Comment Re:Translation: "Milk Your Biggest Fans" (Score 3, Insightful) 294
More to the point, it's the *opposite* of unscrupulous - the poster is fulfilling his place in the marketplace and the company programs are operating as intended.
He gets cheap stuff because price is important to him and the company makes some minimal profit, while the rest of us who prefer leisure time to saving a few bucks pay more. These discounts are meant to allow a company to capture both ends of the market at the same time, rather than going with only the low end and making little money, or going with the high-end, and losing a bunch of price sensitive customers.
Nothing wrong with having a program with a few holes in it, as long as the customers have to work for the discount.
That said, while price discrimination tends to increase customer satisfaction over all, human logic is dysfunctional enough that many people feel enraged when they learned they paid more than someone else instead of simply enjoying their consumer surplus.
Kind of like the people who sell a little early in a rising market, making millions, and then when the markets kept going up, become distraught because they could have made many more millions.