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New products that have been a complete flop

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 453 ✭✭Mazeire


    44leto wrote: »
    I was never in Stringfellows, the few times I was there, I thought the Spirit was quite good, it was different.


    So so expensive from what I remember, even for Celtic Tiger times. Wasn't it €20 to get in on a Friday and Saturday night?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Modern warfare 3.

    Bought it today, its shyte alright, the gameplay is practically the same as MM2, its just different templates.

    DO NOT BUY.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ashtrays for motorbikes!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,151 ✭✭✭kupus


    can Toshiba's HD DVD vs blue ray be counted as a flop kinda like betamax vs video in past years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    The HSE


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,397 ✭✭✭Paparazzo


    Modern warfare 3.
    Predictions that it'll make $1.1 billion in it's first 6 weeks. You mightn't like it, but hardly a flop!


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 687 ✭✭✭headmaster


    Polska fund investment


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Paparazzo wrote: »
    Predictions that it'll make $1.1 billion in it's first 6 weeks. You mightn't like it, but hardly a flop!

    I doubt it will make it. Even if it will, then I will losse all faith in human kind.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    The DVD rewinder


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,506 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    minidisc.

    was awesome for all of about 7 months before mp3s came and took me away....


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    smash wrote: »
    The DVD rewinder
    Actually that sold quite well as a novelty item


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    zinzan wrote: »
    Isn't that Dasani tap water now sold as Deep River Rock?!
    yes

    then again Perrier also know how difficult it is to put water in a bottle :rolleyes:


    value lemonade costs less than water , so what is it made out of ?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,454 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Microsoft Bob


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Microsoft Bob

    Sweet jesus. The flashbacks!
    Bastardin thing gave birth to that fcukin Clippy bastard!!! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    sparksfly wrote: »
    Most people who bought 300k apartments lost substantialy.

    Shake and vac sold so well it was discontinued.

    JML are successful but many of their products are pure crap that have a very short sales life.

    We are commenting on products, not companies.

    Some people really need to think before they argue stupidly:rolleyes
    Most people who bought 300k lost but that doesn't make them a flop it just means the value didn't stay. They sold the them.

    Shake and vac sold very well. The fact they discontinued it doesn't mean it was a flop just it doesn't have a market any more.

    JML sells the units at a profit. They aren't flops, short sales life doesn't make something a flop. By that definition many toys that make a ton of money are flops when they aren't

    You really aren't thinking this out at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,102 ✭✭✭mathie


    Ray Palmer wrote: »
    Most people who bought 300k lost but that doesn't make them a flop it just means the value didn't stay. They sold the them.

    Shake and vac sold very well. The fact they discontinued it doesn't mean it was a flop just it doesn't have a market any more.

    JML sells the units at a profit. They aren't flops, short sales life doesn't make something a flop. By that definition many toys that make a ton of money are flops when they aren't

    You really aren't thinking this out at all.

    flop   /flɒp/ noun
    to be a complete failure; fail: The play flopped dismally.


    Paying over the odds for an apartment is ... ?
    A product that is discontinued is ... ?

    A success?

    You really aren't thinking this out at all.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A flop would be the Ghost Estate in the Midlands that is full of completed but unsold houses.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    A flop would be the Ghost Estate in the Midlands that is full of completed but unsold houses.

    no they served their purpose 100% of transferring wealth from the taxpayer to corrupt vested interests :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,453 ✭✭✭Ray Palmer


    mathie wrote: »
    flop   /flɒp/ noun
    to be a complete failure; fail: The play flopped dismally.


    Paying over the odds for an apartment is ... ?
    A product that is discontinued is ... ?

    A success?

    You really aren't thinking this out at all.
    AS the people who made many of the 300k appartments sold them they were not a failure for them. Ie not a flop

    Selling millions of units and getting a massive return on your initial investment means a product is not a flop.

    So yes they were successes. Just like a pet rock, they don't really sell them now but a massive success. The discontinued the Model T ford too are you saying it was a flop?

    Think about it becasue you simply haven't so far.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,235 ✭✭✭iregk


    sparksfly wrote: »

    JML are successful but many of their products are pure crap that have a very short sales life.

    We are commenting on products, not companies.

    Some people really need to think before they argue stupidly:rolleyes

    They don't really. You can get pretty much all OS their products of their website. Supermarkets here go through phases of selling a couple as to sell all of them would require a second store!

    Their products sell exceptionally well and they make shed loads of cash. At least know the product before you bash it.

    Overall I did it funny that people say their products are crap yet they are rated in the top companies in Europe. Some achievement for someone with crap products!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭nitromaster


    There are three big consoles and it is a distant, distant third despite the obvious advantage it had. Both other consoles have now adopted the controller type and the Wii will be buried.

    The Wii sold a ton, third party/average number of games per console sales was higher then it's competitors....
    Seems a success to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    rubadub wrote: »
    not a product but www.bendunne.com I remember the radio ads on all the time.

    Think that's Ben Dunne!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,506 ✭✭✭lil'bug


    clear cola
    it was every where for one summer

    also shake and vac is still around


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    MidlandsM wrote: »
    ...whats pron?;)

    I would say the minicall pager yokes

    Did ya never watch pron stars on Discovery?:p

    The Sinclair C5


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Microsoft Bob

    Never heard of this thing! Must set this as my desktop background.
    wrote:
    Released right as the internet was beginning to become popular, Bob offered an email client where a user could subscribe to MCI Mail, a dial-up email account. The price was $5.00 per month to send up to 15 emails per month. Each email was limited to 5000 characters, and each additional email after the limit was reached was an additional 45 cents

    Bargain alert.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    The Wii sold a ton,
    yep 5th best selling of all time.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles
    Sony PlayStation 2 2000 153.5 million[1][2][3]
    Nintendo Nintendo DS 2004 149.00 million[4]
    Nintendo Game Boy/Game Boy Color[5] 1989 and 1998 118.69 million[4]
    Sony PlayStation 1994 102.49 million[6]
    Nintendo Wii 2006 89.36 million[4]
    Nintendo Game Boy Advance 2001 81.51 million[4]
    Sony PlayStation Portable 2004 73 million[7][8][9]
    Nintendo Nintendo Entertainment System 1983 61.91 million[4]
    Microsoft Xbox 360 2005 57.6 million[10]
    Sony PlayStation 3 2006 55.5 million[11]
    Nintendo Super Nintendo Entertainment System 1990 49.10 million[4][12][13]
    Sega Mega Drive/Genesis 1988 39 million[cn 1]
    Nintendo Nintendo 64 1996 32.93 million[4]
    Atari Atari 2600 1977 30 million[17]
    Microsoft Xbox 2001 24 million[18][19]
    Nintendo Nintendo GameCube 2001 21.74 million[4]
    Sega Game Gear 1990 11 million[20]
    Sega Dreamcast 1998 10.6 million[21][22]
    NEC TurboGrafx-16 1987 10 million[22]
    Sega Saturn 1994 9.5 million[22]
    Nintendo Nintendo 3DS 2011 6.68 million[4]
    Sega Sega CD 1991 6 million[22]
    Atari Atari 7800 1986 3.77 million[23]
    Mattel Intellivision 1980 3 million[24][25][26]
    Nokia N-Gage 2003 3 million[20]
    Magnavox/Philips Magnavox Odyssey² 1978 2 million[27]
    Panasonic 3DO Interactive Multiplayer 1993 2 million[22]
    SNK Neo Geo Pocket/Neo Geo Pocket Color 1998 and 1999 2 million[20]
    NEC TurboExpress 1990 1.5 million[20]
    Sega Nomad 1995 1 million[28]

    Shake and vac sold very well. The fact they discontinued it doesn't mean it was a flop just it doesn't have a market any more.
    Shake n vac is still on sale.
    http://www.scjohnson.co.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=6003

    I will burn in hell for this


  • Registered Users Posts: 724 ✭✭✭cock robin



    value lemonade costs less than water , so what is it made out of ?

    It's made out of water without a massive marketing budget. The actual production cost of a 2l bottle of leading brands of soft drinks is around 35c.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    Dickens Cider.


  • Registered Users Posts: 724 ✭✭✭cock robin


    sparksfly wrote: »
    Most people who bought 300k apartments lost substantialy.

    Shake and vac sold so well it was discontinued.

    JML are successful but many of their products are pure crap that have a very short sales life.

    We are commenting on products, not companies.

    Some people really need to think before they argue stupidly:rolleyes

    JML are a world leader in selling products so they are no flop.
    Shake & Vac has not been discontinued, it sold more before people bought timber flooring so no flop there.
    300k Apartments were sold and bought at market value so no flop their either.
    Products have come and gone but that does not mean they were a flop, the Polaroid camera is a case in point, not available anymore due to more modern technology but by no means a flop.
    Your opinions on the other hand are a flop as you have missed the point.
    Example of a flop The DeHaviland comet.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Ledger


    Pippin's cider - about 30 cases were sold in the first month, about 20 of them came back, not selling. (wholesaler).

    One to soon join this list:

    Smithwick's Pale Ale - It has been on the market for about 2 months, probably only about 20 cases have shifted, and it wouldn't surprise me if most of them will be coming back again too.


    also does anyone remember Cashel's cider? no? exactly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,506 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Ledger wrote: »
    also does anyone remember Cashel's cider? no? exactly.

    I do! It wasnt that bad was it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,459 ✭✭✭Ledger


    retalivity wrote: »
    I do! It wasnt that bad was it?

    well i never had it, i just remember it being a really slow mover


  • Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭EddyC15


    Does anyone remember that tabloid news paper that was launched a good few years ago? I can't remember the name of it but it's selling point was that it had absolutely no articles and was instead a collection of pictures, captions and ads. It lasted about six weeks.


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Was it a bit like the "Sunday Sport".


  • Registered Users Posts: 143 ✭✭EddyC15


    Was it a bit like the "Sunday Sport".

    I don't think so. As far as I can remember it was a paper version of Hello or one of those magazines.


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