In the dog days of August, BCIT got some media going when they debuted two new sleep pods in their Burnaby campus library.

And it looks like they may have fibbed to reporters about the cost – underreporting it to the media by almost half. From The Vancouver Sun:

Where once students might inadvertently nod off while studying, a cheek pressed into an open textbook on a library table, the two $2,200 pods — each with a vinyl mattress and sliding door to keep the world at bay — allow for a proper shut-eye session.

“They’re designed to allow people to have a quick 20-minute power nap in a comfortable, safe and secure environment,” BCIT library services director James Rout said.

You don’t need a BCIT degree to know that two pods, at $2,200 each, means they spent $4,400.

Uh-uh, says the invoice obtained by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation through the Freedom of Information Act.

Each pod cost $2,300 each, plus $1,150 in shipping, for a total of $5,750. Oh, and that’s in US dollars, meaning the Canadian total is $7,568.73 in today’s exchange rate.

So the “$2,200” pods actually cost $3,784.37 each.

Go back to sleep, BCIT decision makers.