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Lucky Crosses Fingers, Launches Shop by Phone Ads

Published on July 12, 2006 | Email this article

The September issue of Lucky magazine will give readers the chance to buy products from 18 companies including Avon, Liz Claiborne, Estee Lauder, Perry Ellis, L’Oreal, Target and Unilever by sending messages from their cellphones, The New York Times reports.

The program, called “Live Buy It,” uses a service from the PayPal unit of eBay known as PayPal Mobile Text2Buy. Or they can order from the livebuyit.com site - not live yet.

The promotion is being introduced to Lucky readers with ads in the July and August issues of the magazine. The July ad explains how Text2Buy works and the August ad offers a way to try the service, by buying a CD from Lucky for $5.99, “The Lucky Mix: The Soundtrack to Shopping.”

Lucky will offer a second program in its December issue, centered on a theme of “text to try.”

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