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Loyalty to brands.

MazDan

MazDan

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Do you ever find that you have a loyalty to a brand............often with no real reason?


For example, I will always buy eveready batteries over duracel.

I am a passionate supporter of Playstation and will argue till Im blue in the face its the best console, even though I have never owned any of the others...........Ohh and never will.............lol

I will never ever buy a Ford or a Nissan. I generally follow GMH in car racing and I drive a Toyota 4wd, our arch enemies are nissans.


lol, I actually have heaps aye..........................So what sort of silly brand loyalty do you have?
 
I used to be blindly loyal to several brands, as you describe, Maz. I'm not sure when exactly, but I dropped that loyalty somewhere along the way, because I guess I sort of realised that my blind consumerism wasn't really serving any purpose other than restricting my... consumerism. I used to be a Nike, Assics and New Balance guy, an Energizer guy, Same cologne since seventh grade guy. I have seasonal favourites in cologne now, use only rechargeables (whatever flavour/brand of the year on review boards), and the last major sports branded piece of apparel I acquired was a pair of NB running shoes in my closet which sees maybe a few days of action a year, which I believe showed up there at least nine years ago.

Nowadays... looks good, works well, price is right? That's all that matters.

I still have a thing for Hush Puppies and Deer Stags, though. Just a small thing. :)
 
Actually, none, at least not anymore. It's cheaper to not be loyal to brands. The only thing I can recall, where I've been brand loyal is Coca-Cola. I used to prefer it over other cola drinks, but these days, buying the cheapest cola will do, which is usually only half of the price of Coca-Cola. Yeah, I like sodas. ;)
 
The only brand I'm really loyal to is Volkswagon, and thats only because they produce uniquely nice-looking cars in a world of nearly-identical car designs.
 
I usually go with what works. No reason to change it up.

I've always had good luck with Ford/Mazda cars.
I've always had good luck with Nokia.
I've always had good luck with Nikon.
I've always had good luck with Seiko.
I've always had good luck with JVC televisions.
I've always had good luck with Sandisk.
...and so on.

On the other hand, it only takes 1 or 2 mishaps with a brand for me to give them the virtual finger.

I'll probably never buy another Pioneer head unit for my car.
I'll probably never buy another Sigma lens.
I'll probably never buy another Motorola cell phone.
I'll probably never buy another Pontiac car.
I'll probably never buy from White Castle again.
I'll probably never use DHL to ship something again.
... and so on.
 
I am an avid fan of Diesel Jeans... The cut always fits me awesomely and I rarely buy new jeans unless they're Diesels! ;o)
I'm not that fussy about most things but I have to have a pair of Diesels! Lol!
 
Other than tampons and Burt's Bees products I tend to use trial and error and go with whatever works best for me. A lot of times I can't tell the difference and just buy what is cheapest. I guess I'm sort of loyal to generic brands in that way.
 
I've recently replaced all the old products I used to use with different alternatives. I don't use anything tested on animals, and where possible, nothing containing animal ingredients either (that's a tough one at times).

If I'm loyal to any brand though, I guess that would have to be Converse.
 
dtugg said:
The only brand I am loyal to is Newports (yes I'm black).
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I am white and when I used to smoke I smoked tons of newports and so did both my black and white friends ... never understood why it got that image


anyways I'm pretty brand loyal to clothes... I've pretty much only bought LRG for the past 3 or 4 years... part of it is adding on to my collection.. oh yeah and nike shoes as well
 
I'm only loyal to brands that are the best.

If something stops working for me, or something out there I hear is way better, I'll switch it up.

I'm not a very loyal customer. ha.
 
Canon cameras. that's about it. whenever i'm buying something new i do a lot of research and buy what appears to be the best or the best value. i am very partial to Sony products though, i must admit.

when it comes to food i just buy the stuff i like. which isn't loyalty, it's just habit really.
 
I generally go loyal on a brand when I find quality and/or comfort.

If it works for me then I stick with it but I think its also healthy to take up an opportunity to try something else should it arise. Whether that is drive a friends car, try a different restaurant, drink a different beer or wear a different brand of shoe.

Its kind of a test if you will as I find with loyalty comes complacency
 
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i'm loyal to pepsi and brand-name cereals. the generic cereal on the bottom of the shelf, in the plastic bag, gives me bad diarhhea. worse than the time i ate sugar cubes and cardboard, although that's what it tastes like.

i'm loyal to russel athletic clothing, because they make my fat frame look like a thug frame instead.
 
uhhh not on purpose. i like dickies. i have a lot of reebok shoes, that wasn't on purpose tho. i just liked the shoes. i do joke around about it sometimes.

a few art products maybe...

anything else is all the same to me, with a different packaging. some things yea if i research and find that it is a more quality product in certain aspects then yea i'm gonna go for that brand of that product. for that certain product. i've never had any sort of mental/emotional attachment to a brand name. stuff is stuff.
 
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