What is the worst piece of crap product you ever purchased or used?

[GURUving]

brand new 1991 Ford Probe. Piece of crap.

frozen shoestring potatoes - inedible pieces of crap.

$10 pair of pants from the Dollar Store. What the hell was I thinking? Piece of crap.

[madaboutharry]

1. An Oreck vacuum cleaner

$295 piece of sh*t.

[pstokely]

2. Oreck advertisers on hate radio

nt

[madaboutharry]

3. Serves me right!

nt

[trogdor]

16. Here's my $250 vacuum cleaner.

http://www.aaavac.com/images/m1030.bmp

Bwahahahahaha! Ever see Mr. Mom? This is the vacuum cleaner known as "Jaws". It can suck a basketball through a garden hose, and you won't ever find it at Wal*Mart.

[drb]

35. It's a Royal!

Like a Kirby on steroids! I got one at a local flea market for $3.00, because the switch was broken. I loaned it to my daughter, but she doesn't like it for some weird reason, known only to her.

I'm gonna get it back -- soon!!

Those are the Great White of vacuums!!!

[RecoveringAsshole]

4. A chia pet

[Insider]

5. x-ray glasses

phooey

[bearfan454]

6. Eldon road race when I was a kid

It broke all the time. My Dad had to keep fixing it.

[GURUving]

8. What is that?

Eldon road race

[bearfan454]

9. Eldon was the brand name of a road race

they sold.

[MGKrebs]

7. One of those light bulb changers on a long pole.

Hasn't worked once yet. No return, no refund. Bastahds.

[Elidor]

10. It would have to be a Pontiac

Pick a Pontiac, any Pontiac...I've never been impressed by their offerings. Their designers suck.

[silverlib]

11. Home Medic bathtub spa

The rubber mat wouldn't stick to the tub and floated up around me - rather funny after I returned it, but not at the time.

[RecoveringAsshole]

12. The Clapper

I fell down and I COULD get up!

[XNASA]

13. Practically any item I ever purchased prior to meeting my wife.

I was a slug. I had no idea what anything was worth. I'd buy all kinds of crap that was useless, or too cheap to work right. Toasters, alarm clocks, shoes, furniture, everything I bought was garbage.

Then Mrs. XNASA showed me how to appreciate the finer things in life.

At least this is what I have been told.

[Jim Sagle]

14. Used '74 AMC Hornet.

Godawful junk car. Broke down 10 times in 6 months to the tune of $2,600.

[Dookus]

15. a USB hub.....

that had to be reset every time I booted the computer. I phoned the company and they said that yes, it was a known bug. So after rebooting my computer I'd have to crawl under the desk and reset the hub.

It went back to the store the next day.

[Bertha Venation]

17. "Sleep Angel."

Early in my quest to stop the world's loudest snoring, emanating nightly from my own head, I bought one of these pieces of sh*t:

The "sleep angel."


Mrs. Venation tells me the first night I wore this thing on my head she still couldn't sleep -- for laughing.

[frylock]

19. rofl! it looks like a jock strap!!!

[Bertha Venation]

21. probably one of the reasons she laughed all night

BTW, are those real plates -- on cars on the road?

[nostamj]

18. AOL

duh!

[TrogL]

20. 1995 Ford Windstar

Turns out it's supposed to blow a head gasket every 70,000 km, followed by 2nd gear in the transmission.

[frylock]

22. 1984 chrysler laser turbo..

for this I sold my '77 Capri Ghia. With the money I threw into this fuggin POS, my Capri coulda been a racecar. Never buy a first model year vehicle.

[TrogL]

23. Kid's toys

Spent $50 on a remote control car for my daughter. Didn't work out of the box.

Spent $50 on a remote control vehicle for my son. Came with rechargeable batteries. No matter how much I charge the batteries, it goes slower than turtle. Turns out the guy at the mall was demonstrating using litiums, not NiCads.

[salinen]

25. My sisters had those

toy ovens, oh yeah, easybake, cooked things by the heat off the bulb. Trouble was the bulb never became hot enough.

[The Zanti Regent]

24. In order:

1) my first car, a 1970 1/2 AMC Gremlin, which I paid $1,970.50 for. It was the base model, has a 3 speed manual Borg Warner transmission with first gear unsynchronized, Windshield wipers that powered off the engine vacum and a manual pump for the windshield wahers. No power steering/brakes. I drove it home and my dad threw a fit. I reminded him, he had a bug that he had to buy an EDSEL when it came out

2) I bought my mother a Veg O Matic for Christmas, it never worked the way it did in the TV commercial

3) Dad wanted a VCR, I bought him an early model VHS, he turned it in for a Sony Betamax. Looks better son, he said...

4) Remember RCA SelectaVision? The video discs in the form of LPs? Dad wanted one for Xmas, and I suggessted the Pioneer Lase Disc instead. He liked Selectavision because the discs were cheaper. then that went out of production, too

5) Remember Fidelity Chess Challengers, the chess computers in the 1980s? they were supposed to have updated modules to make the machines stronger, the modules never came out, and my 5 year old nephew always beat the machine

6) Remember the Sharper Image Robots in the early 90s? Always broke down.

7) Speaking of Sharper Image, has anyone tried the Ionic Breeze? On the commercials, it supposedly clears a smoky room, yet when I bought one, nothing happenned. Then I pick up a copy of Consumer Reports and see that they rated it VERY POOR.

[midnight armadillo]

46. Ionic breeze

The principle behind the IB is sound. An electrically charged plate will certainly trap dust passing nearby - your filthy TV screen is proof of this.

HOWEVER. The IB relies on room air currents and the diffusion rate of airborne dust to clear the room. Unless your room is completely sealed, it'll never really clear out the room. You need some sort of fan to get it to work right.

[Philostopher]

26. 1978 Plymouth Horizon five-door.

It was a car that was bought (by my parents) for me to use (to drive myself to college and home, since I attended a cheap school that was close), but I used it plenty -- it had so many design problems, it was a wonder I ever got anywhere in it. I had a hell of a time getting home from anywhere in it, that's for sure.

And another -- Windows 98. Even SE is crap. As unreliable and crashy as Windows can be, I have never seen anything like it. Unbelievable that they sold it for the price they sold it for (I never bought it, but I've used it at two different jobs). I think Gates was using the 'thousand monkeys typing on a thousand keyboards' principle on Win98.

[Touchdown]

27. The "All IN ONE :AV director" remote control.

Biggest piece! You'd have to keep hitting volume up, as it on moved the sound up one notch at a time. Big and bulky too! Eats batteries like a pig!

I'm suprised nobody mentioned the ADAM Computer yet. I was smart enough.:P

[demgrrrll]

28. Believe it or not I can be a real sucker for some of those as seen on

TV things. My pasta pot lost the Teflon finish almost immediately. It did drain pasta well but the pots were really crappy. Slicers and dicers are another weak area, none have lived up to expectations.
I am proud that I have not purchased a donut maker or a flowbee. Yay me.

[areschild]

39. Same problem with the Pasta Pot.

Also, when I wanted to remove the lid to check the food, the damn lid was stuck. I had to stick a knife under the rim of the lid in order to remove it.

[solinvictus]

29. 1980 Star Wars Playset

I saved, scrimped, and bled for the $12 to buy the Hoth AT-AT playset at a local Big-K (an old discount chain not related to KMart). When I opened the box, it was a CHEAP cardboard set with a thin plastic base. The AT-AT cardboard wasn't cut correctly, so it would not assemble correctly. Now, when you're 10 years old and had to work hard for the cash, you take it personally when the thing you slaved to buy is crap.

[Bundbuster]

30. "Swirl-on" carwasher

Ordered thru the mail - the brush head might have turned had I attached it to a fire hydrant & hose. The piece of shit couldn't clean a bar of soap. Tried to get my money back and they basically told me to wash my ass with it.

[Selwynn]

31. 1989 Mercury Topaz with 150,000 miles on it....

Yeah, they don't call me a genius for nothing... :P

[eileen_d]

32. From IKEA - literally called "DICK"

Crappy wooden crate with assembly required... now I have to say something about how I couldn't get DICK to work, but I'm sure it will come out bad, so I'll leave it to the experts...

However, IKEA is responisble for several pieces of crap I've purchased, as well as some other things that I have kept for years.

[TrogL]

34. IKEA is overpriced, badly designed crap

It's made out of compressed cardboard and wood shavings. Look at it, and it falls down. If you actually do get it together, do not, under any circumstances, take it apart because the act of taking out the screws damages the holes beyond repair.

[Interrobang]

41. SOME Ikea stuff is good...

My parents bought a kitchen table from there 20-25 years ago, IIRC, and it's still going strong. My fiance also has these great bookshelves from there that seem to do the job just fine...

With Ikea, you have to buy the solid wood stuff, and look really hard to avoid the overpriced sawdust stuff. To be fair, about 60% of their stuff is overpriced crap, but if you look hard, you can get good furniture at good prices there.

I think the worst POS I ever owned was this miniature food processor my mom got me for Christmas. It couldn't "food process" pre-mashed baby food. I found that out in earnest when I tried to use it to make hummus, and it jammed up on canned chick peas (!!) and I couldn't get it going again. Not only that, but I also couldn't take it apart to clean it, it was so stuck. It went into the garbage, still covered in chick pea lumps.

Needless to say, that was one of my mom's Wal-Mart specials...

[guitar man]

33. 1985 Olds Cutlass

Bought it with only 29,000 miles. I have never seen a car literally fall apart around me before. What a POS!

[drb]

36. A "rechargeable" spray can at Harbor Freight Tools....

....you're supposed to be able to fill it with paint and charge it up with your air compressor. Thing plugged up so quick and leaked so badly I had to take it to the trash can in a garbage bag the very first time I used it!

MPOS!

[jmowreader]

49. Huh? Why buy that?

If you have an air compressor, wouldn't it make more sense just to buy a paint sprayer?

[OneBlueSky]

37. Aiwa bookshelf stereo . . .

the CD player started skipping less than a year after I bought it and, no matter how many times I had it serviced, they could never fix the problem . . . I finally ditched it and got a Yamaha, and have had no problems whatsoever . . .

[Intelsucks]

40. Funny, the same thing happened to our Aiwa bookshelf stereo

It will never play track one of a CD. It skips all over the place. If you can make it to track 2, it plays fine the rest of the way through.

[terrya]

38. Any Sony CD player. I bought 3 in 4 years. All worthless pieces of shit

[annonymous]

42. Shark Mini Vac

The thing clogged up constantly and broke because dust burned up the motor. I have bad luck with mini vacs. I have also broken two Dirt Devils by burning up the motor.

[SiobhanClancy]

45. Yes!

I bought one to clean the office floor at work(when I actually had a job..lol)...and it went back to the store the same afternoon. A total piece of crap:(

[stanwyck]

50. I thought It was just me

I haven't been able to get The Shark or the Dirt Devils to work worth a damn.

[Breezy du Nord]

43. A knockoff Barbie Doll at the Dollar Store

Her shoes broke in the car! :mad:

[scintlgst]

44. Qworst wireless plan

[LynneSin]

47. Diet Pills

Trust me - none of them work. Everytime a new one came out I swore this would be the one that would do the trick to lose the weight.

I've spent waaaaaay too much money on a crap product

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

48. Contact lenses, circa 1985...

...you were supposed to be able to sleep with. Well, first night I actually sleep with them, when I wake up one eye doesn't feel right. Seems the lense was glued to the cornea. I pushed and pulled here and there, dip the eye with 0.9% NaCl (how do you call it there?) and it came off. Shortly after an increasing pain in the eye starts. The lens actually took a tiny piece of cornea with it! I scramble to the doctor in desperation. He applies an anaesthesic, some healing goo and I spend the next two weeks with an eyepatch.

Nowadays, there is Accuvue (disposable). With THAT one I sleep with no problems.

[AlFrankenFan]

51. 40$ Robotic Cat

Waste of money, waste of time, in short, I took it back.

[shanti]

52. a generic juicer from the flea market

brand new, but it never made acceptable carrot juice like i wanted it to...:-( in fact, all the juice made from it turned out way too thick.

[Jonte_1979]

53. The Juice Tiger

What a piece of shit that was!

[Liberal Veteran]

54. That piece of metal for thawing food fast....

My boyfriend brought me one home from his work and I tried it twice before I put in the basement never to re-emerge.

[NightTrain]

55. Windows software

You wanna talk about aggravation?! :mad: :grr: :nuke: