WSJ:The Top Five Product Flops of 2013-Can You Believe It? ObamaCare #4! LOL!

Wall Street Journal ^ | January 2, 2014 | Jim Jelter

[lbryce]

For every hot product launch in 2013, there has also been a high-profile launch that was a miserable failure. MarketWatch's Jim Jelter takes a look at the top five of the flops.

[lbryce]

As I was watching the video, I was thinking that I would post it and then rhetorically ask, Where's ObamaCare? I nearly fell out of my chair when the failure of Number 4 turned out to be God's answer to my prayers!

[Wayne07]

The list for the curious:

1: Wii U
2: Lululemon Yogapants
3: Blackberry Q10
4: Obamacare
5: HP Chrome 11 Laptop

[Drew68]

2: Lululemon Yogapant

Ah, yes. The see-through yoga pants.

People really should kept quiet about this one!

[GeronL]

ugh

[lbryce]

Any product with a name like Weee-Yooooo doesn’t quite ring right with me.

[Windflier]

ugh

Now look what ya done, Drew. You done gone and grossed out Geron. Tsk, tsk.

[VerySadAmerican]

Pictures? Or would they make me vomit?

[bigbob]

I hadn’t even heard of the first two, and already knew Blackbery was toast before this last attempt. The HP 11 reminded me of the really funny Microsoft ad on TV where the girl tries to hock her Chromebook but the “Pawn Stars” won’t give her squat for it because “it’s not a real laptop because it doesn’t have Office or Windows”.

So that really just leaves Obamacare, the all time weener and champeen looser...

[Kozak]

Well I did read the stores had a policy of hiding or not stocking larger sizes to discourage er, certain body types from shopping there....

[Kozak]

http://www.crappystocks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/lulu-see-thru-yoga-pants-1.jpg

[Right Wing Assault]

Thank you for the list.

Why can’t they just give a list and then, if we want to spend 4 minutes watching a video, then we can do that.

[ExCTCitizen]

Blackberry Q10 is on the list, but the Telsa is not? Q10 is nice and so is a Chomebook.

[Carry_Okie]

2: Lululemon Yogapants

There are rules you know.

[VerySadAmerican]

I’m glad about your post #9. I’d hate to see Moochelle in a pair of those.

[tet68]

On that chick they look good, on Michele not so much.

[lbryce]

The Chromebook was as very popular item but considered a failure not because of the product itself which was very highly regarded but because it was subject to a product recall as a result of chargers having exploded, burst into flames. The Chromebook is expected to be reintroduced once the problems are resolved.