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So he's been on the other side of the divide between the brand name and the off-brand.

The lesson: Be extra careful if you buy off-brand.

There are still a few potential gotchas to beware of, especially in the cheaper off-brand boards.

He claims a new spot on the street from some off-brand muppets that harass tourists.

Maybe they were an obscure off-brand, or maybe the guy was slick enough to have used a knife to change the tread pattern.

I pointed out that the name of the off-brand was almost indistinguishable from the word Minolta the way they were scrawled on the slip.

Maybe I'll get a deal with some off-brand or something that sells at Walmart or something.

In addition, he observed, "Either the production consumed Harris, the writing failed him, or he picked a very strange night to go off-brand."

(They knew it was darker than the others but couldn't have known whether this was some trick off-brand sneaked into the test.)

If you want to upgrade your "Wii experience" check out the new off-brand, wireless bluetooth Wii remote.

And so, this Monday, I'll be accepting no ambiguity and no off-brand, cliff-hanger substitutes.

On baseball's supermarket shelf, Belle seemed like the low-Cal can, the off-brand to the righteous Ripken.

As a video diva (and someone whose lottery-win contingency plans involve a home movie theater), I found it easy to distinguish the name brand from the off-brand.

William F. Haddad, a generics maker who helped create the cheaper off-brand industry in the United States, called the fund's decision "a big victory."

Jaga Jazzist, the Norwegian instrumental jazz-rock band currently touring as a nine-piece, is an off-brand, something to be settled for.

So when walking the aisles and contemplating the purchase of a $5 box of morning goodness, I can’t help but peek over at the cheaper off-brand cereals.

Some of the stores sell only legal off-brand products, overstock merchandise, and niche products - Rastafarian religion books, say, or CD's of traditional Senegalese music.

If all this talk of singles and drinking seems a little off-brand nowadays, that's because the company made a conscious decision in 1989 to switch the focus from singles to families.

If a coolie-a kid who wasn't with a club, or what they would call an off-brand today-went through the lot, any club that was there could take the tolls from him.

And instead of being the general-purpose credit card they were promised, victims found themselves unable to buy anything except off-brand, overpriced products at an online store run by the credit-card company.

Dan got his first symptoms when he went to a big computer store, determined to save money by buying a machine that ran on a so-called off-brand (that is, non-Intel) microprocessor.

Whenever you exchange an ink cartridge that still has plenty of ink left for, say, a less-costly off-brand one for less critical work, you trigger an ink-consuming initialization cycle.

If you want a really inexpensive television and you are not concerned about picture quality - in other words, the TV is going into the children's room or the basement - buy an off-brand now.

A talkative relative freezes up mid-sentence and falls face first into a plate of spaghetti, and the Puttermans jokingly accuse her husband of switching her Duracell battery with an off-brand.

If you purchase an off-brand laptop and require repairs - which in itself is much more likely with an off-brand, chances are you will not find anyone who can get the parts at a reasonable price.

She and her off-brand posse don't seem to stand a chance.

The savings got serious when I compared bags of off-brand cereal.

And one report indicates that off-brand players will be priced at around $99 this Christmas.

The same goes for choosing an A-lister who is off-brand.

"This could be helpful to us in off-brand or rare ammunition."

And how did a movie that's become the off-brand black sheep of the Bond franchise even get made?

Off-brand models cheaper Earlier this year, players hovered in the $500 range.

The same vendors also handled cheap, off-brand black market condoms.

The editors advise against buying off-brand vitamins at these stores.

When an off-brand worker showed up who couldn't live on the stuff, he soon starved, thus solving the problem.

But these sort of off-brand top-level domains just don't have wide coverage yet.

If you try to cut costs by buying used or off-brand parts, you may end up paying the price in the long run.

Check out off-brand ring flashes made by companies like Sunpak for better prices.

That was not possible because the slip I signed identified the lens correctly with the off-brand name.

Although I got it in a few random, off-brand domains, just to have it.

On some off-brand tapes, the edges were uneven or mangled.

What happens when they misbehave and go seriously off-brand?

A recent peek inside some off-brand upgradeable systems at the local computer store was not reassuring.

The store’s out of the off-brand toilet paper.

Lunch is egg-salad sandwiches with off-brand pop to wash them down.

But this nondescript 12-pump outlet is not just another off-brand gasoline retailer.

The reports claimed that comparable off-brand chips were likely to perform better when running standard business applications.

Monolights made by mainstream companies generally have a higher parts availability in more places than off-brand products.

Anything else was off-brand, not worthy of consideration.

Not even her off-brand Magic 8 Ball can give her answers.