cghh
join:2001-01-15
Milpitas, CA
1 edit | reply to BF69
Re: Why ETF was raised said by BF69:said by cghh:The ETF on smart phones was raised to keep people from making a profit by flipping phones on eBay/CraigsList, which they could do since the price they could get was more than the subsidized price they paid plus the old ETF. So punish the innocnet because of a few guilty parties. Yet everyone bashes the RIAA and MPAA when they essentially to the same thing. How are the innocent punished? If you don't break the contract, the amount of the ETF is irrelevant since you never pay it. But I agree that it would be fairer if the ETF were simply the amount of the subsidy prorated over the term of the contract, as others have suggested. |
