Great 'disguised Own Brand' Hunt.

sillywilly

wiganshale wrote: »

One thing, which has irritated me, is a number of " I like Tesco xxxxx's , they are simply delicious". These may be genuine comments but they are not helpful and they are highly suspicious.
If people could be trusted, then a new thread where various brands of washer were listed, would be useful.
As someone mentioned "Which" can only sample a small number of machines and they have to use the ones supplied, but different people are expressing opposing views on the same models.
Perhaps if readers could add a "5 years and still running" for each model, we could get a big enough sample to do some number crunching for objective rather than subjective comparisons. Even a comparison of named manufacturer's might be useful.

Your posts remind me of that bit in Gavin and Stacey where Alison Steadman says "What you said just then - it was really boring"!

It is so suspicious that people are vouching for a product. You are right, Tescos want to sell even more value beans cos they make so much profit on these items they have teams of people whose sole job it is to trawl Internet forums bigging up the product.

Get real

soldierboy001

DCFC79 wrote: »

Anyone confirm for me whether grundig and goodmans freeview boxes are made by the same firm, the 2 look similar in terms of where the ports are on the back, the black top case and where the logo is on the top case

Yes the grundig and goodmans freeview and freesat receiver and PVR's are the same

willinilli

hi, new on here, so fingers crossed. i used to work in a meat factory years ago, and know the same meat went down the lines and all that changed was the labels, the same meat for shop own to premium,

mippy

From the list posted:

"Apparently YSL+Clinique 50ml pure perfume Opium cost £120 cost to produce £5

Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturiser £15 Water, sesame seed oil,
mineral oil and colourants. Cost around 40p."

This is irrelevant. The cost of perfume and moisturiser - as with almost any consumer good - covers much more than raw ingredients. Your mobile phone probably cost pennies to produce (including the cost of child labour if that's an Apple or Nokia product) Particularly with luxury goods where packaging is a big part of the product - people are less likely to buy Chanel perfume in a plain glass vial.

Also, perfume requires a great deal of chemistry and expertise to produce which will put prices up as companies want to recoup costs for 'noses'.

One good way to check on perfume 'quality' is on Basenotes.com. You can look up a favourite scent, then click the name of the perfumer and see what other fragrances they've had a hand in formulating. It may be possible that there are other - even cheaper- brands you may like there.

DCFC79

learning_to_drive wrote: »

Or they could be filled twice as often because it sells twice as quickly? A lot of the offers are 2 for or BOGOF where people take two rather than one?

Sometimes, the top top offers are loss leaders, meaning the company loses money but relies on you picking up the rest of your shop there so they do make profit on the other lines that you purchase. Its used to get people into store.

theres been 2 programs on recently about the location of low priced food and they are always on the bottom shelf or top shelf and items the retailer wants you to buy are at eye level eg special offers but as having worked in retail the special offer items arent moved to a higher/lower shelf in its normal location

thisuseridistakenagain

i was very excited today to pull the label off my 75p 'Pure' night serum from BM to find a boots botanics label underneath.

I've had a it a while, and even though i normally love botanics stuff, ive been trying to 'use up' this cheap and nasty one! lol

i wonder if ill like it more now i know its actually botanics..... probably!! haha

Thanks to whoever spotted that one.

thisuseridistakenagain

LG make the screens and internal parts for all Sony TV's Sony just make the surround.

So if you fork out more for a sony TV you are really just buying an LG, which are cheaper in the first place.

My Oh works with Sony and found this out last week.

chrisaj

mippy wrote: »

From the list posted:

"Apparently YSL+Clinique 50ml pure perfume Opium cost £120 cost to produce £5

Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturiser £15 Water, sesame seed oil,
mineral oil and colourants. Cost around 40p."

This is irrelevant. The cost of perfume and moisturiser - as with almost any consumer good - covers much more than raw ingredients. Your mobile phone probably cost pennies to produce (including the cost of child labour if that's an Apple or Nokia product) Particularly with luxury goods where packaging is a big part of the product - people are less likely to buy Chanel perfume in a plain glass vial.

Also, perfume requires a great deal of chemistry and expertise to produce which will put prices up as companies want to recoup costs for 'noses'.

One good way to check on perfume 'quality' is on Basenotes.com. You can look up a favourite scent, then click the name of the perfumer and see what other fragrances they've had a hand in formulating. It may be possible that there are other - even cheaper- brands you may like there.

When you buy your'designer' fragrances over the counter, you're paying 2500% over what you should be paying :eek: Who pays for the celebrity endorsements, glossy mag adversts, tv adverts, perfume counters etc.....................you do

mum2one

Slighty off track - but related to supermarkets and location ofproducts.

Generally the expensive brands / branded products are at eye level as they want their products to be seen 1st, the cheaper value, aim more at the bottom shelves so people don't have to bend down.

Certain companies - will employ mystery shop companies - to go and see that their products are located in the correct places, some of this visits the "person" will do them as a proper visit, - ie speak to manager, have id badge, other ocassions they go in as a customer and are expected to take photographs of a certain product and the area surrounding it on a mobile phone (so it looks like their texting.

They pay to have their products in a premium position, and espically if there is an offer say 2 for £2.50..... they expect their to be advertising at every avenue, whereas the retailer may have the product in its normal position, but also on end of an aisle
One company in particular has had problems with certain batches of their products so rather than do a national recall, they conduct a "company" who then contacts their mystery shoppers with details of the products and date codes to buy..... it was once leaked to Watchdog who did a story of it.

How I know above- I've done it.....

Dotty13

mum2one wrote: »

Slighty off track - but related to supermarkets and location ofproducts.

Generally the expensive brands / branded products are at eye level as they want their products to be seen 1st, the cheaper value, aim more at the bottom shelves so people don't have to bend down.

Certain companies - will employ mystery shop companies - to go and see that their products are located in the correct places, some of this visits the "person" will do them as a proper visit, - ie speak to manager, have id badge, other ocassions they go in as a customer and are expected to take photographs of a certain product and the area surrounding it on a mobile phone (so it looks like their texting.

They pay to have their products in a premium position, and espically if there is an offer say 2 for £2.50..... they expect their to be advertising at every avenue, whereas the retailer may have the product in its normal position, but also on end of an aisle
One company in particular has had problems with certain batches of their products so rather than do a national recall, they conduct a "company" who then contacts their mystery shoppers with details of the products and date codes to buy..... it was once leaked to Watchdog who did a story of it.

How I know above- I've done it.....

So thats what its for. I've been sent the emails but have never managed to nab one, cos I'm not quick enough! Now I know....;)