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I don't think you understand the purpose of bundling. The purpose of bundling is to provide more than a customer wants. See, for example, your cable/satellite TV bill.

This is not at odds with the idea that if companies thought they could make more by unbundling products/services (like parking), they would. The point of bundling is to make more money, not to give customers more stuff.

Bundling isn't a free-market approach. Forcing a person to buy something he doesn't want to is the opposite of a free-market.

It is a free-market approach - it's providing a product the company wants to provide. Should companies always have to give you whatever split out part of service you want? Should a dry cleaners have to offer you separate services for ironing your left and right pant legs?

The DC area is very difficult to navigate without a car, even if you can commute without one. If you want to go shopping, you need a car. If you want to socialize, you need a car.

Maybe in White Flint this is true, but plenty of us live in DC without a car and shop and socialize using our feet, bikes, and transit.

by MLD on Oct 23, 2012 1:39 pm • link • report

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