New products that have been a complete flop

Mazeire

Irish Independence.

pajunior

Mazeire wrote: »

Irish Independence.

Not really a product but it was for sale.

Achtung! Bono

The Euro

RichieC

Duck nukem forever...epic fking fail..

Capt'n Midnight

DjFlin wrote: »

The HP Touchpad.

Massive shame too, because it was a fairly decent product.

Isn't it the most common tablet out there now ?

Edit it's #2 after the ipad

Capt'n Midnight

The Opti-Grab

Degsy

Thalidomide 2..they couldnt get it past the FDA.

DjFlin

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

DjFlin wrote: »

The HP Touchpad.

Massive shame too, because it was a fairly decent product.

Isn't it the most common tablet out there now ?

Edit it's #2 after the ipad

Yeah, but only because they were all sold off in a fire sale.

For Forks Sake

Anyone remember these Celtic Tiger chancers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn

http://www.steorn.com/orbo/

I also reckon Google+ is going to fall flat on its face.

Feeona

Canals

Cuddlesworth

DjFlin wrote: »

Yeah, but only because they were all sold off in a fire sale.

Prompting the decision to sell the Kindle fire at a below cost price. There is a market for tablets at a low cost, you just need to make your money back through micro transactions.

Feeona

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Prompting the decision to sell the Kindle fire at a below cost price. There is a market for tablets at a low cost, you just need to make your money back through micro transactions.

They shoulda called it Kindling.

They'd sell like hot cakes.

Sky King

Feeona wrote: »

Canals

Especially the dry one in Cong:

http://www.lakedistrictheritage.ie/Cong/canal.html

The Cong Canal, also known as the "Dry Canal," was a failure, primarily due to its inability to hold water.

Gee I wonder what the other reasons were... given the fact that there was no fking WATER in it!

Tazium

ISDN Home Broadband.

Apple Lisa.

Microsoft Kin Phones.

Atari Lynx

Microsoft SPOT watches.

Sony PSP Go.

Posy

Hehe. 'Flop.'

:pac:

44leto

Boyzone reunion tour HA ha ha ha

Capt'n Midnight

The US navy's MK 45 wire guided torpedo.
It was designed for use by submarines.

Only problem was that it had a 11 kiloton nuclear warhead

remember the bit about wired guided ? well the maximum range was limited by the amount of wire you had and the way shock waves propagate underwater there just wasn't enough wire to get the thing far away from launching sub to be safe


one of the few weapons with a kill probability of 2, him and you.

psychward

Priory Hall

Paparazzo

mikemac wrote: »

Guinness Extra Cold, what a flop

There were weekends I'd be doing well to sell five pints of it.

And it wasn't a summer/winter thing, sold badly all year around


Just on Hudson Blue, yes it failed but Diageo put out some incredible ads for it.
They realy did their best, with cash and motivation their marketing department come up with quality

What about Coopers cider? Came out before hudson blue, tried to take over from bulmers and failed.

DjFlin

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Prompting the decision to sell the Kindle fire at a below cost price. There is a market for tablets at a low cost, you just need to make your money back through micro transactions.

I'm not disagreeing. All I said was the Touchpad was a flop, which it was, considering HP made a loss on it, and discontinued it rapidly. Doesnt mean it wasnt a great device. I personally wish I'd have been able to get one when they were flying off the shelves.

Faith+1

Guinness Light.

KKkitty

ChunkyLover_53 wrote: »

There's potential for a Viagra joke in this thread somewhere.

Allegedly viagra is getting stiff competition from a new drug called mycoxaflopin

zinzan

The 3D0

Isn't that Dasani tap water now sold as Deep River Rock?!

Handy11

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Handy11 wrote: »

Segways

This is actually quite successful. It was never really thought to replace current modes of transports. Used all around the world with the company making healthy profits. High novelty factor but still not quite a flop

Ok, I'll buy that. It just struck me as something that was going to be huge, but never became as ubiquitous as it expected. Not a flop, though, no.

Can't believe that nobody mentioned the N-Gage, that terrible, terrible gaming phone.

DjFlin

Deleted User wrote: »

Can't believe that nobody mentioned the N-Gage, that terrible, terrible gaming phone.

Well said. Also reminds me to mention the ill fated Gizmondo , I actually had one myself, quite a fun little machine. Shamed it flopped.

zinzan

DjFlin wrote: »

Well said. Also reminds me to mention the ill fated Gizmondo , I actually had one myself, quite a fun little machine. Shamed it flopped.

Another flop of that time which was a great device - the Tapwave Zodiac...
still have mine..
Oh and the Palm Lifedrive never achieved its full potential either, hampered by an aging OS and p*ss poor support from Palm at the time.

Palm were also responsible for the stillborn Foleo which missed the point of a netbook/sub notebook device completely.

Apple also failed with their first efforts at a PDA - the Newton, though it does retain a cult following today.

Brendog

The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory. With pure uranium.

FOR KIDS!!

sparksfly

Brendan investments
300k apartments
shake & vac
most products by JML

Dyr

The Euro

Ray Palmer

sparksfly wrote: »

300k apartments
shake & vac
most products by JML

Somebody sold and made money off 300k appartments so no flop there

Shake and vac sold very well and made a ton of money

JML are very succesful and sell millions of units. Not a flop either


People really need to think before they type:rolleyes:

Galtee

That friends spin off - Joey. Brutal.

kieranfitz

TNT liquid dynimite

iregk

Handy11 wrote: »

Ok, I'll buy that. It just struck me as something that was going to be huge, but never became as ubiquitous as it expected. Not a flop, though, no.

It actually was a huge flop. I did a marketing strategy paper on it a couple of years after its launch. They expected at the time back in 2000 to shift about 100k units per year when it went on sale. I was thought to be the company that will break the quickest to 1billion $ record for startups. For the first 6 years of its life it only sold approx. 40k units. To date a full 10 years after it started selling it has only sold in the region of something like 60,000. The company was sold last year.

In terms of marketing and projections it is seen as a spectacular flop!

foxyboxer

What a hilarious word it is FLOP

Say it out loud. FLOP FLOP FLOP

h57xiucj2z946q

vibrating tampons

Galtee

Deandre Drab Self-incrimination wrote: »

vibrating tampons

Don't believe everything she tells you.;)

sbsquarepants

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

Lets also not forget that the Wii is the only one of the three that wasn't sold at a loss.

But to add to the list, Google Buzz.

Yea, i read somewhere that every playstation3 sold actually cost sony something like $50, they were subsidising it to get blue ray into homes!

gerbo

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

The Opti-Grab

Brilliant

Lucy8080

cheesey peas.

sparksfly

Ray Palmer wrote: »

Somebody sold and made money off 300k appartments so no flop there

Shake and vac sold very well and made a ton of money

JML are very succesful and sell millions of units. Not a flop either


People really need to think before they type:rolleyes:

Most people who bought 300k apartments lost substantialy.

Shake and vac sold so well it was discontinued.

JML are successful but many of their products are pure crap that have a very short sales life.

We are commenting on products, not companies.

Some people really need to think before they argue stupidly:rolleyes

TheChevron

The "Farty Pants"

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/34062-farty-pants-set-to-cause-a-stink
http://www.under-tec.com/undertec2g.php

Under-Ease are underwear for protection against bad human gas (malodorous flatus) and are made from a soft air-tight fabric (polyurethane-coated nylon). To maintain the air-tightness, elastic is sewn into the material around the waist and both legs. A triangular "exit hole" for the flatus to be expelled is cut from the back of the air-tight underwear, near the bottom. This "exit hole" is covered with a "pocket" made of ordinary porous fabric sewn over the "exit hole". This unique design forces all expelled gas (flatus) out through the "pocket".
Inside the "pocket" is a high-functioning, replaceable filter - the core of the technology. This multi-layered filter is made in a sandwich-style, and begins with the two outer layers of wool felt. The second two layers are made of non-woven polypropylene and spun glass materials. In the center of the filter is a single layer of activated carbon.
The filter is then covered with soft ordinary material to allow for easy replacement in or out of the pocket. The underwear are washable and will last approximately a year depending on the frequency of use and laundering. Each filter will last from several weeks to several months depending on the frequency of use and laundering. (See Wear and Care)

Professey Chin

The Barcode Battler

psychward

sparksfly wrote: »

Shake and vac sold so well it was discontinued.

I bought some Shake N Vac last month just because I grew up with the adverts and never tried it before and it was pretty cheap. So unless it was discontinued recently it's still around.

Paparazzo

Frilk. Orange juice mixed with milk. Good for you, but tastes like infected urine

44leto

Dublin's Stringfellows, also The Spirit nightclub didn't last that long.

Mazeire

44leto wrote: »

Dublin's Stringfellows, also The Spirit nightclub didn't last that long.

Thank GOD. Do you remember the cinema bit? Always full of people of their tits chewing their faces off in the dark.

ShadowHearth

Modern warfare 3.

44leto

Mazeire wrote: »

Thank GOD. Do you remember the cinema bit? Always full of people of their tits chewing their faces off in the dark.

I was never in Stringfellows, the few times I was there, I thought the Spirit was quite good, it was different.

Mazeire

Mazeire wrote: »

Thank GOD. Do you remember the cinema bit? Always full of people of their tits chewing their faces off in the dark.

It should be clarified I mean Spirit not Stringfellows. In stringfellows you were very much on your own tits. And some strippers tits.