SpongeTech gave away hundreds of thousands of sponges for free since 2007, trying to promote themselves. Just google "spongetech free sponges". Are these being counted in the sales numbers? How much has this cost the company? That's a lot of lost sales at $9.99 ea. I don't know anyone who would actually pay 10 bucks for a car sponge, unless they were trying to promote their investment on youtube. Even then, never saw anyone holding more than one, lol. I also never saw anyone washing themselves with a sponge in the bathtub, unless it was a loofah sponge. How can you scrub clean with a squishy sponge?