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Re: Time limit is essential

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 8, 2019 1:58AM

On 08/10/2019 08:13, Edelényi Zsolt wrote:
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> I am in doubt that if is a company offer a special discount available
> for 60 seconds is essential exception or not? This is not listed in
> success criterion 2.2.1.

No it's not, unless it's tied to something that goes beyond "because the
company decided to do so".

In the case of an auction site like ebay, a time limit is essential
because that's the fundamental nature of what an auction actually
is...the person who offered the most money at a particular specified
moment in time wins the auction.

A company that decides to offer a discount but only for 60 seconds has
no reason to do that other than "we want to rush people to buy to
generate a perceived artificial scarcity / pressure people into making a
purchase before they can calmly consider it". If the company simply
didn't have the time limit, it would not change the fundamental nature
of the act of purchasing - it's not that it's something that goes bad /
disappears / becomes unavailable somehow after 60 seconds. It's a purely
arbitrary decision on the part of the site.

P
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