Only if you get two.
I was wanting to buy say, an Enya CD…
I would be happier if I get one for half price, rather than getting two of the same album for full price.
50 percent off and buy 1 get 1 free are the same deal.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Sackeshi@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Comments
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Objectively wrong.
pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The best kind of wrong!
crandlecan@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Not at all. Half price for one, versus half price for at least 2…
TAG@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And you still have to buy an even number. Also, only if all items are the same price.
Sackeshi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s the same percentage paid for the items. 2 for the price of 1 or 1 for half price.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Lets say i sell you one thing for 5 bucks. And i also want to sell you 100 of the things for 500 bucks. Are these the same deal to you? Why not? The savings are the same no?
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As everyone has pointed out, only if the plan was always to buy two.
RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
One moves twice as much product as the other.
crimeschneck@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
To be even more precise than the other comments: This is only the same deal if you buy an even number of them.
remon@ani.social 2 weeks ago
That’s just wrong.
Easy example: There is an item for $10, but you only have $5.
If the item is 50% off, you can buy it. If it’s a buy 1 get 1 deal, you can’t.
Ashiggan@eviltoast.org 3 weeks ago
Am I dumb as fuck or is OP just wrong?
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Well if you buy two of the thing, then the two deals are functionally the same. However, if you only want to buy one, then it’s not the same thing. One gives you thing at half price, the other makes you spend the same amount as full price but gives you double the product
thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 3 weeks ago
I think they aren't quite the same: "buy 1 get 1 free" means that you only get a discount if you remove at least 2 units of inventory from the store. If I wanted to encourage people to clear out shelves in order to make space for new inventory (like an entirely new product or the same product but with more distant expiration dates), I might be inclined to use "buy 1 get 1 free" (or something like "buy 3 get 1 free") rather than just reducing the base price: if someone only gets the discount if they help me clear the shelves it might make our incentives more aligned.
A "buy 1 get 1 free" deal might also make it easier to reinterpret statistics: being able to say "we sold 100 units at a price of $2 for each unit (but there was a buy 1 get 1 free deal)" might be more useful than being able to say "we sold 100 units at a price of $1 for each unit". Also, information about who took advantage of the deal and who didn't might be interesting (based on what was bought at the same time or tracked with a "loyalty program"), but a constant discount doesn't make that information available since it applies to everyone equally.MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Would you rather buy a car that’s 50% off, or a car that’s BOGO
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Would depend on whether you have use for two cars
basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Y’all, they are not wrong mathematically if you are buying things in pairs, it only doean’t work if you are buyng an odd number of things. So not entirely as wrong as you all seem to be indicating…
ccunning@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your argument “They’re the same only under specific conditions” only proves they’re not the same.
basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I was merely saying that those ‘specific conditions’ occur half of the time though, so I do not beleive that is entirely crazy to say they are not so different.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Your last name must be Javascript.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
And two for the price of one
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Only of you need two of the same thing.