Choose Wisely

Yes, we mentioned the blender bottles sale from a couple Saturdays ago in yesterday’s write-up, but we were mostly talking about the bottles themselves. Today, we’d like to talk about the sale.

See, that sale was an experiment. We offered two choices: a rational number of bottles (the 4-pack) for a good price; or an irrational number of bottles (the 16-pack) for an even better price, with no middle ground. We wanted to know, could we bait you into making a totally ridiculous purchase just by making you feel like you’d gotten a ‘great deal’?

The answer, in a fair number of cases, was ‘yes!’ And so here we are again.

Now, before we get to the product, we need to name this as-of-today recurring sale type. Some ideas:

The Excess Express: Because like an express train, there are few stops between where you should go and the end of the line!

DTB: Does it stand for “Down to buy”? Nope! It’s “Direct to Basement.” Because you don’t need to pretend you’re actually going to use all this stuff! Take one out, deposit the rest downstairs with all the other stuff you thought was a good investment!

Any or Many: Pretty self-explanatory. Other option, along these lines: “More or Less.” Other other option, along these lines: “Deal or Mo’ Deal.”

Irrational Numbers: Are these deals really that much like the mathematical concept of irrational numbers? Yes–because the logic of either is hard to explain–but also no–because only one of them will make you feel smart.

(Also, hello nerds, who are right now gearing up to compose some long screed in the comments about how, well, actually, it’s not that difficult at all to explain irrational numbers!)

Anyway, you can vote on those on today’s poll (and give your own suggestions). Who knows! Maybe if this works, we’ll have a whole spin-off site where do only this kind of deal! Eh?!

As for today’s product, here’s some info: they’re power banks, so it’s not exactly as impractical to have a bunch of them as it was with the blender bottles. Also, we sold something that looks like these before, with the shoe sole pattern, but these are the 6000mAh version, whereas last time they were 9000mAh. On the plus side: that means they’re smaller. On the downside: that means they have less charging capacity (each one can carry enough power to charge the average phone about 3 full times, rather than 4 with the other version).

But really, what’s important is THE DEAL! Because think about: at 2 for $12, that’s $6 per power bank. Not a bad price at all. BUT if you opt for 10, and assume that the first 2 cost $6 each, that means the last 8 cost just $24, or a mere $3 each! And if you go deeper and consider that each of those 8 is rated at 6,000 milliamp hours, that means that you’re only paying $0.0005 per mAh! And $0.0005 is basically nothing, and a lot of nothing is still nothing, therefore, WE’RE PRETTY MUCH GIVING THESE THINGS AWAY!

Okay, maybe we kind of flubbed up the logic there. But the question remains: do you want a boring old 2-pack of Xsories 6000mAh Power Banks for $12 or an amazing 10 for $36?!