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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AuctionsMy schoolfriend B used to go to a lot of auctions and would buy all kinds of tat. Miraculously, though, he always managed to make it work for him. On the list of things he bought and then resold for a profit we find:
- A job lot of telephones
- 20 liquid soap dispensers (broken)
- A photocopier
- 3 sofas
His mother was less than pleased with the junk he'd produce... but, as I said, he always managed to make money on the deal in the end. How do you sell on 20 broken liquid soap dispensers, though?
The best buys, though, were
- A two-tone blue ambulance from the mid-50s (because it had a full calor gas cylinder in the back that alone was worth more than he paid for the vehicle)
- A derelict farmhouse (because, although it had neither water nor electricity, it did have the rusting-but-restorable body of an MGB in the dining room).
Oh, and a near miss: a scrapyard nearby used to deal with old military kit. One day, a Challenger tank appeared. Sadly, the asking price was too high... which is a shame, because the smoke granade launcher thingies apparently still worked.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 10:18,
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