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As the adjudicating officer for the retail store extra Gameaday prize(s) I, The Only Tony, hereby declare the official results of this competition.
While the quantity of entries was high the quality was "none too hot" with many "fantasy schemes" often involving females.
I must disallow any general suggestions of games championships as we did these last year and we are running them this year. I would have taken a different view if the ideas for these had been worked up into fully suggestions (with details).
As I am judging this I can hardly award my own "Two Can Play at This" idea the prize - though undoubtedly we will use something similar for an "introduce a friend" incentive.
YH had a good notion about working with schools and Meka came up with "People are Stupid" idea to give safety advice with every game!
Rakuga deserves a mention for persistence and I particularly liked his suggestion of a One Day Sale. IF we decide to do that then he will get a prize. The problem with one day sales is that once people get used to (even) lower prices they are resistant to buying at the normal prices.
Rakuga also suggested giving better directions to the shops.
I liked Namostar's idea of placing addresses of the shops on internet banners. We'll use this so Namostar - you are A WINNER.
The second winner is Fantasy Meister. He made a couple of reasonable suggestions including better promotion of Reddies. But his idea which caught my imagination was to print an 8 digit number on the receipts for people to match with a number on the internet. This gives us the possibility of running Gameaday in the shops. I'm not sure if we will actually use it but it is the best idea (in my view).
A difficult competition which has clearly stretched imaginations to the limit. Thank you for entering.
Congratulations to NAMOSTAR and FANTASY MEISTER and I won't forget Rakuga IF we use the one day sale idea.
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These are the original rules.
The next amazing Special Reserve competition (another one!) is to suggest ideas for attracting people into our Big Club Shops.
The main objective here is to think about the cost effectiveness of your ideas. In order for them to work they need to be, yes you guessed it, low on cost and high on impact.
If you haven't visited all or any of our shops then get yourself down to your local shop and check them out! Visit our Big Club Shops page for further details: http://special.reserve.co.uk/common/shops/shopsindex.php
This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.
CLOSING DATE: 27th July 2001 *********MIDNIGHT*********
The challenge has been set. Good luck!
While the quantity of entries was high the quality was "none too hot" with many "fantasy schemes" often involving females.
I must disallow any general suggestions of games championships as we did these last year and we are running them this year. I would have taken a different view if the ideas for these had been worked up into fully suggestions (with details).
As I am judging this I can hardly award my own "Two Can Play at This" idea the prize - though undoubtedly we will use something similar for an "introduce a friend" incentive.
YH had a good notion about working with schools and Meka came up with "People are Stupid" idea to give safety advice with every game!
Rakuga deserves a mention for persistence and I particularly liked his suggestion of a One Day Sale. IF we decide to do that then he will get a prize. The problem with one day sales is that once people get used to (even) lower prices they are resistant to buying at the normal prices.
Rakuga also suggested giving better directions to the shops.
I liked Namostar's idea of placing addresses of the shops on internet banners. We'll use this so Namostar - you are A WINNER.
The second winner is Fantasy Meister. He made a couple of reasonable suggestions including better promotion of Reddies. But his idea which caught my imagination was to print an 8 digit number on the receipts for people to match with a number on the internet. This gives us the possibility of running Gameaday in the shops. I'm not sure if we will actually use it but it is the best idea (in my view).
A difficult competition which has clearly stretched imaginations to the limit. Thank you for entering.
Congratulations to NAMOSTAR and FANTASY MEISTER and I won't forget Rakuga IF we use the one day sale idea.
***********
These are the original rules.
The next amazing Special Reserve competition (another one!) is to suggest ideas for attracting people into our Big Club Shops.
The main objective here is to think about the cost effectiveness of your ideas. In order for them to work they need to be, yes you guessed it, low on cost and high on impact.
If you haven't visited all or any of our shops then get yourself down to your local shop and check them out! Visit our Big Club Shops page for further details: http://special.reserve.co.uk/common/shops/shopsindex.php
This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.
CLOSING DATE: 27th July 2001 *********MIDNIGHT*********
The challenge has been set. Good luck!
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have tournaments that are in partnership with other shops i.e.marks and spencers(for parents to go to) and the parents could get discount/voucher/coupons to go to while the tournament takes place. Then have discount for entrants , so people who have driven a long way and have lost have more insentive to buy something.
kendozod wrote:
> Nice work everybody! Still a long time to go with this competition
> so keep those thinking caps on!
*****
"Ok thinking cap, activate". Namos thinking cap begins to shake, getting more and more violent at the second. The thinking cap, having run out of ideas, blows a fuse, as well as Namos head stright off of his body.
"Oh dear"
How long is there left on this compo?
> Nice work everybody! Still a long time to go with this competition
> so keep those thinking caps on!
*****
"Ok thinking cap, activate". Namos thinking cap begins to shake, getting more and more violent at the second. The thinking cap, having run out of ideas, blows a fuse, as well as Namos head stright off of his body.
"Oh dear"
How long is there left on this compo?
EvilBoris wrote:
> how about aranging massive gaming tournaments for Customers. you
> could play games like mario kart , smash brothers, goldeneye,perfect
> dark, soulcalibur, tony hawks, Fifa etc
Already been said.
> how about aranging massive gaming tournaments for Customers. you
> could play games like mario kart , smash brothers, goldeneye,perfect
> dark, soulcalibur, tony hawks, Fifa etc
Already been said.
Open a shop in Wales please! Preferably in Swansea.
definately open a shop in norwich, even though there are to EBs, a game , and 2 or 3 independent shops. They are always packed. Nothing can beat the prices you have at special reserve. also with the abilitie to have things ordered in for you without the hassle of mail order would be brilliant.
Go oooon do it for the children.
I you do Wil ya gimme a job.
Go oooon do it for the children.
I you do Wil ya gimme a job.
Idea 31:
As you say you need to target big cities I can suggest which ones to target. I would personally suggest Norwich. I've been here and it's quite a developed shopping area and since none of your shops are in that sort of area you should put one there. Manchester would be another one.
As you say you need to target big cities I can suggest which ones to target. I would personally suggest Norwich. I've been here and it's quite a developed shopping area and since none of your shops are in that sort of area you should put one there. Manchester would be another one.
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