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  • 27-12-2011 7:31pm
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    Eric Cartman
    Registered Users Posts: 26,283 ✭✭✭✭


    Was recently in a newsagents and when asking for bensons I was offered a 23 pack for 9.75 , thought this was odd so went for it , they were in the older style square corner pack.

    I can see their logic : 20 @ 8.90 = 44.5c a smoke whereas 23 @ 9.75 = 42.3c a smoke, so if you manage to stick to 20 and not go up to 23 youd be saving 44 cent per 20.

    any other brands doing this ?


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,245 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Purely a way to make you smoke and spend more.

    I used to eat a lot of biscuits, you know the way you sit done with a packet and suddenly you are on the last one? Now I buy cake and I'll have two slices, I won't eat the whole cake.


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    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,059 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Same thing happened me earlier today. They had no 20 pack and offered me 23 instead.

    I laughed a little inside at the thought of 10 packs being banned


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    Mimikyu
    Registered Users Posts: 18,904 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Captain Morgan wrote: »
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    Two possibilities come to mind:
    1. Keep the price below €10
    2. The cost of making and processing packets of a particular size (a 23-pack is one cigarette longer than a 20 pack, and might need minimal resetting of machines).


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    cloud493
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    Do they have a lot of these 23 packs?


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    hiscan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,105 ✭✭✭hiscan


    I always found these packs great as some days I'd smoke more than 20 a day but now I've been told they've been discontinued because people were complaining that the box was too big for their pockets. :mad:
    I f the box was too big,why didn't they just stick to buying the 20's?


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    Mimikyu
    Registered Users Posts: 18,904 ✭✭✭✭Mimikyu


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