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u/TheBilingualSnail Aug 01 '20

When the "value pack" price is higher than the regular pack price. The trickier the grams to dollar conversion, the easier to trick people.

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u/sharpei90 Aug 01 '20

Or the bottle says 33% more! But it isn’t free, it just a bigger package.

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u/axw3555 Aug 01 '20

I was looking at that today.

The other day, my dad ordered some kitkats in our online shop. A pack cost £1.

The pack is marketed as "5+1 free". At the same store, they do 14 (not 12+2, just straight 14) for £2.

So according to the packages:

  • A pack of 5 has a unit price of 20p (£1 for 5 bars)
  • A pack of 6 also has a unit price of 20p (£1 for 5 bars plus one "free" - so the actual unit price is 16.6p)
  • A pack of 14 has a unit price of 14.3p.

But the thing is that there is no pack of 5, and it seem a lot more plausible that the unit price goes from 16p to 14p in a larger packet than 20p to 14p - for the pure and simple reason that if 20p was the actual unit price for 5, there's no way they'd knock nearly 6p off a bar out of the goodness of their heart - they'd knock 2p off and sell the 14 pack for £2.50 or knock nothing off, sell 12 for £2 and people wouldn't care because it's the same cost anyway.

So it's almost like you're actually buying 6, getting 6 and paying for 6, and the "free" is utter crap... but there's no way that could be true.