Thursday, August 07, 2008

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Latest Update: Flexisnake - Unclog Drains
Unless you live in a brand new house then it’s likely when you moved in your humble adobe was filled with secret dirt collections and hidden piles of dust. A quick sweep round, vacuum here and dust there you thought you’d found it all, but did you remember to check the plug hole?

Viking Trader Bronze Thor Pendant
Whatever happened to Bronze? You walk in to your local jewellers and you’re greeted by silver, gold, white gold and platinum but where’s all the bronze? One company keeping the scene alive is Viking Trader who create bronze artefacts based on classic Viking designs.

Free Products for you in August 2008
Free days out, free fashion shows, free toy fairs, free books, free makeup, free comsetics. Did I miss anything out? Let's hope not as this roundup contains more easy, one click, one form products that you can get for five minutes work sitting on your butt, and who'd want to miss that?

Tiger Taco
It’s a fact of life that the product you really need is going to be something you stumble upon too late. Take the Tiger Taco, a simple tool to help in the packing and unpacking of boxes, and when should one turn up on my desk? Two weeks after I’ve settled down in to my new house. Typical!

Book 1 Out Now! Full Details
Two years in the making the first Blgaman.co.uk book is here, but what secrets are inside? With over 200 pages of blagging tips, tricks and tools (the majority of which has never appeared on the site) it should be the first stop for any prospective blagger. Read on for the full breakdown.

JML StickUp Bulb
Contains “Advanced Krypton technology” so claims the box for the JML StickUp Bulb. Someone had better warn Superman (and Superdog for that matter) because it looks like these will be popping up in JML outlets all over the country, and I’d hate for him to stumble in to a dark airing cupboard and turn one on.

Cheese Roundup – Castello and Apetina
After two years you’d think I’d have a pretty consistent method for writing reviews and testing products and that would be true, if by consistent you mean doing something completely random and stupid in every instance. Take this latest cheese platter for example...

10 Steps to Blagging Success
The Blagman book 'Blagman: Don't Buy It, Blag It, is now available at Amazon.co.uk here and to give you some idea of what to expect I've compiled ten tips from the book for any prospective blagger in the making. Check them out and start blagging!


JML VacPack
Doctor Who may be over, but it seems TARDIS technology may be creeping in to our modern day technology after all. Take the VacPack, which on paper defies logic. You fill it up and by some miracle it is able to reduce the space they take up by anything from 50-75%, saving you space and making moving house easier.

DKNY Be Delicious Kisses
Apprentice candidate Alex Wotherspoon lost this years competition because his perfume design was innovative but too expensive. But isn't this an industry where unique bottles sell millions? We take a look at the new bottle for DKNY Be Delicious as well as its sweet summer fragrance.

Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Soft Oaties & Elevenses
"Bring back the tea trolley for your office!" screams the Press Release for Kellogg's new range of Nutri-Grain variants, backing this all up with stats on 11am and 4pm snacking and encouraging us to eat 3 meals and 2 snacks a day. Which I can only assume means 2 bowls of Special K, 2 Nutri-Grain bars and an apple.

Xbox 360 and Dominos Pizza
Is there any better combination? I go undercover to find two companies whose excellent customer service (and little mistakes) makes blagging a breeze. £200 worth of free stuff without once mentioning Blagman.co.uk? Here's how it was done...

Food Glorious Food...
Sometimes companies don't do things by halves and rather than sending just the one sample they decide to clear the warehouse, get rid of all their old stock and bombard you with an obscene amount of free samples as happened today with this bumper box of food.

Free Offers for June 2008
FREEI wanted to start Season 2 with some generous free products for those of you who have waited so patiently for our return. So I decided the best way to-do this was to browse the Internet for another collection of freebies you can get for just a few clicks and very little effort.

Some of the best from Season 1:
Jack Daniel's Chess Set
It didn't look like I'd top last years £150 Cirondo but in the 11th hour I managed it with a £200 Jack Daniels chess set landing on my desk for free. Sure it has some strange choices for pieces (since when was a safe something you associate with Jack Daniels?) but it'll be an antique someday... maybe.

K-Swiss: Lozan II Punk
Most of the stuff I blag can be found in a vast number of retailers, but the K-Swiss Lozan II Punk trainers I snagged could only be found in Harvey Nichols and Selfridges. What're more they were made in very limited numbers making it bizzare that I managed to get a pair all to myself. Oh and the £100 price tag made them a the natural choice.

AZBO's
Although a strange blag, the AZBO's were interesting for their quantity alone. When 10 figures turned up worth £10-£12 each I was pretty sure they'd be recalled, but the AZBO team were nice enough to let us keep the figures and give them a really good detailed write up. What we found were brilliant pieces of satire ranging from videogamers, to pot smokers, chubby men to tarty women. Nice, if unusual gifts.

Pizza Maker
Whenever I tell people what I do I always get asked the same question “So what's the best thing you've blagged” and for Season 1 my answer has always been “a Pizza Maker”. Sure it's not the most expensive or the coolest product but by god does it do the job well. So much so that I've had two parties based solely around the thing, with people bringing their own ingredients and really experimenting. Sure it sometimes leads to inedible BBQ sauce and tikka chicken combinations but that's really part of the fun. By far and away this is the product that defines what we set out to do,; exposing useful products that may otherwise be overlooked. Well make sure you don't overlook this one.

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