2.5x3.12=8.75?
Posted Aug 7, 2022, 11:56 PM UTC
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It’s closer to 2 and a half than it is to 3 and you’re getting more than they claim, so I don’t see an issue
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This reads a lot better than "now with 2.7x more!"
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It reads a bit better than 2.734375x more than our 3.12oz size!
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The way this is worded makes me think it’s actually 3.5x.. which is still wrong lol. But if someone said “.5x more” you would be expecting 1.5, not 0.5, of the original.
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People always mix up "more" and "as much" :(
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They did the math and decided to round in the favour of the customer...
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This is shorting the customer.
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Do listed weights always include the container? That's a game changer if true.
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No, never. Guess that guy deleted his comment, but I saw it too.
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Its more complex than that.
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That's only 7.8 ounces
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This is completely fine
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Wait...2.5 MORE than 3.12? The base would be 3.12 and increase 2½ times; that includes the original 3.12.
2.5 × 3.12 = 7.8 7.8 + 3.12 = 10.92 <--- The actual 2½× more than 3.12 total quantity 10.92 - 8.75 = 2.17
They're shorting people. This is typical "value" sized math when one is trying to run a cost effective kitchen and why people shop with a calculator.
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Exactly. I don't know why companies are allowed to make fake math all the time.
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The entire message is just pointless marketing. It doesn’t tell you anything at all about which is a better value since it says nothing about the price relative to the smaller bottle. Sometimes they’ll say shit like “now 20% larger” without mentioning that the MSRP also went up 30%. This one is worse. It’s telling you a larger bottle is larger. I posted it here because it’s doing so incorrectly, or more charitably, imprecisely. But the math is really not the biggest problem with it.
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It literally tells what it is larger than. This is not price related given the presented information. It is actually not charitable and shorting people. More than is always base plus the delta, not just the delta.
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Isn’t that one of these cases where, in the US, you can sue them for 700 million dollars for emotional damages that we always read about in the news?
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I've contacted my lawyer. I think I will realistically get $0 out of it, but they've assured me I will get 2.5X more than that.
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If the company only thinks they are giving them 2.5x more content than their little bottle, then they are giving the customer a serious bonus in "free" content.
Hey fellow ogre!
Yeah. I can’t complain about the actual amount, but I’ll never not complain about incorrect math.
Sup tinyogre. You staying that small forever? I was tiny once upon a time too, but that was a phase I grew out of. :)
I am guessing you’re OnlineOgre for a similar reason. Obviously you’re online! I’ve been Ogre in online spaces for a frighteningly long time. But just plain old Ogre is always taken before we get to a place. Adding “tiny” was a joke from an online game where I was usually Ogre but would switch names when I picked the smallest spaceship. So later when I couldn’t be just Ogre somewhere I just added “tiny”.
We should hunt down u/Ogre and demand to be his second and third heads.
hmm... u/Ogre hasn't posted anything
Someone took the time to swiftly create the account, bagging a prize name in the process.... and then forgot all about it. :(
On a different website, I was SadisticOgre, but apparently that name was verboten by reddit when I was creating this account. So I figured "I'm just trying to get online as Ogre..." when genius struck me, and thus my username.
I feel like this is complications due to making numbers as desirable as legally possible to increase sales.