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So I work at a cellphone store.

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Erufen Rito
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2014-04-28 00:26:55 UTC  |  Edited by: Erufen Rito
I work at Nextel (Mexican Sprint, but this one works), and I manage the store. My main dutty is to make sure the store looks good, it's clean, our cellphones are working, clean, and ready for the customers to come and try.

I just started this month, and sales have been so-so. On my day off, I went to the mall where the store is at, and from the outside, it looks well lit, but the phones do not draw any attention to themselves. And this got me thinking in a way to make the phones and tablets catch some attention from outside of the store.

And thus, I went to the internet. I found a few player-made videos, suck as the Pretty Lights Battle of Asakai, or the Bloodshed of B-R5RB, as well as a few trailers, such as the Odysey, Rubicon, and the infamous Apocrypha trailer.

I've had these videos playing for the past week, and from day one, everyone has noticed an increase in customer visits. Sales have not yet gone up, but visits and potential customers are on the climb.

Furthermore, I think I've gotten at least 4 people interested in the game, and I've sent out the correspoinding buddy invites.

I'll try to get some pictures up soon, it looks pretty awesome tbh.

Don't sue me CCP!

This is as nice as I get. Best quote ever https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4137165#post4137165

Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-04-28 07:40:24 UTC
I think the best advertisement for EVE is its players. Unfortunately not one of my friends play video games, much less use a computer outside of gmail/Facebook.

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.

I Will Survive
Doomheim
#3 - 2014-04-28 08:54:23 UTC
Why would they sue you for free advertising?
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2014-04-28 09:05:47 UTC
I don't associate with anyone outside of EVE who is actually interested in EVE. Nobody I know in person cares for Kerbal Space Program either. It's not like I don't know very many people. It's just.....what is wrong with everyone??

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."

Gaellia Bonaventure
Imperial Shipment
Amarr Empire
#5 - 2014-04-28 13:18:29 UTC
Same here. I know only one person in real life who is interested in EVE.

What is with with people? Big smile

Bring your possibles.

Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#6 - 2014-04-28 13:22:07 UTC
Reaver Glitterstim wrote:
I don't associate with anyone outside of EVE who is actually interested in EVE. Nobody I know in person cares for Kerbal Space Program either. It's not like I don't know very many people. It's just.....what is wrong with everyone??



What's wrong with us ?? Big smile

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882

Commissar Kate
Kesukka
#7 - 2014-04-28 13:35:09 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
[quote=Reaver Glitterstim]I don't associate with anyone outside of EVE who is actually interested in EVE. Nobody I know in person cares for Kerbal Space Program either. It's not like I don't know very many people. It's just.....what is wrong with everyone??


They would all rather play their mindless Call of duty and other FPS rubbish. Lol

Also who does not like crashing rockets? Kerbal Space Program is the best!
Mizhir
Devara Biotech
#8 - 2014-04-28 14:38:56 UTC
Lol that is pretty awesome

❤️️💛💚💙💜

Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#9 - 2014-04-28 17:01:17 UTC
Krixtal Icefluxor wrote:
What's wrong with us ?? Big smile
still searching for an answer to that

I'll let you know if I find anything wrong with us
Lol

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."

Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#10 - 2014-04-28 21:55:56 UTC
I only know one person that plays the game and he introduced me to the game. Unfortunately, him and my younger sister are now working on a set of twins so he is no longer in game.

*Wonders what is wrong with himself as well*
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
#11 - 2014-04-28 23:01:46 UTC
I know this is going to be a can of worms but many times I have heard and read in the past "What's this? You can't leave your ship and walk around?"


If an orbital strike on Blizzard was possible...

Bring back DEEEEP Space!

Sibyyl
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2014-04-28 23:25:36 UTC
What you sound like to your friends when talking about EVE

Joffy Aulx-Gao for CSM. Fix links and OGB. Ban stabs from plexes. Fulfill karmic justice.

Vortexo VonBrenner
Doomheim
#13 - 2014-04-29 00:01:35 UTC
Slade Trillgon wrote:
I only know one person that plays the game and he introduced me to the game. Unfortunately, him and my younger sister are now working on a set of twins so he is no longer in game.

Not exactly what you meant when you told him to "fleet up", eh? Bummer.
Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#14 - 2014-04-29 01:38:06 UTC
Your first mistake was working for Sprint.


Your second mistake was thinking that most people who want flashy new phones have evolved brains. If you think of phone customers like Tyrannosaurus Rex's whose vision is based off movement and flashy lights, you will know to play something obnoxious and possibly epileptic seizure inducing near the front window on the screens to draw them in. Once theyre in the door, you can hit them with something that will make them want to buy a phone and/or stimulate brain cells.

Since the cessation of their usefulness is imminent, may I appropriate your belongings?

Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#15 - 2014-04-29 04:42:44 UTC  |  Edited by: Webvan
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Your first mistake was working for Sprint.


Your second mistake was thinking that most people who want flashy new phones have evolved brains.

Dude like, between GMO's probably changing their DNA and cell phones baking their brains like hard boiled eggs, I'm surprised I haven't had to break out my 12ga to take down any ZOMBIES yet!! Lol

Dude, just run a video of a baked potato in your store, birds of a feather... they'll buy you out!
Really, I don't like to use them, rather do calls over a hotspot and my tab. I don't trust the things to be so close to my brain pan. Not to mention half the people on the road are trying to kill me on my motorcycle as they screw with their stupid electronic crap.

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12

Eurydia Vespasian
Storm Hunters
#16 - 2014-04-29 17:16:12 UTC
Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:
I know this is going to be a can of worms but many times I have heard and read in the past "What's this? You can't leave your ship and walk around?.


A year and a half later and it still sort of bums me out that I can't...
Erufen Rito
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#17 - 2014-04-29 17:43:54 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Your first mistake was working for Sprint.


Your second mistake was thinking that most people who want flashy new phones have evolved brains. If you think of phone customers like Tyrannosaurus Rex's whose vision is based off movement and flashy lights, you will know to play something obnoxious and possibly epileptic seizure inducing near the front window on the screens to draw them in. Once theyre in the door, you can hit them with something that will make them want to buy a phone and/or stimulate brain cells.

As true as this is, I like my IQ and neuron count where it currently is. But yeah. sprint is ****. So is not having money lol.

I havent had a chance to take pictures yet, but so far, we've seen a lot more people coming in. I don't credit it to anything other than the fact that the phones are displaying something besides what could be a sticker clock.

This is as nice as I get. Best quote ever https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=4137165#post4137165

Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#18 - 2014-04-30 01:41:22 UTC
Brilliant! It's not just a phone. It will take you into weird space worlds imagined by intense North Atlantic island people....
Reaver Glitterstim
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#19 - 2014-04-30 01:54:25 UTC
If you get the right scenes in EVE, you should attract the right people to buuy phones. A lot of fleet battles are epileptic and seizure inducing. Asakai is a great example of what a typical giant clusterfück in EVE looks like. But you might show them these other two gems as well:

PERVS doing lowsec DD

Test Alliance - Lasers Are Magic

FT Diomedes: "Reaver, sometimes I wonder what you are thinking when you sit down to post."

Frostys Virpio: "We have to give it to him that he does put more effort than the vast majority in his idea but damn does it sometime come out of nowhere."

Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#20 - 2014-04-30 02:07:13 UTC
So, we used to have this camera shop nearby, but bit of a drive from here-nowhere, but I went there regularly for some ten years. They built a mall in the little city and the owner moved the store to the mall, so of course I kept giving him my business and went to the mall. He was there some time, but slowly business started to decrease. Finally he shut the shop down and I lost a favorite old shop. He quit because everyone had cellphones, and all those cellphones had cruddy little digi cameras on them so most people had no use for his camera shop any longer.

So let me get this straight:
Erufen Rito wrote:
I havent had a chance to take pictures yet

....uh----huuuh....
Lol

I'm in it for the money

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F12

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