Lunar New Year shoppers are voting with their wallets - and the candidates for chief executive are lagging behind goodies based on smartphone apps.
As the Lunar New Year fair in Victoria Park rolls on, cushions designed to look like iPhone apps are flying off the shelves, with the price of a Facebook cushion having more than doubled to HK$208.
But the price of a chess set depicting politicians has been slashed in half.
The cushions are being sold by a Shue Yan University student nicknamed Fish Li and her classmates. They are based on popular apps such as WhatsApp, iTunes and YouTube, but Facebook has proven to be the biggest hit.
'We sold the Facebook cushion for HK$88 on the first day. Now people are paying HK$208. There are just a few of them remaining,' Li said.
At another stall in the park, Jash So, 26, is lowering the price of a chess game with pieces based on politicians and officials. Chief executive hopefuls Henry Tang Ying-yen and Leung Chun-ying have been transformed into a pig and a wolf in the game.
'We've sold about 200 of them and 800 sets are remaining,' So said. 'On the first day we sold it at HK$88 or HK$108. Today, the promotional price is HK$40.'