Man hires 100 homeless people to buy 100 new iPhones..

paddy147

100 people from "skid row" hired by crafty business man to buy 100 new iPhones.

Only in America eh?


http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/09/scuffles-arrests-at-pasadena-apple-stores-iphone-5s-launch/

snubbleste

So?

hansfrei

Woulda cost the state €10,000 a man to do similar over here. Presuming the homeless people were long term unemployed.

MagicMarker

You'd need to be one sad cùnt to queue for hours for a phone.

paddy147

MagicMarker wrote: »

You'd need to be one sad cùnt to queue for hours for a phone.

And then you get fcuked around with all the agreements,because you didnt read them fully...:pac::pac::D

PizzamanIRL

Queue and fight and sell your spot in line for a phone? A ****ing phone to text and call and play with apps? What's wrong with people?

NuckingFacker

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Queue and fight and sell your spot in line for a phone? A ****ing phone to text and call and play with apps? What's wrong with people?

You didn't join in the gta5 frenzy so?

WilyCoyote

PizzamanIRL wrote: »

Queue and fight and sell your spot in line for a phone? A ****ing phone to text and call and play with apps? What's wrong with people?

You need a geographic shift in your thinking, PizzamanIRL. Do you deliver?

Femme_Fatale

paddy147 wrote: »

Only in America eh?

No.

paddy147

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

No.

Anywhere else in the world where someone got 100 homeless people to que up overnight for 100 iPhone 5s then?

Please show and tell.:)

Femme_Fatale

paddy147 wrote: »

Anywhere else in the world where someone got 100 homeless people to que up overnight for 100 iPhone 5s then?

Please show and tell.:)

Just saying it isn't necessarily something that would only happen in America. People are people. The drone of "Only in America" being popular does not make it correct, or in any way intelligent.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

In a population of 314,000,000 there are bound to be headcases. So what if somebody hired people to buy 100 phones. At least he hired homeless people in need of a few bucks.
What's the big deal?

Fox_In_Socks

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Just saying it isn't necessarily something that would only happen in America. People are people. The drone of "Only in America" being popular does not make it correct, or in any way intelligent.

Only in America would you see such a not being made.

:pac:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Only in America would you see such a not being made.

:pac:

Pardon?

Fox_In_Socks

Marley Crashing Scale wrote: »

Pardon?

Well spotted, sirrah! What did I leave out?

Only in America would you see such a knot being made.

or

Only in America would you see such a comment not being made.

Answers on a postcard to

The Gay Byrne Show,
RTE,
Donnybrook,
Dublin 4

and the lovely Roisín will pick the correct answer out of a hat.

Morph the Cat

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Well spotted, sirrah! What did I leave out?

Only in America would you see such a knot being made.

or

Only in America would you see such a comment not being made.

Answers on a postcard to

The Gay Byrne Show,
RTE,
Donnybrook,
Dublin 4

and the lovely Roisín will pick the correct answer out of a hat.

How come you're not funny?

smurfjed

Chatted to couple guys outside the Apple store on 5th ave. They had sat there for a week with another week to go. I thought that they were bloody nuts!

TommiesTank

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Only in America would you see such a not being made.

:pac:

Only in America would you see a post like this that makes no sense.

Fox_In_Socks

TommiesTank wrote: »

Only in America would you see a post like this that makes no sense.

Yeah, well, look happened-I to smart and it backfired because left out a word, the entire sentence incomprehensible, but just move on, ok?

:pac:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Yeah, well, look happened-I to smart and it backfired because left out a word, the entire sentence incomprehensible, but just move on, ok?

:pac:

Pardon?

returnNull

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Yeah, well, look happened-I to smart and it backfired because left out a word, the entire sentence incomprehensible, but just move on, ok?

:pac:

just tell them you're posting from a phone thats missing some keys.....:)

wil

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Yeah, well, look happened-I to smart and it backfired because left out a word, the entire sentence incomprehensible, but just move on, ok?

:pac:

Those new iPhones knot all they're cracked up to be so.
Only

Fox_In_Socks

I'm my hands of this thread.

Gummy Panda

This isn't new!

It was done in Japan with chinese illegal immigrants for the PS3

TommiesTank

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Yeah, well, look happened-I to smart and it backfired because left out a word, the entire sentence incomprehensible, but just move on, ok?

:pac:

Seems to have happened again. I must be in America and not even know it.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones ... or poo.

c_man

Marley Crashing Scale wrote: »

In a population of 314,000,000 there are bound to be headcases. So what if somebody hired people to buy 100 phones. At least he hired homeless people in need of a few bucks.
What's the big deal?

Cos we can all laugh at the yanks. Meanwhile here one of the most viewed tv shows recently featured a calf eating feed off a choice of jerseys in an effort to predict the outcome of a match.

Overheal

paddy147 wrote: »

Anywhere else in the world where someone got 100 homeless people to que up overnight for 100 iPhone 5s then?

Please show and tell.:)

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Just saying it isn't necessarily something that would only happen in America. People are people. The drone of "Only in America" being popular does not make it correct, or in any way intelligent.

Gummy Panda wrote: »

This isn't new!

It was done in Japan with chinese illegal immigrants for the PS3

@Paddy

This morning, following on from the PS3 launch craziness that SPOnG’s man in Tokyo told you all about on Saturday, there has been a spate of all-too-predictable ‘Shock! Horror!’ news stories. Right up there are those relating to various unscrupulous individuals (and, in some cases, shop owners) making a quick few hundred thousand Yen by selling on the most desirable consumer tech on earth right now.

Perhaps the most saddening news over the weekend was that certain Japanese ‘business people’ were paying local homeless people as well as Chinese nationals to queue for PlayStation 3s.

These are then being sold on auction sites at massively inflated prices: as we put this live, PS3s are currently changing hands on eBay for anything up to £1,200 (¥270,000).

SPOnG’s man in Tokyo told us yesterday that, “Yes, there were a lot of homeless people and Chinese people in the queues – it seems that certain wealthier business types didn’t mind paying them anything up to around £100 for queuing!”

Our man also added, “Many seasoned gamers were saying they’d never seen anything like it. I’m surprised rioting didn’t break out at some stores!”

Read SPOnG’s full account of Japan’s PS3’s queues of shame over the weekend right here.

http://spong.com/article/11132/Homeless-and-Chinese-Nationals-Paid-to-Queue-for-PS3

Shove your bigotry somewhere else, ta love.

paddy147

Overheal wrote: »

@Paddy

This morning, following on from the PS3 launch craziness that SPOnG’s man in Tokyo told you all about on Saturday, there has been a spate of all-too-predictable ‘Shock! Horror!’ news stories. Right up there are those relating to various unscrupulous individuals (and, in some cases, shop owners) making a quick few hundred thousand Yen by selling on the most desirable consumer tech on earth right now.

Perhaps the most saddening news over the weekend was that certain Japanese ‘business people’ were paying local homeless people as well as Chinese nationals to queue for PlayStation 3s.

These are then being sold on auction sites at massively inflated prices: as we put this live, PS3s are currently changing hands on eBay for anything up to £1,200 (¥270,000).

SPOnG’s man in Tokyo told us yesterday that, “Yes, there were a lot of homeless people and Chinese people in the queues – it seems that certain wealthier business types didn’t mind paying them anything up to around £100 for queuing!”

Our man also added, “Many seasoned gamers were saying they’d never seen anything like it. I’m surprised rioting didn’t break out at some stores!”

Read SPOnG’s full account of Japan’s PS3’s queues of shame over the weekend right here.

http://spong.com/article/11132/Homeless-and-Chinese-Nationals-Paid-to-Queue-for-PS3

Shove your bigotry somewhere else, ta love.

Since when is a PS3 and iphone 5??

Oh wait its not.

So did 100 homeless people que up in Japan overnight for 100 iphone 5s then??

Eh...NO.

Maybe next time you might read what I actually posted.




Ta Ta luv...

Overheal

paddy147 wrote: »

Since when is a PS3 and iphone 5??

Oh wait its not...:p

So did 100 homeless people que up in Japan overnight for 100 iphone 5s then??

Eh...NO.




Ta Ta luv...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

paddy147

Overheal wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hfYJsQAhl0

Oh God Im so offended.....you have hurt me so so so so much now.


Maybe next time you might read what I actually posted and asked,before posting a video clip from youtube that actually describes yourself and your own posts very well.



Go and re-read what I posted and asked.


Now off you go........Ta Ta luv...

Overheal

Yes yes, your pedantic nonsense trying to argue that phone != console

Yet the core matter of the issue is someone paying someone else to wait in line for them, and it just happens to coincide both were hotly coveted consumer electronic products.

The point being, it doesn't happen "only in america," and your defenses to the contrary are about as logical as Conan O'Brien's Fan Corrections sketch, yet lacks any of the comedy. Observe.

See, now theres an Irishman who has a fantastic sense of absurd humor.

paddy147

Overheal wrote: »

Yes yes, your pedantic nonsense trying to argue that phone != console

Yet the core matter of the issue is someone paying someone else to wait in line for them, and it just happens to coincide both were hotly coveted consumer electronic products.

The point being, it doesn't happen "only in america," and your defenses to the contrary are about as logical as Conan O'Brien's Fan Corrections sketch, yet lacks any of the comedy. Observe.

See, now theres an Irishman who has a fantastic sense of absurd humor.

Overheal

paddy147 wrote: »

I wonder if you realize how ironic you just became

paddy147

Overheal wrote: »

I wonder if you realize how ironic you just became

.......says the person whos posts a video that doesnt even work....


Oh dear.;):rolleyes:

Overheal

It works, you must just have to be in the US to enjoy it.

mdwexford

MagicMarker wrote: »

You'd need to be one sad cùnt to queue for hours for a phone.

Sadder than having almost 29 thousand posts on an internet forum?

paddy147

Overheal wrote: »

It works, you must just have to be in the US to enjoy it.

Ah you can keep it over there so.

Ta Ta and night night.

Overheal

paddy147 wrote: »

Ah you can keep it over there so.

Ta Ta and night night.

bye.

TommiesTank

USA!

USA!

USA!

Mod

Um, you know that whole "attack the post not the poster" rule we've got going on here? and the "don't be a dick" rule?

Yeh. Use them please.

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