SezMe
2nd October 2004, 11:51 PM
I just happened across some woo items for sale on the web tonight and was just blown away by the silliness. I got to wondering what is the silliest thing out there.
So I defined a Cowflop Index as:
CI = (Sale Price) / Usefulness
but quickly realized that the denominator was zero so CI was not very useful.
As a practical matter, then, I modified my definition to be:
CI = (Sale Price) / (Production Cost)
Now I know we probably won't have any information about actual production cost, but order of magnitude estimates are acceptable.
Now to the thread topic. What is the maximum value we can find for CI?
To start off, my opening nomination is here (http://www.energels.com/products.asp). Slide down to "PX EnerGelâ„¢ Bootie" and note that the price is per boot! (although this does not affect the CI)
I estimate CI = $89/$0.1 = 890
What CI can you come up with? And no cheating with zero production cost. Everything costs something to manufacture.
Edited to add: There are also numerous high CI items for sale at the same site...note, especially, the water:)
So I defined a Cowflop Index as:
CI = (Sale Price) / Usefulness
but quickly realized that the denominator was zero so CI was not very useful.
As a practical matter, then, I modified my definition to be:
CI = (Sale Price) / (Production Cost)
Now I know we probably won't have any information about actual production cost, but order of magnitude estimates are acceptable.
Now to the thread topic. What is the maximum value we can find for CI?
To start off, my opening nomination is here (http://www.energels.com/products.asp). Slide down to "PX EnerGelâ„¢ Bootie" and note that the price is per boot! (although this does not affect the CI)
I estimate CI = $89/$0.1 = 890
What CI can you come up with? And no cheating with zero production cost. Everything costs something to manufacture.
Edited to add: There are also numerous high CI items for sale at the same site...note, especially, the water:)