The phrase "overpriced brands" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to products that have a higher price than would be expected. For example: "I always avoid overpriced brands and try to get good deals on quality products."
Camila Batmanghelidjh gave her £15 to buy a pair of cheap basic trainers (not the overpriced brands that her middle-class critics buy their kids).
After closing its historic Dagenham factory in England and revamping its continental plants to make them flexible, efficient and capable of high quality, it is turning to the overpriced brands it bought in Europe: Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo and Aston Martin.
She points out that as a result of people from her circle shying away from overpriced European brands, there has been an explosion in the popularity of Russian designers.
After a decade under siege – with big pharma being accused of overpricing patented brands and blocking access to cheaper, generic and often life-saving drugs – GlaxoSmithKline committed to put chemical processes that it has intellectual property rights over that are relevant to finding drugs for neglected diseases into a patent pool so they can be explored by other researchers.
"Coming from the luxury industry, I know there's a sense that a lot of the goods by traditional brands are overpriced, especially now that the prices have been exposed by flash sales," she said.
We have a brand new, overpriced, aggressively hyped, hard to understand product.
Part of it is the consumer's perception that organic food sold in supermarkets is somehow suspect, tumbling off the production lines of the big conglomerates (Heinz, Jordans, Cow & Gate and the supermarkets' own brands) and perniciously overpriced.
Brands like Novica are overpriced and cheesy.
Some cars tend to be overpriced partly because of their weakened brand image, which can lead to poor resale value.
The suits were ill-fitting, made of cheap material, poorly branded and marketed, and highly overpriced, he said.
There are a few brands watch out for: Gibson, but they're overpriced (Epiphone copies are just as good), and many have knots in the wood on the neck or a blemish or something, and they're just so common and outdated.
