Giveaway Hunting ― 2009/09/23
In the city centre, you will be given a pack of mini pocket tissues with advertisement on backside.
The advertiser usued to be mainly moneylenders, but nowadays they are no longer the main sponsors. The tissues are sponsored by various industries, such as hairdresser’s, informal restaurants, English language schools.
However, there seem to be an ever-lasting advertiser of this type of promotion; telephone clubs.
Being middle-aged and housebound, I have only limited and dated knowledge about what telephone clubs are. As long as I know, it should be a kind of dating club where men were waiting for a call from a woman in order to have a nice chat, or sometimes more than a chat.
I seem to have derailed. Anyway, the most memorable pocket tissue I have been given was sponsored by Japanese Trade Union Confederation.
I don't know why they have to promote themselves. I asked the distributor what they wanted me to do in exchange for the tissues. I didn’t get any comprehensible answer. Did they want donation? But they didn’t have a donation box. Did they want me to vote for a particular political party? I haven’t been able to work out.
It goes:
“Now is the time to bring about change in policies and politics”;
“No throwaway workers”;
“Workplaces and society without anxiety”; etc.
Other than tissues, you will get a variety of giveaways, from a plastic pencil board promoting blood donation to small sample packets of instant coffee, while walking in the city centre.
So far, the best giveaways I have gotten so far are:
1. Potato crisps in new flavours, as I was feeling peckish when I got them;
2. Samples of my favourite skin lotion. Very convenient while I’m on a trip;
3. A very simple and small sawing kit which go into my wallet.
(Sorry, no picture: I have eaten or used them up.)
I haven’t worked as a pocket tissue distributor, but I guess their job can be tough (standing outside regardless of weather) and sometimes awkward (most of passers-by ignore them).
Plus, I don’t think they are extremely well-paid. The quicker they finish handing out their quota, the easier their lives would be, I guess. So I tend to receive any offer from them trying to be a kind person (probably in a wrong way).
You might call me a greedy giveaway hunter, though.
The advertiser usued to be mainly moneylenders, but nowadays they are no longer the main sponsors. The tissues are sponsored by various industries, such as hairdresser’s, informal restaurants, English language schools.
However, there seem to be an ever-lasting advertiser of this type of promotion; telephone clubs.
Being middle-aged and housebound, I have only limited and dated knowledge about what telephone clubs are. As long as I know, it should be a kind of dating club where men were waiting for a call from a woman in order to have a nice chat, or sometimes more than a chat.
I seem to have derailed. Anyway, the most memorable pocket tissue I have been given was sponsored by Japanese Trade Union Confederation.
I don't know why they have to promote themselves. I asked the distributor what they wanted me to do in exchange for the tissues. I didn’t get any comprehensible answer. Did they want donation? But they didn’t have a donation box. Did they want me to vote for a particular political party? I haven’t been able to work out.
“Now is the time to bring about change in policies and politics”;
“No throwaway workers”;
“Workplaces and society without anxiety”; etc.
Other than tissues, you will get a variety of giveaways, from a plastic pencil board promoting blood donation to small sample packets of instant coffee, while walking in the city centre.
So far, the best giveaways I have gotten so far are:
1. Potato crisps in new flavours, as I was feeling peckish when I got them;
2. Samples of my favourite skin lotion. Very convenient while I’m on a trip;
3. A very simple and small sawing kit which go into my wallet.
(Sorry, no picture: I have eaten or used them up.)
I haven’t worked as a pocket tissue distributor, but I guess their job can be tough (standing outside regardless of weather) and sometimes awkward (most of passers-by ignore them).
Plus, I don’t think they are extremely well-paid. The quicker they finish handing out their quota, the easier their lives would be, I guess. So I tend to receive any offer from them trying to be a kind person (probably in a wrong way).
You might call me a greedy giveaway hunter, though.
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