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Originally posted by Nysus
You're right.
There's a difference between being billed money and receiving email though; and I still think it's dishonest and not moral.
And, you're right again about 5 or 6 cross-sale boxes - for some.
Some people, like who spam email, who don't have surfers or bookmarkers that they care about, of course they'd want to maximize their present POINT OF SALE revenues - because they won't have the option to make more money from them later, most likely.
Ancient internet form practice doesn't mean it's ethical. 
Exploitation isn't ethical, yet it happens, and it's quite common, doesn't mean it's the best thing.
Matt
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The crazy add-ons that a car salesman pulls on us isnt ethical either ;)
I'm basically agreeing that I dont care for them personally, and when I buy something online (usually a product rather than a service), I read and re-read and read once again the whole page carefully and closely before I press that final Submit button that takes my money..
I'm quite sure everyone does who cares.. you, me, everyone.
I feel similarly about pop-ups incidently, and thats a fair comparison as well. I'm betting that 90% of people really hate them like I do when I'm surfing. Yet we see people working full-time to circumvent the actions that the surfer *specifically* takes to avoid them.
Both the same answer.. the people doing it are realizing a return on investment that makes it profitable to do so...
Not sure what else to add to this other than everyone do your own homework and make the choices of products and services to promote that fall in line with how you want to do business. If a sponsor looks great to you but you dont care for the processor page options, let it be known..