Here’s a thread I started a few years ago about an astonishingly bad product:
I just followed your link’s link to amazon. Four years later that fine useless $6 mixer now sells for $35.
Looking at the reviews I don’t think it’s been improved. But now it costs 6x as much. I wonder how many they sell?
Tired of hanging christmas lights with a staple gun every year I bought a some permanent plastic hooks made specifically for the job. “Nail them in place once and be done. They’ll be there every season for you to hang your lights.”
Used them for Christmas and in January took all the lights down. Next November I got up on the ladder to hang the lights again on the hooks.
Apparently after one summer in the heat and sunlight every single hook had became completely brittle and would break off just by touching them.
One day I forgot to take along my usual earbuds when leaving the house, and I was planning to be out for five or six hours, thinking that there would be a lot of times along the way that I would really, really miss having earbuds. So I bought a $1 pair at–where else? – a dollar store. I know cheap buds don’t hold up and break very easily, but I only needed them to work for one afternoon, so I thought they’d be fine. Turned out they didn’t work at all, though.
There is a company called “Hipstreet” that sells very low priced electronic goods.
Here is a link to these bandits:
http://www.hipstreet.com/
I bought a music video player from them and it was just worthless. But the price was so low that I bought it in order to become familiar with the technology.
Then I found a few places where people gave their opinions of this company and their products. Those opinions seemed to universally say the products were all just garbage and anyone who bought some could save themselves a lot of time and trouble and just throw them directly into the garbage.
The most common complaints were:
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They just fall apart when you try to use them.
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The batteries will not recharge or will get stuck on recharge mode and will never come out of that mode to let you play any videos.
Total Crap! Beware!
Has anyone mentioned nail clippers yet?
I must have bought a half a dozen of the real cheapie type (a buck or so) and each time they’d fall apart or fail to clip after just a few uses. You’d think I’d have learned my lesson.
Well, I finally did. I splurged and spent six bucks on a nail clipper thinking in part that it would be an experiment to see if the extra money corresponded to better quality.
It did! They’re still going strong months later. Lesson learned.