Coolest advertisting merchandise

TriedandTested · 12 May 2008 at 21:08

I know most of it is tack but sometimes you come across a real gem.

What's the best promotional 'thing' you've ever received from a company? Suck UK once gave me a bottle opener shaped like a key! :cool:

sniffy · 12 May 2008 at 21:09

OcUK burger. Not exactly promotional but it's win.

TriedandTested · 12 May 2008 at 21:10

Ah! Good call. They caused quite a stir!

yermum · 12 May 2008 at 21:10

A sterling silver luggage label from Smirnoff and a limited edition bottle of Guinness from the Police concert at Wembley Arena in '87 (I think, may have been '86) No, just checked, it was '84.

Ironic Namesake · 12 May 2008 at 21:11

TriedandTested said:
I know most of it is tack but sometimes you come across a real gem.

What's the best promotional 'thing' you've ever received from a company? Suk UK once gave me a bottle opener shaped like a key!

My sister gave me one of those for my birthday

I got a GSkill pen shaped screwdriver with one 2 sided bit on each end which came in useful, picked it up at CeBit last year I believe, has come in useful

Raymond Lin · 12 May 2008 at 21:19

At work we have a HUGE umbrella with the logo 39 Essex Street on it, and i have a few of their pens.

G|mp · 12 May 2008 at 21:21

I have loads of geeky merchandise from reps

Tefal · 12 May 2008 at 21:22

sniffy said:
OcUK burger. Not exactly promotional but it's win.

G|mp · 12 May 2008 at 21:23

Tefal said:

You aint lived son !

semi-pro waster · 12 May 2008 at 21:32

A Sprayway bottle opener, machined from a single billet of aluminium. Very well designed and sturdy - it's needed to be for the amount of bottles it has been used on.

Other than that I've just got the usual sort of tat - baseball caps, mugs, pens, beanie hats and stuff like that.

sniffy · 12 May 2008 at 21:33

Tefal said:

You poor sod

OcUK burger is a freebie OcUK used to ship with any optical drive purchased. It's just a CD sleeve but something about it is just legendary. Only those who have handled OcUK burger understand...

G|mp · 12 May 2008 at 21:37

Not as good as the OcUK fleece !

Or the OcUK free pen if you spent over 500 quid

Steeps · 12 May 2008 at 21:39

sniffy said:
You poor sod

OcUK burger is a freebie OcUK used to ship with any optical drive purchased. It's just a CD sleeve but something about it is just legendary. Only those who have handled OcUK burger understand...

3-4 years ago they shipped it with every order, not just optical media

Kristoph · 12 May 2008 at 21:40

I hope it was a gold pen?

G|mp · 12 May 2008 at 21:41

mp3kla said:
I hope it was a gold pen?

Nope plastic ball point jobby iirc

Snakedoctor · 12 May 2008 at 21:43

While at NTL, Bloomberg channel gave us little "wing mirrors" to stick on the sides of the PC monitor, so you could see who was coming up behind you. Fnar fnar.

Nokia took us Karting while I was an Electircal store manager and free dinners from Hitachi.

JIM_BOB7813 · 12 May 2008 at 21:44

You can buy those "ocuk" burgers for £3

They do look epic though

Kappa · 12 May 2008 at 22:42

one of those hard quite bit walletty things with inbuild speakers which you can put your phone in and listen to music (battery powered) from MusicStation from Vodafone.

MikeHunt79 · 12 May 2008 at 23:04

Err, does a screwfix pencil count?

Raikiri · 12 May 2008 at 23:06

The Jack Daniels metal poker chip of course