# Items you bought that just totally sucked. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2012, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-you-bought-that-just-totally-sucked/629086 "2012-07-22T23:40:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-you-bought-that-just-totally-sucked/629086/61 "2012-07-26T17:10:04Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > HP scanner. Damn thing never started properly or woke properly or talked to my PC correctly. To get any use out of it I would have reinstall (or download and reinstall) the drivers. Every. Single. Time. > > I don’t know when HP started sucking so badly. I have an old B&W laser printer (HP4L) in the shed which would still be running today if I could be bothered getting a cable adapter and finding a toner cartridge for it. Yep! I have a suspicion about when things started going downhill, but Carly F. would probably try to sue me for slander, especially as she’s now some California politico. So I won’t say anything. Edit: See, it’s starting already!! I just TRY to post her name in relationship to HP shenanigans and my very internet provider turns against me by lagging and double-posting! ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-you-bought-that-just-totally-sucked/629086/62 "2012-07-26T17:16:30Z")
> [@Telperion](#): > > That’s odd, I have that exact model and it works perfectly. Did you leave it in the freezer overnight before use? It does take some time to get it cold enough, but once the core feels solid to the touch it will easily make slush of anything I pour in (Except diet soda, for some reason.) in just a few minutes. Yup, the cores are definitely frozen. I would have said the one I used was just defective, but I got two in the same shipment and both of them are crappy at slushmaking. I didn’t go to the trouble of returning them though, they aren’t sold in Canada so I had to pay a pretty penny to ship them here and it would have been the same to send them back. If I think ahead an hour it works. ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-you-bought-that-just-totally-sucked/629086/63 "2012-07-26T18:56:42Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Yep! I have a suspicion about when things started going downhill, but Carly F. would probably try to sue me for slander, especially as she’s now some California politico. So I won’t say anything. Nope, she lost the election (thank goodness). ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-you-bought-that-just-totally-sucked/629086/64 "2012-07-26T20:50:06Z")
I’ll add my vote for the Slap Chop. My wife bought that one. She also bought the [Space Bag](https://www.spacebag.com/22/index.dtm?mid=563894). They must be made out of wet tissue paper or something because they seemed to rip and become useless if you even blinked at them. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-you-bought-that-just-totally-sucked/629086/65 "2012-07-26T21:02:06Z")
> [@suranyi](#): > > Nope, she lost the election (thank goodness). That is the best news I’ve had all day, lol. Thanks! p.s. For cleaning blinds, I’m going to tout the praises of the Swiffer stick-thingy. You know, a stick and then you buy some fuzzy swiffer thingies to go on them. They are proving absolutely invaluable as we move; it actually PICKS UP dust instead of pushing it around, and we have more dust than…than…Oh somebody else make a simile, I’ve gotta go Swiff a cat. Actually, maybe I’ll just spray Endust ON the cats and let them run around the place, hrm… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-you-bought-that-just-totally-sucked/629086/66 "2012-07-26T21:17:54Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Actually, maybe I’ll just spray Endust ON the cats and let them run around the place, hrm… Doesn’t work. I’ve tried. No, not really. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/items-you-bought-that-just-totally-sucked/629086.md?page=3)