Digital Photo Frames Flying Off The Shelves December 20, 2007
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Sales of digital photo frames are up 900% this year over 2006 and PC World are selling them at a rate of 10 per minute as Christmas hurtles closer.
Volumes sold are doubling each week the retailer said, as people finally go mad for digital frames – which have become a lot more affordable and numerous this year. The news has been trundled out with the premise that they could lead to a decline in the traditional postcard – even the saucy seaside cartoon ones – which is doubtful.
Niall O’Keeffe from PC World said: “If you’re on holiday or for that matter at a party – wherever you are really – you can send digital pictures direct to the frame via an Internet connection. We suspect that this will lead to a decline in the postcard as this digital alternative emerges, though whether or not we’ll see a similar level of sauciness in the pictures is anyone’s guess!”
Shopping site Kelkoo has confirmed that the UK has gone digital photo frame bonkers, saying the most popular search right now is not – shock/horror - the elusive Wii – but 'digital picture frame'.
Still, on Christmas morning, I guarantee that ‘little Johnny’ will kick you in the balls if you give him one of these to make up for the Wii you failed to order early enough.-Martin Lynch
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Comments
i think their terrible, such a tacky present, a normal framed photo is 1000 times better, i have no idea y these are selling so well, i can only assume that people are idoits
What's wrong with digital photo frames jeebus?
You can display 1000 more photos than you can with an old fashioned frame and providing you don't opt for the cheaper frames (like I did..) the quality is bloody good.
Maybe I'm one of these "idoits" but I think the digital frame serves its purpose well.
I'm not eco warrior, I'm really not. But I just can't help but think in this day and age how digital photo frames are an obsene extravagence. Drawing power all the time to display photos, all day and all night, when you may glance at it just now and again.
I work as a sales assistant in an Electrical department and currently these sell faster than any other product in the whole store. Put out 20before lunch and by the time i come back they're all gone.
Irony is they were selling well at 59.99 but management decided to lower the price.