Burberry Gadgets - Chav Special
Published by GadgetSpy October 31st, 2005 in Gadgets, Fashion.Burberry have employed a team of 12 people with the sole job of tracking down those who sell items with the famous pattern, so what better time to have a roundup of the best chav Gadgets and accessories out there.
Firstly for anyone outside the UK unfamaliar with a Chav there are some good definitions available here
Burberry used to be unique and associated with the rich and famous, but over time it became the football hooligans brandname of choice and sales are now on the decline as the snobs no longer want to be associated with it either. Of the employed team of 12 to stop counterfeit goods, 2 alone are purely dealing with Burberry rip offs on eBay.
A quick search on eBay shows the problem is still huge, we found the following tat easily:
as you can see the above phone covers are nasty so you can actually understand why Burberry are getting their knickers in a twist.
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Welsh band ‘Goldie looking chain’ recently decided for a bit of a laugh to have a car made up with the help of Max Power, they converted a Vauxhall cavaliar into the ‘Chavalier‘ and drove it outside Burberry headquarters. They wanted to sell the car on eBay but Burberry objected and made them crush it
Whilst the knackered chavalier isn’t strictly a Gadget it does emphasise the point that Burberry are no longer joking around.
What about consoles, below is an Xbox with a Burberry effect, and a PSP Skin
A burberry case for the iPod - not from your local market though - $200 a piece from Burberry
or for maximum what about a real gold Burberry iPod case…..
The iPod seems to be particular popular, we wondered why we hadn’t seen a ChavPod yet with matching check on the earphones, a quick google returned this great mockup by Luke Elliot .




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