X-Mini Max Stereo Speakers
- Triple down on it: buy three and you’ll only pay $5 for shipping once, which means they’ll be $5.67 each shipped
- Portable and rechargeable, pretty much just what you want in laptop speakers
- No Bluetooth which is fine because let’s be for real, just plugging in to a 3.5mm aux-in jack is so much easier and faster
- One set by itself will play in stereo, but you can string multiple sets together for loud mono sound
- Listen from the time you wake up in the morning until you fall asleep at night with 18 hours of play time on a charge
- Model: XAM15 (seriously in the running for model number of the year - so succinct, so sharp, plus it’s Google-unique. The mysterious A is the only blemish, but XM15 is a machine gun, so we suppose they had to do something, and it’s accidentally MAX backwards, which is kinda cool)
Triple-Down Economics
Psst. Hey. Listen. We’re going to let you in on a dirty little secret: we are a capitalist company. We buy things for a price and then sell them for a higher price. As Navin Johnson put it, “So it’s a profit deal.”
Now here’s another secret: we’re really weird capitalists. Our goal is usually to move a higher quantity of inventory rather than maximize our profit on any individual piece. We get good prices by buying up all the remaining inventory of something. But we also need lots of new and different things moving through this space right here. So blowing out inventory, even at the expense of some profit, is the Prime Directive.
Here’s how to twist that to your advantage: if you see something you like, and the price is really low, buy three. Triple down on it. The math for today’s speaker set goes like this:
One for $4 + $5 shipping = $9 = $9 per set
Two for $8 + $5 shipping = $13 = $6.50 per set
Three for $12 + $5 shipping = $17 = $5.67 per set
More speaker for you, less profit for us. Short of joining our VMP special people club (unlimited shipping for $5 every month), tripling down is the best way to stick it to the Meh and wring the most juice out of us. But every time we sell something with a single-digit price, we’re always surprised by how few people seem to grasp it.
Take money out of our pockets. Take these off our hands. Take advantage of our bizarre fixation on quantity over profit. We’re counting on it.
But wait a minute. If we’re so into this buying-multiple-quantities thing, you may be suspiciously wondering, why do we limit purchases at 3? Why not 10? 100? Why any limit at all?
Because our prices are so low - lower, in most cases, than the wholesale price we sell these products for - that some other retailer would swoop in and grab them all. What kind of fun would that be? We have a retail store to sell to retail customers. If other retail stores want to buy wholesale inventory from us, they can do it the normal way, not swipe all the good deals from our customers to resell with their own added markup.
Maybe none of this matters. Maybe this all just rings like a hollow marketing pitch, and not even a very sophisticated one. Maybe you’re like “But I only want one set of portable stereo speakers that plays for up to 18 hours on a charge!”
OK, so just buy one, then. Do the thing that will make us more profit. That’ll show us.
