What products prey on stupid people?

Burial.

Zebra3 wrote: »

Religion.

No shortage of brainwashed mugs.

Ah Religion, that widely bought product that goes into every shopping trolley at your local Tesco Value Super Store.

Junkyard Tom

ThisRegard wrote: »

What marketing and advertising?

Most of it?

mick.oleary

Aeroplane tickets that are orders of magnitude more expensive than the competitors that are Always Getting Better (TM) just because they bring you to an airport that is a couple of miles closer to your destination...

Cheers,
Mick

Vex Willems

Burial. wrote: »

Ah Religion, that widely bought product that goes into every shopping trolley at your local Tesco Value Super Store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1xJAVZxXg

valoren

Cologne and Perfume.

80 euro for smelly water

mick.oleary

RedTie wrote: »

Strongly disagree.

Memories is what you'd have. I'd take seeing some of the world over the latest gimmicky phone every time.

I never really understood why some people are obsessed with seeing the world. I always thought that it was the people you met in your life that were important and not the environment...Maybe you can share your perspective.

Although I agree with you about gimmicky phones and I have had my fair share.

discobeaker

Beats headphones.

****e headphones at ridiculous prices but are a "must have" cos famous people are seen with them

Headphones aimed at dickheads

BillyBobBS

Smoking is the obvious one but iv'e never bought bottled water in my life. It comes out of my tap through my taxes so i ain't paying twice.

OldMrBrennan83

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shygal

Phonewatch, gamestop, educogym

eyerer

tastyt wrote: »

Cars, phones, gym membership.

Really?
I couldn't do without any of them. Different if you mean needing to have the latest and greatest...

eeguy

Patww79 wrote: »

Strongly disagree. I'd take the latest phone over some gimmicky holiday every time.

Luckily we don't dictate what other people do with their money.

You're not going on the right holidays

Crystals, horoscopes, fortune tellers etc. A pile of unproven bullsh!t.

whiskeyman

whiskeyman wrote: »

Mobile phone insurance

You won't say that if you smash your 800 euro smart phone or have it lost/stolen .

OldMrBrennan83

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ToddyDoody

I love it when I hear someone spout the marketing-science of a health product.

Digital Solitude

Smart TVs

A horrible, ugly, awful to use UI at several times the cost of a regular TV with an android box.

If you can say your TV is smart, you're probably not

Digital Solitude

Kennedi Spoiled Turnpike wrote: »

You won't say that if you smash your 800 euro smart phone or have it lost/stolen .

Thats double stupid isn't it?

*edit* Triple on a thought

mick.oleary

Kennedi Spoiled Turnpike wrote: »

You won't say that if you smash your 800 euro smart phone or have it lost/stolen .

Yes s/he will.

iPhone insurance is around €100 annually. If you drop your phone then you will likely just need a new screen that costs around €150. So if you have your phone on contract and replace it every 2 years then as long as you drop it only once during the two years you will be better off. That does not even take into account the deductible. If you are dropping your phone more often then you should probably just buy a cheaper phone or cop yourself on and stop being so careless...And as for theft, it doesn't happen that often to warrant the cost of insurance...

glaswegian

Anything with Hand in front of it,e.g. hand cut chips,hand squeezed fruit juice.saw hand buttered garlic bread before in a shop which was over a euro dearer than "ordinary" garlic bread.

RayM

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Smart TVs

A horrible, ugly, awful to use UI at several times the cost of a regular TV with an android box.

If you can say your TV is smart, you're probably not

A very unforgiving user interface, I find. If you accidentally press the wrong button, or the right button too many times, it can be very annoying and time-consuming.

mick.oleary

mick.oleary wrote: »

Yes s/he will.

iPhone insurance is around €100 annually. If you drop your phone then you will likely just need a new screen that costs around €150. So if you have your phone on contract and replace it every 2 years then as long as you drop it only once during the two years you will be better off. That does not even take into account the deductible. If you are dropping your phone more often then you should probably just buy a cheaper phone or cop yourself on and stop being so careless...

150 in some dodgy Chinese shop that will void the warranty and no use whatsoever if it's destroyed, lost or stolen. I get great piece of mind from it anyway and don't have to worry about my phone as I can have it replaced for the 50 euro excess.

mick.oleary wrote: »

Aeroplane tickets that are orders of magnitude more expensive than the competitors that are Always Getting Better (TM) just because they bring you to an airport that is a couple of miles closer to your destination...

Cheers,
Mick

Thinking you are getting a great deal by flying to a place miles from where you want to go and then spending lots of money and hassle getting where you actually want to go.

mick.oleary

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Smart TVs

A horrible, ugly, awful to use UI at several times the cost of a regular TV with an android box.

If you can say your TV is smart, you're probably not

Android boxes are s***e. Low resolution picture that probably have Chinese s**tware or get you to register to use the app and spam your email.

Digital Solitude

Kennedi Spoiled Turnpike wrote: »

150 in some dodgy Chinese shop that will void the warranty and no use whatsoever if it's destroyed, lost or stolen. I get great piece of mind from it anyway and don't have to worry about my phone as I can have it replaced for the 50 euro excess.

Surely the smart option is fixing it yourself

mick.oleary

Kennedi Spoiled Turnpike wrote: »

150 in some dodgy Chinese shop that will void the warranty and no use whatsoever if it's destroyed, lost or stolen. I get great piece of mind from it anyway and don't have to worry about my phone as I can have it replaced for the 50 euro excess.

You get peace of mind by paying out €200 for a phone that costs €700ish new?

And by the way, I think the Chinese are probably the best people to be repairing these phones. After all, they put them together in the first place.

wylo

Diet Coke or diet anything that is really tasty that is clearly not healthy.

Just admit to yourself you're consuming something crap , you'll enjoy it more.

mick.oleary

Kennedi Spoiled Turnpike wrote: »

Thinking you are getting a great deal by flying to a place miles from where you want to go and then spending lots of money and hassle getting where you actually want to go.

You are probably a cyclist as well...

mick.oleary

Weddings.

OldMrBrennan83

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Ray37

Juice Plus, Herbalife and that Aloe Vera ****e. And it preys on the idiots who sell it, too.

Free-2-Flow

Anything to do with 6 pack abs

Digital Solitude

mick.oleary wrote: »

Android boxes are s***e. Low resolution picture that probably have Chinese s**tware or get you to register to use the app and spam your email.

Why would the american ones have Chinese ****ware at the low-low res of 4k

pilly

Anything called "artisan"

Ray37

Those 'fat freezing' treatments that salons do, get your arse to a gym and BURN you fat.

Permabear

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Senna

mick.oleary wrote: »

Android boxes are s***e. Low resolution picture that probably have Chinese s**tware or get you to register to use the app and spam your email.

Have you ever even had an Android box? Let me guess, you bought it of some fella on donedeal

mick.oleary

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Why would the american ones have Chinese ****ware at the low-low res of 4k

4K my a**e. The hardware might support 4K but the streaming servers are all crap low res.

What American Android box?

mick.oleary

Senna wrote: »

Have you ever even had an Android box? Let me guess, you bought it of some fella on donedeal

I bought it off Amazon. Waste of money.

Balmed Out

Concerts. I love pub gigs and smaller concerts but cannot see the appeal in large stadium gigs. I know many will disagree.

Pay a fortune for a ticket in order to spend an evening moving from one queue to another. Queue to get in, for an overpriced drink in a plastic container, repeat as drunk moron knocked over the last one, another queue for a toilet break in a filthy stinking box which ran out of toilet paper and water to flush some time back, spend most of the rest of the time trying to get a look over the multitude of phones being held aloft.
And then when its over the queuing begins again.

miezekatze

That extra 3 year warranty that argos try to sell you for just about anything you can buy there.

Serious illness cover for mortgages seems to be another one. Seems to be very difficult to actually get anything out of that if you need it.

Overpriced clothes and accessories with the brand written on them in huge letters. You basically pay a company to advertise for them.

blackvalley

Anything advertised as " Free " . Example . " Buy the latest Toyota wobblewagon for £30000 and get FREE motor insurance " or " Buy your fitted kitchen from us for £10000 and get the tiles FREE "
So you have to spend vast amounts of money to get the free stuff ??. Must try dropping into my local car dealer / kitchen showroom and just ask for the free tiles or insurance and see how that works :rolleyes:;)

Senna

mick.oleary wrote: »

I bought it off Amazon. Waste of money.

I've had a few people say the same about their own boxes, in every case its user error.
Even the crappy 1gb boxes will play HD streams without issues from a 8-12mb line.

mick.oleary

Senna wrote: »

I've had a few people say the same about their own boxes, in every case its user error.
Even the crappy 1gb boxes will play HD streams without issues from a 8-12mb line.

User error? Please educate me how I can make an error plugging in an RJ45 cable and opening up an app.

I am guessing you sell them and you're salty because I p****d all over your products.

AndrewJRenko

greencap wrote: »

My car is loud this means you should be impressed.

In fairness, the whole car thing is preying on stupid people. When was the last time anyone had a driving experience anything near a car advert - wide open roads, smooth surfaces, beautiful wife and kids smiling.

The ads should show you stuck on Amiens St at 5.45pm in the pi$$ings of rain, crawling at 3 kmph, watching the cyclists fly past your inside or outside, as the truck in front kicks up a layer of muck onto your recently washed junkheap with the dodgy heating control while the kids knock lumps out of each other behind you and the missus tells you that you should have gone the other way and you never listen to her and she's always right.

stimpson

mick.oleary wrote: »

4K my a**e. The hardware might support 4K but the streaming servers are all crap low res.

What American Android box?

So streaming services then? I've an Nvidia Sheild box running Plex and enjoy crystal clear movies in 4K with High Res audio. No crappy streaming services for me.

ThisRegard

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Most of it?

There are none for cigarettes here.

ThisRegard

Senna wrote: »

Have you ever even had an Android box? Let me guess, you bought it of some fella on donedeal

And yet it's ok for people to assume that the interface on all smart TVs are the same poorly designed ones, which they are not at all.

mick.oleary

stimpson wrote: »

So streaming services then? I've an Nvidia Sheild box running Plex and enjoy crystal clear movies in 4K with High Res audio. No crappy streaming services for me.

I have nothing against paid streaming services. I use Netflix and it works great on my Apple TV. The Android boxes on Amazon are marketed as supporting 4K and come with free TV etc but the servers that provide that free TV are incapable of doing 4K and require registration. Complete s**t.

I have not tried Nvidia Shield with Plex but for non-tech savvy users Plex is unsuitable.

Senna

mick.oleary wrote: »

User error? Please educate me how I can make an error plugging in an RJ45 cable and opening up an app.

I am guessing you sell them and you're salty because I p****d all over your products.

No I was already joking about the idiots on donedeal selling them, I hardly sell them myself. They're not hard to use, if you can't use yours, then you have obviously done something wrong.

stimpson

mick.oleary wrote: »

I have nothing against paid streaming services. I use Netflix and it works great on my Apple TV. The Android boxes on Amazon are marketed as supporting 4K and come with free TV etc but the servers that provide that free TV are incapable of doing 4K and require registration. Complete s**t.

I have not tried Nvidia Shield with Plex but for non-tech savvy users Plex is unsuitable.

Netflix is technically 4K but it's compressed to a much lower bitrate than a Bluray. It hasn't got anywhere near the detail.

If an android box can decode 4K then it can decode 4K. The services are the problem. And Plex is a piece of piss to use. A mate of mine has his 80 year old mother using it.

RobbingBandit

House alarms.