Brands that succeed despite being shite...

Ravenous

Boutique distortion pedals.

jellyroll

Dogs. I agreed to get one thinking it will be man's best friend (I have a wife & 3 daughters)...turns out it's woman's best friend.....follows SHMBO around like a shadow   Overated species. I'm getting a rat for xmas.

jellyroll

[Double post]

Rox

professorben said:

Dyson, unreliable, heavy, gimmick based products, if their design dept was as good as their marketing dept, they would be world beating. 

If the Dyson style vacuum had been invented first, someone else would have invented the vacuum with the bag.  Covering yourself in dust every time you empty the bastard thing is the most stupid design flaw ever.  But people think it's brilliant.

More mess when you empty isn't better - it's worse!

Dominic

Harvester
  Nandos
  Carluccios
  Mc Donalds
  KFC
  Starbucks
  Greggs Bakers
  Wagamama
  Subway
  Jamies Italian
  Yo Sushi
  
All vile processed,central prep unit food or low quality goods with emphasis on marketing but agenda for mass market catering
and desperately trying to portray a fresh food image ......or creative national/ethnic menu that has very little in common with the real thing

LoFi

guitarfishbay said:

KFC still can't figure out how to make chips.  The entire menu is based around frying.  It just makes no sense.

This. But it's probably a good thing - it's my guilty pleasure food of choice, and if they managed to make decent fries instead of their pale, soggy imitations, I'd eat there a lot more often.

LoFi

hywelg said:

Doom Bar......

Overrated, perhaps, but I wouldn't say shite - it's a decent, mid-strength ale. GK IPA, on the other hand, is terrible, and if it's all that's on offer, I'll drink lager instead.

mikeyrob73

Dominic said:

Harvester
  Nandos
  Carluccios
  Mc Donalds
  KFC
  Starbucks
  Greggs Bakers
  Wagamama
  Subway
  Jamies Italian
  Yo Sushi
  
All vile processed,central prep unit food or low quality goods with emphasis on marketing but agenda for mass market catering
and desperately trying to portray a fresh food image ......or creative national/ethnic menu that has very little in common with the real thing

^^ This 

Nandos is over rated crap, loved by the yoot of today who think they are cool coz they have gone for a Nandos, oh do fuck off, its chicken, and not even very good chicken at that. 

guitars4you

guitarfishbay said:

KFC still can't figure out how to make chips.  The entire menu is based around frying.  It just makes no sense.

could apply that to any American brand regarding the chips

Baffles me that in the USA you can't get a decent coffee, cup of tea, bacon butty or a good pint

Gassage

mikeyrob73 said:

Dominic said:

Harvester
  Nandos
  Carluccios
  Mc Donalds
  KFC
  Starbucks
  Greggs Bakers
  Wagamama
  Subway
  Jamies Italian
  Yo Sushi
  
All vile processed,central prep unit food or low quality goods with emphasis on marketing but agenda for mass market catering
and desperately trying to portray a fresh food image ......or creative national/ethnic menu that has very little in common with the real thing

^^ This 

Nandos is over rated crap, loved by the yoot of today who think they are cool coz they have gone for a Nandos, oh do fuck off, its chicken, and not even very good chicken at that. 

I went to the first Nando's in Jo-burg in 1988.

Dopesick

Dominos Pizza

Absolute fucking abortion of a product.

Gassage

Oh

I have overlooked the shitest of all...

STRYMON!

grungebob

I'll agree Nando's is utter shite.

however I cant agree with Dyson or earnie Ball.

My Dysons great, never gone wrong and works very well for me.

EB, love their guitars ,necks and their strings, only string maker who's strings last for me.  Everyone else's need changing every few weeks, I get months out of Slinky's and I like the way they sound.

Fretwired

Microsoft's Office brand. Truly awful software that is complicated to use.

not_the_dj

Nescafe 

Gassage

Audi.

Why any sane person would buy a £40k exec car with front wheel drive beggars belief.

duotone

Ravenous said:

Boutique distortion pedals.

Boutique anything!

Danny1969

Fretwired said:

Microsoft's Office brand. Truly awful software that is complicated to use.

Agreed ... how the hell did they persuade millions of people they couldn't write a letter without spending £60 a year on office 

richh

In defense of...

Bose, I've got a couple of their products that I love, and were not that expensive, especially their noise cancelling headphoned (QC15)

Ernie Ball... noticed Mr Homer slagging these off a couple of days ago on another thread.  I thought these were roughly on a par with D'addario and the like, unless they've gone downhill.  @richardhomer I think you may have come off your medication, as you seem to have developed a vendetta against them - along with Lazy J who I also am a user of...

Volkswagen... a pretty good company based on my experience, though our current Polo does seem to be burning oil at an alarming rate

crunchman

Danny1969 said:

Fretwired said:

Microsoft's Office brand. Truly awful software that is complicated to use.

Agreed ... how the hell did they persuade millions of people they couldn't write a letter without spending £60 a year on office 

They didn't.

In the early days products like Lotus were copy protected when Office wasn't.  They got the whole world hooked on it and then started copy protecting it and making people pay through the nose.