First, Q should be ashamed of themselves for the utterly crappy market surveys they impose on the community. This Linket example is but one of many faulty survey designs.
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Seriously, I'm not even a marketing person, but I learned in engineering classes how to ask a question that will produce meaningful results. They either don't really care what we have to say or they are mis-using statistics.
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Okay ... got it off my chest, now!

When it comes to mass-market injection-molded plastics, less than 10% of the cost is the thing itself. Most of the cost is in development, packaging, shipping, marketing, etc. I'd be surprised if these things were more than $0.02 a piece.
 
So one or 20, would make very little cost difference for Quirky.
 
If they wanted to gage the impulse buying potential though, quantity is secondary. You can get meaningful results from that, you just have to figure out what question was being asked...
 
(and we all know the answer is "42").

LOL ... 42. Love it!

ScubaEd, you are totally right about the cost versus selling price for the manufacturer ... but as the consumer (the one's being surveyed), the quantity is a big part of the equation.

Are you telling me that you'd be equally willing to pay $6 for 1 piece or $6 for a 20 piece set? I think not.

So my issue stands. What question did the respondants answer? Q doesn't know, so the data is meaningless.

Well it's at least good to know the cardboard is worth more than the cost of producing the Linkets...or something like that.

I answered based on what I assumed would be a retail sized package.
I don't expect it be one, nor do I expect it to be a mega-pack.
But it could be anywhere from 4 to 10 sets...and my estimates would be the same.
That being said, however, I definitely agree it would be helpful for Q to be less ambiguous about the products in Upcoming.

I like Ike!

I also assumed it was a 'set' of linkets that would allow kids to play with. I was thinking 5 to 8.

Yeah ... I also assumed about 8-10 linkets, but I couldn't bring myself to answer a faulty survey. Instead, I went the "I don't like it" route so I could complain in the narrative ... I also offered in the narrative my pricing opinion based on 8-10 linkets (not that Q will look at my words or anything). Then I went to the forums.
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I MIGHT be a little crabby, today ...

hey, as long as you're crabby, pleaase contribute to thispost ...Clinton too! let's help newbies know what to expect. Thansk! http://www.quirky.com/forums/topic/8515

I was all set to answer with a price... until I didn't see any quantity listed, and decided to wait a day to see if Q will fix their error.

Its quality not quantity, :)

Looking at the examples quirky has made a set needs to be around 20 pieces to build a decent structure.

I hunted all over the site trying to find how many they were selling in a pack, got here. Nobody actually *knows* and they're still expecting us to price this? Seriously???

What ever the final quantity, it should be an odd number.

Make it also a prime, and we both would be happy...