Perry Ellis gives away cheapo USB flash drive

You would think that Perry Ellis, a "respectable" department store clothing maker, could afford something half-way decent to hand out to its customers -- but you would be wrong. Like many designer products, after you get through the ornate packaging and custom plastic box, it's just cheap junk from China. In this case, that cheap junk happens to be a 64MB (that's right, megabyte) USB flash drive. Of course, you'll be thanking Perry when you've got a place to store one big Photoshop file.

[Thanks, kristofer]

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 10:17AM]

My company gives out what appears to be exactly the same drive as schwag. The version we give out is a 2 GB usb 2.0 model, though. Even the packaging is the same.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 28th 2007 9:07AM]

Oh, yeah? Could you contact me if you can donate 8-10 to a non-profit organization for a day camp? I need them ASAP! My email is [e-mail].

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 10:11AM]

All these designer USB flash drives are fast becoming collectors items - well I with a paltry 64MB capacity this one's got to have some use.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 10:11AM]

Geebers, do they still think it's 2002?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 10:24AM]

You really can't complain about free....

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 10:50AM]

I don't what size photoshop files you make, but most of the end products I make wouldn't fit on that thing.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 11:15AM]

What Jared said.

As someone who works in a commercial color house, Photoshop files up to 2 gigs are common.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 10:36AM]

Cheap USB drives are great as give away promo items.. we bought a few hundred 64mb sticks, loaded them with company propaganda, and give them away at conferences and such.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 11:08AM]

Check out this pink lipstick shaped 1Gb USB drive at http://www.ekmpowershop5.com/ekmps/shops/qualitynovelty/index.asp?function=DISPLAYPRODUCT&productid=49.

[Niasyn Posted Jun 22nd 2007 11:07AM]

Jerad beat me to it.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 11:10AM]

How is this even news?

[Ty Posted Jun 22nd 2007 11:51AM]

You get what you pay for I guess.

[drewfus137 Posted Jun 22nd 2007 2:59PM]

Look familiar? I bought my DG Series 4GB for about $35! I wonder how much that 64MB piece of junk will cost?

http://www.supertalent.com/products/stt_usb.php

[beeporama Posted Jun 22nd 2007 12:05PM]

Perry Ellis has been going pretty downmarket. It's what you buy when you can't afford Claiborne or Kenneth Cole. (Which are what you get when you can't afford boutique; which is what you get when you can't afford bespoke. No, I'm not that high up the ladder either.)

Given the increasingly tight margins on off-the-rack clothing, I'm not surprised they don't have a lot of money to throw around.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 12:12PM]

They pass the savings onto YOU!

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 12:27PM]

How about this...When I got married back in 2004 I gave away 128mb flash drives to the groomsmen with their initials engraved in them...Let me just say it was NOT easy just a few short years ago to find someone to custom make USB drives. Now they give them away like business cards!

Needless to say the groomsmen were impressed. Beat the hell out of a money clip...

[ethana2 Posted Jun 22nd 2007 1:40PM]

Yeah. You don't really need to clip a debit card to itself...

I'd have to say, though- I'd prefer to just get cash ;)

[ethana2 Posted Jun 22nd 2007 1:43PM]

(Sorry about that- I'd prefer to get an _EFT_. Primitive cultural norms. Or maybe you could call it cash, but not really be printed cash... Nevermind.)

[paul34 Posted Jun 22nd 2007 2:57PM]

I found a flash drive on the floor of Wal-Mart.

It was only 32 MB, but hey, its free. Made my day.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 22nd 2007 5:05PM]

what can you fit on a 64mb drive anyway?