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videoman Inner circle 6732 Posts |
So I’m placing an order with Penguin and I’m a few bucks short of getting free shipping. Whenever this happens I usually look around for a fairly inexpensive item because I’d rather put money towards a product than shipping.
I see this little paddle trick for 10 bucks and I think that it’s kind of cute and I couldn’t make one as nice for 10 bucks if you count my time and materials. So naturally I take a closer look to see what type of personality it will reveal. The personality type on the paddle turns out to be “Wanker”. Yep, that’s right, ******. What the heck??? Not even sure if I can write that on this forum. Penguin didn’t write it out in their ad copy.. Well, so much for my thinking that it looks like a nice cute effect. What a strange thing to put on the paddle. I mean talk about limiting your market. It’s bad enough that it’s an insulting personality, but of dubious taste too? Other than teenage boys, who would actually use this? Sometimes bizarre marketing decisions are made with magic tricks. I would love to see a video of the meeting where that idea got approved. Someone must have exclaimed at some point, “that’s perfect, I love it, let’s go with that”. http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/S25347 |
Sawi New user 9 Posts |
I'd much prefer it if the descriptors were of a more positive nature. So words such as charitable, caring, giving, loving, peacemaker or sage. That would be much more pleasing to me. Sawi x
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magicant Regular user Manchester UK 116 Posts |
In our defence we do offer 2 other version which are definitely cuter.
See the Breathalyzer: http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/S25346 And the Great Chosen Card Locator at: http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/S25348 I must say our humour in England makes this trick very popular over here as the word "W****R is often used in jest and in a comedic manner and goes down very well but I personally recommend only doing this to someone who genuinely is a good sport and can take a joke or friends etc. The paddles are produced by PrintByMagic so we can personalise these paddles to any word you wish and we will be releasing a version more suitable for the American Market soon like "Douchbag" but if you can recommend any good words please let me know that aren't too insulting! We are also soon adding a PERSONALISATION SERVICE so you can actually design your own paddle and we ship worldwide... This is coming next week to PrintBymagic. Sawi... I love the nice nature of your suggestions and I think there is definitely a market for this. Soon you will see nice words and many other versions available. Many thanks Anthony www.magicworld.co.uk
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