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Test: HSPT Reading
"Online Shopping Options" by Matthew Minerd (2013)
Often, online retailers provide special “favored customer” options that allow customers to spend a small subscription fee in order to receive special pricing and shipping options. Often, these customers believe that they are receiving a great deal of savings, particularly if this option greatly reduces the costs of having items shipped. While such an arrangement can allow someone to make previously planned purchases at a great discount, it likewise can become a great temptation to spend much more money than they would ever have spent had they not had the “favored customer” status.
| 1. | Which of the following sentences would best conclude the paragraph in a way that follows from the main idea of the paragraph? |
Such customers almost always spend all of their money because of these dishonest ploys.
This dishonest practice has grown in recent years with the increase in logistics systems and improvement in delivery methods.
The extraordinary greed of such companies is beyond belief and should be prosecuted in court.
These plans are extremely new and will only prove their profitability with the test of time.
Therefore, customers should be aware that "favored customer" statuses ultimately aim to generate outcomes in favor of the seller as well as the customer.
