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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Too true.In the old days goods were made to last using good parts and skilled labour. Everybody wins - the customer gets a high-quality product, the workers have good jobs and the companies reap the benefit of customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Then the unions got too powerful and big businesses discovered that by buying cheap components and using cheap labour they could use the low profit-margin, high volume, high turn-over model to make even more money. The workers are unhappy, unmotivated and poor, the customers get a barely adequate product that has to be replaced more often, and the shareholders make shitloads of money.
Indeed, bastards.
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