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CueCats vs. Common Sense Marketing
ColaMan writes "I see via boing boing that two million CueCats are up for sale at prices of $0.30 each in quantities above 500K. CueCats, being an integral part of one of the most pointless marketing schemes ever devised, never took off, but they were great for hacking. Has IT Marketing learned its history lesson, or will it forever doomed to repeat it?" Err, I'd go in for a group order, but I don't need two million at once.
Err, I'd go in for a group order, but I don't need two million at once. Timothy
Well, it's a good thing you only have to place an order of 500,000, then - as it CLEARLY states in the very first sentence of the submission blurb you greenlighted.
1) Buy 2 million CueCats $0.30 each
2) Sell them $0.35 each
3) Profit!!
I believe Shoeboy had found the most profitable use for these.
Wow, not only is Slashdot getting slower at reporting news, and repeating the same stories over and over again, now it's reporting news from other news sites. It's like watching Ted Koppel sit and watch CNN!
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"Has IT Marketing learned it's history lesson, or will it forever doomed to repeat it?"
Has this story already been published years ago or are we doomed forever to keep repeating it?
Interesting marketing concept. Come up with a product and try to give it away. When you find that you can't give it away, offer to sell someone the same thing, but without the Internet backup system needd to use it, for 30 cents each, but they have to buy 500 thousand of them!
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
This is typical, cool free hackable gadget and I only hear about it when its unavailable!
This may be slightly off topic, but why oh why do I never get cool free stuff when I'm out and about. A free hackable barcode scanner would have been really cool.
Maybe I live in the wrong part of the world? Maybe I'm unlucky with spoting free items?
I don't know!
The only thing I ever got extra with a buisiness transaction was herpes.
in the long run, we're all dead anyway.
from the for-the-well-equipped-home-library dept.
Yes, because I figure it makes the most sense to have a separate CueCat for each book/item on the shelf...
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
No! No! Bolt them onto the heads of the friggin sharks!
30 cents each? Why not just give them out for free? I'm sure that will work. The customers will appreciate the generocity and respect the things for all the great benefits like scanning each advertisement in each magazine you read each week.
Cover your eyes and click this link!
Hmmm, looks like you did ;-)
Satan uses RFID! (see anon parent post)
"Psst."
"Yeah?"
"Want one of these?"
"No."
"It's free!"
"Don't need it."
"I'll give you TWO! for free! costs you nothing!"
"It's a pointless piece of crap, I don't need it, nobody wants one, it sucks, get it away from me!!"
"Ok, ok, how about 500 thousand of these things? For only $0.30 a piece!"
"Wow! I'm a sucker for a bargain! Who thought a total piece of crap could be that cheap if you buy in bulk! Give me 2 million!"
SCO employee? Check out the bounty
Better yet, give them to the Borg and tell them it's our most advanced technology.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
So... I'm not the only one who thinks it looks like a dildo, albeit a small one. My initial reaction was, "you know, I'm pretty sure there isn't a bar code up there".
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
To wit.
The verbal abuse is just an added bonus.
Little known fact: it's possible to buy them in 250K quantities; however, the price then increases to $0.60 each.
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I'm using some scripting to add bells and whistles (like native cuecat decoding support, integrated webcam snapshots, mysql backend and a tcl/tk front-end)
;)
The barcode & hide method sticks to the Keep It Simple Stupid paradigm
You are obviously using some definition of "simple" with which I am not familiar
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So you "save time" by printing barcodes, writing database code, labeling, photographing and cataloging all the useless crap most of us throw away?
Thank you for using "sh*t" instead of the expletive. So far in my 10 years of internet use I've been able to completely avoid vulgar content. For a second there I thought that was about to end.
I'm Rick James with mod points biatch!
shit