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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halfordsLOL, i used to work for halfords.
At the time we did actually sell some ok bikes by some reasonable makers. Kona, GT etc and some of the own brand Carrera stuff was reasonable too. This was always in the £300 and over sort of price range so was rarely sold. People with £400 to spend on a bike dont buy it from hafords.
Anyway, every year in the run up to xmas we would sell hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of toss-quality dross bikes.
January was almost as busy, repairing kids xmas presents that had fallen to bits within a few miles of use. Worn out and snapped components, even snapped and cracked frames.
I genuinely wonder where all these bikes go. Hundreds would be sold from each branch every year, yet its a very rare occurance to see one in use. There must be thousands of pounds worth of low-quality chinese steel, shaped like a Halfords cycle languishing in garden sheds around the country.
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