Re:“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow”
by jsprogrammer on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @03:12PM
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Would seem trivial to itemize the costs and have them paid directly by the parties so as to avoid 'compensation'.
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Re:“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow”
by pc86 on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @03:14PM
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How is even partial reimbursement not by definition compensation?[0]
Re:“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow”
by jack-r-abbit on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @04:38PM
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If you send me to get you lunch and I pay for it, say $8, with my own money, you would reimburse me the $8. If you gave me an extra $1 for my trouble, you have compensated me.
Re:“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow”
by Spivak on Wednesday December 23, 2015 @12:51AM
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Isn't that a bit of an artificial distinction? If the time it took for you to get his lunch is worth $1 then he's still simply reimbursing you for your incurred costs. Just because you left the situation with more currency than you started with doesn't mean you've made a profit.
Re:“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow”
by jsprogrammer on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @03:28PM
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It would not be reimbursement if it were not structured that way.
See: fractional ownership
Re:“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow”
by pc86 on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @03:42PM
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Honestly I have no idea how you'd structure a flight sharing business in a fractional ownership way such that nobody is actually being compensated for anything.
Re:“We are left with no choice but to shut down Flytenow”
by jsprogrammer on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @04:26PM
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Ah, my impression was that the claim was that flight sharing wasn't a business (and therefore should not be treated as common carriage).