What is the "Beats By Dre" of it's industry?

Train Dragon

What do you think are the most over priced or/and over rated brand of an industry you're intersted in? No doubt plenty will say "iPhone" or "Apple anything" here.

Im going to say Harley Davidson motorcycles. Based on the obscene cost, they are incredibly underpowered and have always been quite behind the competition for technological improvements.

padd b1975

Mercedes-Benz.

Kichote

Every industry has one for sure.

"Ah here lads look here these lads over in Wanxi Dong have a factory and they can make 10,000 thingymebobs for a thousand quid and they'll shtick on the logo an'all. All we have to do is pay the customs and sell em on! Money for jam baaaaaaaaaaaih!"

Mr. FoggPatches

IPhone or apple anything

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Budweiser.


Pure stink.

StupidLikeAFox

Kichote wrote: »

Every industry has one for sure.

"Ah here lads look here these lads over in Wanxi Dong have a factory and they can make 10,000 thingymebobs for a thousand quid and they'll shtick on the logo an'all. All we have to do is pay the customs and sell em on! Money for jam baaaaaaaaaaaih!"

Is this a direct quote from Dr Dre?

Barry Badrinath

"Coffee by Starbucks"

"Anything by Paul Costelloe"

blackdog2

Eddie Hobbs

c montgomery

Good question.

There are many rip off products IMO like Newbridge silverware and most perfume brands but beats by dre is hard to beat, pun unintended.

Train Dragon

padd b1975 wrote: »

Mercedes-Benz.

A beautiful car. If Im getting a taxi I try to get a Merc. Why do you think it's the "Beats By Dre" of cars?

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

IPhone or apple anything

I've the new Apple anything 7s. It's just like last year's anything but they removed some vital ports from it and somehow I've ended up with more wires than ever.

Train Dragon

blackdog2 wrote: »

Eddie Hobbs

What the hell is he upto these days? He lost a lot of money in a property scheme if memory serves.

HigginsJ

padd b1975 wrote: »

Mercedes-Benz.

To be fair to Merc they tend to lead the way with a lot of technical improvements. Things that are in new Merc's now will be found in your average family saloon in 3-5 years.

StupidLikeAFox

As an aside, here is the whole story of beats by dre and how they screwed the inventors out of a lot of money. Its an interesting read:

http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-how-monster-lost-the-world

...And Justice

Frosty McGiggleShaft wrote: »

"Anything by Paul Costelloe"

Is that the guy with the plank of wood for €60?

eviltwin

Chanel perfumes. 80 quid for a bottle of stink.

mahoganygas

San Pellegrino water.

Barry Badrinath

...And Justice wrote: »

Is that the guy with the plank of wood for €60?

Thats him.

Cheeky fupper

Tabnabs

Nespresso, so much meh...

nelly17

Gibson Les Paul Customs and Fender Custom Shop anything

Train Dragon

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

IPhone or apple anything

So Boards.

eviltwin

The grub they sell in Donnybrook Fair

stimpson

Jo Malone.

Never heard of them before until the missus bought a candle the size of an eggcup for €60

Train Dragon

eviltwin wrote: »

Chanel perfumes. 80 quid for a bottle of stink.

I'd disagree there. They make great aftershaves and you only need a tiny squirt of their stuff to smell great all night.

Mr.Plough

mahoganygas wrote: »

San Pellegrino water.

Can get it cheaper than river rock in most shops now, tastes better aswell.

CaptainR

nelly17 wrote: »

Gibson Les Paul Customs and Fender Custom Shop anything

I know nothing about guitars but why are these no good? Is there better guitars or are there guitars that are a lot cheaper but nearly as good?

Train Dragon

eviltwin wrote: »

The grub they sell in Donnybrook Fair

Am pretty sure I read before that they have crisps for €14.

Not even if I won the Lotto.

suicide_circus

Michael Koors handbags. Tacky to fook and hand stitched by some orphan chained to a loom in Bangladesh.

evil_seed

90% of Brown Thomas things. All ridonkulous over price gaudy w@nk

Digital Solitude

Samsung and HTC Phones, HTC are getting worse and Samsung better but there's much better phones out there, Xiaomis, OnePlus and a couple more that offer much better value with a lot less of the silly gimmicks or overbloated software.

Mr. FoggPatches

I must say that the first thought in my head whenever I see anyone wearing beats headphones is 'bellend'.

Sleepy

Tommy Hilfiger / Nike many other brands that actually manufacture nothing other than a brand.

Train Dragon

Digital Solitude wrote: »

overbloated software.

That's the main reason I havent ever jumped to Samsung. You read so many bad reviews about the software that comes with their phones as standard.

stimpson

Mr.Plough wrote: »

Can get it cheaper than river rock in most shops now, tastes better aswell.

Oh yeah - River Rock. It's Belfast tap water.

Riesen_Meal

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

I must say that the first thought in my head whenever I see anyone wearing beats headphones is 'bellend'.

The bass/low end on them is so overpowering, deliberately done to magnify your **** quality mp3 file to an acceptable level, in reality they are just plastic cheap Chinese yokes...

Give me a good pair of Seinheisser cans any day....

nelly17

CaptainR wrote: »

I know nothing about guitars but why are these no good? Is there better guitars or are there guitars that are a lot cheaper but nearly as good?

A les Paul custom is pretty much the same as the LP standard but with White plastic binding on the inside of the guitar as well as the outside edge and twice the price.


Custom shop anything is not a whole lot better than the actual standard but with a jacked up price and a few different components you could get replaced for a few quid

Mr. FoggPatches

Mr.Plough wrote: »

Can get it cheaper than river rock in most shops now, tastes better aswell.

I'm fairly certain that one of the first things I learned in science was that water is a colourless, odourless, tasteless liquid
Unless you're from galway.

Pac1Man

I second the Starbucks suggestion. Their coffee tastes so watered down.

Train Dragon

Hugh Mungus wrote: »

Budweiser.


Pure stink.

And Coors Light or any Diagio owned brand. In fact any hugely mass produced beer will be absolute pish.

The_Valeyard

Alienware PC. Hugely overpriced for what it offers.

Digital Solitude

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

I'm fairly certain that one of the first things I learned in science was that water is a colourless, odourless, tasteless liquid
Unless you're from galway.

You can't tell the difference between water from different places?

Captain Chaos

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Alienware PC. Hugely overpriced for what it offers.

All prebuilt PCs are. Only hand built PC built by your self offers the most value, you can save hundreds building your own.

Train Dragon

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Alienware PC. Hugely overpriced for what it offers.

Surely Gamers have the knowhow to build their own PCs these days.

Digital Solitude

Captain Chaos wrote: »

All prebuilt PCs are. Only hand built PC built by your self offers the most value, you can save hundreds building your own.

Alienware are expensive even as far as prebuilts go:D

learn_more

I'm a bit disappointed CESSNA private jet, I though it would have a bit more oomph.

Train Dragon

I forgot about Rosetta Stone. The most ineffective thing you can buy for several hundreds of euros.


You can learn more through free materials like Duolingo, Mango, or Memrise. Or websites like LanguageTransfer or SaySomethingIn.

BrokenArrows

Mr. FoggPatches wrote: »

I'm fairly certain that one of the first things I learned in science was that water is a colourless, odourless, tasteless liquid
Unless you're from galway.

Pure water is, but anything you buy in a bottle isnt pure water. It has natural minerals in the water that create taste. Some is better than others.

Mr. FoggPatches

Digital Solitude wrote: »

You can't tell the difference between water from different places?

Of course not. I don't drink water. It's boring.

mahoganygas

Train Dragon wrote:

Surely Gamers have the knowhow to build their own PCs these days.

It caters to the casual console gamer market.





Shots fired.

uch

King Crisps, you can get 10 bags of Tesco value if you add 14c to the price of a bag of King

pappyodaniel

Frosty McGiggleShaft wrote: »

"Anything by Paul Costelloe"

Imagine my shock when I went into Dunne's recently looking for a cheap pair of jeans! Yes Paul, your jeans are cheap but the price is outrageous.