 pitches. So I went onto ebay and found a bag of 75 of the same-size batting tokens available for $32 including shipping. While I wasn't sure if these would work at the batting cage, I figured it was worth the gamble. So I bought them. And not only did they work, but by sheer luck, the branding on the coins I got is identical to the branding of a 'real' token. My co-workers seemed to be split on the issue. About half of them thought this was flat-out stealing, another half thought that if extra tokens were so easy to obtain, then I'd be a fool to not get them and try to use them. What say you? 
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07-24-2005, 06:20 PM
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Re: Is this unethical?
Not sure if this is relevant, but I should have stated in my original post that I'd gone to this cage and legitimately bought many, many tokens, before it occurred to me to try ebay. Is there a certain number of legit tokens I would need to buy for use of these 'cheaper' tokens to be not as bad? Or perhaps I just think like a criminal too much.
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07-24-2005, 07:15 PM
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Re: Is this unethical?
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Not sure if this is relevant, but I should have stated in my original post that I'd gone to this cage and legitimately bought many, many tokens, before it occurred to me to try ebay. Is there a certain number of legit tokens I would need to buy for use of these 'cheaper' tokens to be not as bad? Or perhaps I just think like a criminal too much. [/ QUOTE ] LOL, this makes no sense. If you consider it stealing, then it's stealing no matter how many times you have refrained from stealing in the past. "but officer, I'm a customer at that bank!!"
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07-24-2005, 07:18 PM
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Re: Is this unethical?
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I never said that was my excuse..... i was just asking in general, if you think that that affected anything at all. [/ QUOTE ] I know. I answered your question. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] It doesn't.
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07-24-2005, 08:53 PM
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Re: Is this unethical?
Would it change things if the Ebay seller said that these tokens were bought at the same batting cages on some kind of multi token special, but he can no longer bat because of a bad back?
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07-24-2005, 09:23 PM
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Re: Is this unethical?
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Would it change things if the Ebay seller said that these tokens were bought at the same batting cages on some kind of multi token special, but he can no longer bat because of a bad back? [/ QUOTE ] yes.
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07-24-2005, 09:55 PM
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Re: Is this unethical?
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Would it change things if the Ebay seller said that these tokens were bought at the same batting cages on some kind of multi token special, but he can no longer bat because of a bad back? [/ QUOTE ] Of course it would change things, the company recieved their money for providing the service.
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07-25-2005, 03:06 PM
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Re: Is this unethical?
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Of course it's stealling. You're receiving the service/product without paying the company that's providing it. In fact, you're paying $0 to that company. [/ QUOTE ] While we're at it, let's close down all used book stores and used record stores. People that shop there are stealing, of course, since they're paying $0 to the company that produced the book/music.
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