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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Cheap TatThankfully I have rarely fallen victim to this but my ex-father in law seems to had more than his fair share.
If there was any thing that was "a fantastic bargain" but ended up lasting 5 minutes he would have bought it.
He insists on holidays so cheap that the flights, on budget airlines, ended up like something from the Berlin Airlift, into resorts that look like an southern Afghan village after a visit fom Puff the Magic Dragon
But the real clincher for me was when he bought really cheap tomato sauce, from a well known discount supermarket chain, that burnt my kids mouth. They were left with large red wealts around their mouths from the caustic effect of this sauce.
Twat!
lol ninja edit!!: I met him today and he said he was off to buy a new digital camera because the one he bought his missus, my ex-mother in law, from the same cut price supermarket, was crap and didnt work straight out of the box.
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Fire & Forget it's the only way to be sure, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 9:46,
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