Actually, part of the reason they don't block based on content is because one of the ideas of web filtering at the corporate level is to save on bandwidth. If they had to pull down each site to look at the content it would completely defeat that selling point for the product.
There are also the reasons you mention, of course...
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To expand on this, one of the receipts shows the customer getting the product for $145 instead of $129.99. The reason given for this was that they gave it to the customer at-cost.
Personally, I take this to mean that BestBuy gets each of the cards for $145. Considering that this comes out to a loss of less than $16 a card I think that it would have been smarter for them to take that hit and avoid the bad publicity and maybe even, if they have the skill, spin the fact that they took the hit for the customer into good publicity. Instead they decided to refuse to honor the offer and make a lot of people angry.
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Actually, part of the reason they don't block based on content is because one of the ideas of web filtering at the corporate level is to save on bandwidth. If they had to pull down each site to look at the content it would completely defeat that selling point for the product.
There are also the reasons you mention, of course...
To expand on this, one of the receipts shows the customer getting the product for $145 instead of $129.99. The reason given for this was that they gave it to the customer at-cost.
Personally, I take this to mean that BestBuy gets each of the cards for $145. Considering that this comes out to a loss of less than $16 a card I think that it would have been smarter for them to take that hit and avoid the bad publicity and maybe even, if they have the skill, spin the fact that they took the hit for the customer into good publicity. Instead they decided to refuse to honor the offer and make a lot of people angry.