Bullshit offer was really bullshit offer

[Little_Nemo]

There’s a company that makes a game called Cards Against Humanity. It’s a relatively popular game and they have published several expansions and offered some promotional bonuses.

On Black Friday of this year, they announced they were having a special sale. They would be selling “Bullshit” for six dollars to anyone who wanted to buy some.

A lot of people apparently assumed that this was some kind of joke and the actual product would be some secret new expansion or promotional item. But the company was quite explicit in saying that the only thing they were selling was bullshit. A company representative posted this message on the company website: “If you buy the poop expecting it to be something else that’s not poop, you’re actually buying a valuable life lesson for $6.”

But thirty thousand people decided to go along with the joke and see what the sale really was. So this week people began receiving their orders. And they found out that they had paid six dollars for a nice laminated box that contained bullshit. Literal bullshit. Dried manure. Fecal matter from a male bovine.

Now there’s a backlash against the company with people complaining about how they ripped off their loyal customers like this. Me, I think it’s hilarious. The people who ordered Bullshit got exactly what they paid for and what they were repeatedly told they would be getting.

Cards Against Humanity Actually Trolled 30,000 People With $6 Boxes of Poop

[friedo]

They also donated the small net to Heiffer International, which is a nice touch.

[Colibri]

Was it actually bull shit rather than cow shit? If not, maybe they have a case.

[Spiderman]

@Colibri

Was it actually bull shit rather than cow shit? If not, maybe they have a case.

But it was a lot cheaper than cow dung.

[typoink]

Dammit, I’m conflicted. On one hand, that’s some pretty solid trolling. On the other, I can’t stand Cards Against Humanity for ensuring that, at every party I’ve been to for the past couple years, I have to listen to a handful of acquaintances sound like they’re reading tweets from third-rate comics.

[Thudlow_Boink]

@Little_Nemo

Now there’s a backlash against the company with people complaining about how they ripped off their loyal customers like this.

I’ll bite: How can anyone possibly claim this was a rip-off?

[JKilez]

@Thudlow_Boink

I’ll bite: How can anyone possibly claim this was a rip-off?

Because it is a riff on Woot’s Bag of Crap, which they used to offer intermittently for very brief periods and would contain a random grab bag of items. Woot never promised anything, but usually delivered some interesting stuff.

[Flywheel]

You can’t play cards with bullshit, but you can play Bullshit with cards.

[Senegoid]

@Colibri

Was it actually bull shit rather than cow shit? If not, maybe they have a case.

What if it’s steer shit? How does that count?

[ISiddiqui]

I can’t imagine the folks who are so mad they want to sue over it. It’s like they’ve never played Cards Against Humanity.

[Little_Nemo]

@Thudlow_Boink

I’ll bite: How can anyone possibly claim this was a rip-off?

There will always be people who figure somebody else must be to blame for the consequences of their own errors.

[yellowjacketcoder]

Isn’t this the same company that had a black friday where they raised their prices, and still sold a ton of stuff?

[SmellMyWort]

@Little_Nemo

There’s a company that makes a game called Cards Against Humanity. It’s a relatively popular game and they have published several expansions and offered some promotional bonuses.

On Black Friday of this year, they announced they were having a special sale. They would be selling “Bullshit” for six dollars to anyone who wanted to buy some.

A lot of people apparently assumed that this was some kind of joke and the actual product would be some secret new expansion or promotional item. But the company was quite explicit in saying that the only thing they were selling was bullshit. A company representative posted this message on the company website: “If you buy the poop expecting it to be something else that’s not poop, you’re actually buying a valuable life lesson for $6.”

But thirty thousand people decided to go along with the joke and see what the sale really was. So this week people began receiving their orders. And they found out that they had paid six dollars for a nice laminated box that contained bullshit. Literal bullshit. Dried manure. Fecal matter from a male bovine.

Now there’s a backlash against the company with people complaining about how they ripped off their loyal customers like this. Me, I think it’s hilarious. The people who ordered Bullshit got exactly what they paid for and what they were repeatedly told they would be getting.

Cards Against Humanity Actually Trolled 30,000 People With $6 Boxes of Poop

So where is this supposed backlash? There certainly isn’t any displayed in your linked article. Everyone I know who ordered it wasn’t expecting anything more than what they got.

[Quimby]

Don’t even ask me about my Toy Yoda…

[pulykamell]

@SmellMyWort

So where is this supposed backlash? There certainly isn’t any displayed in your linked article. Everyone I know who ordered it wasn’t expecting anything more than what they got.

Even better, there is at least one person who’s auctioned off the poop successfully for $36.

(And, ditto, where is the backlash? Certainly it’s not in that article or the video contained within.)

[Flywheel]

@pulykamell

Even better, there is at least one person who’s auctioned off the poop successfully for $36.

Do you know of the experiment performed by Martin Shubik, in which a dollar bill was auctioned off for S3.40? This was a consequence of a rule (the implications of which dawned on the subjects only when they were already hooked) specifying that while the highest bidder got the dollar, the second-highest bidder would also have to pay what he last bid. It thus became imperative to keep going, since the second-highest bidder (whoever he was at each stage) had progressively more to lose as the bids went up.

• Anatol Rapaport