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I do it the other way round: I download it first then buy it if I liked it. This way I only support people who deserve it imo.

Do you only pay at restaurants where the food was good?

Do you only pay for your groceries after you've eaten them and they meet your standards?

Do you only pay for gas after you successfully complete a journey?

LOL'd at this comment, but wouldn't pay for it.

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If there's some serious issue with the food I'll complain and refuse to pay unless it's changed.

I only pay for groceries after checking they're fresh and seem of good quality.

Anyone knows gas is useful, so there's no need to check it before paying for it.

And since those products are completely different, there's no point in comparing them.

It'll be better something like "Do you only buy the DVD set after watching the series on tv?" "Do you buy a CD after listening to some of the songs?"

(For the record I usually only buy books after reading at least one chapter, usually in the bookstore itself. Books are too expensive to ever thinking in buying one without being sure if I'll like it)

Lol like anon above pointed out, this comparison is absolutely ridiculous. If your food at a restaurant is absolutely terrible, you can indeed refuse to pay until it's changed to your satisfaction. You can inspect your food at a grocery store before you buy it, and if something is wrong with it that is only revealed upon opening, take it back for a full refund. And if the gas you buy is of poor quality and damages your engine/doesn't get you where you want to go you certainly can not only get your money back, but sue the business that sold it to you.

You can't just take a book back because "it's shit" so I don't blame people who download to try it out first if the author doesn't offer sample chapters. It's not like albums where you can often hear the band's songs on the radio for free and decide if you like it before you buy, or films where if you walk out in the first half hour or so they'll refund the ticket price. I mean, I'd recommend getting it from a legal free source like the library to sample, but if the library doesn't have and the author doesn't put samples up (many do!) then nothing else out there expects you to pony up for something that turns out to be garbage, so by all means, don't pay.

You can't just take food back just because you decided halfway through that "it's shit" either.

You're confusing "defective" with "not to my taste."

Haha way to mine for the one example that might marginally apply to in your sad defense, anon. You can leave a movie and get your money back if it's "not to your taste", you can sample songs and send back restaurant food for the same reason. And there is no "taste" to gasoline of course, but it was you who brought up that asinine example in the first place, positing that it "might not get you were you want to go" - i.e., it might be defective. This is literally your analogy I'm working with here. Grocery stores also clearly display what something is and often have samples of new products so that you can decide without paying for something first, so you still don't have a defense here.

Besides, some books are not "not to my taste" and quite literally "of poor quality" from an objective point of view, as well. Sample first, don't pay until you know you want it. It's how everything else works - from music to films to clothing to cars. Like I said, legally if you can - browse in bookstores or the library or samples chapters, but if none of those are available, don't pay for garbage or before you've had a chance to sample.

I literally do not know a single store out here where I live in the US that gives out free samples for every new product. You'll be lucky if they give free samples of something they're promoting.

The grocery stores in my area always have samples of new products on weekends, and you can try a taste of things in the deli, usually.

...I have no idea why they expect you to buy something new you've literally never tried before, otherwise. That seems bizarre. What if you hate it?

It's beside the point though, because everything about restaurant food, films, music, etc. still entirely applies.

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