“…In such context, there is an easy case for marketing that invites consumers to even anticipate their rebuys. 1 There is a significant literature dealing with different issues related to the control of the flow of commercial returns; see, e.g., Pasternack (1985), Davis et al (1995), Padmanabhan and Png (1997), Tsay (2001), , Su (2009) and Shulman et al (2010).…”