Are you a generic or a brand name person?

JuneBug29

For me i don't see the point in forking out money on something that i find does exactly the same job. Once in awhile there are generic products that just don't cut it for me but they are few and far between. The "credit crunch" was never a factor in me seeking good value goods. I have always been a bargain hunter (why does this have bad connotations). So my question is, do you prefer generic brand products or brand name products. Also can you tell us why you have your preference?

EDIT - For anyone that does say they prefer brand quality can you explain why? I find most times they are of very little benefit. There have been studies into generic brands vs brand name brands and for the best part of it (i do know there are exceptions but they are minimal) brand name brands have been shown to have very little benefits over generic brands. So unless you're forking out for something special does it really matter?

Gary4279

cheapo

Biggins

50/50

For things are need to be treated absolutely right, I get the best.
For average items, I try and save a bit where possible.

brummytom

Some things, I prefer cheapo brand (biscuits, for one. The own brand - with the exception of Hob Nobs - are always better than the 'known' ones). Tesco's white chocolate's lovely, too.


Some things, I'd stick to known brands, others not so much. Depends on what I want.

LaughOrDie

I hate spending money on clothes. I'm not a cheap skate but I only buy clothes when absolutely neccessary and when I do its straight to Penneys! As well as being cheap as chips they're the best fit for me. Might spend 90euro on a pair of runners if TkMaxx dont have the same for cheaper.

Cookie_Monster

pretty much cheapo anything except tea and outdoor gear.

stovelid

Both.

Depends on the product or clothing.

MagicMarker

I have my own name.

easyeason3

I usually just buy the stuff that works for me but I have a major problem with painkillers.

Painkillers, no matter what brand you buy they always say 'take two every four hours & do not exceed this' blah blah blah.

FFS I want the pain gone & two ain't gonna cut it, I've often had to double the daily dose & was still left with a tinge of pain.

That pisses me off :mad:

Korvanica

with clothes, they keep me warm and out of jail for public indecency, i dont care whats on them...

other stuff it really depends...

FruitLover

I'll pay money for quality, but only if there's an appreciable difference (i.e. you won't catch me paying double for a pair of jeans just because they have some Italian lad's name on them).

Brand-whores are some of the most pathetic people on the face of the planet.

feckthepeas

I'm definitely not a brand-name person, especially not when it comes to clothes. As for groceries, people have commented on the Tesco own-brand stuff in my bathroom, which surprises me but it suits me and I don't have a huge amount of money to spend on these things.

Sometimes with food it's worth buying things that cost a little more and taste better but for practical things like cleaning products, shower gel etc., it doesn't matter to me and I have more money to spend on important things without wasting my paypacket on a brand name!

owenc

a mix for me.. my mum buys all these clothes out of primark and wallis, like real cheapo shops and then she accesories them and then everyone thinks shes spent hundreds of pounds!

tomtom101

Depends on the situation... If im buying cloths they're always brands, but for the likes of food - they're normally better non-branded!?:D

But I have buyin cheap cloths... Always fork out for them!! :D:D

Jaxxy

Generic for most things with the exception of maybe runners/shoes. Penneys ftw.

vicecreamsundae

depends what. when it comes to things like shampoo and facewash etc, i couldn't care less about brand names. same for cereals, potato waffles, juice, [although, let's face it, tropicana IS best]. though i mostly buy raw ingredients and cook anyway.

but! when it comes to things like ice cream and chocolate... i do it right or i don't do it at all.
this reminds me i have haagendaaz in the fridge.

quick question...the brand name toiletries you can get in the 2 euro store for [you guessed it, 2 euro] - are those legit? i think they are but i know some people think they must be fake/defective/have something wrong with them. thoughts? it's a bit crazy you can get lotions for 2 bucks that are selling for 7 or 8 in the pharmacy right next door.

Seloth

Really only buy Vans/DC/Ethnies/QuickSilver clothes n shoes.

MistyCheese

Em, neither. My name is Misty Cheese. Does that really sound appetising in any brand?

CrazyRabbit

I buy quality only, regardless of brand/no brand. Couldn't care about the cost mostly.

E.g. for food, I just buy what tastes nicest.

SugarHigh

I'm a bad-ass mother-****er with the strength of Hercules, the brains of Einstein and the fps skills of fatal1ty:cool:

Only splash out on jeans and milk..

I_AmThe_Walrus

I wear what makes me feel comfortable.

I hate D&G, Versache and Prada, along with every other 'luxury' brand name. Why must we be accepted into society because of our clothing tastes. It seems to me that people love to show off their wealth regarding clothes and it's sickening. Just because ITEM A costs considerably more than ITEM B, we buy it?

Who are we trying to impress?

Who the hell is Chanel, Armani and Dior anyway? Why do they cost more?
Does that mean that I can create a pair of pants, throw my initials on them, jack up the price and make a fortune just because a pair of pants have two letters on them and their expensive?

It doesn't make sense anymore.

If I had my way, I would strip down to my birthday suit and walk the streets gladly.

EuropeanSon

Brand names. It makes me feel superior to everyone else. :P

PeterIanStaker

Own brand stuff all the way. Except beer.

moonflower

I really hate clothing with the brand name plastered all over it, I don't understand why people pay to advertise a brand. Once I find a brand I like though I tend to stick with it, regardless of whether it's expensive or cheap. Like I have a preferred brand for jeans, a preferred brand for t-shirts but if I found some generic brand doing good jeans I'd still try them out.

Overheal

Im not really a brand label person. Dont like them. Most of the time their clothes are crap. The only thing Ive caught myself putting on and liking are the Dickies tees. Its a simple thing to ask for a t-shirt with a pocket but there you go.

starbelgrade

Deleted User wrote: »

Only splash out on jeans and milk..

You messy boy.

Lando Griffin

Wont wear clothes with the brand scrawled across it, i am not an advertising board for clothing companys. Was casual shopping last weekend and nothing but laughable hidious clothes in the high street shops, one was a peach colour low v neck top with the picture of a male model on it and another selection looked like something you would imagine was worn in the navy. I want mans clothes not these expensive rags. Once again I went home empty handed but unmoved.

gsxr1

i like to run. So I pay for Nike . And use them for running . I believe them to be the best at their job.

but spending 100 euro plus on a pair of jeans or a shirt seems just stupid to me.

Even if I had a million. I would waste money like that.

Pherekydes

I go for generic brand names.

ballsymchugh

easyeason3 wrote: »

I usually just buy the stuff that works for me but I have a major problem with painkillers.

Painkillers, no matter what brand you buy they always say 'take two every four hours & do not exceed this' blah blah blah.

FFS I want the pain gone & two ain't gonna cut it, I've often had to double the daily dose & was still left with a tinge of pain.

That pisses me off :mad:

that'd be down to your body i'm afraid. the take x every y hours with painkillers is so that you don't overload your liver. with antibiotics it's to get a slow build up in your system to a constant plateau over a few days.
i've found sainsbury's ibuprofen to be excellent though. and only 26p for a box of about 20!
actually, mary harney could save the country a fortune if she made it mandatory that all medical card scripts were generic only. there's no feckin difference when it comes to meds apart from the shape and the colour of the tablet or capsule.

as for myself, generic jaffa cakes are a crime. everything else will do!

Tar.Aldarion

cheapy cheap cheap

Jazzy

just like the Wolf, when i buy coffee i want to buy good fuking coffee. i hate fuking about with stuff that just isnt up to standard. expensive yes, worth it though.
that said, i could not give a sh1t about clothes brand names or anything, just food & drink :pac:

Posy

Cheap generic food brands except tea bags (lyons), digestive biscuits (mcvities), cereal (must be kelloggs!). Penneys or Dunnes clothes most of the time, only exception are runners and jeans.

Scarinae

I eat brand-name cereal - supermarket own-brands are usually cardboardy and go soggy quickly. I agree with what someone already said about biscuits, the cheaper ones are usually the same, except for Hobnobs! Although I don't eat a lot of biscuits really

With stuff like clothes, not at all. Once I find that jeans from a certain shop fit me well I will continue to buy them there, because jeans shopping can be a nightmare! Other clothes - not that bothered, I buy what suits me rather than what is in fashion, not interested in designer stuff. With socks, it's Penneys or Dunnes multipacks. For some items it's worth having something well-made that will last, but I certainly wouldn't pay more for a 'label'. If someone judges me that much by what I'm wearing, I'm not interested in being friends with them.

As for things like electronics, I usually try to do some research into what is the best quality, rather than going for what is the most fashionable/advertised

questionmark?

Doesn't matter really clothes wise i find penny jeans fit me the best so i buy them. Cereal wise, Kellogs cornflakes all the way.

Sometimes peoples idea of brand names can be stupid take for example, mr.questionmark? last night was at a session and had brought bottles of Lech only to be meet by the response why are you drinking that cheap ****??? ah it costs 1.79 per bottle ur miller cost about 83cent i.e. its all in the mind for some people oh i havent seeing it on tv so it must be cheap:rolleyes:

DonkeyStyle \o/

It depends on how easy it is to make the product badly.
As ridiculous as some branding is, there are times when it's at least something you can rely on.
For example I got an unknown (to me) brand of mouthwash, thinking "it can't be that hard to get right"... bleurgh, how wrong I was... it made my mouth feel dried out and salty and left a blue film on my tongue, had to brush again to get rid of the crap... the only bottle of mouthwash I've ever directly poured down the drain.

PrettyBoy

Definitely prefer some brand name stuff. Clothes for one thing. Not necessarily getting all my socks in Brown Thomas but I care about how I look and how I present myself. I know some people don't understand why a brand name matters but the name isn't everything. It's the quality, appearance and overall image that goes along with that brand name.

Why get a black Armani shirt for €100 when you can get a black shirt in Penneys for €6?
Why get an iPhone for €300 when you can get a new budget phone for €30?
Why get a new Audi for €50,000 when you can get a used Daewoo on DoneDeal for €500?

They all do the same things at the end of the day.

There's more to it than just the name and it applies to different things for everyone. You can't generalize by just saying brand name and generic.

Pdfile

i buy whatever i like regardless of cost.... Lol jk... my gf-mammy buys all my clothes.

the bolt

ballsymchugh wrote: »

that'd be down to your body i'm afraid. the take x every y hours with painkillers is so that you don't overload your liver. with antibiotics it's to get a slow build up in your system to a constant plateau over a few days.
i've found sainsbury's ibuprofen to be excellent though. and only 26p for a box of about 20!
actually, mary harney could save the country a fortune if she made it mandatory that all medical card scripts were generic only. there's no feckin difference when it comes to meds apart from the shape and the colour of the tablet or capsule.

as for myself, generic jaffa cakes are a crime. everything else will do!

and maybe a bit for r&d just to make sure the are safe....

FlutterinBantam

I bought a load of own brand jocks last year, fcukers had rotted at the crotch after about 4 or 5 wears.Disintegrated almost totally.

No bag support and a pair of wineglow red angry gonads was all I got.


Never again!!

gsxr1

gsxr1 wrote: »

but spending 100 euro plus on a pair of jeans or a shirt seems just stupid to me.

Even if I had a million. I would waste money like that.

I have to say, I got a pair of jeans once that were about 80-90. They didn't have any particular brand, got them in benetton on holiday, but I swear to god they were the best jeans I ever owned. So comfortable and looked really nice. I wore them til they fell apart, which was nearly daily for about a year or two Last pair I obsessed over were from dunnes though.

Nowadays I shop almost entirely in penneys. I can't possibly imagine forking out 30 euro for average okish tops (I'm looking at you, A-wear) when I could get same and about the same quality for much, much less.

For food, quality over brand name please. Except hobnobs maybe. And tea. And icecream...

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Whatever I fancy on the day, I don't go for either brand or non brand goods specifically, I own both.

monkeyfudge

ballsymchugh wrote: »

that'd be down to your body i'm afraid. the take x every y hours with painkillers is so that you don't overload your liver. with antibiotics it's to get a slow build up in your system to a constant plateau over a few days.
i've found sainsbury's ibuprofen to be excellent though. and only 26p for a box of about 20!
actually, mary harney could save the country a fortune if she made it mandatory that all medical card scripts were generic only. there's no feckin difference when it comes to meds apart from the shape and the colour of the tablet or capsule.

I find it very hard to find generic medicine in this country though.

I walked into my local chemist recently and asked for asprin and they genuinely didn't seem to have a clue what I was talking about.

AskMyChocolate

I used to like Ellesse runners and St.Bernard salad cream. Can't seem to find either now.:(

GavRedKing

Gotta gree with most people's opinion and say its kind of 50/50, on one hand im not pushed on what I wear, it doesnt have to be a brand name but every now and then I'll spend a bit on some good clothing and the same applies to non-food stuff like household items and food, it can vary really, doesnt have to be a brand name for everything.

NothingMan

Moved out with the gf 8 months ago and we do pretty much all our shopping in Aldi. So whatever brand food they have does us fine. I actually prefer the Aldi Wheatbisk to Weetabix. Saying that, the supervalu weetabix is cardboard crap.
We do tend to get known brand toothpaste though and even though i've been eating Aldi beans for months they're just not as good as Bachelors so they're can be a difference, whether that's bacause they're better or because I grew up with a certain brand I don't know.

As for clothes I have never been into labels. I was the most easy going teenager ever. My sisters moaning for £100 nikes and I was happy with Dunnes brand runners.

I recently bought a designer shirt. It was €68 and aparently some go getter fashionista named John Rocha made it. He wanted to make this very clear by putting a big white label with his name on the front. The label ruined an otherwise great shirt so I spent 20 mins carefully picking the stitches out of the label. So now noone will know I spent more than I usually would on a shirt, but hey, I look damn good and that's what counts.

nitrogen

PrettyBoy wrote: »

It's the quality, appearance and overall image that goes along with that brand name.

Why get a black Armani shirt for €100 when you can get a black shirt in Penneys for €6?

Picking two items of clothing at polarizing ends of the price scale will more than likely have a difference in quality. But brand alone having better quality over all non-branded products, bollix!

Do you have any idea where all brand named clothing is made and where cheaper garments are manufactured... Loyalty to a clothing brand equates to some very disillusioned sad loser.

monkeyfudge

Actually of all the shirts I have of a wide variety of differing price points the one I seem to get the most compliments about is a €3 one from Pennys.

meditraitor

Alcoholic beverage's is the only thing I will not do on the cheap......

The rest I can live with,

sam34

owenc wrote: »

a mix for me.. my mum buys all these clothes out of primark and wallis, like real cheapo shops and then she accesories them and then everyone thinks shes spent hundreds of pounds!

since when is wallis "real cheapo"?

i know its not designer gear, but i wouldnt have thought people consider it similar to penneys