Let’s chalk this one up to people feeling generous around the holidays: When the makers of the card game Cards Against Humanity raised prices in a parodic Black Friday “sale” last week … its sales also went up.
“Anyone can do a sale for Black Friday, but nobody but us could get away with raising their prices and risking a ton of sales just to make a joke,” the game’s co-creator, Max Temkin, wrote on Tumblr.
“So how did we do? A little better than last year. We kept our position as the best-selling toy or game on Amazon. My guess is that peoples’ buying decisions just weren’t that affected by $5,” he wrote farther down in that post.
Even though it brazenly advertised itself as costing more than it normally does, the game outperformed its sales from both the previous (normally priced) Black Friday and the week of normally priced days before the “sale.” Sales increased even more the following day, which Temkin called “Regret Saturday.”
“Not bad for an ad that paid us to run it,” he wrote.
Помните момент из Властелина Колец, когда на мосту Казад–Дума Гэндальф закричал "Бегите, глупцы!", а сам вышел один на один с Барлогом, чтобы не делиться с командой экспой за рейд на босса? А в следующей книге появляется весь белый, в новом легендарном шмоте и все такое. Вот жеж скотина!
Из комментов:
Непостижимо, что такие люди делают в политике:
не понял ни одного ответа из серии "в стиме уже есть".
— Alexey Navalny (@navalny) November 7, 2013
Источник, и в нем же прекрасное развитие темы — переложение (почти) всей песни на картинки.
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