“We like to do pulling weird stunts on Black Friday.

Cards Against Humanity is known for our charitable fundraising - since 2012 we've raised nearly $4 million for organizations we love like Worldbuilders, the Sunlight Foundation, the EFF, DonorsChoose.org, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Chicago Design Museum. We even started a $500,000 full-ride scholarship for women getting degrees in science. Also, the items are 100 percent real and will be shipped to the purchaser. Last year, they pretended to rebrand as a potato chip company called Prangles and even sold physical product inside Target stores.

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newsletter. Image: Cards Against Humanity By Nick Jaynes 2015-11-29 19:31:05 UTC Cards Against Humanity sold people absolutely nothing for $5 apiece on Black Friday ... and raked in $71,145.

In fact, it seems that the more outlandish the promotion, the more successful it becomes. That’s not an observation on life. One enthusiastic fan gave us $100. This was pretty popular.

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We even started a $500,000 full-ride scholarship for women getting degrees in science. Cards Against Humanity is known for our charitable fundraising - since 2012 we've raised nearly $4 million for organizations we love like Worldbuilders, the Sunlight Foundation, the EFF, DonorsChoose.org, the Wikimedia Foundation, and the Chicago Design Museum. And that kind of work takes resources. After all, the profits from the 2014 anti-Black Friday campaign, the one that mailed people bovine turds, were donated to a charity called Heifer International that provides livestock to developing communities.

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Richardson…, AList is part of the a.network,a Communication Orchestra. Cards Against Humanity co-creator Max Temkin pointed out, though, that selling nothing also means not having to have inventory.

In this case, we found the weirdest, head-scratching stuff we could find, and then let fans have at it.”. In 2014, Cards Against Humanity replaced all games and expansion packs with sterilized bull feces and still managed to sell 30,000 units.

This year we offered our customers the ultimate Black Friday experience - the ability to buy nothing from us for $5. It's the third annual anti-Black Friday stunt from the card game company.

Temkin followed up late Friday with an itemized list of everything he and his 16 his 17 colleagues would spend the money on, which included everything from TVs to expensive scotch to divorce attorney fees to vacations to charitable donations.

“We might be losing a little money now, but in the long run, we hope to make it up in volume,” reads the FAQ.

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“We like to think we’re following in the footsteps of our hero, Jeff Bezos.”, An animated text banner moves around the site with statements like, “Let the savings wash over you,” “Ascend the Crystalline Cathedral of Savings,” “Death is The Ultimate Savings,” “The Prophecy Is Upon Us” and “Fuck you, Jeff Bezos.”, The event drew around 50,000 website visitors on Friday, according to Jenn Bane, Cards Against Humanity communications manager.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net. For poop. We think of our stunts like an improv scene: we start the joke, and then our fans take it and run off with it. For Black Friday 2015, the company simply asked people to send them $5 for nothing in return… they raised over $71,000, much of which was given to charity. If you have already made a contribution to Vox, thank you. Silicon Valley leaders celebrate the Biden win — and send a message to Trump. Sign up for the But, no, they kept the money — briefly. NEW Social Index COVID-19 REPRICED VALUES. Here's what we bought. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. Guaranteed diarrhea.”.

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We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. We did a 360 pivot,” the brand joked on its website.

No action is required on your part, but we encourage you to read and become familiar with our updated policy and Terms Of Service. This year we get to keep the whole $61k!”. In this case, we found the weirdest, head-scratching stuff we could find, and then let fans have at it.”. The stunt ultimately raised $71,145 from 11,248 buyers as of midnight EST on Friday, which is pretty good! You can read the full list of what they bought here. We took our entire store offline, and put up a simple payment form where people could give us $5.

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Even after the economy recovers, advertising alone will never be enough to support it. Items ranged from a poncho you can poop in, to 500 lbs of garbanzo beans. “Yeah, that didn’t work out. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Rather, it’s a literal interpretation of what happened yesterday when the popular politically-incorrect card game Cards Against Humanity “sold nothing” for Black Friday, for $5. “It was totally at cost.

Item descriptions are just as strange and comedic as fans have come to expect from the brand, like this one for an eight-foot gummy snake: “Weighs 27 pounds.

This game of matching politically incorrect or risque cards to complete statements was born of a 2011 Kickstarter campaign and quickly rose to fame especially—and ironically—on Amazon. There's been a lot of speculation about how we would spend the money from Black Friday, and we're happy to announce that this time, we kept it all. “We think of our stunts like an improv scene: we start the joke, and then our fans take it and run off with it. Cards Against Humanity continued its Black Friday tradition of weird promotions and fundraising with a sale of items as random as what you might find on its cards. Cards Against Humanity Sells Nothing on Black Friday, Makes $71,000, Spends It Immediately It's the third annual anti-Black Friday stunt from the card game company.

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About 30,000 people wound up buying them, for a total of $180,000 in sales.

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We don’t know if they will always work, but it’s fun to try. “Last year we sold $180k of bullshit, but none of it was profit,” Temkin said in an email to Re/code Friday evening, shortly after the sale crossed $61,000. Scattered throughout were the brand’s usual brand of humor and criticism of public figures, especially Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. - Max, Ben, Josh, Eli, David, Daniel, and David. But it’s not as good as last year’s Black Friday, when the Chicago-based game company sold boxes of literal bull feces for six bucks. Cards Against Humanity included an FAQ about the event, saying that the sale is in no way profitable, but that they don’t care. Other items were more, shall we say normal, such as a trip for two to Fiji or movie memorabilia from Independence Day.

Each of the strange products was modeled by a man in a red full-body skin suit, which was the last to be sold for $999 (the suit, not the man.)

Every 10 minutes, a new item appeared on a special Black Friday website for 99 percent off and quickly sold out.

Each Black Friday, the brand hosts a strange event that fans can’t seem to get enough of. The implicit message: Election results are in, and Biden won.

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