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Ever queue up outside a shop for the release of a new product

  • 04-10-2012 12:31AM
    #1
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭


    Like a book, an iPhone or a new version of Windows? Never done so myself couldn't get excited over these kind of things. The price of the kind of thing people queue up for tends to drop fairly fast anyway


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  • #2
    token101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    No but I remember pre ordering WWF Attitude for the Playstation months in advance in Smyths in Cork. Don't think it ever sold out!


  • #3
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    I hate queues, the only place I ever join one is the bank, feel dirty and sick afterwards.


  • #4
    akura
    Closed Accounts Posts: 497 ✭✭akura


    Never, i dont know why anyone would!


  • #5
    Zab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭Zab


    Surely only apple fanboys and children (for Harry Potter etc) do this?


  • #6
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    Zab wrote: »
    Surely only apple fanboys and children (for Harry Potter etc) do this?

    Microsoft fanboys as well. Queues are common for the release of a new version of Windows or a new gaming console


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  • #7
    Zab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,931 ✭✭✭Zab


    eth0 wrote: »
    Microsoft fanboys as well. Queues are common for the release of a new version of Windows or a new gaming console

    I didn't know that!


  • #8
    titan18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,080 ✭✭✭✭titan18


    I did for the last Harry Potter book. I was going to do it for Skyrim, but decided to skip the queue and just get it off of Steam and play it straight away.

    Unless we're counting going to the cinema,then I doubt I've done it for anything else


  • #9
    EoghanIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,080 ✭✭✭EoghanIRL


    Zab wrote: »
    eth0 wrote: »
    Microsoft fanboys as well. Queues are common for the release of a new version of Windows or a new gaming console

    I didn't know that!
    Neither did i


  • #10
    TheStook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭TheStook


    Call of duty and Fifa, I'm 17 though so its not sad.....its not.......ITS NOT!


  • #11
    Schism
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Schism


    There'll be queues for the Hobbit films on first showing, guaranteed. Never queued for anything like that myself though. If I want it I just wait and get it when the hype has died down a bit.


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  • #12
    Madam Marie
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 85 ✭✭Madam Marie


    I recall queues for Windows '95 in Virgin Megastore, think the following is a clip from it:



  • #13
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    I think what's worse is whoever is at the top of the queue and buys the product first invariably ends up on the front of some rag celebrating as if they won the lotto.

    Something weird about being the first to buy a new product is deemed to be something of an achievement.


  • #14
    starviewadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Nope and never will either,especially nowadays when most things can be bought online for way cheaper!


  • #15
    Wee Willy Harris
    Site Banned Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Wee Willy Harris


    It's fcuking weird, why not wait at home til the queue disperses

    when you've become that kind of product monkey there is no hope


  • #16
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    The only thing I queued for that I genuinely didn't mind waiting ages for was when the Vince Lombardi trophy (aka the Super Bowl trophy) was on tour of Indianapolis after the Colts won the Super Bowl in 2007. I was over visiting at the time and got wind that it was appearing near by. Queued for about two hours or so but it was worth it :cool:

    Got a couple of autographs from some cheerleaders too :cool:


  • #17
    minidazzler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,650 ✭✭✭✭minidazzler


    The last Harry Potter book, Battlefield 3 and COD MW3. Can't think if I did for anything else.


  • #18
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    castletownman wrote: »
    The only thing I queued for that I genuinely didn't mind waiting ages for was when the Vince Lombardi trophy (aka the Super Bowl trophy) was on tour of Indianapolis after the Colts won the Super Bowl in 2007. I was over visiting at the time and got wind that it was appearing near by. Queued for about two hours or so but it was worth it :cool:

    Got a couple of autographs from some cheerleaders too :cool:

    Cheerleaders give autographs now? I thought they were expendable nobodies that nobody gives a damn about besides for a bit of perving? Never heard of a famous cheerleader before (unless they moved on to doing porn maybe)


  • #19
    Youssef Chippo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Youssef Chippo


    TheStook wrote: »
    Call of duty and Fifa, I'm 17 though so its not sad.....its not.......ITS NOT!
    It really is


  • #20
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Madam Marie wrote: »
    I recall queues for Windows '95 in Virgin Megastore, think the following is a clip from it:

    FFS, now I have that Boyzone song stuck in my head.

    You bastard!


  • #21
    TheStook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭TheStook


    Youssef Chippo wrote: »
    It really is

    I know it is, hence the clear sarcasm, was it really that hard to pick up?

    Whats wrong with having a passion for something anyway, queuing up for concert tickets wouldnt be seen as "Sad" would it?


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  • #22
    Youssef Chippo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Youssef Chippo


    TheStook wrote: »
    I know it is, hence the clear sarcasm, was it really that hard to pick up?

    Whats wrong with having a passion for something anyway, queuing up for concert tickets wouldnt be seen as "Sad" would it?
    Yes it would


  • #23
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    TheStook wrote: »
    ... queuing up for concert tickets wouldnt be seen as "Sad" would it?
    That really depends on the concert, tbh.


  • #24
    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Only thing that I queued for was tickets for Eminem at slane, didnt even want to go, but Oxygen was sold out.
    Got sitebanned on my first post on my first two accounts here trying to swap/sell the tickets for Oxygen ones, and then yer man cancells the gig...


  • #25
    TheStook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭TheStook


    Youssef Chippo wrote: »
    Yes it would

    A man of few words is Youssef.

    How is queuing up for tickets for a concert sad? If you really like a band you'll do anything to see them, queuing up for a few hours is a small price to pay.

    I predict you're reply will be- "Its not a small price to pay."


  • #26
    TheStook
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭TheStook


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    That really depends on the concert, tbh.

    Well its all subjective obviously, one mans meat is another mans poison ;)


  • #27
    Youssef Chippo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Youssef Chippo


    TheStook wrote: »
    A man of few words is Youssef.

    How is queuing up for tickets for a concert sad? If you really like a band you'll do anything to see them, queuing up for a few hours is a small price to pay.

    I predict you're reply will be- "Its not a small price to pay."
    It's a big price to pay


  • #28
    Shane-KornSpace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭Shane-KornSpace


    Queued for Gears of War 2 and Mw2.
    Never queued for anything since. If I have it pre-booked,I know theres copy waiting for me so theres no real need for it.


  • #29
    spunkymunky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 669 ✭✭✭spunkymunky


    Queued overnight to buy an apartment....:(


  • #30
    nitromaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭nitromaster


    queued up for 30 mins or so when picking up my Wii back in 2006 (wow this makes me feel old :pac: ) but that barely counts :P
    TheStook wrote: »

    Whats wrong with having a passion for something anyway, queuing up for concert tickets wouldnt be seen as "Sad" would it?
    yes when the internet exists, with ticket websites. :cool:


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  • #31
    Wee Willy Harris
    Site Banned Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Wee Willy Harris


    You know what the people who do this just wanna be around similarly stupidly obsessed people, for a change and what better opportunity so let's cut them some slack


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