Promotional campaigns sometimes offer you a free gimmick if you buy enough of the product within a prescribed time frame: “Buy 20 packs of coffee within the month, send in the coupons (or copies) plus 50 dollar to cover shipping and handling costs, and win a free cardiac arrythmia meter”. The “or copies” statement I have always found fascinating. Is this unique to the Netherlands and based on some arcane law? Or is it a marketing gimmick; as long as people feel they can send in 20 copies, they will keep buying the product? <\/p>\n
(The actual word used is “natekenen”, which means “copy by hand”.)<\/p>\n
And what kind of license is this? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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