Allegiances to the brand name?

[aunty establishment]

I try not to buy mass marketed products whereever possible. Most of my clothes are designed by friends or local designers, I drink (genuine!) boutique or cleanskin wines and the bulk of my food comes from the grower's market or Vietnamese butcher. I guess this is because I work in Marketing and I know how much extra you pay for a brand, be it the product's or the distribution channel's. A lot of it is pure scam.

The one area this doesn't apply is consumer durables (especially audiovisual and furniture), where I live for prestige brands. I will happily pay up to ten times the price of a similar mass distributed product for a concomitant increase in performance and durability.

 

[haste]

My current DVD player is on its way out and apparently would cost more to repair than purchase another one, its a Pioneer - I've been looking at the latest Pioneer one, but I gotta say some of the cheaper brands look tempting to!

 

[onetwothreefour]

^^^ dec man, i'm tellin' ya, seriously

 

[Joellercoaster]

If I find a brand I like, I'll keep buying their products until something disappointing happens.

On the other hand, I also maintain the rage against brands that piss me off. My Sony Boycott has been going for years, and is still a constant source of amusement to my friends (I have a Sony discman, walkman and laptop, so apparently I'm pretty consistent too ).

Why? The artificial shortage of Playstation2s, originally. And being told by the San Francisco Sony store that no, I couldn't preorder mine, because it wouldn't be fair to the people queueing around the block on release day.

Which was the whole point. Screw those people and their transparent hype-generation schemes. I still don't own a PS2, despite being mad keen to buy one at the time. I have lots of other examples of Sony fucking their customers and making them like it, but that was the original and still the best.

 

[haste]

*bumpage*

 

[Catax]

Well when it comes to cars I'm a holden girl through and through%)
But If its not holden I can handle bmw, merc, jag, lamborghini
hehehe
Electronic equipment I think I'm always better off going with the well known brands. Although my mobile is a Panasonic. I've only ever had a panasonic mobile, Iike them better than nokias.

 

[haste]

Well when it comes to cars I'm a holden girl through and through%)

 

[papermate]

When i was a kid, my folks never bought me anything brand name. All my clothes were either made by my mum, or bought from Target or K-mart. this was up untill about year 10. After year 10 i started working and bought from the standard stores like Just Jeans etc...

now, i'm a snob for most products, because i do think that price is relevant to the quality.

(i like physcokittnes format so im going to copy her..)

clothes business shirts around the $100 mark, jeans i'll pay $200, shirts not usually over $80 (i think casual nice shirts are easy to get), underwear got nice french undies but i wear bonds most of the time (they are comfy) but ive got singlets and trackies from K Mart still.
I have 2 pairs of diesel shoes which were fucking expensive, but are the most comfortable and durable shoes i have ever seen.

accessories always got fake sunglasses because i keep sitting on them, so i figure its not worth getting genuines. quality watch though which was from overseas - other than that i dont really accessorise.....

electrical goods like haste, i will pay the hundred to get the better brand. having done up cars, installing radios and speakers, (tried everythingt from Parklea Markets crap to Pioneer/Kenwood/Clarion. its not worth it. and home entertainment is crap if it looks and sounds shit. too many times when you take things apart you realise why there is a price difference. Also with more expensive products you tend to get better support should there be issues.

food i dont go no name brands, i like the colours.

alcohol i dont actually drink that much, but now starting wine, i find the price is indicative of taste.

jesus.... onetwothreefour - you sound soooo cynical about the products! whast wrong with people producing great products and selling them? Consumerism is great, you have choice. How dissappointing would it be if everyone had standard issue everything?

gross generalisation. Peope think sony stuff is high quality. It aint. It's highly marketed. That's it. Sony electronics aren't a patch on waht they used to be in the 80s.

- normally hate what nezo says, but my experience with Sony is the same as what he has quoted. Walkmans, discmans, cameras, radios.

 

[doofqueen]

Re: Attentionpayin'boys

I know what 'slingbacks' are.
Does that increase the chance of a raincheck?

Actually i don't know what they are, i've heard people talk about them and i know they are shoes but what sort? I'm thinking high heels of some kind?

 

[Strawberry_lovemuffin]

^ Yep, they're shoes with covered toes and an open heel, with a strap around your heel.

I think they look pretty damn silly myself, along with the ridiculous Wicked-Witch-of-the-West pointy toe things people are wearing right now.

 

[doofqueen]

^^ewwww i agree then. I don't know why those pointy shoes came back in style. They look so tacky. I found some ones that my mum used to wear in the 80's when i was a little girl and they are pretty much exactly what girls are wearing now...they were hot pink and everything bwahahaha

 

[bumble83]

^^^ like the thongs that little kids get (under 4 years old), so the thongs stay on their lil feet. So i think is looks kinda silly on adults

 

[doofqueen]

^^ I have always hated thongs even as a child i hated wearing them. I know they are cool to wear in summer and what not but i just think they look tacky I'm not a thong fan at all ...