[Avodah] early bird specials and ribbis

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 10:22:19AM -0500, Zev Sero wrote:
: Because there is no prohibition on discounts for paying early.  The
: prohibition is only on surcharges for paying late.  What matters is
: when is the usual time that payment is due...

That's not always well defined. Camps, shul functions... there are
a lot of such examples.

It would seem that it such cases your chiluq would boil down to an issur
on the lashon. Writing:
    Admission: $20, $10 for early birds who sign up by Feb 15th
would be mutar, but writing:
    Admission: $10, $20 for late sign-up after Feb 15th
(or the more common, "at the door") would be assur?

Tir'u baTov!
-mi

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