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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No funny stories about me...I've bought tat a few times, but my stories tend to be frustrating rather than funny..
However, a friend is different. We'd been up Oxford Street all day, as we both had a few quid to spend, so wanted something nice.
He saw one of those crap "auction" places. You know the sort. You bid on all sorts of brand names, get given your goods in a black bag, and get told not to open the bag until you leave the shop, and they invent some sort of excuse to stop you.
I was saying the whole time it was a scam. He was convinced it wasn't. He had been looking for a new camera, and the auctioneer got out a brand new Pentax SLR, and started the bidding at £20.
I was saying "Don't bid", but he did, as did one other person. My friend eventually paid £50 for the camera.
This would have been a good deal, if the camera had been a Pentax. We got outside the shop, and opened the bag. Saw the cheapest looking camera I have ever seen. It can't have been worth more than £10.
He, being scared of his Girlfriend's reaction, gave the camera to me. When I got home, I threw it in my wardrobe and forgot about it.
A couple of years later, I was clearing out the wardrobe, and found the camera. It went in the skip.
(, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 16:49, Reply)
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