Marketing attached to Halloween Candy!

[TAX GUY]

Nope no lie. A mistake in my math and understanding. These are the size we are working with.

http://www.amazon.com/Hersheys-Symphony-Milk-Chocolate-6-8-Ounce/dp/B007FGINVU

Anyway I think it is a great idea, but I do think it highly tacky and rude to post s popcorn pic.

Back to original topic.

I'd still like to see the $2500 total...


and I call hog-wash on the size you're working with. The SKU number tells a different story.

 

[sam_gordon]

Nope no lie. A mistake in my math and understanding. These are the size we are working with.

http://www.amazon.com/Hersheys-Symphony-Milk-Chocolate-6-8-Ounce/dp/B007FGINVU

Anyway I think it is a great idea, but I do think it highly tacky and rude to post s popcorn pic.

Back to original topic.

How do you explain the SKU numbers on the receipt you posted point to 6 pack of candy bars?

 

[SirDuff]

Nope no lie. A mistake in my math and understanding. These are the size we are working with.

http://www.amazon.com/Hersheys-Symphony-Milk-Chocolate-6-8-Ounce/dp/B007FGINVU

Anyway I think it is a great idea, but I do think it highly tacky and rude to post s popcorn pic.

Back to original topic.

Those aren't the ones on the receipt you showed. The two SKUs you show are for six packs of regular sized chocolate bars.

So, either the receipt or your claim is untrue - they cannot both be true.

 

[cheerful chickadee]

cannot believe the lengths people will go to troll on an internet message board

 

[minnie mum]

This thread is hilarious. And how appropriate to have a troll pop up right before Halloween.

If not, then she and her friend are freaking marketing geniuses (genii??). A start up home business pushing a bouncy castle service. And they think that spending $2500 on oversized candy bars (when most kids are quite happy with decent small sizes) plus the cost of the business cards that will go straight into the trash (if they aren't littering the street). Yeah, that's gonna put her name on the map. I can see the Financial Post headlines now.

Is this coming out of her own pocket, or from a start up loan? I would love a glimpse over her accountant's shoulder at year end.

 

[littlejimmy]

Hey coach. Seems the whole board told you it is a bad idea. Its time to cut your losses and quit trying to answer everyones questions. It is just digging you a deeper hole every time. If your friend thinks it is a good idea, and worth the bad word of mouth that is bound to come out of it, and potentially be seen as "that" lady, then go for it, and don't worry about the sensible people on this board, trying to tell you not to do it.

 

[mmouse37]

Almost as bad as my friend's mom's wake. Someone put a business card IN THE CASKET during the wake. Tacky!!!!!

I would hate seeing advertising in my kids ToT bag. I am sick of seeing advertising on every single thing lately.

MJ

 

[Diznygrl]

Ok, so we've got business cards on children's Halloween candy (a practice that is as universally disliked as handing out religious 'fire and brimstone' pamphlets to trick or treaters), spending $5 for one candy bar, and spending a total of $2500 on Halloween candy. Oh, this is too good! I love a good Halloween prank, thanks for the laugh!

 

[TipsyTraveler]

First, I have a hard time believing this is a legit scenario, especially since we've seen the discrepancies between the SKU numbers on the receipt and the candy the OP is now claiming they used. But if there really is a situation of marketing via Halloween candy, I'm skeptical that it's being done by the OP's "friend". OP is adamant about defending this "friend" and, for some reason, is in possession of the receipt that the friend will need for her business records and tax write off.

Secondly, you find the popcorn eating emoji "highly tacky and rude" but don't understand how people could be put off by your efforts to turn trick or treating into a marketing opportunity aimed at three year olds?

 

[CoachTomer]

Hey coach. Seems the whole board told you it is a bad idea. Its time to cut your losses and quit trying to answer everyones questions. It is just digging you a deeper hole every time. If your friend thinks it is a good idea, and worth the bad word of mouth that is bound to come out of it, and potentially be seen as "that" lady, then go for it, and don't worry about the sensible people on this board, trying to tell you not to do it.

Actually not everyone told her not to do it. I don't appreciate the attacks and name calling because I made a math mistake. If she gets business out of it great. It is not for you, but oh well. We all are different. She has a captive audience and I think it is genius!

 

[CoachTomer]

First, I have a hard time believing this is a legit scenario, especially since we've seen the discrepancies between the SKU numbers on the receipt and the candy the OP is now claiming they used. But if there really is a situation of marketing via Halloween candy, I'm skeptical that it's being done by the OP's "friend". OP is adamant about defending this "friend" and, for some reason, is in possession of the receipt that the friend will need for her business records and tax write off.

Secondly, you find the popcorn eating emoji "highly tacky and rude" but don't understand how people could be put off by your efforts to turn trick or treating into a marketing opportunity aimed at three year olds?

Show me where I said I was going to defriend my friend please? Also don't know about your neighborhood, we get three year olds to teens in our neighborhood!

 

[msjprincess]

Actually not everyone told her not to do it. I don't appreciate the attacks and name calling because I made a math mistake. If she gets business out of it great. It is not for you, but oh well. We all are different. She has a captive audience and I think it is genius!

Who said anything about a math mistake?

 

[msjprincess]

Show me where I said I was going to defriend my friend please? Also don't know about your neighborhood, we get three year olds to teens in our neighborhood!

What?

 

[minnie mum]

!Hey, OP. Ask your genius friend how many bouncy house parties she'll have to have to even break even on this stunt.

Oh and the poster said defend not de-friend

 

[Colleen27]

Depending on the business I think it could be a good idea. And I think all the moral outrage about "using" children is rather comical. How many of you who object to this also object to the commercials and show sponsorships that your kids are inundated with every time they turn on the TV? The ads on popular kids' websites? The exit-through-the-gift-shop design at Disney World? Marketing to and through kids is an accepted and proven tactic in our society.

I wouldn't do it because our business has nothing to do with kids. But for something like the bounce house business the OP mentioned? Yeah, that's probably a good way to get the word out.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Show me where I said I was going to defriend my friend please? Also don't know about your neighborhood, we get three year olds to teens in our neighborhood!

In every single one of your posts on page 1 (I didn't bother to look back through the later pages) you are boasting about what a brilliant, wonderful, genius business decision this is from every angle -- the captive audience, as a marketing strategy, as a way to get a tax write off on Halloween candy. You seem to be very much in love with the idea.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

!Hey, OP. Ask your genius friend how many bouncy house parties she'll have to have to even break even on this stunt.

Oh and the poster said defend not de-friend

I didn't even catch that. I responded as if it said "defend".

 

[Rylee]

Why do YOU have your "neighbor's" receipt?

 

[sam_gordon]

Actually not everyone told her not to do it. I don't appreciate the attacks and name calling because I made a math mistake. If she gets business out of it great. It is not for you, but oh well. We all are different. She has a captive audience and I think it is genius!

So what was the mistake? Did she get $25 of candy? 250 bars? 50 bars for $25?

You were given one great idea here... have her set up one of the bouncy houses in her yard. She sits outside, offers free "5 minute" bounces, then sends the kids away with the candy bar with the card attached.

Personally, I would throw out the card, not because I find it tacky, but because I wouldn't use the service. BUT, if that's the kind of thing I might think my kids would like at a party I'd hang onto the card.

 

[SirDuff]

Show me where I said I was going to defriend my friend please? Also don't know about your neighborhood, we get three year olds to teens in our neighborhood!

I think you misread the post you quoted. The PP was talking about you DEFENDING your friend, not DEFRIENDING her.

Actually not everyone told her not to do it. I don't appreciate the attacks and name calling because I made a math mistake. If she gets business out of it great. It is not for you, but oh well. We all are different. She has a captive audience and I think it is genius!

Can you please explain your "math mistake"? I don't see any math. The problem people are questioning is that you said (multiple times) that you paid $4.27 for ONE bar, yet your "proof" showed that you paid $4.27 for SIX bars. No maths there - just a big discrepancy.