Sumo Bean Bag Chair
I got this email from Andrew from Sumo, which makes soft furniture and sells it on the Internet:
My name is Andrew and I have a company named Sumo which sells a modern/funky/high-quality line of bean bags & soft furniture on the net. Our products are great and not to let passion or pride take hold but I could simply say, our Omni chair is the most comfortable chair in the world and truly enhances ones life! I like am a fan of your site & was wondering if you would be interested in taking a sample of our Omni chair and posting a review on it.
Normally I ignore such emails, but I have always been a fan of the bean bag chair. I think I lived in one in college. So I went to the website and checked it out.
It looked pretty cool so we took Andrew up on his offer. It came to our beach house last week and when I got out here this morning, I checked it out.
I must say it's a fantastic bean bag chair. First, its huge. It can also serve as a bed in a pinch. It should work great for the afternoon nap I have in mind for today. And the fabric is like a parachute and seemingly very durable material. Gotta avoid the leaking bean bag chair thing you know.
If you are headed to college or have a child who is, I suggest you spring for the $150 and buy one of these. It should last four years and I think no college kid should be without one.
We are going to keep it and I think it will get a lot of use in our beach house. Possibly as soon as this afternoon!
So the lesson is:
General Spam is Spammy, but personalized, polite, spam that is targeted at a long-time passion of the recipient is totally Spammilicious!
This may be a whole new form of personalized advertising on the web, Fred.
Great story.
Posted by: Michael Parekh | August 12, 2006 at 11:09 AM
Well, I'll take the model sitting on the bean bag instead...
Posted by: Dave | August 12, 2006 at 11:11 AM
Fred Wilson as Ron Popeil... who knew?
;)
Posted by: steve | August 12, 2006 at 12:27 PM
fyi, Sumo is a knockoff of Fatboy, tag placement and all. This is well known within the design community.
Posted by: Amit | August 12, 2006 at 12:55 PM
fyi, Sumo is a knockoff of Fatboy tag and all. This is well known within the design community.
Posted by: Amit | August 12, 2006 at 12:57 PM
Well if it is knockoff, I say, "Good move!" As Stravinski is often quoted (I say often because I cannot totally verify that he is the author), "Good composers borrow...great ones steal!" :)
Posted by: Bob Boydston | August 12, 2006 at 02:31 PM
Like the concept. I checked out the Fatboy, and it's about 2x the price of the Sumo, and per their website: "the Fatboy products can be delivered in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg." Looks like the Sumo for US folks.
Posted by: dano | August 12, 2006 at 04:08 PM
They sell in the US through www.fatboyusa.com ... take a look at the new Marimekko model... is supercool.
Posted by: Giordano | August 12, 2006 at 05:33 PM
And of course there is the well named LoveSac www.lovesac.com
Seems like bean bag chairs are an actual trend.....
Posted by: John McCarthy | August 13, 2006 at 10:38 AM
And the chair is unique and anamolus too. The design and fabric kicks major ass!!!Bookmarked!!!cool
Posted by: Natalie Jost | August 14, 2006 at 03:35 AM
How do you compare this with the Big Joe from myfoofstore.com?
http://www.myfoofstore.com/the-big-joe-p-169.html
The Big Joe price seems lower and could be a better deal??
Thanks.
Posted by: den | March 08, 2007 at 05:44 PM
Tha's pretty cool check out this post that I wrote about the Sumo Omni.sumo Omni The Sumo bean bag is great. I have one and the thing this great.
Posted by: will | November 06, 2008 at 12:37 PM