I feel comfortable in stating that they are not designed by Haribo, a candy company.

AdmiralAsshat 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Well, yes, that was my thought. I mean my own employer had some company branded power banks that they gave out to employees. They're crap! But they were requested by the Sales team to hand out as swag at trade shows and whatnot, so they probably didn't put much more thought into it than "Find supplier that can create small power banks, slap company logo on them. Do it cheaply."

I have to think the Haribo power banks were on the same lines, although it's a bit strange that they're actually being sold on the company's Amazon storefront.

	▲	Nexxxeh 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Perhaps it was a rushed tradeshow/employee perk gone awry. Something like: Tradeshow coming up very quickly, previous merch supplier has let the sales team down. Mid-level Haribo employee responsible for merch finds a supplier willing to rush through everything, because let's face it, Haribo are probably going to pay their bills. MoQ is 100 units, which is 1 lot. Sales person intends to order 2000 units, better to be safe than sorry and run out. Accidentally orders 2000 lots of units with 100 units per lot. This isn't noticed until they're already printed and then it's, as they say in the legal profession, no takesie backsies. Haribo suddenly have a lot more power banks than they have booth visitors, and employees combined. Rather than store them indefinitely, they sell them off at cost and shift them quickly though Amazon. This drastically cuts down on warehousing space of small lithium (explosive) packs that the candy people have to store. And kids and grown-ups love it so, with 20,000mAh wherever they go.

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tshaddox 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Indeed, but it is odd that it’s apparently only these Haribo batteries with this design. I’d expect them to be white-label products that many companies resell with their own branding.