--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, a_non_moose_ff <no_reply@> > > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > <snip> > > > > Not that devious and certainly not illegal, > > > > > > no not illegal, > > > > > > > unethical or immoral. > > > > > > That's debateable. > > > > Only in your eyes. Feel free to chat with the owners of bookstores > > or with the compilers of the best-seller lists over the issue. I > > know that bookstore owners don't care either way since a saleis a > > sale, and I'm pretty sure that the scenario I presented, where the > > purchase was already planned, would satisfy the book-sales list > > people as well. > > Booksellers are in favor of whatever sells books. > This was a marketing strategy, a way to catch > people's attention. They could have bought a > full-page ad in the New York Times touting the > book that might also have created a buzz but been > much more expensive. > > As long as the figures weren't artificially > inflated but just concentrated in a shorter time > span, I can't see what was wrong with it.
Neither, obviously, can sparaig. And that is *exactly* why some feel that you are both TBs. You can make excuses in your minds for doing and saying things that most people in the world would consider unethical, as long as those things promote your cult and the sale of its products. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/