12/26/2024
Thereâs one capitalist scam that even your faithful co-op shop canât fully escape: the sale. Yes, sometimes sales are real! Sometimes items get discontinued for a new model, or a toy just doesnât sell as well as weâd hoped (the hat comes off, people!). Or, a business is literally going out of business (not us, donât worry).
But letâs be real: most sales are fake. I know this because Iâve spent a good chunk of my adult life looking at sales. Iâm on all the crappy discount toy shop sites all the time, and hereâs the truth: for the stuff people actually want, the prices rarely change. Sure, the â20% offâ discount last week might magically turn into â40% offâ today, but the base prices? They stay the same.
As a co-op that strives to be honest and ethical in everything we do, this creates a dilemma. We could write a little app (yeah, we do that) to fudge our prices like everyone else and make it look like our discounts are deeper than they are. Or, we could stick to our principles, watch other less scrupulous actors manipulate people into buying from them, and risk not being able to make rent next month.
Maybe thereâs a secret third option.
Letâs break this down.
We want you to be happy, and we want to be happy. Statistically speaking, it seems likely that different things would make different people happyâsome folks probably want to get something they actually wanted for the holidays, some folks probably donât need anything but maybe want to support us anyway, and some folks probably donât want to read a long-ass post from us today and arenât reading this now anyhow.
Fundamentally, in this context, what makes us happy is making you happy. We just want to spread s*xual health, pleasure, and education across the land, meet you where youâre at, and make it easier for you to access and actualize your s*xual selves.
So, for this Boxing Week, weâre offering you an opportunity to be kind to your future selfâŠ
âŠand a sweet, sweet hedge against the tanking Canadian dollar.
Head on over to our site to grab yours this week only.