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ARCHIVED FORUM -- April 2007 to March 2012 READ ONLY FORUM
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1st March February 2012
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Well said Mr Tounedos. Voice of reason in a muddled, woolly headed thread.
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[quote user="Jonathan"] I think Dkatz is just a snob, pure and simple... [/quote] Snob or otherwise, it seems he has seen and experienced an awful lot of designer items, brands and retailers ( not to mention the numerous factory visits round Europe !!) in the his first eight years of adulthood. I say first eight years, as he describes himself
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There are some very rose-tinted views of the West compared to the rest of the world here. I just don't undertsand the hostility here amongst some to the whole importing/outsourcing/subb-brand issue. Perhaps being a comfortable 20/30 something on the west insulates people from how the world is for most people. Having the time to be so familiar with
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[quote user="Dkatz"] You have to remember Moxxey that the UK is a democratic country, has been for ages. The fact that the Union Workers can rise up at all is a statement that it is a free country. In China if workers did that they would get fired. If they complained about the government, etc... they would be put in Jail. Britain hasn't
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[quote user="moxxey"]I do love the way Westerners live in their ivory towers.....We invade, we overrule, we talk about working conditions, yet conveniently forget our own history.[/quote] Indeed moxxey - I said something very similar way back on Page 2. The West is in for a rude wake up call, imo - with a pincer movement of pressure - one
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£50 too much = haggle a bit.
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Just out of interest....when you r shiny new Aston MArtin has this fitted http://www.bang-olufsen.com/aston-martin Have you got a bespoke, hand made auto - or something fitted with outsourced components, produced partly in the far east ??
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[quote user="Dkatz"] in terms of Audio equipment however and that has always been more expensive than those mainstream brands as I mentioned and haven't gone up in price as much as the TVs have[/quote] [quote user="Dkatz"]the point is that besides TVs most of the B&O equipment hasn't gone up in price as I stated with
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[quote user="Puncher"] Maybe a personal slanging match should be taken offline! [/quote] I don't agree. Whilst there may heve been a few digs & jibes, it's an interesting discussion based around some opposing views. I think the political/social undertones behind some of the statements add to the debate.
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[quote user="henrik"][quote user="Bentleyman"] So, i'm afraid that your claim that B&O having never been beyond the reaches of 'ordinary people' is, quite simply, incorrect. Bang and Olufsen have historically always been a brand that only the rich or 'very comfortably off' could afford easily. More middle
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