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Crazy One Direction fans

I stayed at the Sofitel Hotel in Brisbane last night, the same hotel as One Direction as I was to discover thanks to the girls outside on the street screaming for the members of the boy band. They were possessed. Seriously.  Fanaticism is a very powerful commercial driver … as we have seen with magazine sales.

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  1. MAX

    Mark maybe they were screaming for you!

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  2. Mark Fletcher

    Ah Max you have not seen my photo then. No, these girls want their young boys. I left the hotel at 4:30am today and a group of them were there and awake. No parents around. Hmm..

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  3. MAX

    You have not seen my photo.

    When some customers come in and say “hey good looking “, I respond with ” I sell glasses, they will help your poor eyesight “

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  4. h

    I have totally sold out of anythng One Direction. I reckon I will have interest in mags/posters for another 8 weeks. Such a loss for the marketing companies not having product out in the retail space to EARN from. Hopefully someone is putting together some more items from the Oz tour, posters particularly, hint hint, ready to sell this weekend !!! Ha Ha

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  5. newsagent

    Has anyone taken a look at the photo in Daily Telegraph today?

    Although the photo cannot be authenticated – it may appear they only have eyes for each other..

    Which, I might add, I don’t have a problem with as long as they are happy and respect each other.

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  6. Jarryd Moore

    Same here h – sold out of just about everything. Ordered more mags but didn’t get any of them. Missed opportunity.

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  7. JONO

    Coles and safeway has a lot of one direction book sitting there and no one bought it

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  8. Mark Fletcher

    Yes they got their stock two weeks after newsagents.

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  9. Steven

    Seeing as you were in the neibourhood, you should have taken some mags with you for them to sign, would sell for a small fortune.

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  10. June

    Haven’t received the extras as yet but GG
    rang me yesterday in response to an email requesting more 1D mags and said
    they were on their way.
    I am quick to criticize when GG or Network
    don’t answer my emails so I was very
    pleased to hear from them and I sure hope
    they follow through and I get the extras
    in the next few days.

    Thanks GG – your response is appreciated.

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  11. June

    Well, you wouldn’t want to know but my parcel with ID magazine extras has just arrived TIGHTLY STRAPPED and the invoice
    said 10 copies but there were only 7 in the parcel.
    I opened it myself and it had NOT been tampered with so one can only assume that a packer either cannot count to ten using his/her fingers or they were stolen.
    GG you need to address this situation.
    If your packers can’t count – sack them
    If your packers are stealing – call the police.
    I am totally discouraged by the problems in this industry and they have NEVER been
    addressed.
    Surely you can track who packed my invoice?
    Your systems are too easily corrupted.

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  12. h

    Errors from Gotch have increased a lot in the last 2 months out of Melbourne, we are having shorts or wrong picks almost every delivery day at the moment. We joke that the warehouse boys are smoking silly weed…..

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  13. Mark Fletcher

    Retrenchments are having an effect it would appear.

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