Swarovski-bedazzled Nespresso Coffee Maker
By Joshua Fruhlinger 
posted Apr 6th 2008 1:40PM
posted Apr 6th 2008 1:40PM
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WOuld you like an "Iced" coffee?
The cool thing is that the grounds match my mink sink...
I know today is Sunday and all.
BUT OH COME ON!
Please post something that is decent and worth to read about.
If you have something, the tips button is...somewhere...
if you know today is sunday, then why are you complaining?
How pointless.
Let them rich folk feel better about themselves.
I would deliver a swift, firm kick to the crotch of any individual that purchased this diamond encrusted profanity.
I have nothing against people working hard for their money and then treating themselves to nice things. This is however utterly, utterly pointless. It adds nothing to the coffee in any way whatsoever and think of the good the money spent on this polished turd could do, for charities e.t.c. People are dying all over the world due to terrible conditions, famine and wars. The companies that make these products should be ashamed. The sad thing is, they wouldn't make them if people wouldn't buy them.
Society is going down the toilet... a solid platinum toilet with a solid diamond handle, flushed with the melting water of the polar ice caps.
Nice post.
I think i'ld buy that toilet though. Not for the platinum this and diamond that.. but just to see the melting water go down the drain
It's not like they even are diamonds. They're just bits of bloody glass. Little bits of glass. $4000 for some bits of glass! This whole "encrusted with Swarovski" nonsense has got to stop.
Wow, what a combo, diamonds and coffee. But will it grind?
Can you unleash hthe screams of the tortured slave children picking coffee beans for the 'free world' and top it off with the blood diamonds of their dead parents?
Sounds like a great buy!
Bling! Bling! but does the coffee taste good?
But does it make scones?
No?
Eff that noise then...
Just to clear things up...there are NO diamonds on this thing, they are crystals, Swarovski only sells crystals...if those were diamonds it would be worth much MUCH more.
Obviously, this thing is hideous and superfluous and useless and [insert many more negative adjectives here], but just thought I'd clear that up.
+1 accuracy bonus to you my good sir.
good lord that's tacky...
I need this.
The sad part about this product is you can pick up a non-bedazzled version for $299 retail! Perhaps they will double my order if I call in now?!?!
Just 2,000 iced coffees and it will have paid for itself...
nobody cares
You seem to act as though this is something new, like it hasn't been going on for thousands of years, and as if you personally are doing something about it in lieu of sitting on your fancy computing device with your big-wig electricity and food...
You may be a hottie - but don't you dare pick on my Endgadget activists
(even if we are only changing the world one comment at a time! )
And for the record - I sit on my "fancy computing device with your big-wig" on only when my laptop has been very, very bad.
who sits on their computing devices? sounds like a good way to break your computer
What have you all done for the poor tortured starving children today? Why are you sitting around complaining that other people aren't doing something. Just becuase rich people have money doesn't make them bastards...If you all wanted to you could go out and raise 1 million dollars for the poor starving children. IF you wanted to.
Hypocrites
I'll cut straight to the point.
Your Arguement = flawed
Ok, ok you make one remotely valid point; us complaining about the coffee machine is not helping. Well, I don't know about you, but I regularly donate to charity.
Listen. My main arguement is that companies that make NORMAL products with UTTERLY USELESS features such as CRYSTALS that make NO IMPROVEMENT to the function of said product (in this case the coffee) and the people that buy these products, are STUPID.
The companies are greedy and the people have more money than sense and in my opinion, bad taste, although seeing as this is my opinion, is totally irrelevant to the argument and you should disregard it.
At the end of the day, I try to state things from an unbiased point of view. Having thought about it just now, reading your comment (and blocking out the hostitlity in it) I realised that the trainers and clothes I'm wearing now are branded.
You could easily argue that my Nike trainers are no better than this coffee machine. And, my good sir, you are CORRECT.
In our everyday lives, many of us do not think about the impact of things such as this. We are all (rightfully) bashing this coffee machine for the reasons stated. However, I'm sure many of us are wear clothes that were produced in sweatshops without realiseing/thinking about it. (Although I cannot accurately state this as I clearly do not know the clothing habits of any one but myself).
In summary, your point is valid, though there was no need for the 'superior attitude' in which you stated it.
However, what many of us and myself are saying is still true, and our fundamental arguement still remains totally valid and your comment did nothing to void the validity of our views, which are, in summary:
This coffee machine is unecessary and a waste of money.
And that's all there is to it.
Juat because this is nothing new does not give people any less of a right to rightfully condone such things does it?
I fail to see how the foundation of your arguement holds up, unless I'm missing something?
Damn. 'Juat' = Just.
You probably didn't need this info, but just in case. :)
Yep, that sure sounds like a good business model - so if you want to get rich here's the recipe:
1. Buy Nespresso Le Cube machine for around 170 €
2. Buy 3100 adhesive Swarovski crystals - 1400 cost around 40€, so 100€ should do the trick
3. Stick them on
4. Find a person with more money than brains and have them pay 2500€ for your hideous 270€ creation.
I just hope people will eventually get tired of all that bling, it hurts my eyes...
I really dont know what children that pick coffee beans you speak of, at least in 2 of the biggest producers (Colombia and Brazil), but maybe in some africans and asian countries... Anyway, as a gadget, that machine completely sucks, shame on anyone who buys that.
stupid reply system...
Come on, everybody knows rich people don't buy iced out Swarovski bullshit. This is for the people that want to lóók rich. The dumb people that love to show off with overpriced bullshit. The same people that think that big goldenearrings and necklaces make you look rich. On their wall, they problably have a paintbrushed image of a dolphin jumping out of the ocean at night.
if you want to stop people from buying crap like this
we really need to get money away from the stupid
This is for people that live in trailer parks, but won the lottery.
Never mind the bling.
Making you coffee from overpriced proprietary capsules = fail.
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There once was a Hilton named Paris
Who cried “Folgers ain’t fit for *this* heiress!”
Now some pumps from her Bently
Tiara’d intently
Make latte--that’s fit for Chuck Barris*
*Wacky over the top host of the 80’s kitschy klassic, The Gong Show
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Yea, because electricity, food, and a $500 PC are just as useless as a $4000 jewel covered coffee maker.
is not the money that makes them bastards
is how they got it in the first place
and its what makes you
the stupid we have to get the money away from
Well, since they still haven't fixed the single/double quote code issue, who knows if this reply will go to the right place. But while I agree with the sentiment of 'this is superfluous/ugly crap', it also goes beyond that... the rationale of the logic here is that the people who make Swavorski crystals (and people that adorn things with them) have less of a right to an income and livelihood than someone who, say, makes a 'necessary' item.
My point is that either you think that the people who make and adorn things with crap like this are entitled to their profession and livelihood or not. If you don't think anyone should be able to make a living off of luxury items, arts/crafts, or the like, then throw away everything else someone has designed, created, or crafted too, and keep helping to ensure that no one ever dares try to bring any art or beauty into the world again!
+1 good counter arguement ability to you.
every day stupid rich people are just killing our world with useless creations like this piece of shit
If you're stupid enough to buy this, well you deserve to have it :-p
My coffee machine makes an excellent espresso and isn't at all shiny
This is the last post of the day for me, i'm sleepy, i need to go to bed!
First things first, if you read through what i wrote you would realise that you WERE NOT
Ok. At the end of the day, my side of the arguement boils down and purifies to OPINION.
Chicksta, we both clearly disagree on a number of levels. At the end of the day it seems we are arguing over the fact of whether or not wealthy people have the right to buy this type of stuff. And the answer is:
off course they do. They have every right to purchase this with their money that they worked for.
The second arguement is whether or not the manufacture has any right to make this coffee machine:
off course they do. it's not breaking any rules, it's a perfectly legal coffee machine with a design change.
Most of us scorn the people that buy this and dislike the manufacturer for producing it.
And people such as yourself defend the right of the manufacturer's to produce such items and off course the right of other people to buy them.
Both arguements above on both sides are fair game. However, my arguement is based on opinion, an opinion shared by most readers on this site.
Your arguement is based on fact; the fact that people have the rights to buy such an item.
You therefore 'win' due to the fact that your ammunition is cold hard fact, mine is opinion, albeit an opinion which most of us agree with, but opinion nontheless.
And that ladies and gentleman, is the end; We may accept facts, but we sure as well don't have to agree with them.
Well, since unfortunately you seem to think that I was for some reason replying/responding to you, I'll just say that you're wrong on your interpretation of what I am saying in terms of my 'opinion'. People are entitled to have their own opinions of art, beauty, and so on, and to that end, I do think the facts are that they have the right to that opinion. It's one thing to make fun of things that other people may like or enjoy just because our tastes differ (and I certainly don't like this coffee thing from a design sense)... but thinking that someone shouldn't be able to enjoy luxury items because money would be 'better spent' on something else is basically saying that everyone's values and tastes and priorities should be exactly the same, and I disagree with that premise.
And yes, I am going to overlook your constant insistence of thinking that the majority opinion constitutes any (non)validity to anyone else's opinion. And if you don't want to accept facts, then people, by all means, go out and change them!
for crying out loud. this reply system is doing my head in. i did do the 'click on thread date and time thing' and its still in the wrong place!!
Apolgies.
With that name, it ought to have a little LCD screen in it so you can play Nintendo games while you wait for your drink.
Where are they now?
HAL -- Starbucks Barista
I presume this would create a new version of that old adage: "Putting Swarovski crystals on a pig."
Damn. I just pressed the enter key by accident. proof that i'm sleepy!
First of all Chicksta i didn't mean to reply there, but thanks for your attempt at a 'put down'.
Second of all if you read my mini essay again you'll notice that I stated that you WERE NOT using opinion, I stated I was!
Lastly, and I mean it, (I'm going to bed now!) Once again if you read my post again, you would see that I didn't REJECT the fact, I juct Chose not to LIKE the facts.
Over and out.
Attempt at a put-down? If for some reason I was insecure and lame enough to feel a need to put someone down, I wouldn't need an 'attempt', I would just do it. No put-downs were intended nor harmed in my post.
But now I see the real issue: it's just someone who can't hold a conversation intelligently, so they mis-read (since I was, in fact, using an opinion), misinterpret (on so many levels), ironically attempt a put-down by stating that I attempted a put-down, and then run away. Now, was that an attempt at a put-down, a put-down, an opinion, or fact? I'm going for the latter two myself.
@Esat Dedezade
fucking stop preaching for Christ sake what the hell? Please go become a minister or something so other people can listen to you dribble on about how bad the world is.
Your right, I did go on for too much.
Its just that when people post things in a hostile or 'putting down others' manner, it really annoys me and i feel i have to respond.
if they posted what they wanted to say in a normal manner, then i would have no problem.
Are you guys sure this isn't just a picture of the first boss from Contra?
people who are calling them diamonds..
THEY ARE CRYSTALS.. Swarovski makes CRYSTALS... not diamonds
Wow... it is amazing that a conversation is getting so heated over a esspresso machine... not to be insulting but rather a suggestion... grow up. It doesn't really matter what is made by companies, fact is, it might not even sell, and they might have them made with no one to buy them. Or if someone has worked hard for their money, what does it matter what they do with it, if it makes them happy. You cannot dictate what others do with their money just because you feel self-rightous and better than them for not buying something.
so pedophiles buying children in foreign countries is okay with you?
can i play Doom on it?
Swarovski have just proven that they know nothing at all about good coffee - A nespresso machine? Bad enough that the bling factor just looks tacky, but to put that on a machine that uses stale coffee pods?
Sigh.
I'd wipe my ass with that!