世論 What Japan Thinks

It’s that time of year for the annual grab bag of cellphone straps and charms and other tat high-quality merchandise from Strapya:

Liven up your keitai life with a New Year gift or ten with a 78% saving on retail price, and help out What Japan Thinks at the same time, as I get a cut of every sale.

What a super excuse to promote my favourite purveyor of Japanese tat (and I mean that as a compliment!) through this survey reported on by japan.internet.com and conducted by Point On Research into cellphone accessories.

Demographics

On the 11th of December 2008 exactly 1,000 cellphone-carrying members of the Point On Research monitor group (a footnote classified them as heavy users) completed a private (mobile?) internet-based questionnaire. The sample was 50:50 male and female, and 20.0% or the respondents were in their teens, 20.0% in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, and 20.0% in their fifties.

Dangling off my cellphone right now are: Monokuro Boo cubic pig screen cleaner; four-leaf clover with bells on; Miffy’s teddy bear; and Kobe Airport Hello Kitty jet, which for me is quite few. However, next week I should be getting a new one, as if I buy an advance ticket for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince it comes with a free gift of a Hogwarts scarf strap. I’ve got a million and one freebie straps and the like; I wonder if I could sell them on eBay?

Although you’ve probably missed delivery of a fukubukuro for New Year, if you’ve started thinking about Valentine’s Day, Strapya will engrave you and your loved one’s name on an acrylic strap.
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It seemed to be popular last year, so I thought I’d remind you all that you can buy a lucky bag, or in Japanese, 福袋, fukubukuro, from Strapya filled with 18 cellphone straps to a value of over $130 for just $27 or so (depending on exchange rates), a saving of 80% on the retail price.

Help yourself to a bargain (and help out me) buy picking one up today!

The people over at Strapya have come up with the latest innovation in Japanese space age technology to allow you to attach a cute (or otherwise) strap to your iPhone or other holeless mobiles with what they claim is their “long time dreaming item for everyone who loves cell phone straps”.

OK, it’s just a stick-on button, but at 210 yen (US$2.16 or so) for not one but two holes, you cannot go wrong.

Since I’m selling you stuff, I’d like to mention the following cases:

They seem very popular in Japan amongst the iPhone users I see.

It seemed to have been popular last year, so I thought I’d remind you all that you can buy a lucky bag, or in Japanese, 福袋, fukubukuro, from Strapya filled with 18 cellphone straps to a value of over $130 for just $27 or so (depending on exchange rates), a saving of 80% on the retail price.

Help yourself to a bargain (and help out me) buy picking one up today!