http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/totally-crap/crap-175-robot-girlfriend-and-349-robot-dinosaur/ Over Four Years of Personal Finance, Consumer Spending, Crazy Products and Boring Blog Posts. Good grief. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:11:09 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/totally-crap/crap-175-robot-girlfriend-and-349-robot-dinosaur/comment-page-1/#comment-140006 Crowman Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:44:12 +0000 http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/totally-crap/crap-175-robot-girlfriend-and-349-robot-dinosaur/#comment-140006 The robotic dinosaur is actually a good example of why Sharper Image failed. Sharper Image made its mark by selling exclusive and really cool crap. It was crap, but the kind of super cool crap that calls to you to buy it. By selling stuff like the Rip Stik, a good but commonly available product, they lost exclusivity. By selling stuff like robo dino, they lost the coolness. In essence, the became an overpriced purveyor of plain old crap. The robotic dinosaur is actually a good example of why Sharper Image failed. Sharper Image made its mark by selling exclusive and really cool crap. It was crap, but the kind of super cool crap that calls to you to buy it. By selling stuff like the Rip Stik, a good but commonly available product, they lost exclusivity. By selling stuff like robo dino, they lost the coolness. In essence, the became an overpriced purveyor of plain old crap.

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