Mobile Industry Review » employs http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:46:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Orange employs actors to make fake iPhone queues http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/08/orange_employs_actors_to_make_fake_iphone_queues.html http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2008/08/orange_employs_actors_to_make_fake_iphone_queues.html#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:53:18 +0000 Julia http://www.smstextnews.com/?p=8558 According to a a Reuters report, Orange isn’t having any trouble drumming up interest in the iPhone launch in Poland today – in fact, it’s already got queues forming outside its shops. Nothing new there you might think.

Think again. The queuers are being paid to stand in line. From the article:

“We have these fake queues at front of 20 stores around the country to drum up interest in the iPhone,” a spokesman said.

Apparently, Orange’s iPhone attendees are actors. No word on whether there are genuine customers waiting there too, but Reuters says that T-Mobile, also due to launch the iPhone today, hasn’t seen any queues.

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