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'Art of Crochet' TV ad - Madness!

  • 02-01-2010 1:03am
    #1
    The Express
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭


    It's that time of the year again folks, when those collectable hobby magazines are advertised. New hobby for the new year and all that kinda stuff.

    This year's one being heavily promoted on RTE is 'only €1.99' for the first issue and €4.99 thereafter.

    I can't recall at the moment the amount of issues you need to complete the set but I think it works out at about €600!!!!

    For a fcuken crochet magazine set. WTF!!:eek:


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  • #2
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    The Express wrote: »

    I can't recall at the moment the amount of issues you need to complete the set but I think it works out at about €600!!!!

    For a fcuken crochet magazine set. WTF!!:eek:

    Hoops, balls, and mallets don't come cheap you know.


  • #3
    hurleronditch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭hurleronditch


    You notice that the hat is called a 'pull on hat'. I mean for fcuk sake, how else would you put on a bloody hat? step into it?


  • #4
    The Express
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭The Express


    mikom wrote: »
    Hoops, balls, and mallets don't come cheap you know.

    Not that sort, Mik, the knitting sort!


  • #5
    ashyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭ashyle


    I love to knit :)


  • #6
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    The Express wrote: »
    For a fcuken crochet magazine set. WTF!!:eek:

    People will buy it for 6 weeks and then forget about it. Same thing happens every year.


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  • #7
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    The Express wrote: »
    It's that time of the year again folks, when those collectable hobby magazines are advertised. New hobby for the new year and all that kinda stuff.

    This year's one being heavily promoted on RTE is 'only €1.99' for the first issue and €4.99 thereafter.

    I can't recall at the moment the amount of issues you need to complete the set but I think it works out at about €600!!!!

    For a fcuken crochet magazine set. WTF!!:eek:

    1.50 :)

    Your not their target market.

    But people advertise all the time, why should this bother you?


  • #8
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,738 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Crochet's great - I'm hooked.


  • #9
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Crochet's great - I'm hooked.

    See that's what happens, they get you hooked on just 1.50 for your first time knowing full well that next month you'll need a hit, and after that your sending away for the fan club. ****ers.


  • #10
    ashyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 699 ✭✭✭ashyle


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Crochet's great - I'm hooked.

    knitting pun FTW :p


  • #11
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    Wassup with all the advert threads?....is the hiatus effecting the forum that badly?....dunno about y'all but Monday is gonna be a LOVELY telly day for me!

    Make It Or Break It
    The Secret Life Of The American Teenager
    Heroes


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  • #12
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    Wassup with all the advert threads?....is the hiatus effecting the forum that badly?....dunno about y'all but Monday is gonna be a LOVELY telly day for me!

    Make It Or Break It
    The Secret Life Of The American Teenager
    Heroes

    Seems that the are filled with things like Make It or Break It, The Secret Life of the American Teenager and Heroes. :)


  • #13
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,004 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    That one caught my eye too - 120 issues dedicated to crotchet? At a total cost of just under €600? Madness! For that price you could buy multiple copies of every crotchet book on Amazon, including rare 1911 editions.
    It's the same every year though - magazines dedicated to the most esoteric of hobbies that you know will rarely last beyond issue ten. I noticed they're a lot more popular though in France.


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