Dutch Department Store - webpage

[chris.mapey]

Is this a genuine shop?

http://producten.hema.nl/

Wait a few seconds - hence my question...

Chris

[croyde]

Sure is, my mum shops there as she lives in Delft.

Great idea, reminds me of the Honda advert of a couple of years ago.

[miniman]

Ha, that's a pretty neat way of getting people to scroll down the page to see your product range. Would get tiresome after a few visits, but as viral marketing tricks go its not bad!

[Coco H]

Yup - I could do with another Jip and Janneke beaker actually

[The Moose]

What a fantastic intro - makes such a change to the standard "click to enter" ste



Cheers

The Moose

[PaulHogan]

euroboy said:

I think I read somewhere that they are the biggest store chain in the world only to sell their 'own' stuff; no 3rd party brands, everything is designed and made by them and for them.

I'll see your 'Hema' and raise you 'Ikea'

[drivin_me_nuts]

... I was thinking about something like this the other day - PH posted a link to a french(?) website with a similar idea a while back - 2 chaps dueling all over the page..

Does anyone have any idea what the site might have been?

Rather entertaining in a french dramatique kinda way

[hugo a gogo]

Hema is a great little shop, there's only a few in Germany afaik and one is near us in Neuss

Edited by hugo a gogo on Saturday 1st August 10:04

[hugo a gogo]

Ikea do sell biscuits and stuff made by others

but then Hema (here anyway) sell twixes and coke etc

[littlegreenfairy]

Ooh I fancy some of those little cocktail party flags...

[spikeyhead]

As someone stuck in a Dutch B&B, and likely to be in one for another few days before moving into a rented place, its the most interesting thing I've seen in the country.

[Pigeon]

miniman said:

Ha, that's a pretty neat way of getting people to scroll down the page to see your product range. Would get tiresome after a few visits, but as viral marketing tricks go its not bad!

Actually, it's completely st. Because it only works if you have the bd fking flash plugin installed. So all I see is a blank screen with three links that do not work. A completely worthless site that fails to convey any information at all because they haven't used HTML like they ahould have done. Only a fking moron writes content in flash.

[croyde]

Pigeon said:

miniman said:

Ha, that's a pretty neat way of getting people to scroll down the page to see your product range. Would get tiresome after a few visits, but as viral marketing tricks go its not bad!

Actually, it's completely st. Because it only works if you have the bd fking flash plugin installed. So all I see is a blank screen with three links that do not work. A completely worthless site that fails to convey any information at all because they haven't used HTML like they ahould have done. Only a fking moron writes content in flash.

I don't know why but I have just found what you said extremely funny. Cheers

[Alfa Male]

spikeyhead said:

As someone stuck in a Dutch B&B, and likely to be in one for another few days before moving into a rented place, its the most interesting thing I've seen in the country.

Yep, absolutely featureless desert with nothing to see or do here. Why o why leave leave wonderful vibrant Luton for a sthole like Holland? I'd give it up if I were you, you obviously put your best effort in.

[Mr Will]

Pigeon said:

miniman said:

Ha, that's a pretty neat way of getting people to scroll down the page to see your product range. Would get tiresome after a few visits, but as viral marketing tricks go its not bad!

Actually, it's completely st. Because it only works if you have the bd fking flash plugin installed. So all I see is a blank screen with three links that do not work. A completely worthless site that fails to convey any information at all because they haven't used HTML like they ahould have done. Only a fking moron writes content in flash.

Because it is a viral advert which would be almost impossible to re-create in HTML. The main website is here: http://www.hema.nl/ and works fine without flash, but isn't quite so interesting to watch.

[Uhura_Fighter]

spikeyhead said:

As someone stuck in a Dutch B&B, and likely to be in one for another few days before moving into a rented place, its the most interesting thing I've seen in the country.

Have you thought about going outside?

[spikeyhead]

Uhura_Fighter said:

spikeyhead said:

As someone stuck in a Dutch B&B, and likely to be in one for another few days before moving into a rented place, its the most interesting thing I've seen in the country.

Have you thought about going outside?

what I want to be doing is cooking good food, sleeping in a kingsize bed, preferably with my wench next to me, enjoying my garden, going for a blatt in the Porsche, anything other than spending more time in a B&B or wandering round a small town getting rained on. I'll be fine once the useless fking letting agents here have finally sorted their end out so I can move into a rented house, but for now, I'm bored with the place. Could be worse, I once spent seven months working in Portsmouth!