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At the coffee shop I frequent, with your purchase you can get a card for 2 hours of WiFi. This seems like a good way to limit your laptop per dollar ratio.
by dmoney 17y ago
At the coffee shop I frequent, with your purchase you can get a card for 2 hours of WiFi. This seems like a good way to limit your laptop per dollar ratio.
- cryptoz 17y agoStarbucks does this, in Canada at least. The gift card (or whatever it is) costs $5 and you get 2 hours of Wifi with it. The trick to circumvent, though, is to use the $5 card to purchase another $5 card. Now you have your original scenario, but four hours of Wifi.
- aardvarkious 17y agoYou mean you get 2 hours of wifi when you buy a gift card, which you can then use to buy anything?
- cryptoz 17y agoYep!
- cema 17y agoSo if I do not use their wifi (use my evdo card instead) and sit there forever with a single cup of coffee, is it ok? Or am I supposed to buy their wifi instead? I am confused about your reasoning.
- dmoney 17y agoWould it be OK to sit there forever reading a book after buying a single cup of coffee? I would say it depends. In this case they don't charge for the WiFi, it just comes with your coffee. My reasoning is that most laptop users will use WiFi, and if they want to use it, they at least have to ask for a new card every couple hours, which involves either buying something or overtly seeming like a leech.