Cards Against Humanity sold people absolutely nothing for $5 apiece on Black Friday ... and raked in $71,145. 
 
 On Friday, the makers of the lewd card game you're afraid to tell your mother about wiped their online store clean, leaving only a page on which people could give them $5. Surprisingly, 1,199 people logged on and gave. In fact, one fellow gave $100 by repeatedly filling out the $5 payment form, the company wrote in a post on the site. 
 
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 Although the company has a history of charitable giving, having donated over $4 million over the last few years (a fact they're not ashamed to make known), this time they decided to keep the windfall. 
 
 They spent it on themselves in some, ahem, interesting ways and compiled a list of how exactly they divested themselves of their (your) money. 
 
 Image: Cards Against Humanity 
 
 Unsurprisingly, the some of the most common purchases on the list were tech gadgets (mostly Apple products). After laptops and iPads were ticked off the must-have list, along with a few bottles of fine scotch, people unleashed their buying power to some strange places. 
 
 Intern Karlee, for example, bought the $3,120 (discounted from $3,900) YVA 24-karat gold personal pleasure massager. Tom paid $1,500 for LASIK eye surgery and another $384 for piano lessons. And Kara spent $1,607 on a trip to Disneyland for her little sister, while Trin paid a divorce attorney $3,524. 
 
 Clearly, this spending exercise was about people picking up some bigger expenses outside their normal budgets. That said, many staffers set aside some money for charitable giving. 
 
 Jenn, for example, after buying a $1,200 bespoke Robin Hood costume, made a $798 donation to Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, which suffered a tragic shooting Friday. Four other staffers followed suit, donating either to regional Planned Parenthood organization or to the nationwide organization itself. 
 
 All things considered, it seems the Cards Against Humanity staff made fine use of their gift money and will certainly derive much pleasure from their purchases ... especially Karlee. 
 
 Whether people would have given all that money knowing it would go to line the pockets of staffers is questionable, though no one can say they weren't warned. Certainly, the cheeky move is in keeping with the game's spirit. ||||| Black Friday was all-around awful this year, but once again, Cards Against Humanity made out pretty well. The secret to the party game’s success? Asking for your money, and offering nothing in return. 
 
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 Yes, you read that correctly. Yesterday, the creators of Cards Against Humanity launched a “sale” in which they offered to take five dollars off your hands, in exchange for zilch. “The greatest Black Friday gift of all is buying nothing,” wrote the creators of the party game on the store’s website. “We’re offering that for the rock-bottom price of $5.” 
 
 At the time of writing, Cards Against Humanity has raked in over $68,000—not too shabby for what’s literally the worst deal ever. Apparently, openly embracing the dystopian nature of an overexploited consumerism scheme resonates with people. 
 
 
 
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 “Sometimes buying nothing is better than buying Cards Against Humanity,” Cards Against Humanity writes. “This is one of those times.” 
 
 
 
 Hey, at least they didn’t sell actual bull shit this year. 
 
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– Anyone familiar with the Kickstarter game Cards Against Humanity ("A party game for horrible people") has likely also heard about its previous Black Friday antics, including selling actual bullshit, reports Gizmodo. This year the people behind the game have taken their tongue-in-cheek approach a step further by offering nothing—for a price. "The greatest Black Friday gift of all is buying nothing," the creators write. "We're offering that for the rock-bottom price of $5." All in all, 11,248 people decided to chip in, with 1,199 of them giving more than $5 by filling out the form multiple times. One fan did it 20 times to give them $100. Total windfall? $71,145, they write on the Cards Against Humanity site. Just as interesting is how the employees decided to spend it. The company has donated more than $4 million in recent years, reports the Daily Dot, but this time it decided to do a little personal shopping and then share each employee's purchases on its website. And while there was still some charitable giving (most commonly to Planned Parenthood, right on the heels of the attack on a Colorado Springs clinic), other purchases ranged widely and include a whole lot of cat litter for Alex, a $3,120 vibrator for Karlee, $384 in piano lessons for Tom, and a $1,200 Robin Hood costume for Jenn, reports Mashable. (Last year the game's creators purchased a remote island in Maine.)