PurposeUsing a classification of benefits and costs of promotional offers (Raghubir et al., 2004) along three routes - economic, informational and affective - this paper aims at evaluating, from the consumer's point of view, the relative perceptual disadvantages of separate-item bundles compared...

Virtual bundles are promotional offers in which obtaining free product or money discount is linked to the purchase of a certain number of products presented separately. As it offers numerous advantages to retailers and manufacturers, virtual bundling is more and more used in mass marketing....