For anybody who's interested, I called to order two of the three packs in the ad, and got a six-pack for 15.95. That brings the price down to pretty affordable, I think. It's a simple piece of equipment, but one well worth having, especially for someone whose "angling challenged", they take the skill out of knowing when to set the hook. For a real survival situation, I can see a half-dozen rigged as branch sets while I'm busy getting fire wood.
Troy