1. schoolfriend's dad
2. work colleague (whose redlines I babysat while he was overseas)
3. another work colleague
4. another work colleague's father-in-law (they gave me the estate beogram)
5. a friend's aunt (that estate gave me a complete 70s' system)
6. and all you guys

hi,

this is an interesting thread. i live in b'bay (india). the story pretty much the same is however much in amplitude. brand saliency itself was absent among my peer groups, though not any longer and the source of recall now in all probability 99%C.I would be attibutable to me.  

people think that i am eccenteric and apparently have other sources of income (given my job-profile of being a researcher in nielsen). i just reply back to them -- i buy the product not the price! 

that said i would be worried if one of my peers actually end up owning one as the exclusivity would be diluted. 

cheers

pattabhi

Come on ! I  live in Serbia 🙂 Think of that ....

4 years ago we get official B&O store in Belgrade, I live in Novi Sad 80km north ..., before that no one knows about B&O ...

Funnily enough, no other medical students I know own B&O. Of my peers from school and university first time around, no one owns B&O either, though they all have nice cars etc. I don't think us Brits understand quality design as well as our European neighbours - which is a shame :(

I know of people who have B&O but no one I know personally which is a shame because it would be nice to know someone. My family think I am a bit nuts but thats ok, don't mind 😁

What I think we don't realise is there are lots of people out there who have never heard of B&O!! They usually are very impressed though once they see one of their products!

j0hnbarker wrote:

I don't think us Brits understand quality design as well as our European neighbours - which is a shame :(

But GB is the biggest market for B&O!

A few of my friends (the arty ones working in fashion etc.) have bought theirs after seeing mine and appreciating the design, sound and picture - my 72yo neighbour has an Avant and the other neighbour has an LX4500, MX3500 VCR and Beocenter 7002 with Beovox S45's. Another friend has a BM5500 with Pentas plugged into an iPod and an MX6000 - all bought from Lee and another an MX7000, BC3000 and BL4000 - they've all bought B&O Phones too!. It's actually quite nice as we can talk about how great B&O is and know how to use each others TV and Audio! I've bought my 7 year old nephew a BC7700 for when he gets older - right now he's into Vinyl on the Hacker record player I had as a kid. It is odd though how everyone has gone for the older B&O rather than newer but then it is much cheaper and better than buying something different new for the same price.

I do get comments though from others (techies) who see it as overpriced and cannot understand why i would buy a second hand RF Avant and DVD1 instead of a High Def TV with Blue ray for the same price - but then they have 5 or 6 remote controlls on their table and no beolink.

Here in Bath (UK) there's quite a lot of B&O kit in various houses. My landlords a have quite a bit of B&O kit, although with recent sw issues that they've experienced, they've vowed not to buy any new kit :(

Problem is, everyone I know down here who owns B&O is technically naive, 45+ and has more money than sense. ie. they are the kind of people who can't be bothered to do any homework, walk in to the local store and spend £10,000 on a TV and this won't concern them at all!

Well, in my close entourage no one owns a B&O product. Altough they all find many B&O products to be beautiful and well designed, they cannot conceive the fact of spending that much of money when one can have a decent flat screen for a fraction of the B&O price. At that point, I prefer not to discuss this subject any longer and just change the conversation 😕

Meantime, they may not understand the importance for us to have a product that generates visual and tactile emotions 😐 but that's OK for me then. I live my own life and let them appreciate their products.

Cheers,

Guy