You tell them you will buy their plain cake, but only if they put icing on it, and then then they say, okay we guess we'll put icing on the cake even though we wanted our cake to have no icing on it, and then you say okay, then I'll pay them for this cake after all. Then they say, hey, if you pay us a bit more, we'll let you eat a slice of this cake, to try it out and see if it actually tastes good and to let us know what we can do to improve the taste of our cake, and you were then dumb enough to pay them for that slice of cake with no icing on it, with the understanding that you'd still be able to buy the cake with icing on it later. But then after that, they say no, we're actually not going to put icing on this cake after all, and we're also not going to give you your money back that you paid for the whole cake with icing on it, because you ate that extra slice of cake with no icing that you paid extra for.
In that case, no, you weren't "blackmailing" them into putting icing on the cake. You were simply informing them when they tried to sell you the cake that their cake was inferior to a cake with icing on it. They had the option then to say well, fuck you, if you don't want our cake with no icing on it, we'll sell it just to people who enjoy our plain no-frills cake. But oh, wait, there aren't enough people out there who want our shitty icing-less cake. So what they did instead was the straight up lie and say yeah, we'll have icing on this cake, just so that everyone who wanted icing on the cake would pay for icing on the cake, even though they never had any intention of ever putting icing on the cake.
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Date: 2014-11-21 05:47 pm (UTC)From:In that case, no, you weren't "blackmailing" them into putting icing on the cake. You were simply informing them when they tried to sell you the cake that their cake was inferior to a cake with icing on it. They had the option then to say well, fuck you, if you don't want our cake with no icing on it, we'll sell it just to people who enjoy our plain no-frills cake. But oh, wait, there aren't enough people out there who want our shitty icing-less cake. So what they did instead was the straight up lie and say yeah, we'll have icing on this cake, just so that everyone who wanted icing on the cake would pay for icing on the cake, even though they never had any intention of ever putting icing on the cake.