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Re: Orange employs actors to make fake iPhone queues

praca Szczecin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:16:13 -0000

Hilarious! Nice to hear that in 2008 people are geting paid for standing in queues. I remember times when almost whole country did it for free :) Check vid: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Funny part is that there were no products to buy ;)

Re: Orange employs actors to make fake iPhone queues

Patryk — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:18:00 -0000

Actually no, either I had bad luck, or they skipped Szczecin entirely. However the queues looked like this http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl... as you can see, monumental they weren't.

As for Samantha's question, the spokesman also said, that the role of the actors was to give "advice" to real customers - in other words further promote the iPhone. The people in the video above refer to the iPhone as "most flashy" and "best phone ever" .(with a weak "...I think" at the end of the sentence ;))

Re: Orange employs actors to make fake iPhone queues

Ewan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:26:12 -0000

Did you see any actors, Patryk?

Re: Orange employs actors to make fake iPhone queues

Patryk — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:52:36 -0000

Hmm, I remember Orange Poland hired some girls to give away leaflets advertising the iPhone 3G, I have one too. The taglines are "Everyone should have it" and "Widescreen iPod with touch steering". I don't recall seeing anyone interested in one of these though. I'll be passing through the center of Szczecin today, wonder if I'll see any queues (real of fake ones). ;)

Re: Orange employs actors to make fake iPhone queues

Sampha — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:12:01 -0000

What is the point in employing actors to stand in a queue to start up interest, and then tell the whole world about it?

Doesn't that kind of deceive the whole point?

Hmm...

Samantha.