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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Tesco Value DVD playerSome DVDs cost more than this technological marvel.
Which makes it all the more shame that it refuses to play them.
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le brian, Sat 5 Jan 2008, 21:24,
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Been there, done that.I bought one of those; £11.98 IIRC. Wouldn't load menus, did weird things with screen sizes in widescreen and died after 3 months. Took it back and they greeted me with "Oh God, not you too".
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ChipsWe have one of these and it chips discs when you try to play them.
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We had that as wellone DVD came out like it just had a fun run through a sandpaper factory (and had to be re-brought) And another disc (god knows why we tried to again) had to be retrieved by breaking the fucker apart. Back to using the PS2.
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It's goodfor playing DVDs from other regions.
Turn it on, press eject on the remote, press setup, press next (skip forward) 4 times, press the right arrow until "255" appears in the corner, then press setup.
Region free! Woo! Mine broke too, but I stuck the Poundland lens cleaner in it a few times and now it works again :D
(, Wed 9 Jan 2008, 17:17, closed)
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