Not to ruin the absurdity of it, but sometimes they have “until supplies last” on digital promotions because they have a limit on the total number of redemptions.
“we can only make a limited amount of this thing that we could make unlimited amount of”
I think I’m a bit slow today, can I have an ELI5?
Basically the company is “losing” money every time someone claims the promotion because they are giving their service away for free.
Normally, companies will have a good estimate on how many people will make use of the promotion and how much money they will “lose”, but sometimes the reality exceeds expectations and so they put a cap on tbe number of times a promotion can be claimed so as to not get exploited too much.
Btw I say “lose” in quotes because it may not be an actual loss of money but a loss of potential earnings from a customer. Also, don’t worry about the downvotes, I’ve seen many innocuous comments also get a few downvotes for no reason.
In a case like this, I would assume it is a budgetary thing - if your marketing campaign is budgeted at $100k, you wouldn’t want to give away a million dollars of free goods.
I’m so dense… who redeems on what?
Is it like “we didn’t meet the customers needed so we are ending this”? (If so they would need to refund the proprtional part of the 6 months that were not met or something, but I don’t know it this goes into the redemptions being talked about.)
The company providing this promotion has a set budget that covers the “cost” of the giveaway. Since this is a monthly service, that budgetary constraint is likely just the value of 6 months times the number of people they feel is acceptable to lose money on in the efforts of a marketing campaign… Once that allotment has been used, by way of people redeeming the offer, they end the promotion.
The people who redeemed the code or whatever credit to their account is still going to get 6 months of that service. There’s no threshold that has to be met in order for everyone to get it.
Ugh, thanks, I focused too much on the title of the post and was trying too hard to apply the “supplies” in relation to the individual streamed contents, But it is more like the available spots for clients that can get the promotion.
You ruined the absurdity of it
One is zero is?
That isn’t so stupid. The Marketing Dept. only has a Budget so big, and when that runs out they can no longer offer the Promotions.
It’s kinda stupid, for digital things it should be a line similar to “Limited time only”, “While supplies last” has always been for physical deals where there’s an actual limited quantity
Dafuq is a Walmart+
Is that like a Walmart but with extra weirdos from your local community?
Walmart+ is to Walmart as Amazon Prime is to Amazon.
I have a Walmart+ subscription, literally the only thing I’m subscribed to (beyond utilities or whatever).
Why?
I’m disabled, live off of only disability, my car got stolen.
Walmart accepts SNAP, and a + subscription gets you free, same day deliveries from your local store, as well as free 3 day shipping for something they retail but don’t have in stock at the moment at your local store.
Very, very useful for groceries when you have no means to get to a grocery store.
A subscription costs a bit less than $15 bucks a month, and deliveries cost $10 bucks minimum each time otherwise.
… Had I a car, I’d hobble to food banks. But I don’t, and am basically immobile, and still require food to not die.
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You know all those meal kit delivery plans you see everyone advertising on their youtube videos?
Yeah, none of them (that I’m aware of) accept SNAP, even though they easily could, as they’re not sending you hot food.
Instacart, Doordash, and Amazon all claim to take SNAP, but I can’t actually verify that, as I don’t qualify for SNAP.
Amazon does take SNAP for select items in my experience.
Doordash only picks SNAP food from basically gas stations, good luck ordering fresh fruit and produce from Amazon.
Instacart does do pickup from some local grocery stores that take SNAP, kind of, barely, but thats waaaay outta my budget.
