Cheap TatOneEyedMonster remindes us about the crap you can buy in pound shops: "Batteries that lasted about an hour and then died. A screwdriver with a loose handle so I couldn't turn the damn screw, and a tape measure which wasn't at all accurate."
Similarly, my neighbour bought a lawnmower from Argos that was so cheap the wheels didn't go round, it sort of skidded over the grass whilst gently back-combing it.
What's the cheapest, most useless crap you've bought?
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chthonic, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
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Apologies if someone has already used Occam's RazorBut after getting halfway through all these answers I'm sick and tired of...
"Why would anyone make something that simply doesn't work?"
Because idiots like you will hand over money for it!
The anonymous manufacturer of unbranded goods is not relying on repeat custom to survive and doesn't care in the slightest whether or not your chopstick sharper works as expected or accidentally castrates you.
If making something vaguely the right shape and putting it in a box with a badly blurred picture on the front is cheap and someone is prepared to pay tuppence ha'penny for it then it will happen.
*sigh* and breathe.
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djtrialprice, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 16:53,
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We live in a society where possessions = happiness...and since not everyone can afford expensive things, those who can't will attempt to achieve happiness through the possession of crap. And there will always be someone who can manufacture sufficiently convincing representations of desirable items sufficiently cheaply to make a profit off these people.
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reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 17:17,
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Talking of badly blurred pictures...I once saw a wine bottle opener with an awfully blurred picture of what looked like a sleek chrome bottle opener with a sticker on the front which appeared, from a distance, to say "SEEN ON TV!".
On closer inspection it said, in tiny writing "similar to products" and then "SEEN ON TV!"
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