Porsche - Bike for kids

• Arapahoe

  5 Jun 10, 12:46

  Saw this article in WSJ now we trained our kids " Branding " 

   wonder if it is available in Singapore.....

  http://shop4.porsche.com/uk/kids/toys/wap04006017/

   

  city		US$
  London		180
  Frankfurt		219
  Rome		220
  NY		238
  HK		270
  Manila		366
  Shanghai		382
  JKT		487
  Tokyo		655

• elindra

  5 Jun 10, 12:56

  -_-" Why would anyone want to pay so much for a bike which the kid will grow out of in a year or 2 or maybe even less

• Arapahoe

  5 Jun 10, 13:01

  Alright not for the kids how about for yourself............

  Check out these range.....

   http://www.porsche-bike.net/

• elindra

  5 Jun 10, 13:03

  Originally posted by Arapahoe:

  Alright not for the kids how about for yourself............

  Check out these range.....

   http://www.porsche-bike.net/

  
  Nope I'll be paying for the brand not the bike

  Plus. it's not like I cycle very often it will just be a white elephant at home

• LOTUSfairy

  5 Jun 10, 23:06

  i missed cycling...

• the Bear

  5 Jun 10, 23:11

  for people with way too many dollars and not enough sense

• Arapahoe

  6 Jun 10, 13:59

  actually if you look carefully at the price only Asia got explioted by Branding....

  Europe and US pricing are similar at 200 bucks, only when it crosses into this region price rose to 300 - 655. At the end of the day who to blame.....?  Asian "Face"

    

   

• Kawac151

  6 Jun 10, 14:26

  Originally posted by LOTUSfairy:

  i missed cycling...

  Go rent a bicycle lar. If you don have one.

• ShrodingersCat

  9 Jun 10, 08:24

  Don't get buying branded clothes for kids too..

• the Bear

  9 Jun 10, 08:26

  Originally posted by ShrodingersCat:

  Don't get buying branded clothes for kids too..

  
  i don't understand branded clothes at all...

  or anything...

• Arapahoe

  9 Jun 10, 08:28

  In Asia Brand equal to "Face" value..... : )

  In Jane Austin stories the woman conversation so focus on match married to weathly person with X amount of sterling Pounds per year.  

• the Bear

  9 Jun 10, 08:30

  Originally posted by Arapahoe:

  In Asia Brand equal to "Face" value..... : )

   

  
  that's even more absurd...

  but then, i've an office full of people who are obsessed with brand-name things... and i'm the office pariah for telling it like it is when they ask me.. they've stopped asking me 

• the Bear

  9 Jun 10, 08:34

  Jane Austin's books are like the victorian pulp romances...

  the critics got it wrong by saying they "speak for the time" and all that shit.. but ultimately, they're shallow and pointless pulp romances just like the crappy Mills and Goons or whatever the hell romance books they have now...

  frankly, these books and the women's magazines which extoll the "virtues" of materialism have a lot to answer for by dumbing down their readers and filling their brains with a lot of crap

• Arapahoe

  9 Jun 10, 08:50

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  
  that's even more absurd...

  but then, i've an office full of people who are obsessed with brand-name things... and i'm the office pariah for telling it like it is when they ask me.. they've stopped asking me 

  
  The notion of brands ---- to associate with / or reflection of / ----  certain lifestyle perharps enhance differentiation of identity is a mark of attracting the member of the opposite sex for procreation.

  See at the end of the day it is still about Penis and Virginal grow in the brain. Or maybe it is the reverse. brain grow inside Genitals.

   

• ShrodingersCat

  9 Jun 10, 08:53

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  
  i don't understand branded clothes at all...

  or anything...

  I can understand branded clothes if the brand is known for say ... very unique designs, those haute couture stuff or fantastic workmanship like.. uhh.. abestos clothing or special material for special functions...

  I can't understand branded clothes T-shirts (like duh) or jeans or generic clothings

• the Bear

  9 Jun 10, 08:56

  i'll never understand anyone who wants to pay a month's wages or more for a handbag 

• Arapahoe

  9 Jun 10, 09:02

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  Jane Austin's books are like the victorian pulp romances...

  the critics got it wrong by saying they "speak for the time" and all that shit.. but ultimately, they're shallow and pointless pulp romances just like the crappy Mills and Goons or whatever the hell romance books they have now...

  frankly, these books and the women's magazines which extoll the "virtues" of materialism have a lot to answer for by dumbing down their readers and filling their brains with a lot of crap

  Ha.....if there is a consipration theory from Harold this would be the one....Jane works for Harold ......Go shopping.

  They probably made the wrong observation.....they should have noted that the women at that "time" learned the wrong skill sets instead of clerical skills the women learned to sew, knit, sing, play string instrument, and read poems.

  But again todays women that work in the offices also spend their monies in Harold so i am not sure it will changed much......

   

   

   

• ShrodingersCat

  9 Jun 10, 09:06

  Originally posted by the Bear:

  i'll never understand anyone who wants to pay a month's wages or more for a handbag 

  I agree with this. Unless of course.. you are a minimum wage earner doing a part time job............. . then.. Hmmm.. it doesn't make sense either!

   

• elindra

  9 Jun 10, 10:48

  David Gan paid S$100k for a Hermes Crocodile Birkin Bag

• the Bear

  9 Jun 10, 11:57

  Originally posted by elindra:

  David Gan paid S$100k for a Hermes Crocodile Birkin Bag

  
  but then, David Gan is an idiot

• Gedanken

  9 Jun 10, 12:00

  Hey, wahddaya ya know - Porsche finally made something without a flat-six.

  The branding's not only over-the-top for the market, it's also well behind the times  - Peugeot's been making bikes for donkey's ages.