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It’s Poker, Not Poke Her!

written by John Chow on January 13th, 2008

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So we’re walking the Forum Shops in Caesar’s Palace and came across a store call Corsa Collections that had a live mannequin in the window display.

When you think about it, having a live person posing as a mannequin can be more economical than buying a real mannequin. Why pay up to $5,000 for a mannequin when you can hire someone to sit in front of the window for $10 hour during the busy hours. In addition, a real fake mannequin attracts more attention and will often have their picture taken. This is an added branding bonus since Corsa has their store name right under the window.

One can say Corsa really got their money’s worth when we came walking by. Not only did we took pictures, we also did a video. I wonder what was going through her head when I poked her? :twisted:

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Sucker said on January 13th, 2008 at 11:57 am

At the very least this post will send lots of people by the store to poke the mannequin! :mrgreen:

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dcr said on January 13th, 2008 at 12:12 pm

I wonder if there’s a blog out there somewhere that now reads: “So, there I was just doing my job, and this guy came up and poked me! I mean, he poked me! And he took pictures and video tape too. Who knows where that will end up! That’s it! I’m going back to McDonald’s!”

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Carl - Thatblogsite.com said on January 13th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

Haha, nice comment :lol:

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Will said on January 13th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

LOL i was just thinking about that. I won’t be surprised if someone makes a parody blog just for this incident.

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Life is Colourful said on January 14th, 2008 at 5:59 am

This was the nicest thought I read recently anywhere in online comments. LOL!

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Planet Apex said on January 16th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Mystery said on January 13th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

Yeah, wish I were there to perform a “certain” type of experiment and see if she’ll stay zipping it!

BTW, I don’t think it’ll be harmful to let go of some words, laughs….etc. instead of the dead silence. But afterall, this is what makes people curious and John reaching over to “poke” her (in the right place ;) ).

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dcr said on January 13th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

$5,000 for a mannequin? Has no one heard of eBay? :wink:

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Alan Johnson said on January 13th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

Sure, it’s cheaper for them to pay that person $10 an hour, but once she sues them after being poked by *cough* certain people…that’s when it can get tricky :)

Alan Johnson

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SEO Optimization said on January 13th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

Well in any case, $5000 isn’t that much in proportion of paying someone $10 a hour (total of 500 working hours, 62 days and a half)

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Shawn Knight said on January 13th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Classic! We got pictures of this girl as well, although she was moving around a bit when we were there and even looked directly at me and smiled lol… Didn’t even thing to actually try and interact with her; good idea!

And how about those creepy live statues in the Venetian, very odd!~

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Lincoln said on January 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

Live mannequins? Words fail me. :shock:

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Liviu Pantea said on January 13th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

Wow this is really funny. I wish some store in my town would do such a thing :twisted:

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KiwiPulse said on January 13th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

It must be exhausting to do that! :shock:

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Simon Lau said on January 13th, 2008 at 12:44 pm

haha, great little clip. That store will thank John for the advertisement this post will generate!

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Contest Beat said on January 13th, 2008 at 12:53 pm

not only did we took pictures?

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Carl - Thatblogsite.com said on January 13th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

We once saw a real life one down Oxford Street in London, she was a mannequin modelling underwear :eek:

Haha, nice clip John!

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Fat Kid Unleashed said on January 13th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

I wonder what she does to pass the time. Maybe she’s planning her career… :smile:

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Seopher said on January 13th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

That must be a career highlight for that young lady, sitting in a shop window being poked by a dot com mogul. What an odd sentence to say…

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Mubin said on January 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

That was harsh hn

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Affiliate Confession said on January 13th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

I can just see it John you started a trend. “Security to the front of the store, someone is poking the mannequin again!” comes the voice over the loudspeaker.

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Chris Jacobson said on January 13th, 2008 at 2:42 pm

Very nice, John. I like the expression on your face. lol

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Ecko said on January 13th, 2008 at 2:50 pm

:grin: What a funny forum here…

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Jason Addler said on January 13th, 2008 at 3:02 pm

What an asshole you are, that’s the last thing she needs.

Did you plaster spam stickers for your site all over her as well?

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ATV Style said on January 13th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

If you listen closely you can hear her whisper her thoughts through her clenched teeth. She says “I’d better get residual income from this, 10 an hour isn’t enough.”

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High Stakes Living said on January 13th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

Lol thats hilarious, well done.

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MarkBarbon said on January 13th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

LOL, Nice video you got going there John.

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AndrewPavelski said on January 13th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

…how touching :smile:

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1MansMoney said on January 13th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

I saw a store in South Beach take this one step further. The live mannequin was wearing a bikini, but the large sign she was holding hid the bikini and made it look like she was nude. Needless to say, she was stopping traffic.

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Chris Bloczynski said on January 13th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

I have a friend who does lot’s of retail promo type work… she’s done the live mannequin thing a couple of times, and it makes her FURIOUS when people come and touch her! She says it goes with the territory, though, and she has to just swallow it or not get paid for the job. I’ve wanted to see her at one of these jobs to see if I could touch her and get her to break character. I bet she’d hit me.

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Zee said on January 13th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

I would rather poke her!

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Mike Huang said on January 13th, 2008 at 5:45 pm

LMFAO! That is pretty nifty to have a beautiful model in the front ;)

-Mike

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Will said on January 13th, 2008 at 6:43 pm

I bet she was thinking, “my face hurts from smiling so much”.

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goalcentre.com said on January 13th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

Damm at first sight i thought that was a real sexy girl! :) Evil John Chow… Evil…. Dont simply POKE around ya! :wink:

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Chad said on January 13th, 2008 at 9:21 pm

that’s just evil… :twisted:

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David Chew said on January 14th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Benny Ong said on January 14th, 2008 at 4:15 am

I disagree with getting a real person to do it. People have brains and can do so much like blog crawling and commenting on things like this. ::grin:

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Little Guy Network said on January 14th, 2008 at 4:48 am

So what, she is just standing here all day long smiling? omg :P

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Living Off Dividends said on January 14th, 2008 at 11:04 am

you call that poking?
you barely touched her hair. what a wuss!!!!! :twisted:

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