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[trailhead?] OBAY???
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amstanley
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 		[trailhead?] OBAY???
Hey Guys.
An ad campaign is popping up on bus shelters here in Ontario. I'm seeing these everywhere in Toronto now.

A sample ad is here:

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7426/img5521hi4.jpg

This is one of two I have seen.

a Link to a Yahoo! discussion on them is here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080208145612AA2nC48

Google searches on the obvious trademarks turn up nothing so far.
Anybody have any ideas?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:46 am
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thebruce
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 		hah wow, I'ma have to keep an eye open for these ads now in K/W...

Reminds me of the new shreddies ad campaign "New! Diamond Shreddies!" with a picture of a 45 degree rotated shreddie Razz
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kosmopol
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 		I've looked around abou various sites. I think, it's OOG, but a little bit creepy: www.obay.net

PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:02 pm
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Bartock
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Location: Guelph, Ontario

 		Oooh I sort of hope this leads to something. I have always wanted to check out something local. I'll be on the look out for anything like this in Guelph.

PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:17 pm
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Leyton Stone
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Location: London (NOT Ontario!)

 		I found this on DIGG... It was posted yesterday; I'm going to keep tabs on it.

Quote:
I've been looking around the net and found a few suspicious things.

www.obay.ca , pretty much a blank site. One of the pre-links is www.becauseIsaidso.com which has a link to a page called "Amy's Page". Why is this relevant? Amy is the name of a kid mentioned in one of the ads "When my Amy started having thoughts of her own I nipped it in the bud with Obay!"

Finally, we had a radio ad today which gave a number. 1-888-YOU-OBAY


This is the whois info for www.becauseisaidso.com

Quote:
Domain Name: becauseisaidso.com
Created On: 2002-01-17T06:35:51Z
Expiration Date: 2009-01-17T06:35:51Z
Registrant Name: Amy Preston
Registrant Street1: c/o Tiger Technologies LLC
Registrant Street2: PO Box 7596, Dept W2638
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City: Berkeley
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 94707-0596
Registrant Country: US
Admin Name: Amy Preston
Admin Street1: c/o Tiger Technologies LLC
Admin Street2: PO Box 7596, Dept W2638
Admin Street3:
Admin City: Berkeley
Admin State/Province: CA
Admin Postal Code: 94707-0596
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.5105273131
Admin Email: x.a0026380014895efSPLATwhois.tigertech.net
Tech Name: Tiger Technologies LLC
Tech Street1: c/o Tiger Technologies LLC
Tech Street2: PO Box 7596, Dept W2638
Tech Street3:
Tech City: Berkeley
Tech State/Province: CA
Tech Postal Code: 94707-0596
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.5105273131
Tech Email: x.t0026380012d875bSPLATwhois.tigertech.net
Name Server: NS1.TIGERTECH.NET
Name Server: NS2.TIGERTECH.BIZ
Name Server: NS3.TIGERTECH.ORG


And this is for amyspage.net; pretty much the same.

Quote:
Domain Name: amyspage.net
Created On: 2000-07-18T17:39:59Z
Expiration Date: 2008-07-18T17:39:59Z
Registrant Name: Amy Preston
Registrant Street1: c/o Tiger Technologies LLC
Registrant Street2: PO Box 7596, Dept W1166
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City: Berkeley
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 94707-0596
Registrant Country: US
Admin Name: Amy Preston
Admin Street1: c/o Tiger Technologies LLC
Admin Street2: PO Box 7596, Dept W1166
Admin Street3:
Admin City: Berkeley
Admin State/Province: CA
Admin Postal Code: 94707-0596
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.5105273131
Admin Email: x.a001166001c540faSPLATwhois.tigertech.net
Tech Name: Tiger Technologies LLC
Tech Street1: c/o Tiger Technologies LLC
Tech Street2: PO Box 7596, Dept W1166
Tech Street3:
Tech City: Berkeley
Tech State/Province: CA
Tech Postal Code: 94707-0596
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.5105273131
Tech Email: x.t001166001ddc849SPLATwhois.tigertech.net
Name Server: NS1.TIGERTECH.NET
Name Server: NS2.TIGERTECH.BIZ
Name Server: NS3.TIGERTECH.ORG


Amy's page also links to "The ultimate Disney Gift" @ oneshare.com - but the page seems to be missing. http://oneshare.com/discountlanding.asp?AID=516830&PID=537802

edit: modified the link to obay.ca --sapagoo

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sapagoo
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002
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Location: Atlanta, GA

 		ottowa start obay
http://ottawastart.com/obay/
maybe?
Ottowa Start has a fake site, that is supposed to be a "tribute to some of Ottawa's favourite personalities and institution"
It links the obay to Ottowa, but doesn't link in pills or an incentive for the advertising, unless it is just to create some PR buzz.

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Leyton Stone
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Joined: 08 Dec 2007
Posts: 2302
Location: London (NOT Ontario!)

 		Re: ottowa start obay
sapagoo wrote:
http://ottawastart.com/obay/
maybe?
Ottowa Start has a fake site, that is supposed to be a "tribute to some of Ottawa's favourite personalities and institution"
It links the obay to Ottowa, but doesn't link in pills or an incentive for the advertising, unless it is just to create some PR buzz.


Catch 22 here... As it says it's a parody to EBay; but the fact it's based in Canada kind of makes you think.

I've emailed the address on the becauseisaidso page.

Quote:
Hi there,

I've recently come across your ad campaign for OBay (I'm assuming it's yours as the becauseisaidso brand name is involved) and was wondering if you could possibly give me some more details regarding it?

Thank you for your time,

-Leyton Stone.


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Leyton Stone
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Location: London (NOT Ontario!)

 		Double post sorry...

But, I'm thinking our best bet right now, would be for someone to call the 1-888 number; as I'm not in the U.S/Canada... Do we have any volunteers?

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thebruce
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 		it is a recording you can listen to, no live operator
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:04 pm
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Kelis
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 		Tried calling and got a recording saying I can't call from my calling area. (USA)
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amstanley
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 		second web site
Quote:
Hi there,
I've recently come across your ad campaign for OBay (I'm assuming it's yours as the becauseisaidso brand name is involved) and was wondering if you could possibly give me some more details regarding it?
Thank you for your time,
-Leyton Stone.


If you look at the source for the first page, the email address is westmont94SPLATaol.com.

If you google search that address you get another page at http://members.aol.com/westmont94/index.html

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Leyton Stone
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 		TheBruce was your recording the same as Kelis'? If not what did it say?

amstanley... That page is also as Amy's page. (www.amyspage.net) But it's the only real "contact" besides the phone number.

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amstanley
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 		option to leave a message
thebruce wrote:
it is a recording you can listen to, no live operator


I listened to it calling from 416 area code.
I tried to record it but cannot call it from skype, so need another way to get the audio.

The audio is a parody ad for a drug product.
It mentions the 'becauseIsaidso" product and another one, 'NotUnderMyRoof'.

Also, by the way, uses the word truculent to refer to nastily independent teenagers. Who writes this stuff anyway?

There is an option to leave a message or a fax at the end of the message.
I left my contact info. We'll see what happens.

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lhilt
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 		looks like the http://obay.ca are probably OOG. The site is down as far as I can tell, and all you get is a index of the site install. Looking at the modified times of the directories, I doubt it's IG

Parent Directory 20-Aug-2007 22:40 -
_private/ 11-Jul-2007 01:07 -
cgi-bin/ 16-Aug-2004 16:16 -
images/ 16-Aug-2004 16:16 -
postinfo.html 16-Aug-2004 16:16 2k

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blaqueice
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 		So I called 1-888-YOU-OBAY and recorded the message for those that aren't able to hear it.

YOU OBEY....makes sense
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