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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My stepmum tried selling some cheap tatIt didn't work.
I've already mentioned that my dad spectacularly fails to make a living selling stuff. His house is a bit like Del-boy's lock up with all the stuff that he's accumulated over the years. Some of it is actually quite decent (the aforementioned Dorling Kindersley books for example), but most of it... well, Betterware, Avon... that pretty much sums it up. And it's supplemented by the numerous free samples he gets from the companies.
A few months ago, realising that some of this stuff has to go in order to make room for more shite, and to release a bit of cash into the bargain, he decides that some of it could go to a car boot fair in the town hall (he doesn't have a car, so the items are restricted somewhat by what can be carried on the bus easily). However, he has to go into work (he does have a proper job as well) so tells his missus to take a pile of stuff to the boot sale and flog it for whatever she can get.
When he returned from work he asked her how she got on. And was somewhat bemused to find that she hadn't sold anything, despite asking fairly low prices (anything from 50p - £1). It was only on investigating further that he discovered exactly why she had returned with everything she'd gone with...
She'd picked up a pile of stuff that had 'Free Sample' emblazoned all over them...
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 7 Jan 2008, 12:45,
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This story wins.(, Mon 7 Jan 2008, 13:08, closed)
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