Earplug sales soar at World Cup
The gossip Web site TMZ.com is reporting that in response to the rampant use of vuvuzela horns during World Cup soccer matches, earplug sales have exploded since the group stage matches began in South Africa last week.
TMZ has said it spoke with to two major earplug suppliers based in South Africa — Ear Plugs Online and Sheppard Medical — and each are boasting increases in sales.
A rep for EPO told TMZ their sales are up 121% — having sold more than 10,000 sets of plugs and counting. Sheppard Medical said they’ve moved more than 400,000 sets since kickoff, a 20% increase.
Both companies said they wouldn’t be surprised if they each sold over one million sets by the end of the World Cup.
SOURCE: TMZ via Hearing Review.
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Pity we can’t have protection from rubbish teams… (Sorry England lol)…
Well, France are more-or-less out, Germany just lost to Serbia and Spain lost to Switzerland. We ain’t doing too bad!
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Our webstore sold hundreds of earplugs to South Africa before the World Cup. When we figured out that vuvuzelas were going to be used there we got aggressive and brought this to the attention of the SA reps at the monthly Long Beach WTC networking and even gave them free samples and it paid off with sales of ear plugs. One person person there even bought $560 worth in a single sale.
Click on my name for the link to the webstore section that has the ear plugs and the hot ones are the Jam Session and Rock And Roll plugs.