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Camping outside a shop?

  • 28-05-2010 10:12pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭


    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23839205-apple-ipad-goes-on-sale-in-uk-after-shoppers-queue-overnight.do

    I saw this in the paper this evening and wondered to myself, "would I give up a nights sleep, and camp on the street to buy an item?" I actually could never see myself getting so wrapped up in hype to do that for anything. In fact the most I've ever done was go to ticketmaster an hour before ticket sales started back in the day.
    Back in London, first in the queue at the Regent Street store was Jake Lee, a 17-year-old performing arts student from Essex.

    He arrived at midday yesterday, and was offered £500 to give up his place in the queue this morning. He declined, and said it felt “amazing” to finally own the new Apple creation.

    “I've been waiting for months, but I couldn't believe it when everyone was standing there chanting. I really thought I would just be able to walk in here and get one, I didn't think I would be the first.”

    Are peoples lives really so unfulfilled that they need a product launch to make themselves feel good? Or am I getting it all wrong? Has anyone here camped out for the latest gadget, and if you have, why?


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    I cannot for the life of me understand this, when you could still get it a little while later.

    I think it's for poor unfortunates who will run straight home and take a pic of themselves with said device so that they can boast to their virtual 'friends'

    Madness!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Did it myself a few years ago for my PS3 and gta:san andreas but now i couldnt be bothered - also the chance of getting stabbed is huge


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I went to a 24 hour tesco at midnight to get a furby on the release date back then when!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Gladiator.


    Keithm89 wrote: »
    Did it myself a few years ago for my PS3 and gta:san andreas but now i couldnt be bothered - also the chance of getting stabbed is huge

    Can you blame them for wanting to stab you? It is very irritating to see a bunch of eggheads curled up outside a shop waiting for it to open.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    You see it a lot just after Christmas people camping out to get an £X00 item for £X

    I actually know a guy who did this twice
    Complete tosspot


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Gladiator. wrote: »
    Can you blame them for wanting to stab you? It is very irritating to see a bunch of eggheads curled up outside a shop waiting for it to open.

    :( Harsh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,287 ✭✭✭davyjose


    I'd queue if it meant someone was going to offer me £500 for my place. Fcuk yeah!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    No,i wouldn't be bothered. I usually wait a few months till the price comes down!
    My brother in law queued up for the playstation when it first came here,he got like the 2nd one in Ireland. Even he wonders why he did it now!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭Royal Seahawk


    After Bruce Springsteen's Saturday night gig in the RDS last summer I instantly went across the road with a few friends and started queuing for Sunday night's gig so we'd get right up the front of the pit for it.
    We did have beers though and a big Bruce singalong with other hardcore fans so it was well worth it, Sunday's gig was class too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭lil'bug


    i did for the last harry potter book but it was inside a shopping centre so it wasn't so bad, i think i was there for around 2 hours or so


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    I can almost understand it for a concert ticket, they do sell out and often there won't be more released. However for a phone/console/gadget I can't. People have been able to live perfectly fine without things like iPads and the like, I can't see how owning one minutes after the store opens can make anyones life better. Why then don't people wait until the middle of the day? Anyone whos done it able to explain their reasons for camping out?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I've seen loads of camp people on the street.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Gladiator.


    Anyone whos done it able to explain their reasons for camping out?

    Severe mental retardation


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Yeah concert tickets are understandable.
    But when it comes to something like an iPhone, I wouldn't even want a first or second generation one anyway cos there's always gonna be bugs that need to be sorted and they come on leaps and bounds in the first couple of years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,554 ✭✭✭✭alwaysadub


    After Bruce Springsteen's Saturday night gig in the RDS last summer I instantly went across the road with a few friends and started queuing for Sunday night's gig so we'd get right up the front of the pit for it.
    We did have beers though and a big Bruce singalong with other hardcore fans so it was well worth it, Sunday's gig was class too.

    OutlawPete's gonna be jealous :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 170 ✭✭Redmal


    There was a photo in the local paper in Limerick this week of a man who queued up for 24 hours for a mattress. Thats right, a mattress.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Redmal wrote: »
    There was a photo in the local paper in Limerick this week of a man who queued up for 24 hours for a mattress. Thats right, a mattress.

    Any man who spends 24 hours outside a shop could have done with a matress.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,230 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I've seen loads of camp people on the street.

    Loitering with intent?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    ejmaztec wrote: »
    Loitering with intent?

    Loitering with a certain amount of panache, usually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,397 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    Not in about 15 years when I was queuing for concert tickets.. back in the days before ticketmaster online.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,959 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    So this dope was offered 500 yo-yo's for his place in the queue, that would have paid for the thing!!

    Why didn't he take the money, and wlak to the back of the queue, free iThing ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭kingtut


    lil'bug wrote: »
    i did for the last harry potter book but it was inside a shopping centre so it wasn't so bad, i think i was there for around 2 hours or so

    Lol I remember the queues for this! and to think it was available to download online a few days before its official release :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,230 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    The danger with this game is that you spend so long queuing up, you eventually forget what you're there for, and after the amnesia takes a hold, you forget everything else, and you spend the rest of your life wandering the streets, dragging a cardboard box behind you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    kingtut wrote: »
    Lol I remember the queues for this! and to think it was available to download online a few days before its official release :pac:

    I was in Longford with my 10 year old nephew the day it was released. We went into a shop to get the book at around 10am. Not a sinner in the shop, loads of copies of the book there.

    Then again, you wouldn't expect most Dubs to realise that there are shops outside the Pale. ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,778 ✭✭✭Pauleta


    Seen this on the news earlier. It was the saddest thing ive ever seen especially the "staff" singing and clapping. WTF was that all about :confused:

    I camped outside ticketmaster for AC/DC tickets before, in which i was vindicated as it sold out after 10 minutes.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    I heard someone talking on the radio earlier after queueing to get an ipad.

    He said...

    ''I'm so happy, this is the greatest day of my life.''

    I shit you not.

    I'm kind of disgusted that there are people like that in the world.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 143 ✭✭James G


    I'd queue up just so I could sell my place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I wonder if anyone has ever camped outside a camping shop?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23839205-apple-ipad-goes-on-sale-in-uk-after-shoppers-queue-overnight.do

    I saw this in the paper this evening and wondered to myself, "would I give up a nights sleep, and camp on the street to buy an item?" I actually could never see myself getting so wrapped up in hype to do that for anything. In fact the most I've ever done was go to ticketmaster an hour before ticket sales started back in the day.



    Are peoples lives really so unfulfilled that they need a product launch to make themselves feel good? Or am I getting it all wrong? Has anyone here camped out for the latest gadget, and if you have, why?

    Reminds me of the iphone launch day idiot who payed $800 for the 1st in line spot with her awesome plan to buy the stores entire stock and ebay them :rolleyes:

    Didn't quite work out for her .........

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BiQhNKVgzQ


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    I'm of the school of thought that nothing is worth this.

    Although you could at least mortally embarrass yourself for something better than a fridge or bed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    I was just looking in the Apple forum (yes there is one) and there are expeditions going north [and one to Belgium] for the launch of the iPhone in the UK. Hotel stays and being there for 8am have been mentioned. I still don't get it, and no one over there has been able to enlighten me as to why they're going to such lengths to have one.

    Another bizarre thing I've noticed on youtube are "unboxing" videos. Has anyone here ever felt the need to make one? Whats the point?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    I have queued overnight outside the American embassy to get a work visa for the states. I would do it again no hesitation.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    I waited two hours in the train station to buy tickets for the GAA special for the All Ireland final, massive queue

    This was before Ireland had a great network of motorways, though I still don't drive.
    No online booking back then either.

    When Cork reach finals people queue for train tickets also, that's not my county btw


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,432 ✭✭✭df1985


    Venom wrote: »
    Reminds me of the iphone launch day idiot who payed $800 for the 1st in line spot with her awesome plan to buy the stores entire stock and ebay them :rolleyes:

    Didn't quite work out for her .........

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BiQhNKVgzQ

    I laughed at the girl who says "im in line for a friend"......sure ya are love!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    Worse are those who post 'unboxing' videos on youtube


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I queued from 6pm til midnight for the final Harry Potter book... :o

    I got it for free, plus free food and a big goody bag. It was a good laugh too.

    I remember there were other people queueing up for a midnight screening of X Men or something and I thought they were nerdy :pac:

    I was in a shopping centre though, the people who camp on the street are mental.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    phasers wrote: »
    I queued from 6pm til midnight for the final Harry Potter book... :o

    I got it for free, plus free food and a big goody bag. It was a good laugh too.

    I remember there were other people queueing up for a midnight screening of X Men or something and I thought they were nerdy :pac:

    I was in a shopping centre though, the people who camp on the street are mental.

    NERD!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    NERD!
    Haters gonna hate :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    I know when the PS3 came out in England, some shop gave them out free to the first 10 customers, which seems alright.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,145 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Are peoples lives really so unfulfilled that they need a product launch to make themselves feel good? Or am I getting it all wrong? Has anyone here camped out for the latest gadget, and if you have, why?
    I've wondered the same thing.
    One reasonable excuse I heard was that there's a good atmosphere, a kind of nerd party/celebration. I suppose if you're that excited about it and want to share that excitement with like-minded people, then sure what's the harm.

    Couldn't bring myself to do it personally... I walk out of shops if I have to queue longer than 5-10 minutes... I'll even put things back on the shelf before I leave.
    I'm pretty committed to my hatred of standing in line... if a company isn't willing to staff their shop properly, then they lose my business. So I can definitely not relate to camping outside of shops.


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