What else happened at Disneyland last Sunday?

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by mousepod

You haven't heard my show yet, so you have absolutely no idea how I'm going to frame it for the audience.

Other than:

Originally Posted by mousepod

Starting with the next MousePod, I'm going to suggest that all of my listeners who are interested in buying Park merchandise go to lp, check out what they want, and call Disney mail-order. Simple as that.

That's all the framework I need to believe that it is unethical. Take advantage of one service at no cost then buy elsewhere. In the grand sceme of things, not all *that* unethical, but unethical none-the-less.

Originally Posted by mousepod

Truth is never unethical.

Now this is an interesting statement. If I were to find out you home address, phone number, etc. and published it here, would that be unethical? I think it would be and therefore would not do it.

For my job, I work for a print broker. That means we "buy" printing services from companies and "sell" it to our customers. If my vendors approached my clients and told them for how much and where I was purchasing this from, not only would this be unethical, there would probably be basis for a lawsuit.

To make this more specific...

Originally Posted by mousepod

What I think is unethical, is LP performing a "service" and not telling their audience that they're charging more than 35% for the service. If they simply stated that they were marking the prices up that much and why their service was better and easier than DeliverEARS, no sweat. They don't. Instead, they rely on the ignorance of their readers to turn a profit.

Okay, if you think that the business practices of LP and MS are unethical, are you going to stand outside your local 7-11 to tell people they can buy most of the merchandise in the store much less expensively? And then go to that supermarket and tell them they can now get a lot of that merchandise even less expensively at Costco, Walmart, etc.?

Heck, for that matter, once you find the cheapest possible place to buy something, should that place be required to show how much they purchased said item for?

Should the local gas station be required to post where in the area you can purchase the same brand cheaper? Should employers be required to tell employees where they can get paid more for the same job (and employees be required to tell their employers how much less somebody is geting paid for doing the same job elsewhere?). Should Disney ticket sellers be required to tell the guests how much it costs to get into Knotts? Shall I go on?

You are perfectly entitled to inform people that they can purchase items they want for less at another place - happens all the time and is perfectly legit. This is a wonderful component of the free enterprise system: caveat emptor. but to 1) believe that what LP and MS are doing is "unethical" is ludicris, and 2) tell people how to usurp a system as has been inferred is unethical and hypocritical. You are perfectly entitled to do it, I just don't agree with it.

I don't really give a rip about MS and LP. I purchased one item from MS last year only because a friend told me they had it and I never saw it in the park (a Mickey trailer hitch cover). I didn't have to pay S/H because I made a local pickup. Other than that, I have never gone to either of these sites.