Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-5422361-20151223172828/@comment-27306930-20160103050555

OK Finn, it's been 10 days so I'll take your bait. YES. The answer is Yes, the Modulus was cleary designed around a boardroom table in an effort to maximize profits and ensnare a whole new generation of Nerfers, as well as countless unsuspecting parents buying spur-of-the-moment birthday gifts for 8 year olds. The conversation went something like this: "Let's sell them a $30 blaster, then give them twenty meaningless upgrades for 15 bucks a piece, so they'll spend $200 on a blaster worth um, maybe fifty bucks. Like a barrel extension-extender, and a double shoulder stock, or a 1X triple magnum scope" ;-)

It's so blatant, I've commented on it several times on other threads. It's a marketing tactic used in other industries to "upsell" customers and get them to spend 50% to 100% more than they would have on the same purchase. Barf.

I bought a RapidStrike last week on Amazon for $20 with free shipping and no tax. Is there a reasonably well educated, normally socialized human being who's going to tell me I got screwed because I could have gotten a stripped down Modulus for only $29.95.

Yeah, I don't think so either ;-)