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Old Nov 24, 2007 | 5:17 pm
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Originally Posted by holtju2
There are lots of new fees. There is a product fee per physical GC in addition to the shipping and handling fee. Also a "mailing" fee for a digital GC is rather stupid.

It seem that they must have learned something from the airlines.
Or the banks. Only the most arrogant or monopolistic industries would prod consumers to do things that save the entity money and then turn around and charge the consumer a premium for that.

I think in this case they're betting the domain name is so "strong" that consumers won't Google around for other options.
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