Comments on: Dish soap art competition

By: Hakuin

Hakuin — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:43:00 +0000

they should sue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZFrmFhXkr0

By: neapel

neapel — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:26:00 +0000

for some values of “desaster” (I don’t recall Pirate Party members going berserk shouting censorship! on twitter, so it can’t have been that bad)

By: jmzero

jmzero — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:36:00 +0000

Certainly that’s one of the reasons they won’t do it – the other likely just a base of conditioned fear for anything out of the ordinary.

What I’m saying is that I think they’re wrong. The key would be limited quantities and limited timelines.

Make each bottle design reasonably rare (again, no/few duplicates per store is critical) and someone will want it.

Someone wants a pretty bottle. Someone wants a funny one. Someone wants one that looks like it was drawn by a child. Someone sees just 3 bottles left and picks their favorite out of those 3. Someone wants an ugly one. Someone wants the last “designed” one left on the shelf, no matter what it is.

The other key is time. Do this once a year. Don’t cheat and reprint or extend. No time for backlash, and too few bottles for people to ever get sick of them. By year three you’d be selling boxes of soap to people, sight unseen (each box has a rare promo bottle!).

Edit: Whoops, hit wrong reply button I guess. This was meant to reply to kPkPkP’s post above.

By: Kevin Pierce

Kevin Pierce — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:00:00 +0000

It’s the ones that got left on the shelf that would be the problem.

By: jmzero

jmzero — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:53:00 +0000

Wow – they really missed an opportunity here. I would have released tons of them (obviously none that were offensive/etc…) to supermarkets in limited quantities. Mix up the bottles such that no store has a complete set (the set should be at least 100 or so).

Some people would just pick up the goofy ladybug soap (or one of the other very pleasant designs) instead of another brand; other people would collect these, and wander around town buying up soap.

They got handed a gold mine in those submissions, but it looks like they’ll piss it away because they’re cowards.

By: etwas

etwas — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:36:00 +0000

another great work of lulz by /b/tards. the silly designs had the most votes by far.
did you hear about the nokia ringtone competition?
http://nokiatune.audiodraft.com/
look for the votes on ‘the great marvelous’ and listen to it. yeah.

don’t underestimate the power of bored kids on 4chan.

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:24:00 +0000

Pril actually produced a limited edition of the “PRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL” design and sold those 777 (number might be wrong) bottles at ebay for the normal price.

They were gone in a few hours, and yes: I got one.

By: leidentech

leidentech — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:20:00 +0000

“Tastes like chicken.” Even funnier.

By: skabob

skabob — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 20:05:00 +0000

I LOL’d at “tastes great with chicken!”… unfortunately my cube mate didn’t find it as funny.

By: lightsgeek25

lightsgeek25 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:44:00 +0000

I do enjoy how one of the winner’s also infringes on the copyright of Fred Flintstone. Just wait until Warner Brothers finds out….

By: Marc Horstmann

Marc Horstmann — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:39:00 +0000

Actually those designs weren’t runner-ups. The contest was originally a most-user-votes-wins kind a thing. These designs went viral and had most user votes by a land slide.
So Pril annotated the rules retrospectively and said, designs also need Pril-approval.
It was rather a public relations desaster…

By: ObeyMyBrain

ObeyMyBrain — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:23:00 +0000

From the designs shown, it looks like they had to use an MS-Paint level online graphics program to submit their art.

By: voiceinthedistance

voiceinthedistance — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:19:00 +0000

I guess the design that promotes how well Pril cuts through stubborn unicorn grease was a little too specialized for them.