[Avodah] Selling open boxes

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, April 20, 2009 11:55 am, Liron Kopinsky wrote:
: Similarly, selling half a box of cheerios may not be worth exactly
: half of the original purchase price, but I see no reason why someone
: couldn't buy it if they so desired.

Don't you think we've descended well into asmachta / haaramah when we
discuss a family going away to a hotel for Yom Tov, and selling open
package after open package?

It's one thing to throw in a bad element in a large deal -- you get
all this stuff, if you take that half a box of cereal that my children
rifled through too. It's another when speaking of dozens of half-used
packages, that while they *could* buy if they so desired, they aren't
plausibly likely to desire it.


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-micha

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