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iWait – Genius Business Model

Posted: June 29th, 2007 | Author: | Filed under: Advertising, Marketing | 5 Comments »

This is almost as good as bumvertising, but as I was perusing some people in line for an apple iphone at the local apple store I saw some people wearing t-shirts that said “iwait.org” on them. I asked a few folks where they got them and they said some guy came around handing them out for free. Now i’m a bit of a t-shirt buff so I took a bit of an interest and decided to explore a little. Well it turns out there is a service called iWait which basically provides people to stand in line for things for you, usually the more mundane ticket lines, DMV etc. In this case though iWait has actually put people in line already, and have set up an auction model so you can bid on the people who are inline already, the current bid for someone inline for an iphone is $550, brilliant.

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  • http://www.web-jungle.com/2007/06/30/iwait-for-you-in-line/ iWait for you in line at Web Jungle

    [...] idea. At Experience Curve I found something about the site iWait, where you can either offer to wait for someone in a line, [...]

  • http://www.no-mans-blog.com Asi

    genius!

    I hope you’re well Karl, long time no seen.

    best

    A.

  • http://www.getfreshminds.com/2007/07/all-the-pleasur.html getFreshMinds.com – Ideas so fresh–they should be slapped!

    All the pleasure without the pain of a long wait….

    Getting an iPhone, finding that perfect vantage point for the San Francisco fireworks on the 4th of July, or even securing a copy of Harry Potter on that first day are all activities that come with an unfortunate side effect…

  • http://www.collegeandfinance.com/how-cosmo-kramer-would-make-money-in-college/ How Cosmo Kramer Would Make Money in College | College and Finance

    [...] Charging People to Hold a Place in Line – With today’s demand for movies, books, games, and products, releases seem to be getting more exciting with each day. Kramer would probably love the idea of charging a fee to hold someone’s place in line. It would be a quick way to earn him some extra cash and he’d only have to stand in line. I bet he would have thought of it before those geniuses at iWait. [...]

  • http://iwait.org josh