Big Brand names who are worth the money and deliver great quality products?

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Thanks

pgj2015

G star

Adidas

Panasonic

0gac3yjefb5sv7

Philips also

Feisar

Columbia
Sako
Audi

Pauliedragon

escort ireland.

EmmetSpiceland

Apple.

Apple.

Colonel Claptrap

Brennan's bread

Rows Grower

Leatherman
Ecco
The North Face
Grey's Rods
Shimano
Deerhunter Clothing
Bovril

L1011

Bosch.

Even when stuff does eventually break down, you can get parts for 20+ year old kit easily

Ekerot

Nintendo

Capt'n Midnight

None.

Or rather before going on reputation check if there has been a recent takeover or new CEO and check the reviews of recent products.

Far too many company's biggest asset is the brand which makes the a target for asset strippers and CEO's and shareholders whose interest is a short term return rather than keeping the company solvent.

TommyGun2017

Sony. Found an old walkman recently whilst going through the attic. Lashed a few fresh batteries in and was as good as new

jam_mac_jam

Canon. Love all my cameras i have bought over the years. Sony. Great headphones.

Samsung, maybe not as good as Apple ( I don't like itunes so was always Android ) but I have a 200 quid phone that is fine. Maybe I don't need a more expensive one. Also really like their tablets. Never had a problem with any Samsung product.

nthclare

Patagonia, Century fishing rods, Bellstaff,
Bowers and Wilkinson, Shimano fishing reels, sage fishing rods, Yamaha...

All good quality products and especially the sage fly fishing rods.
You could trash the Sh1t out of them, I do have a gentle cast but I've caught plenty of tree's.
I bought Grey's fly rods and broke two in tree's.

Bellstaff wax jackets are almost bullet proof, I won't review the rest lol

bluefinger

Honda motorbikes are bullet proof

Melanchthon

L1011 wrote: »

Bosch.

Even when stuff does eventually break down, you can get parts for 20+ year old kit easily

I thought it was only Bosch blue tools that were actually real good with the Green stuff being pretty standard. Think Makita and milwaukee tools are the very highly rated brands by the trades (when they think it's not going to get nicked by someone!)

The Tetrarch

Original Penguin

Strumms

Adidas

Samsung

Sony

Ibanez Guitars

French Connection / FCUK

Nissan

Hyundai

Mercedes

KoolKluxKlan

German Bosch appliances are always rock solid, no issues at all.

Apple have done me well too, got 11 years out of a Macbook, purchased a new one last week and the build quality is just blow-away. Their iPads are in a league of their own.

Yale also a great company, have never heard anyone at my work badmouth them.

Strumms

KoolKluxKlan wrote: »

Yale also a great company, have never heard anyone at my work badmouth them.

I went to their Christmas party years ago. I got locked. Tried to get into another place but was turned away.

Rows Grower

nthclare wrote: »

Patagonia, Century fishing rods, Bellstaff,
Bowers and Wilkinson, Shimano fishing reels, sage fishing rods, Yamaha...

All good quality products and especially the sage fly fishing rods.
You could trash the Sh1t out of them, I do have a gentle cast but I've caught plenty of tree's.
I bought Grey's fly rods and broke two in tree's.

Bellstaff wax jackets are almost bullet proof, I won't review the rest lol

You should have availed of their lifetime warranty on the first one.

I've found them a great company to deal with, accidentally broke one of their rods when closing the boot of a car one time. Contacted them and was told to cut the damaged section into 6 inch pieces so it was cheaper to post and enclose a note with my return address.

One week later I had the replacement at no charge and I am still covered for my lifetime with the same rod.

I forgot to mention Vortex as well, they sell rifle scopes, binoculars etc. Top quality stuff. I bought a secondhand Vortex rifles scope from a private seller in the UK. It worked perfectly until I had an accident while out hunting and damaged it, completely my own fault.

Contacted Vortex and told them my predicament, same service, returned broken item and it was replaced with a brand new (actually updated newer) model to what I had bought secondhand.

Their lifetime warranty is not only unconditional but follows the item for life, no receipt or proof of purchase required.

TheValeyard

Miele

Rodney Bathgate

Microsoft

Rodney Bathgate

LEGO (but the year on year price rises means some new sets are not good value)

mooreman09

Weber

TommyGun2017

bluefinger wrote: »

Honda motorbikes are bullet proof

Can vouch for the Honda lawnmowers also. My oul lad bought his in the mid 90s and it just wont die.

harry Bailey esq

TommyGun2017 wrote: »

Sony. Found an old walkman recently whilst going through the attic. Lashed a few fresh batteries in and was as good as new

For most things I'd agree, but I've went through three Experia phones in three years. A joy to use, but the slightest knock and the screen is bollixed

PCeeeee

Baikal.

Feisar

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

LEGO (but the year on year price rises means some new sets are not good value)

I got the Technic Space Shuttle about 25 years ago, it was £127.95. XMas prezzy, I was 11, dunno why the price stuck in my head, maybe it's that it was a right few bob at the time.

What the hell would it go for now?

Rows Grower

Feisar wrote: »

I got the Technic Space Shuttle about 25 years ago, it was £127.95. XMas prezzy, I was 11, dunno why the price stuck in my head, maybe it's that it was a right few bob at the time.

What the hell would it go for now?

The moon?

L1011

Melanchthon wrote: »

I thought it was only Bosch blue tools that were actually real good with the Green stuff being pretty standard. Think Makita and milwaukee tools are the very highly rated brands by the trades (when they think it's not going to get nicked by someone!)

My experience is more in kitchen appliances (and vehicle consumables come to think of it - batteries, blades, bulbs and wipers) than power tools.

I've had a Bosch green corded drill fatally unwind its keyless chuck and the replacement part wasn't worth the cost compared to Lidl's special that week; but at least I could actually replace it if I wanted to. I've a Bosch green heat gun currently; the rest of my power tools are a mix of Lidl specials and whatever was oddly cheap at the time elsewhere; e.g. a Black & Decker saw that uses Bosch-type blades, a no-brander belt sander and an actual Dremel.

tastyt

Barry’s tea

L1011

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

LEGO (but the year on year price rises means some new sets are not good value)

Feisar wrote: »

I got the Technic Space Shuttle about 25 years ago, it was £127.95. XMas prezzy, I was 11, dunno why the price stuck in my head, maybe it's that it was a right few bob at the time.

What the hell would it go for now?

Lego prices generally go up a little every year; but they have not kept pace with inflation in Ireland and absolutely have not kept pace with purchasing power parity here.

A few years ago I did a comparison with the harbour set I got as a Christmas present in 1994 or something - cost £40 in Smyths. €50. The equivalent set in terms of contents, element count and so on at the time cost under €70.

£40 in 1990 was quite a bit of money. Could go on the pints for a week for that more or less. €70 in 2014 or whenever I did that comparison really wasn't the same.

Feisar

Rows Grower wrote: »

The moon?

Well played Sir!

ACitizenErased

Vans. Their shoes last years.

afatbollix

The north face. Makes me feel like I'm on a movie set...

Kitchen aid for the wife, She makes 3 times the amount of cakes as she used too.

Gore-tex Dubarrys, I feel they last about twice as long as the others. To be honest gore tex anything..

Weber BBQs

FanadMan

Winmau dartboards.......if you can get one! They are sold out everywhere recently.

Ipso

PCeeeee wrote: »

Baikal.

The good old double trigger.

Lundstram

O'Neills jerseys. They last yonks.

kowloon

Seems there are a lot of 'prestige' brands about. They may or may not make a nice product but the value of the brand seems to have more to do with it being fashionable or advertising wealth than the product itself.

Seasonic PSUs seem pretty solid and have a good reputation, but it would be pretty lazy just to buy on that alone. I've never had a pair of Danner boots leak on me or have defective workmanship.

GreeBo

Black and decker

Have an old drill and jigsaw that still work fine after 30+ years.

My mum has a fridge made by Ford that is 38 years old and still going strong.

+1 on Miele, I used to include Bosch but I've had some poor appliances in recent years.

My Toyota avensis went for years and over 200k miles and we badly treated.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Jura coffee machines.

Zwilling kitchen knives.

Patagonia, Rab, and Arc’teryx hiking and mountaineering gear. Berghaus used to be a brand of choice, but quality has fallen off a cliff (if you'll pardon a pun).

Microsoft Surface laptops.

Omnifocus personal productivity software.

Kilboor

How have we got this far without anyone mentioning the king of brands:

Coca-Cola

Nothing comes close.

kowloon

Kilboor wrote: »

How have we got this far without anyone mentioning the king of brands:

Coca-Cola

Nothing comes close.

It was much better when it was sold as medicine.

L1011

GreeBo wrote: »

Black and decker

Have an old drill and jigsaw that still work fine after 30+ years.

They sell off the brand name for some budget crap now though - B&D of 30 years ago is not them now.

That said, my Turkish rebadge "Black and Decker" steam mop does is job fine; but it sure as hell isn't what the brand was meant to be,

the immortals

Fender

GreenandRed

Huawei.

On my second phone also have a Huawei tablet. Great products for a lovely price.

GreeBo

Kilboor wrote: »

How have we got this far without anyone mentioning the king of brands:

Coca-Cola

Nothing comes close.

Pepsi

AIRMiNet

Fairy

GreenandRed

GreenandRed wrote: »

Huawei.

On my second phone also have a Huawei tablet. Great products for a lovely price.

My last phone was a Huawei and it lasted 3 years. It was still working fine when I upgraded, but it was just a bit beaten looking and I had gotten all I possibly could out of the 16GB of memory by that stage. Had a pain in my ass constantly deleting stuff.

I'm now 8 months into owning my second Huawei phone, so far so good.