CCA - Olympic Sales Club
Author: Stephen Gerding
December 7th, 2006
Even more than GRIT, these ads intrigued me as a kid. Imagine, getting a catalog and selling just 13 “All Occassion Cards and Notes, Personalized Stationary and exciting Gifts” in my neighborhood, and in exchange I could walk away with a freaking bow and arrow! Even better, if I sold 34 “Gifts,” I could get a metal detector with which I could find buried treasures to sell for money…to buy a bow and arrow with!
The coolest part of the ad was always Dawn, the sexy Captain “O” operator who dressed in her own superhero outfit just to take my name and address info down. In retrospect, I wonder just how many “Dawns” Captain Olympic had working in his call center. Whatever the answer, I’m willing to bet not a one of them looked like the Dawn in the illustration - yowza!
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11 Responses to “CCA - Olympic Sales Club”
December 7th, 2006 at 8:54 am
I totally crushed on Dawn too. Ha ha.
January 4th, 2007 at 10:24 am
I actually used to sell this stuff. Don’t remember what toys I got with my points, but I do remember that when I chose the cash instead, my father put it in a “special account” that to this day I have never had access to.
April 10th, 2007 at 8:40 am
ha most of the ones i seen its with some babe named PAT…..same picture tho….maybe she dosent even work there….oh the let downs of childhood.
July 2nd, 2007 at 8:05 am
I sold for Olympic for 2 years. I got a little camera for selling 10 items. It was great!
September 12th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
I sold this too, for 4 years as a child, I got a glove, tv, skateboard, then moved up to the cash. It taught me to earn what I wanted. Too bad I can’t find the ways to teach that to MY kids :)
September 20th, 2007 at 3:25 am
I sold this stuff and got moon boots when I was a kid. Then my son sold it and I cant remember what he got but they were legit. Every post ive seen about them is downing them but we never had any problems with them.
February 8th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
It is 2:20AM and I was just sitting here trying to put order to my gazillion files and it hit me… When I was a kid I was a hustler.. I remember selling “Olympic Sales Club” stationary to my neighbors and I remember coming home from school everyday for a month… HOPEING… that there would be a box on the front doorstep with my “Carving Knifes” (Remember those little exacto knifes with the million and one changing blades?)… Anyhow, I thought I would see if they were still in business but :
February 8th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
Oh Yeah… and I also sold GRIT to about 10 of my neighbors. I wonder if they still exist? If you know please leave me a message.. I would love to get my nephew into this.
March 24th, 2008 at 10:38 am
I remember selling olympic sales club. I was 10 or 11 yrs old. I guess for a kid it wasnt a bad little way to earn money, especially when you could send your mom to work with the magazine. When my cute little ass would show up at your door you couldnt help but say yes and but something, even if you didnt need it. lol
May 26th, 2008 at 11:59 am
I remember miss dialing the 800 number and getting a sex line instead. Later i got the right number and sold enough to get the Bat mobile for 23items sold and the operator on my add was Janet same picture though.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
im looking at 1 of my ‘fightin five’ comic books from when i was a kid, right now. the ad is here, and meg is the operator.i bet these crap prizes that they gave away back then are worth some coin now. cool stuff.