Door-to-door salespeople asked consumers to buy a box of Christmas cards to support a local charity. In the control condition, consumers were told that the price was $3. In the confusion condition, consumers were told that the price was “300 pennies…that’s $3---it’s a bargain.” Twice as many boxes of cards were purchased in the confusion condition than in the control condition. Davis and Knowles (1999) suggested that confusion can distract the conscious mind, reduce resistance to persuasion, and increase suggestibility. They also suggested that confusion can encourage consumers to focus on concrete details and that this can increase susceptibility to persuasion. However, Kardes and Cronley (2000) offered a different interpretation: Confusion can increase the need for closure, or the desire to complete a task quickly (Kruglanski & Webster, 1996), and this encourages people to use any simple information (“that’s $3---it’s a bargain”) to form an opinion quickly.