This is a mobile operator’s dream – a huge crowd in front of every mobile phone shop, clamouring “I wanna buy an iPhone”. A company’s market index is raising, competitiors are in panic, and all the people are happy to join the army pf your clients. This is of iPhone 3G sales start in USA, some kind of “American 3G Dream”.
photo from appleblog.pl
But if it works in America it can fail in Europe. For example, in Poland people are not so anxious to buy a new mobile, even if there are three Apple logos on it. That’s why the Orange mobile operator tried to simulate a customer rush on the eve of official iPhone sales start.
photo from appleblog.pl
The hired students of Warsaw universities organized a number of queues in front of Orange shops. They were equipped with camp chairs, provisions backpacks and everything seemed they are going to stand there until they get a new iPhone.
But at a closer look you’ll see, that all the chairs are the same color, bottles with water are the same brand, and it looks not like a sign of simultaneous will of having a new iPhone, but like a bad staging.
A T-Mobile operator decided not to organize queues, but point “the statists” directly in shops at the H-hour. It looked very curious – a huge number of customers were assaulting a T-Mobile office, but another shop 150 meters away was completely empty.
By the way: according to mobil.idnes.cz and myapple.pl, there were only 4000 iPhones sold in Czech, and approximitly 4200 sold by Era Poland mobile operator in first day of sale.
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