With Halloween just a few days away, many vampire energy loss or vampire power metaphors are being punned by bloggers, columnists and marketers. For instance — “Do Vampires exist? They do in your home electronics“, or “Vampires lurk in your home — beware!“.

It’s expected this time of year. We’ve read countless Count Dracula – vampire electronics correlations – the most obvious for metaphoric preying.

What we do want to use the Halloween metaphor for is much more important and pretty disconcerting, because we don’t want you tricked into believing something just because of it’s “costume”, or packaging. Green-Washing is when something claims to be eco-friendly or green when it is not. Read the packaging carefully and look for disclaimers about why those costumes are suggesting they are environmentally friendly.

For example – there are new green and eco-friendly products that stake a claim to being the (we’re going there) Van Helsing of their respective electronics, which is awesome if they are what they say they are, but don’t be fooled. The costume is fleeting; what’s underneath is really what counts.

If you are considering purchasing an electronic – anything from a mobile charger to a netbook – look past the green packaging and to the fine print. Important words to look for are “eliminates” and “reduces” and their respective synonyms, because when dealing with vampires – would you rather reduce or eliminate them?

Vampire Labs wishes you an exciting and safe Halloween and simply asks that if you truly want to put a stake in your vampire power consumption, save money and the world, then be careful not to get tricked into buying a mythical green or eco-friendly product. As always, if it says Vampire Proofâ„¢, then rest assured that you are Slaying Vampire Energy Lossâ„¢ .