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

Canis Lupus · 04-10-2012 07:53AM

I can understand (barely) queuing for something like a concert or a sporting event. They are live with unique content. You will never get the same thing twice.

Queuing for a game, movie, ipod/phone or book however is a bit pathetic... The product will always be the same and often cheaper if you wait a small while. People be stupid...

djsim101 · 04-10-2012 07:57AM

Em I queued up for a launch day Nintendo Wii, em for my daughter

(yes....my daughter, that will do nicely)

bbam · 04-10-2012 08:17AM

If there are more than two people in front of me at a checkout I'd be thinking its not worth queueing... Queuing outside a closed shop is just absurd.

Real Life · 04-10-2012 08:32AM

im invisible wrote: »

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...

I queued for those tickets too. from 5 o clock in the morning.
I wouldnt queue for any other new products though, the only thing il queue for is the bank or in the dole office and only if its a short q if not il try again later. thankfully i dont have to q in the dole office anymore, for now anyway.

YFlyer · 04-10-2012 09:24AM

I queued up for Houston 500

FueledbyCoffee · 04-10-2012 09:32AM

Yeah years ago I had to queue outside Game for a Nintendo DSi - f*cking half six in the morning and I was 9th - this was December and Santy was running short of them

i_steal_sheep · 04-10-2012 09:42AM

Overnight for U2 Tickets... Overnight for new U2 Albums... Overnight for U2 Concerts! I have seen the error of my ways.

gobnaitolunacy · 04-10-2012 09:56AM

If you're not going to get it any cheaper, why bother?

Dravokivich · 04-10-2012 09:59AM

Only ever did it for tickets to a gig that I knew was going to be popular and harder to get later on.

RedXIV · 04-10-2012 10:04AM

Yep, Queued for a Nintendo Wii which I didn't get in the end and for my PS Vita which I only had to wait 45 mins for.

I don't mind queuing, especially if you're somewhere you can watch people or if you have something to do like play a game on your phone or read a book, Two birds with one stone really.

But yeah, queuing while just sitting there sounds dull.

Actually, one of the best memories I have is queuing up for U2 tickets when I was in school, we set up a camp on the main street and had cans all night. Great craic!

CruelCoin · 04-10-2012 10:14AM

No.

Why in the hell would you?

How sad, empty and shallow is your life that you must camp outside a shop to get the product a week before everyone else?

charlietheminxx · 04-10-2012 10:16AM

I queued up at midnight for the last Harry Potter book

And I queued up from 5am for a couple of concerts.

Other than that, no.

GavRedKing · 04-10-2012 10:29AM

Myself and a buddy queued up for Call of Duty MW 2 a few years back for a midnight release.

Got out copies after a few minutes and stayed up for a few hours playing, I had taken the next day off work anyway so it was ok.

I remember doing it before for a few concerts that didnt even sell out.

iDave · 04-10-2012 10:38AM

Got talking to an Aussie on holiday earlier this year who runs a shopping centre down there. When one of the Apple phones was being released down there, there were the usual queues outside the Apple store. When he asked one of them why dont they just buy it in one of the other elecronics stores that didnt have a queue the response was 'no I want to buy it directly from Apple'.
Dear god!

Zomg Okay · 04-10-2012 10:43AM

Queued for the midnight release of the fifth Harry Potter book when I was about 12 and for Black Ops when I was about 16/17. Other than that, no.

Jogathon · 04-10-2012 10:43AM

Queued for the Harry Potter books, 5, 6, and 7. Then stayed up all night reading them. Then slept for the day, and then read them again. Fantastic. If only there was a series of books that lit my imagination now in the same way.

Kolido · 04-10-2012 11:15AM

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."

This is the sad part.

Bacchus · 04-10-2012 11:27AM

Queued for a several concert/festival tickets back in my college days. Generally 2 hours tops before opening depending on the gig.

Only other item I've ever queued outside a shop for was the Nexus 7 when it was released a few months ago. PC World is across the road from where I work so I popped over half an hour before opening. I was the first person there, another 6 people arrived over the next 10 minutes. There were only 2 Nexus 7's available. Worth the half hour

Agricola · 04-10-2012 11:35AM

Queued for the PS2 when it came out in 2000. I was young and eager back then. Now its all done online and wait for delivery.

charlietheminxx · 04-10-2012 11:37AM

Kolido wrote: »

This is the sad part.

Being passionate about live music is hardly sad or uncommon.

Kolido · 04-10-2012 11:53AM

charlietheminxx wrote: »

Being passionate about live music is hardly sad or uncommon.

I totally agree but I was getting at the part where 'you'll do anything to see them'

Thats not passion its obsession.

charlietheminxx · 04-10-2012 11:58AM

Well maybe, but a lot of bands don't play in Ireland for years at a time. I often go to the UK to see bands, and that means giving up proper holidays etc. If people are really into a band, they'll make sacrifices, but queuing early for tickets is hardly a big one!

04-10-2012 12:03PM

6th and 7th Harry Potter books, though with the 6th one I got bored after five minutes, abandoned the queue and bought it the next morning. Queued with my ex outside Easons in Dun Laoghaire in the pouring rain for the 7th, we got egged and all, but there was a really good vibe in the queue and he had a lot of fun.

mitosis · 04-10-2012 12:16PM

I queued for tickets in the days before ticketmaster and the internet, but not since.

I wouldn't queue for something I can get a few days later (a phone! FFS), and if faced with a queue in a shop and buying non-essentials (new sweater, eg) will leave the item and not join the queue.

I do not love Penneys so much I want to stand there doing nothing for 10 minutes.

uch · 04-10-2012 01:09PM

eth0 wrote: »

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

If by shop you mean Pub and By product you mean Beer, then Yep all the time

super_furry · 04-10-2012 01:16PM

Queued for the iPhone 4S when it was launched, but only because I was passing the Meteor shop on my way to work and was only actually in the queue (of four people) for 15 minutes.

DavyD_83 · 04-10-2012 01:21PM

uch wrote: »

If by shop you mean Pub and By product you mean Beer, then Yep all the time

Assuming you're in Ireland;If you're actually queueing for beer you're doing it all wrong

cyrusdvirus · 04-10-2012 01:33PM

REM tickets.......Slane....1995

There was no online purchasing done in my house at that stage!!

Met a friend in the queue and we went and had a mcdonalds coffee afterwards.

Stab*City · 04-10-2012 01:49PM

Things i queued for:

Mask toys
Cabbage patch kids
star wars millennium falcon
lidl warehouse sale
ps1 & 2, xbox 360
iphone1

and lots lots more that i cant remember off the top me head..

I dont mind a bit a queuing me as long as i can get my retail on! I think its more of an american thing anyway. Id say all the people who says it sad just dont have the money to buy the product on release day anyway.

Beefy78 · 04-10-2012 01:52PM

I remember queuing for two hours in the rain until midnight for tickets for The Phantom Menace. Not even queuing to see the film. Queueing to buy tickets which I could have got the next day.

Nothing about that worked out well.

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

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