26th July 2007, 2:23 PM
Not really. The thing you forget GR is that 50% off doesn't mean you HAVE to walk out of the store with just one. You could also leave with two, benefiting in the SAME WAY as someone who got the two for one deal. Since you can do the same things the two for one deal can, but you can ALSO just get ONE thing, 50% off is superior, always, absolutely, in every situation.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)