Posted on 09/16/2008 9:20:49 AM PDT by NewMediaFan
(CNN) -- For the first time since the start of the election, merchandise for John McCain's campaign rivals sales of Barack Obama gear at CafePress, an online store specializing in user-generated T-shirts.
The store saw a huge spike in sales on the day McCain announced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential pick, and McCain sales have been on the rise ever since.
"It was basically like Black Friday in retail terms," said Amy Maniatis, vice president of marketing for CafePress.
Within hours of McCain's announcement, the store had 2,000 McCain-Palin products. Now, there are 323,000. Popular items include shirts with pit bulls wearing lipstick, designs made just for "hockey moms" and a wide selection of anti-Palin gear.
"The Palin phenomenon is just kind of indicative that she has added life to his campaign. Whether people like her or don't like her, they are expressing themselves about her," Maniatis said.
Over at eBay, it's a similar story.
Two days before McCain introduced Palin to the country, no eBay users had any Palin items listed. The next day, one item showed up on the auction site. On the day of the announcement, there were more than 100 items on the site, and in the week that followed, sales skyrocketed.
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I ordered “Sarah!” bumperstickers from www.mccainstore.com on the 5th.
Still waiting.
“My mom is voting for Piper’s mom”.
That is so cute!!!
Isn't it interesting that they keep throwing out the red herring of her not being ready to 'run the free world', since she's NOT the Presidential candidate.
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