A Terrible Mistake: 1 Vacuum = 1 Free Flight
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2020
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your pun sucks
WE NEED MORE PLANES!
Bricks!!!
bricks
I mean, I thought it was interesting considering I have nothing else to do in quarantine. If you're going to keep a crappy attitude, all you're going to get is a channel that sucks.
Sooooo...
"We're losing £570 per sale!"
"Don't worry, we'll make it up on volume!"
This was MoviePass's mistake, along with believing that people would treat a movie theater subscription like a *gym membership.*
@@TheSecondVersion really? 🤣
Great logic on their end. It’s almost as if they didn’t use a calculator or even basic math.
@@SacreligousTurkey What do you expect, they're low-IQ businesspeople, not mathematicians.
@@ruslannabioullin3664 they're probably so rich, they don't understand what the average person does as a consumer
This is that story every British marketing student had to study at one point!
In the US, all business students have to study about Enron.
G-Man I think we did too!
What’s that?
One student will skip that class. I call this student my favourite, because one day I'm going to be getting a free flight to the US!
999 likes
My grandma brought a vacuum during this promo and that meant she took my mum on her first and only trans-atlantic trip to see New York! Very interesting to hear a familiar story!
Brilliant vid as always!!
This is such a nice and wholesome comment.
@@PlanetaryFacts yeah! I love this comment
Yes you don’t get many of these here on RUclips
*spits*
@@PlanetaryFacts Yeah
0:00 This video is also made possible by Hoover, although not intentionally so.
zakiducky - well, one consequence of it was that Hoover (an American-based company) had to be sold IN ITS' ENTIRETY, first to Maytag and years later, with another merger to Whirpool, where it resides nowadays (Candy has to pay royalties to Whirpool to use the name).
Wicked funny hahaha
I see what you did there
Vacuum company: noo you can't just buy a £120 vacuum to fly to America
All of Europe: haha airplane go woosh
This comment is suspiciously similar to the one on real engineering’s sr71 video
all of Europe?
you sure about that?
Tbh I really hate comments are like Gamer: stupid game Me: ugly (I know the example doesn't make any sense) But this is the only comment I love with that kind of format
@@guy_th18 for amuricans Europe=uk or something
I don't even care about the joke itself I just appreciate being reminded of money printer go brrr
"business strategy" more like a scam.
But a reverse scam right?
"legal" scam to be precise
The secret ingredient is CRIME
@@libratyanjhon3959 Legal?
scam, business, they're synonymous
Of course it’s plane-related.
@Henry Wijaya Not bricks?!
Micheal Thatcher, bruhhh he’s been doing planes since he started the channel
Thankfully
that's a good thing
Of course, planes are cool.
Well at least everyone had a vacuum at the end of it
No wonder Britain sucks.
--The Colonies
@@stormbob LMAO
That sucks
@@stormbob xD
Today: Everything is made in China. MAGA.
There’s a massive closed down hoover factory a mile from where I live and I never knew why it closed down. Thanks
HAI: Teaches people why their local vacuum cleaner factories are closed down.
Caleb OKAY could be near Wembley. I was in Wembley a while ago and I think there was one there.
Pentrebach in Merthyr Tydfil is where they were made
DAS the one in Wembley that is a big Art Deco building I think used to be the head offices though maybe it was also a factory. It’s now a Tesco and if anyone’s looking for it it’s just next to the A40 road near Perivale tube station
Caleb OKAY off the A40 in north west London near Perivale tube station
R.I.P 6 raccoons in a suit 😢
they were spending too much on raccoons in a human suit so they had to say he died and call it a day 😥
my uncle actually owned the company who supplied hover with the weights for the washing machines in this offer
they may a substantial profit because they just used Slag from a nearby Iron Refinery that payed them to dispose of it so they may profit from both sides of the endevor
I live near the factory
It looks really nice but then it changed to a tesco and now I don't know it has an art deco tesco sign and a giant hover logo
Now that is one profitable business venture.
@densch123 They briefly mentioned they were also trying to sell washers, so they would try to upsell customers after the initial vacuum sale.
Wow, that’s a businessman’s wet dream right there
Sure he does
oh wow, my parents went to florida with this promotion, I remember my dad nearly sued them to get the tickets, he was mad about it for months!
I'm sorry they had to go through all of that just to end up in Florida. Deepest condolences.
I’ve lived in Florida my whole life, it’s nothing special. Your dad got scammed
@@IceBlueLugia same here, they should have went to New York or California instead
@@bryceingelsby Beaches suck in general. Sand is a pain in the ass to clean and I always have more fun swimming in pools. So not really a draw for me
If you live in rainy and wet place like Britain, Florida is a good choice for new experience
My mum had one of those £119.99 Hoovers.
She gave the receipt to my Grannie, who got return flights to/from Italy.
Never give a oldie a offer like this, they will take you on, and win!!
Andrew Kerr granny*
They've got plenty of time to occupy themselves with the bureaucracy, and have pretty much no restrictions on when they can travel.
@@nathan._.h u rly gonna tell someone how to spell a name they gave to someone? U rly got nothing to do huh
An Cúl Tóna Níos Mór
Imagine correcting a made up name lmao
Especially back then as mail was pretty much the standard form of communication.
Sounds like Michael Scott’s Golden Ticket promotion
Karl Tanner of Gin Alley I think you mean Dwight’s haha
Except that actually worked
@densch123 michael scott put 5 golden tickets in 5 boxes of paper. he did not realize that he didn't restrict one ticket per person and all 5 tickets were sent to their biggest client, giving them 50 percent off their entire order
what the hell is a pallette?
That CEO single handedly destroyed the company with one shocking business decision.
Tit for a tat
At one point a car dealership bought up a load of hoovers and offered customers a free hoover with each car bought. This was a brilliant idea because people bought cheap second hand cars they didn't really want just to get the hoover so that they could get the plane tickets.
R.I.P. Six raccoons in an unconvincing human costume
The comment above yours also says "RIP six raccoons in an unconvincing human costume," and I think it's funny as hell that at least two people saw Prince Phillip croak and said "I should comment on that HAI vid"
Well the Brits have officially stopped pretending that 6 raccoons in a human suit is Prince Phillip. They’ve put it to rest
Hence, the British phrase, "You're as dumb as a Hoover vacuum salesman", was born.
1 Vacuum = 1 Free flight
HAI: *Buys a trillion vacuum cleaners*
just to fly to newark airport so he has more reasons to roast it XD
Lol
Brandenberg to Newark
@@pakwarrior1112 more like to avoid it
HAI... BYE
This episode was double as interesting
Jetlite this video was posted 7 minutes ago and this video is 6 minutes long. Now your comment was posted 3 minutes ago. You have LIED sir
More like Triple as interesting
@@Jack-vb4qy I don't see how that's lying.
Jack, jetlite has broke time and space itself
So it was one interesting
as a brit, I can confirm that it really is several racoons in a human suit.
oh definitely
Yeah, you don’t hit a lady with a car and break her collarbone and get away with it without being a number of raccoons 🦝
The racoons escaped.
Not anymore :)
@@DavidLoveMore they got bored
Free Flight u say ?
Wendover Productions: heavy sweating
Maybe I missed the joke but he is Wendover Productions
Lmao I remember my uncle told me how he made 9 of my family members to but the vacuum and ended up with 20 tickets. They used 15 and sold the rest for like half of what they went for. He would laugh saying how he basically got payed to fly to America (sold the tickets and the vacuum).
3:50 - A joke about Moviepass:
Board of Directors - "This company is losing money on every ticket sale"
CEO: "That's okay, we'll make it up in volume."
5:48
"There's another epic business blunder going on right now"
Person in the background: 🥳🎉
Party like its 2020
My parents got in at the end, after Hoover had cleaned up their act and the process was smoother. They got two return flights to New York for themselves, and paid for we three kids (all pre-teens, so not too pricey).
Just for the record “crumpet muncher” is something very different in the u.k
It takes quite the cunning linguist to understand
wow
I’m so happy I’m not the only one to notice this 😂
Ya know I have always preferred muffins myself.
Can someone explain? I'm curious
I went to Florida on this deal. Still can’t believe it. Good times
Math Exam : 30 - 600
My mind : subtract, square root, math words...
Don't forget to divide the pi!
What's an adjective?... wait wrong scenario
@Biess lol
rip six raccons in a human suit.
0:39 The racoons ran away
Six reaccons.
RIP phillip
for a sec i thought it's about hover - the occasional sponsor
same
It's always a good time when Half As Interesting makes a video talking about planes
Obligatory "your everywhere" statement
That Prince Phillip joke didn’t age well
Just like Prince Phillip
This has been the earliest to an HAI video I've been. shoot, my zoom meeting.
Last time I was this early, the queen was still the only life on earth.
that is disgusting. i love it.
RIP the 6 racoons in the suit 🪦
Those first analogies got to me especially as someone who has lived both in UK and usa. ‘Hoovering’ is more akin to calling bandages ‘band-aids’ and kitchen storage containers’Tupperware’ than cookies being called another generic name and same as ‘potato fries’ as they are called here in Japan.
In czech the verb for "hoovering" is "luxovat," derived from vacuums brand Electrolux.
Rip six raccoons in an unconvincing Hooman suit
F for the 6 racoons in a suit. U will be remembered prince phillip
Rip
There was another promotion like this in the UK about 15 years ago. This was "book a cruise for £10" promoted by the Daily Express newspaper.Of course the real price of this cruise would have been several hundred pounds, but the thinking behind this promotion was that the person taking up this offer would also book a second cruise for a partner. This would be at full price and the travel company should have made a small profit. Unfortunately many people just booked the £10 cruise with no second ticket. The travel company went bankrupt and the newspaper had to compensate over 2.500 readers
And this is how I got to go to Disney World as a little kid. Thank you Hoover
RIP 6 raccoons in an unconvincing human suit
Well that Prince Phillip joke came a shock today 😂😂
Wait this isn’t Wendover why are we discussing planes
Is it not?
_do we tell him_
Nathan09786 - this is the SNARKIER VERSION of Wendover. And it is the same Sam that LIKES PLANES TOO MUCH...
Because Sam is a big Wendover fan. It’s so bad that he even acts like he’s Wendover.
Eddiemate - NO, NO, NO... It is Sam's 2nd account (Extremities podcasts is his 3rd)...
Something very similar to this actually happened again in Italy in April 2019. The electronics company "Unieuro" gave out a free flight to anywhere in Europe as long as you spent more than 300 euros. At first it seemed to work, but around Easter they just stopped paying for the flights just day before they departed, which forced many people to pay thousands of euros on flights because it was holiday season.
300 euros is a lot right for EU flights? Or did people want to fly during very busy periods?
@@Holland1994D a last minute round trip flight can cost that during school holidays
that Prince Phillip joke 1 year later :(
0:40 that aged well…
RIP, six raccoons.
Wow, this guy posts a lot of aviation related videos. I know someone who goes by the name of Wendover Productions who also does a lot of aviation videos. Almost as if HAI and Wendover are the same person!
My word, this is riveting news :0
It's so creepy. It really seems that HAI and Wendover are the same person!
Random Anime Girl - if you haven't found it yet, it is "Sam from Wendover". Same chap, but TWICE AS SNARKY in HALF THE TIME.
*illuminati inntenseifies*
Someone is going to get wooooshed
People in the UK call it hoover? I've been calling it a vacuum cleaner the whole time
I live in the UK 😳
I first ran into this when I was in Ireland. The lady that owned the castle we were staying at called it hoovering.
R.I.P. several raccoons in a suit
0:39 has not aged well
this got recommended to me after prince phillip died
*wait*
So if there’s one thing I’ve learned being in a corporate job for 15 years, it’s that while the executives often do stupid things, they aren’t actually stupid and are acting rationally based on some dumb rules and/or incentives.
I would love to know what the real reasons were that the Hoover execs made such stupid decisions.
I bet management made revenue growth the only KPI and left out profit. Isn't that anyway what every venture capitalist is doing these days?
Me too
This is the best argument in favour of Socialism that I have ever heard!
@@trevormillar1576 No, politicians do even dumber things. Basically whenever humans are involved, stupidity isn’t too far away.
It’s really an argument for an AI dictatorship.
Dyson should do this. They are overpricing their vacuums. Plus their vacuums are great.
Company : *makes some weird business choice*
Consumer : "I'm about to end this company's entire career"
Ok, you finally got me. $12 for a year of documentaries is too hard to pass up.
You guys are honestly my fav youtube channel. Love HAI, Wendover Productions, Extremities... If I'm missing any, please let me know so I can consume more content
I like how you repeated the word “planes” twice in the intro.
Twice? - There’s only one repetition.
*"Legend says, one day Sam will make a video about bricks..."*
Those poor raccoons !!
If only I could trade in my Dyson Vaccum for a first class ticket on Qatar airways
They're about the same price 😂
@@jimsvideos7201 haahah yes they are
Jim's videos - they're like 3-5x as much, that's why he's asking for those....
I've honestly been waiting for you to cover this
Thank you
RIP 6 raccoons
Rip 6 raccoons in a human costume
This video starts out being labelled as "the best internet video ever" yet doesn’t mention bricks.
I’m disappointed airplane man.
Last time I was this early, Sam still had TWL going on.
I miss TWL dearly...
@@michaelnelson2976 this channel is TWL
The Hoover Holidays Pressure Group were so mad that a bunch of them pooled in money to buy a lot of stocks in the parent company, just so they could talk to the executives
After hearing a countless number of sponsor spots for CuriosityStream, a year being cheaper than 1 month of Netflix was too good to resist. You've finally won! I'll be watching your documentary and Tom Scott's series on Nebula soon.
*"This video was made possible by Hover"*
Oh, not this time...
Tecker - ...almost. (Hoover, no one does lot like you...)
When you're an avgeek and HAI uploads about planes:
*_cha cha real smooth_*
What in the world did Prince Phillip do to you? Hahaha.
I used to sell Hoover products when this was going on, people queued up and bought vacuums as gifts even for their family members,
Sound out HAI and it sounds like Hi
I now call it "Hi"
@Jaakko Lauronen ikr, crazy. Who would've guessed
I always see it too, but I can't do that, or I'll forever confuse it with mine.
Even during times of a pandemic ravaging the world, Sam still puts out videos relating to aviation.
What about those lovely bricks? :c
The line "Hoover had to clean up it's act" alone made this whole video worth it. 😆
Hoover could also be the name of an airplane company.
*But Hoover isn’t good at doing either*
alexxxth No I don’t know either. I don’t think he meant “Hover” because that still wouldn’t make sense.
I do believe one of the major carriers will have to rename themselves after going broke during flight detention
..
As a new company it can "suck up" all existing pax just waiting around for a plane seat...
Hah. I remember that. It wasn't like everybody didn't know what was going on and, yes, Hoover DID double down. I remember their PR people being interviewed on national TV and radio and absolutely INSISTING that the whole scheme was under control and would work out well for everybody.
'Hoover' is absolutely embedded in Brit culture as both the verb 'to vacuum' and as the noun for a vacuum cleaner. Even people who know nothing about the company, my kids for example, use the term. If you're really old, like me, you may also remember a time when no home had a washing machine and the laundromat devices were made by the (US) Bendix company. For years 'Bendix' meant any kind of washing machine.
Basically you bought the price of a plane ticket for the price of a vacuum
0:41 One year later, Prince Philip is no more
Omg. This explains why I, a British guy born in 1991, have seen an oddly large number of Turbo Power Total System hoovers in my life. If you are helping at a village hall, scout group, community centre or local church you will look in a cupboard and quite often see one of these.
What I learned: Six raccoons in a business suit is called prince phillip LMAO
Honestly, There was a simple change that Hoover could have made to prevent this issue
Make the promotion tied to flyers
Wow, in my wildest imagination I would have not guessed I'd be watching a video about Hoover vacuums on this day in history. Bravo to Half as Interesting to make me twice as interested!
I caught on HAI so much that now I expect jokes in Wendover videos and I'm always a bit disappointed that there are no jokes. Ever thought on making longer videos ? Anyway the content is great I love it!
'' this video has everything "
*Doesn't talk about bricks*
Wowww, I wonder who came up with that idea....they were quite smart. 🤔😂
I already read the entire wiki and related articles but i wanted to see the BBC documentary but this is the best i could find. Overall good video though. Failed market strategies is an interesting topic.
I will be honest I saw Hoover and thought it was the 31st president Herbert Hoover and not the vacuum company
It's funny because Americans are usually the ones that like to call products based off their brand names.
They say Kleenex instead of tissues, Jell-O instead of jelly, Jacuzzi instead of hot tubs, ChapStick instead of lip balm, Queue Tips instead of cotton buds, Rollerblades instead of inline skates, Band-Aids instead of plasters and loads of others.
Only ones I'm aware of in the UK are hoovers and sellotape (and Tipp-Ex but that's such a niche rare word.)
Oh and Sellotape has a brand name equivalent used there too, Scotch tape, used in the same way. So hoovers are really the only ones I can think of that are unique.
Anyone notice the number on the mail box at 1:51 ;)
The phrases “Hurry! Limited time only” or “Limited for the first XXXX number of customers” had not been translated into English at that time
I have a really old Hoover canister vacuum.
It still works and just does what it was built to do.... vacuum.
Not provide you tickets to America or random locations in Europe? Damn, that sucks (ba dum tsss).
The prince phillip thing oof