Why Dorm-In-A-Box is so good on so many levels!

We’re into research and this is what we’ve found... Dorm-In-A-Box is Good for your Students, Good for your University, and Good for the Environment. Here’s why:

Our Research! – Over a two year period, Dorm-In-A-Box has completed three extensive student/parent surveys with feedback and analysis from well over 1000 participants. Further, we have conducted six formal focus group meetings with students from five diverse Universities across the United States. We have solicited formal input from administrators including Vice-Chancellors, and Vice-Presidents at over a dozen prestigious Universities nationwide.

Ultimately consumers vote with their pocketbooks, even for education, and we at Dorm-In-A-Box strive to understand the purchasing process as it relates to the freshman experience.

So we provided the full cost/benefit analysis of the Dorm-In-A-Box consumer product proposition including the environmental & economic impact, as well as the benefits and dynamics of our model. We asked several hundred survey respondents:

If your University provided all of your dorm room essentials priced 65% - 70% below regular retail price, was in your dorm room upon arrival eliminating the time and expense of transport to school, and impacting the environment positively, please respond to the following:

88% of parents responded favorably stating, “Yes, I would want the University to purchase this on my behalf.” 76% of blended student & parent participants responded favorably, with parents accounting for less than 20% of the mix.

Good for your Students! — Dorm-In-A-Box provides a convenient turn-key model focused on the needs of today’s freshman student. We deliver over $1200 worth of residence hall essentials for as little as $399 and do it in the most unique and efficient manner anywhere in the world. In fact we’ve applied for a patent for our methodology and the comprehensive Dorm-In-A-Box concept.

Good for your University! — For over two decades, college costs have risen at an annualized rate of over 6.5% far outpacing the rate of inflation. Price elasticity of education has been greatly impacted with the recent economic down-turn. Dorm-In-A-Box not only provides a credible marketing tool which generates enormous goodwill, it is a smart way to demonstrate quantitatively the growing concern over escalating costs. Dorm-In-A-Box resonates on several levels consistant with the goals of most universities to: (1) promote sustainability, (2) support cost containment, (3) enhance affordability, (4) create cost and price transparency, (5) support student diversity, and (6) provide equal access to education.

Good for the Environment! — The folks at Dorm-In-A-Box began their career in the Outdoor Industry working for companies like The North Face and Timberland. We’re environmentalists first and we strive to minimize the footprint of our consumer products concept whenever we can. So what is the potential environmental and economic impact of Dorm-In-A-Box at a typical Top-100 University?

• We will save students & parents $2,107,500 or MORE! You could buy 100 brand new Honda Accords when factoring the real cost of goods savings, transportation costs, and time spent shopping. We will save students & parents 22,800 hours of shopping time or MORE!
• Based on the median family income of students, that’s worth $268,750 !
• We will save students & parents 64,500 miles of driving or MORE!
• You could drive around the earth Two and One Half times !
• We will save students & parents 3750 gallons of gasoline or MORE!
• That’s 72,750 pounds of CO2 that doesn’t contaminate the environment!
• We will save students & parents 28,750 pounds of packaging waste or MORE!
• That’s nearly 14.4 tons of landfill equal to the weight of 2 adult African elephants!