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Biggest consumable flop
What is the biggest product flop that you have seen in your lifetime? This got brought up this afternoon, and I was trying to think of similar products.
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Re: Biggest consumable flop
NEW Coke
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Re: Biggest consumable flop
Wasn't New Coke a bigger flop than Crystal Pepsi?
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[/ QUOTE ] Way too soon to determine that, but in the same light the Dreamcast was a HUGE flop. |
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i can imagine it will be hard to actually beat crystal pepsi and new coke....
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[/ QUOTE ] PS3 is the biggest seller in Europe. |
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The smokeless cigarette.---I think it was a RJR product.
From the show I saw on it...it smelled and tasted so bad...that one of the execs made up a motto..."tastes like [censored] and smells like a fart" |
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Microsoft Bob
Also see the list of top 21 tech flops: http://www.computerworld.com/action/arti...urce=rss_news50 |
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BetaMax, FTW
New Coke was a disaster of gargantuan proportions, compared to Crystal Pepsi. Coca-Cola had pretty much mortgaged the future on it, and it wasn't just that it didn't sell (which is what happened to Crystal Pepsi). Rather, people actively hated on it and left the Coke company for different brands, it was the butt of jokes on the news for months, etc. Crystal Pepsi simply made no dent in the marketplace, and Pepsi didn't try to *replace* Pepsi with it, as Coke had tried to do. Jury will be out on PS3 for a while. It's not the product that's a failure, it's simply at a horrible price point compared to the competition. (But then, that's also kinda what started BetaMax down the road to oblivion too, come to think of it.) |
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