That's what I'm here for...

Tim

 

Say you have two groups of marbles..five in each group. By moving just one marble from one group to the other, you have decreased one group by one and, at the same time, increased the other group by one, effectively creating a change of two since one group now has four...the other six. However the total for both groups remains ten. Pretty amazing stuff. Hopes this helps.

 

But the store was selling marble #2 for half price.???..They didn't move half the cost of the 2nd marble to the price of the first one... At least I don't think they did...

 

If you were at a store that had a buy 2 get one free sale, would you expect to be able buy one and get one half off?

Tim

 

Yes.

 

You dummy-I picked the second choice, just because you're the kind of person that would go to an outlet mall then argue about the sale.

Actually, it is sort of a good point, but the way those systems work I don't think she would even be able to ring it up like that.

Now that I re-read the post, how about you do this-pay full price for the 1st one, 1/2 price for the 2nd one, full price for the 3rd one, and you can take the 1/2 price for the 4th one, apply it to the 2nd one, get the 4th one for free (since you obviously want something for free), the store can have their money, you can have your free cup, come on here, tell everybody about the great deal you got, and then realize that you have 4 coffee cups that you didn't really need, but by now you probably only have 2 or 3 cups because those things tend to get lost, so in your mind you didn't really make out by buying those extra cups, you just spent extra money for something you don't even have anymore.

And to everybody that read that rediculously long, rambling, poor excuse for a run-on sentence...I'm sorry. You can borrow some of my sanity until yours returns (if you can find mine that is).

 

I think what everyone is missing is this:

If the cups were say, $4 each, here's how it works.

Buy one cup at $4, you get $2 credit for the second cup, so it only costs $6 total.

If you buy TWO cups at $4 each (FULL price!) you should get $4 credit, so the THIRD cup is FREE. You pay $8 for three cups.

That's the missing part, paying FULL PRICE for the first two cups.

So, yeah, I see your point. But you know full well, no one is going to realize it makes sense, AND they could sell the fourth cup at full price, which makes more money.

Likewise, for four cups, buy-on-get-one-half-off, it's a total of $12 for four - or $3 each.

Why not just sell them for $3 each in the first place? Because enough people will buy only one cup and pay full price?

It's a gimmick. Nothing else.

 

You do realize that who-voted-for-what can be seen when clicking on the vote count in the poll?

 

I was thinking the same thing.
And my brain hurts from all that fuzzy logic so I'm not really going to comment on the OP

 

Art, you just contradicted yourself. If they're $4 each full price, or 2 for $6, then you're getting 25% off. If you buy 3 for $8, you're getting 33.3% off of $12 (3 cups @ $4 each), not the 25% off. If they paid 70% of list price, then they would be losing money at 33.3% off, but not at 25% off. But you said they should just sell them for $3 each, which means 3 cups would cost $9, not $8.

Another way they could have worded the sale is, "25% off each pair of cups, odd cups full price".

Jason

 

anybody getting visions of that long famous thread about the airplane taking off from a treadmill???? hahahaha yea i could see this going that way. Stu, i am with ya, but i'm not sure you would find that encouraging with my rep around here!! WOO, WOO, shake......! sorry i think i just helped to bury you somemore. Dan

 

Leave it to a gear head to come up with a solution like that!

But seriously, I get it, it's just that at the time, my little brain was insisting that my thought process was as logical as wiping after you poop!

 

I didn't say anything about percentages

Buy one cup, get 50% credit towards the next cup. Buy two at full price, get TWO 50% credits, that equals one free cup. Makes perfect sense to me...

And, I wasn't making a direct correlation between $3 each, and the actual sale ... Just saying "why not sell them at $3 each, and be done with it" ... not saying the sale was for $3 each...

 

Whats 50% off something already 50% reduced???



(Not that this is relevant - the store is basing it on turnover... and a basic 25% discount)

 

75 % off the original price !