Our most recent question, we feel, should have come up a long, long time ago. ‘DannyKLizK’ asked, “You carry the COMPLETE Water Test Kit and the Water Quality Test Kit. Why does the COMPLETE one cost less?”
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Quite honestly, we have asked ourselves that very same question ever since the Water Quality Test Kit came on the market. But, when WE asked, we got an answer to the effect of, ‘Well we already a Complete water test kit and we can’t up and change the name… so what would you have us do, call the new kit the More Complete Kit?’
In other words, the seemingly backwards naming for the two water test kits resulted from a combination of the following: 1) Improved water quality testing technology; 2) Public demand for a larger, more comprehensive water test kit; and 3) A slight lapse in marketing foresight on the part of the manufacturer.
In the manufacturer’s defense, however, they also could have had only one test kit called COMPLETE and kept adding more tests to it as demand required, but then the price would have just gone up and up and up… leaving them with no reasonably priced test kit on the market.
What does each test kit contain?
So naturally the question becomes, ‘What makes the one kit more expensive?’ We will answer that question with the table below:
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In the COMPLETE Water Test Kit: 2 x Alkalinity, Total |
In the Water Quality Test Kit: 2 x Alkalinity, Total |
The difference?
The COMPLETE Home Water Quality Test Kit contains everything that the Water Quality Test Kit contains except tests for lead in water and pesticides in water.
Sold on their own, the lead in water test typically sells for about $10 and the pesticide in water typically sells for about $20.
