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

Temptamperu

Barrys tea.

Train Dragon

Train Dragon wrote: »

What do you think are the most over priced or/and over rated brand of an industry you're intersted in?

Jewellery Industry = Diamonds

Heated, squashed bits of carbon, mined in generally terrible circumstances ... which most people wouldn't give a fook about if they hadn't been told to by a clever marketing campaign.

Train Dragon

Deleted User wrote: »

Jewellery Industry = Diamonds

Heated, squashed bits of carbon, mined in generally terrible circumstances ... which most people wouldn't give a fook about if they hadn't been told to by a clever marketing campaign.

Very true.

De Beers achieved the greatest marketing campaign of all time https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/diamond-de-beers-marketing-campaign

Harry Palmr

Dyson - over-priced over-designed

CaptainR

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Jewellery Industry = Diamonds

Heated, squashed bits of carbon, mined in generally terrible circumstances ... which most people wouldn't give a fook about if they hadn't been told to by a clever marketing campaign.

Especially when you consider that industrial diamonds are identical but aren't allowed to be used for jewellery. Its criminal in my opinion.

ScumLord

BrokenArrows wrote: »

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.

Absolutely pure water is actually dangerous to drink. It's a very rare rare and hard to keep though.

goose2005

Deleted User wrote: »

Jewellery Industry = Diamonds

Heated, squashed bits of carbon, mined in generally terrible circumstances ... which most people wouldn't give a fook about if they hadn't been told to by a clever marketing campaign.

Moissanite is cheaper and sparkles more brilliantly than diamond, but it just doesn't have the same publicity

Train Dragon

goose2005 wrote: »

Moissanite is cheaper and sparkles more brilliantly than diamond, but it just doesn't have the same publicity

It looks great, although i cant see any Irish girl looking for one over a diamond http://diamondvsmoissanite.com/wp-content/uploads/diamond-vs-moissanite.jpg

c montgomery

ScumLord wrote: »

Absolutely pure water is actually dangerous to drink. It's a very rare rare and hard to keep though.

Why is it dangerous to drink pure water ?

That's a new one on me.

ScumLord

c montgomery wrote: »

Why is it dangerous to drink pure water ?

That's a new one on me.

http://www.isciencemag.co.uk/features/fact-of-the-day-1/

I think it's basically too reactive, it wants to start sucking minerals and other such stuff from your body, I think it can actually suck water from your cells or the reverse over saturate cells.

Pure water tends to only exist in a lab. Nearly all water is a solution of many things and not just H2O.

eviltwin

High end trainers. Like fair enough if you plan to actually play sport or train for a run and you need the foot support but when you only use them to accessorize a skanky tracksuit what's the point?

Jet Black

Nespresso

Train Dragon

Jet Black wrote: »

Nespresso

Ive never tried it but that's twice it's appeared in this thread now. The queues to buy the pods for them are always insane though.

Does it taste like crap?

Dyson.

Invent a problem, "the standard vacuum cleaners reduce suction over time", convince people this is a real issue, have Mr. Dyson giving some nice blurb about cyclone technology in his soothing voice, oh and make em them colourful. Sell by the gazillion, despite the ridiculous price.

Jet Black

No I think it tastes good, it's a consistent cup of coffee. Problem is the price. You can get a bag of beans for a fraction of the price of the nespresso pods.

Mister Vain

The new Canon 5D is 4 grand. A bit much for a camera.

Any BMW. The most overrated cars ever.

Hugo Boss.

Train Dragon

Sleepy wrote: »

Tommy Hilfiger

Have to strongly disagree there. They make great and durable clothes.

Parachutes

Trump branded anything.

Train Dragon

Parachutes wrote: »

Trump branded anything.

Im almost afraid to ask but apart from his hotels what is there?

mdwexford

Deleted User wrote: »

Dyson.

Invent a problem, "the standard vacuum cleaners reduce suction over time", convince people this is a real issue, have Mr. Dyson giving some nice blurb about cyclone technology in his soothing voice, oh and make em them colourful. Sell by the gazillion, despite the ridiculous price.

What Hoover is better?

Parachutes

Train Dragon wrote: »

Im almost afraid to ask but apart from his hotels what is there?

Anything you can think of, Trump has repackaged it and slapped his name onto it.

Dick phelan

A lot of clothes brands, made in the same sweatshops as stuff you'd buy in Pennys but with a small logo on it, paying 10 times the price as unbranded one.

hannible the cannible

mdwexford wrote: »

What Hoover is better?

Henry

mdwexford

hannible the cannible wrote: »

Henry

It's not better.

Maybe better value, but not a better product.

hannible the cannible

mdwexford wrote: »

It's not better.

Maybe better value, but not a better product.

It's way better than the Dyson , you're being seduced by marketing

Train Dragon

James Dyson is one smooth talking b@stard. Those Ads had me fooled.

I'd gladly trade our vastly overpriced Dyson for a Henry. The only real use has been the "well, you wanted it" reminder to my wife as we bend and pick up the fluff that the Dyson just refuses to budge.

HandsomeDan

Mister Vain wrote: »

The new Canon 5D is 4 grand. A bit much for a camera.

Any BMW. The most overrated cars ever.

Hugo Boss.

BMW are over priced & over rated, but still can't beat a nicely specced 3 series/

DEFTLEFTHAND

Referring to the OP, apparently Harley Davidson's are notoriously unreliable. They sell because they look badass Americana and are the bike of choice in the 1% Mc scene.

Jap bikes are probably finer machines altogether.

Train Dragon

HandsomeDan wrote: »

BMW are over priced & over rated, but still can't beat a nicely specced 3 series/

Plus many girls wet their knickers at the sight of one.

evolving_doors

Dr. Dre.... not a doctor BTW...

Also ... beats are..manufactured in an accountant's office in our own Clonakilty!

Ferrari3600

Modern ****, a subsidiary of Enfield Designs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyNQuLPTkvM

Arghus

The Daily Mail.

Train Dragon

Arghus wrote: »

The Daily Mail.

Or any tabloid really.

Ferrari3600

Arghus wrote: »

The Daily Mail.

I don't think that's applicable. It hasn't actually denied being a tabloid that caters for every prejudice of the white English lower middle class.

Ferrari3600

Train Dragon wrote: »

Or any tabloid really.

Nah. Tabloids are generally cheaper than broadsheets if anything. I would say the likes of The Irish Times and even the once excellent (but not longer so) Daily Telegraph are more applicable here (you now have to pay for premium content for the latter, and the premium content isn't as good as the stuff you used to get for free).

DEFTLEFTHAND

The Mail must be the most profitable paper in the world at the moment. Shifting 2 million hard copies per day and getting over 10 million individual daily visits to their website.

The newspaper industry nay have life in it yet.

mdwexford

hannible the cannible wrote: »

It's way better than the Dyson , you're being seduced by marketing

It is in my arse.

I use my cordless Dyson, it picks up everything and is much more convenient and powerful than any other hoover I've ever used.

I can't be seduced by marketing when I don't watch advertisements.

Train Dragon

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

The Mail must be the most profitable paper in the world at the moment. Shifting 2 million hard copies per day

It sells 2 million copies in print daily?!

Capt'n Midnight

stimpson wrote: »

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

Coca Cola first attempts to sell bottle tap water in the UK were a disaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasani#United_Kingdom

Early advertisements referred to Dasani as "bottled spunk" or featured the tagline "can't live without spunk"
...
On 18 March 2004, UK authorities found a concentration of bromate, a suspected human carcinogen, in the product that could be considered harmful if consumed in large quantities.

Needless to say they don't use the Dasani brand anymore.

Ferrari3600

According to motor industry lore, Toyota was puzzled as to why its 2-seater sportscar offering the MR-2 sold so poorly in France. Then someone pointed out what the phonetic spelling of the car sounds like in French.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Train Dragon wrote: »

It sells 2 million copies in print daily?!

Just researched newspaper circulations there now, apparently they set for 2 million printed copies per day. Sales vary but on average they sell between 1.4 and 1.5 million of them. I suppose a good part of the surplus are supplied free to news agencies the world over, tv, radio stations etc.

The Sun out sells them. They set for 2 million and sell 1.8 million on average.

Anesthetize

mdwexford wrote: »

What Hoover is better?

Hoover.

_Jamie_

Deleted User wrote: »

Jewellery Industry = Diamonds

Heated, squashed bits of carbon, mined in generally terrible circumstances ... which most people wouldn't give a fook about if they hadn't been told to by a clever marketing campaign.

Well, they were always gemstones so I'm sure some people liked them before the De Beers campaign, like any other gemstone. People are so in love with this factoid that they seem to forget that.

_Jamie_

Train Dragon wrote: »

It looks great, although i cant see any Irish girl looking for one over a diamond http://diamondvsmoissanite.com/wp-content/uploads/diamond-vs-moissanite.jpg

Lots of women I know have different gemstones for their engagement rings.

mdwexford

Anesthetize wrote: »

Hoover.

Fook that, vacuum cleaner is Hoover and tape player is Walkman etc.

All crisps are not taytos though.

_Jamie_

mdwexford wrote: »

It is in my arse.

I use my cordless Dyson, it picks up everything and is much more convenient and powerful than any other hoover I've ever used.

I can't be seduced by marketing when I don't watch advertisements.

Nobody is immune to advertising.

razorblunt

Fiji Water.

kowloon

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Referring to the OP, apparently Harley Davidson's are notoriously unreliable. They sell because they look badass Americana and are the bike of choice in the 1% Mc scene.

Jap bikes are probably finer machines altogether.

That reputation goes way back. H-D would have gone out of business if the American govt. hadn't slapped tariffs on imports. The Japanese have taught the US a lot about quality control (go further back and it was the opposite way around), but brand reputations last longer than individual products.

People will be talking about Samsung products going on fire and Apple being overpriced long after it has ceased to be relevant.

padd b1975

Train Dragon wrote: »

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?

The build quality has been on a sharp downward curve probably since the turn of the century.

Recent styling can be best described as 'brave'.

Definitely living on past glories.