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Any good at loombands?? have a look at this

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  1. retired_member36

    retired_member36 Retired Member

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  3. diablo

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    I've just discovered a new hobby ;-)
     
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    Surely this will never go through nuts
     
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    When you think about it, what a great and easy piece of advertising for loom bands

    You make a dress, stick it on ebay, do massive fake bids = media coverage
     
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    My kids are pretty nifty at making these lol, i might have to set a factory up in my shed for them :p
     
  7. diablo

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    Don't look like fake bids to me.

    Here's a piece from the Independent:

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ales-reach-almost-154000-on-ebay-9599331.html

    Cue a flood of similar dresses appearing on eBay this month! Including the little black number I've started work on ;-)
     
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    Im not sure they are fake mate, i mean i cant be 100% sure but looking at the bids these people have 100% feedback and surely they wouldn't want to get a black marker on their account.
     
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    Im getting the other half to work on an idea that i think could be popular ;) hehe
     
  10. Murray

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    It's defo a piece of marketing

    Now everyone will either go, "what are loom bands?!" + "oh snap I need to make things with loom bands £££"

    See comments above :p
     
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    Bit like that flappy birds app i guess, fake bids
     
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    How is it marketing when "loom bands" is not the brand.
     
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    It's rubber... that's gonna smell pretty ripe after a night out! :)
     
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    They drive me nuts! bloody things appear everywhere thanks to my daughter, I'm constantly sucking them up the hoover :mad:
     
  15. Murray

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    They're patented I assume, only one brand? doing a quick google they're called rainbow loom
     
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    The marketing is by eBay. They are superb at it.

    It's simply a listing that has far exceeded expectations - for whatever reason - hence the media interest. eBay always milk such events.

    As for some woman in Wales being the mastermind behind the marketing of loom bands, I very much doubt it.
     
  18. Murray

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    Couldn't be too hard to find an ordinary girl at a talent agency somewhere.

    Well any which way it came about, it's still very interesting from a marketing point of view, great advertising.
     
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    Probably easier just to say, yes, you are right, it's a marketing scame with fake bids, so that I can concentrate on with my dressmaking ;-)
     
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    Lol thats funny

    Ive just got back from the town, and there seems to have been a rush of sales on these. Literally one shop has its stand of loom bands sold out, and its not as if it was a small stand!!!
     
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