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by 27182818284 2089 days ago
>You shouldn’t: you paid for the experience that allowed him to open it in 1 minute.

On the flip side, this was used at one of the first jobs I worked as a teenager selling scummy informational CDs. It isn't that you're paying 6 payments of $29.99 for some CDs, you're paying for John Doe's expert, secret knowledge. We were instructed to use this rebuttal if a customer balked at the price for some CDs.