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Re: YMTC: Bluateam Buys Redateam's 2009 Discounted Controller

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Originally Posted by Brandon Holley View Post
Honestly how do you know if NI won't be ok with it?? If NI is offering a discount to every team, they should be more than willing to handle the reprocussions if every single team in FIRST orders a discounted controller. That is just my feeling on the situation.

I agree whole heartedly with what Rich stated above as well.

Brando
An analogy should explain this a bit better.

You work in a store that sells widgets. The store offers a discount on widgets as follows: once per week, each customer in a certain group gets one widget for half price (with a discount coupon). One week, a customer comes in and gets their discount. They return later the same week with a second discount coupon, and say they're buying for another customer (whose coupon it is). The next week, both customers come in and buy a widget apiece using that week's coupon. But, out in the parking lot, you see the customer who the widget bought for them give the widget that they just bought to the other customer. Would you be asking questions?

Sure, NI's probably able to handle everybody getting a discounted controller. If they weren't, I'd expect that they'd have less of a discount. But I'm reasonably sure that they'd reasonably expect that each team buy one discounted one and keep one discounted one, not buy one and give it to another team because they did the same thing with your code.
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