[Closed] So what have you bought, then realised it was crap?

I bought some fancy Burt's Firecracker Lobster crisps for £1.99.

...and they were crap. No seafood flavour, and just some weird chilli aftertaste.

Guinness flavour crisps (they were cheap, i should have known), texture of cardboard, taste of F all.

Russian Bride.

my first android tablet, about £100 from amazon. as soon as i opened the box i knew it was going to be crap 🙁

Superstar Piston Retract tool.

Its too big, and less effective than a screwdriver.

Reckon its meant for motorbikes as it won't fit into Formula calipers at all, and is an exact fit in Hope Mini's (i.e fiddly to get in)

Oh yeh, me too on the sub £100 Android Tablet. So laggy its unbelievable!

Manure/ Fertilizer

Yeti SB66

which audi for which bmw out of interest?

Mk.1 Santa Cruz Nomad. Had coveted Nomads for ages. Massive disappointment, kept it for less time than any other frame in 20 years. Replaced with an archaic single pivot recycled from filing cabinets which is far better and a keeper.

Raceface Aqualite shell jacket. Tissue paper would have been more effective.

Fox Unabomber gloves. Top of the range, gnarly hardcore gloves. Quickly wore through the palms from regular riding 😯 and came unstitched at various seams.

Struggling to think of many other examples of stuff that was cr*p by some objective measure, rather than stuff I just didnt like.

Cheap tap and die set as all the eng. shop had utter utter crap didn't even bother using it for emergency job at home. 👿

Mucky Nutz Butt Fender. Don't do nuttin'!

iPad
Mini Cooper S

Corduroy POC shorts.

I don't know why either.

Forgot my HS Explorer dive computer. Think it did more flights (to get fixed) than dives. Sold it on and it flooded on the new owner's first dive. Great algorithm, lousy construction.

Fox Unabomber gloves. Top of the range, gnarly hardcore gloves. Quickly wore through the palms from regular riding and came unstitched at various seams.

My POC gloves were similair, been using them a few weeks and the threading started coming undone and the elasticky wrist wrap split after a few tugs. Glad i got them cheap at 20 quid instead of full whack at 50. Still using them, just have to be careful when putting them on and taking off. May take a needle n thread to them soon. I like the robustness of everything on them except the shoddy stitching, but the palm pads and the knuckle guards and are brilliant (i like punching trees when i ride past them 😳 )

Crank Bros bar and stem. Seriously, just try getting the bar in without scratching it to pieces. Ridiculous.

My Ellsworth. What a worthless piece of aerospace-grade shit it was. I made a little back on the resale mind but I'll never get back the wasted push-ups. The jury's still out on whether it rode worse than it looked or not though.

A pair of Adidas Lendl Court when I was about 13 years old.

Clown shoes. 😕

A Philishave - I could shave better and remove more hair by running my fingernails across my face.

now wish I hadn't as it is crap.

Why, out of interest?

Crackle Logs

Brought some mtb wheels from the LBS as they looked the dogs. They were utter tosh. Out of the saddle the things flexed all over the shop and would bounce off the V brake pads making all sorts of squealing noises. Can't remember the make but I have not seen any others around for years and probably with good reason too.

Cars:

My recently departed Fiesta. Regretted buying it about 3 weeks after taking delivery. Nothing major wrong with it, just loads of little things that really got me wound up! Like the sun visor always hitting my forehead when pulling it down. The steering wheel blocking the dials so I had to guess the speed between 50 and 90. The way the fuel gauge would just guesstimate the fuel level, totally unpredictable. The front grille would move about all by itself, looking like I'd bashed it. Hated that thing!! Still kept it for eight years though as it was great for just slinging muddy bikes in the boot and driving it up forest tracks/muddy fields as I didn't care about scratching it!!

Other stuff:

Oral B electric toothbrush. Just useless.
Morrisons own-brand cola. Prefer Asda's.
HTC Wildfire S. One update of any app and it's memory was full!! Rooted it but not much better!
Kenwood iron. Leaked black water everywhere, now got a Bosch.

Anything made by knog.
SPD pedals.
Kask helmet.
Mr Grumpy's cyclocross brakes
Onza cantilever brakes
Hutchinson Python tires
Air-b inner tubes

Mucky Nutz Butt Fender.

Thanks for reminding me of another! Too short to have any discernible effect. I see they do a longer version now...

X5 - good at being big, has nice seats, has a good tow capacity (the prime reason I bought it) and eejits tend not to drive 2" off your back bumper.
A6 - better at [u]everything[/u] else.

idrive seems like an afterthought and doesn't integrate with the car. MMI just works.
Steering heavy and unresponsive (and thats coming from a tank of an audi that would never be classed as particularly nimble).
6 pot engine unrefined and has an tedious drone, v6 VAG is a lovely engine.
Generally feels like yesterdays technology whereas the much older Audi felt newer.

Maybe I'll like it one day, until then the wife quite likes driving it!

Apple TV 3. Crock of shit.

About 18months ago a Blackberry phone for the missus, OK for texting upper garbage for everything else.

No wonder there dying on their arse.

ipad - it's just absolute meh
Fiat Brava - rotten inside, always took 5 minutes to start (but never failed to), awful handling, looked pants, big end went and took a cylinder with it (but still managed to get another 16k miles out of it)
- I bought it in haste as I had a new job to get to the next day and had recently written off my 306.

Mucky Nutz Butt Fender. Don't do nuttin'!

I was in much the same train of thought as this. Until I took it off the other day. My God. I couldn't see a thing. Constant spray of water.

They definitely work!

A Nexus 7, I sold it 2 days later and bought an iPad 😆

You know those red carpenters' pencils? Well, they're great. They even come in boxes of ten, with a FREE sharpener. "Well, be-JEE-sus, they've only gone and come up with a sharpener for rectangular pencils. Awesome! Gimme a box of those then."

Shittest sharpener ever. I was had. Still working my way through the ten pencils though. 🙂

Any Fox RP23 shock - every single one I've ever had that came as OE on a frame was faulty out the box.

My Gary Fisher Sugar+

First fs I had and I thought it was brilliant.

Have subsequently owned some fs that really were / are brilliant, and I realise how bad the sugar was.

Still loved it at the time though.....

Any underpants that do not have M&S label in.

The original Samsung Galaxy. Promised the Earth and delivered nothing. It was so awful O2 gave me a free Desire as a replacement for it following an entertaining shitogram on my part.

Motorola Defy+. Laggy buggy p.o.s. and far inferior than the HTC Desire it replaced.

A mains powered paint sprayer bought to paint about 70 linear metres of 6ft high fence panels in my old back garden. I managed half a panel before giving up. The fence paint stuff had to be so watered down to work it barely gave the fence a light tinge, it was so slow to apply and incredibly noisy too. Not quite the labour saving device I had envisaged.

I never did finish painting the fence.

weekly build HMS Victory. At £4.95 a week for a year..doing the maths makes me wanna weep..still in its boxes, nothing fits and I'm no carpenterr..oh and E-Cigs, gimme a rollie please

Lol. £250 for a model boat? 😆

Any underpants that do not have M&S label in.

Personally, I think M&S pants have hit the skids recently.

Next seem to make a better trunk/hipster/briefs etc.

Intense uzzi vpx. It rode ok but the quality of it was shocking. Ive brought much cheaper frames that were massively better quality. If that was hand made american quality, you can keep it.

Prestaflator - supposed to the best tyre inflator for using on a compressor, excellent reviews; "smooth variable trigger" (that actually works so suddenly that you drop it in shock); "optional schrader fitting" so badly made it won't stay on the valve. If I had bought it on eBay I'd have suspected a counterfeit but I bought it direct from the manufacturer in the USA, so that I could get the (useless) schrader fitting.

Raleigh dho. Shock mount peeled off frame on first outing. Rock shox super deluxe shock blew up. Fitted boxxers, hit a rock and tore through front triangle. No warranty. Buy British my arse. On the plus side, anything lezyne has been brilliant.

John Digweed live somewhere or other. I was expecting some deep intelligent house but it was very bland thumping with very little interesting going on.

John Digweed live somewhere or other. I was expecting some deep intelligent house but it was very bland thumping with very little interesting going on.

Torquay, circa 1997 by any chance?!

(Oh, and most clothing sold by USC. I am old enough to know better)

Mk II Renault 5 TR. the number of things that broke or simply stopped working over the two years I had it...
shame as the car I traded in for it, a Mk I 5TL was ace, as cheap 10 year old cars for new drivers go...

I'd like to say "a football club" but (a) my name isn't Cellino and (b) the sale hasn't been ratified by the football league yet 😉 MOT

Many years ago, a blue V8 Range Rover.
I had to have one, but could only afford a wreck. Driving it home made me wake up to the problems. Managed to give(!) it back to the owner, only loosing about £700!

Ppretty much any tablet I ever used was just a bit crap from ipads to nexus.

Hatchet

Phil & Teds tandem sport buggy. Jeez... Where to begin?

The wife [i]had[/i] to have one when our kids were born. I was looking at it from the point of view of someone that buys lots of bike stuff and have certain expectations about build quality and the relationship with price; everything wobbled or didn't go together properly, the tyres were paper thin and punctured if you gave them a funny look, it was unbalanced, unwieldy and lethal to fold down (think fingers and guillotine). And finally, if you had a kid in the lower, rear seat and went up or down kerbs, steps etc. you smashed their spine/coccyx into it due to the shoddy thin seating arrangement. What a pile of crap. I have no idea why they're so popular.

In the last year my fox 34. Much promised and utter rubbish
Hopefully a float conversation next week will finally fix them

VW Golf R with DSG box. Worst. Gearbox. Ever.

A Rover Metro, it looked immaculate but it never completed a journey without breaking down, I [i]swapped[/i] it for a sheddy old 1.6L Crapi that had passenger door made of body filler, loads wrong with it, but it never actually broke down..
Then I got a 2.8i, but that should be on the fun car thread..

Samsung galaxy s4

Waited ages for it to come out, pile of crap, wish I had stayed with HTC

Latest bike purchase, showers pass gloves. Only 3 rides old, not overly warm, not overly water resistant and liner in thumb area is not stitched right so hurts my thumb. Bago****. (Yes purchased them based on STW's review in the last mag)

My ex wife...

Took me 22 years to realise that "psycho vindictive bitch" is not the standard default setting on women. Thrown back in the pond, may god have mercy on the next poor sod she gets her claws into.

On the suject of pants, I find H&M's organic cotton trunks to be excellent. Anything from BHS however is rather shonky and short lived.

Motorola defy, utter crap
Samsung galaxy tablet, ok to watch things on but any finger / screen stuff, no.
Skoda Octavia, new, broke down 8 times in 2 years.
PPI, got a refund 😀

Lezyne Floor Drive pump - the push on head pops off easily with road pressures and the alternative screw on head is just a bit slow to use.

Lezyne Multi-Tool - the whole thing is so bulky and yet the tools so short that it's hard to use in any confined space.

Lezyne Power Drive XL (light) - despite running in flash mode turns it self off after 90 minutes to 2 hours. Can be turned back on for a while then will turn off again. I have 2 batteries and both do the same (and after a rest and back home the whole thing works fine again).

I probably shouldn't buy anything else from Lezyne (although I like the first on bike pump I bought) !

An MG Midget, late-ish model. Why put a redline on the dial when it won't rev past 3000? Dunno who picked the gear ratios but it could barely pull 4th on the flat on a still day. In the year the one I bought was registered VW released the golf GTi, and some poor sod bought this!

A Hazro monitor.
Had a fault right from the beginning (uneven gradients), which they refused to acknowledge. Support would take 2 weeks to respond and there was no phone number available (despite loads of people on overclockers trying). Eventually they went bust and emerged under the same name without honouring warranties.

Had to live with it for 2 years before I could afford a replacement Dell which has been fantastic.

cfinnimore - Member
Corduroy POC shorts.

I don't know why either.

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Take me through your thought process on this.............

My previous house, looked great until we figured out two days after moving in that the neighbours enjoyed drunken brawls and 3am kareoke, all done just the other side of a single brick party wall.

A Jansport laptop/carry on luggage bag. Utter garbage.

My G-shock Riseman has an inaccurate barometer and an utterly useless altimeter...looks great though 🙂
Off to buy a Suunto Core!

"Waterproof" padlocks from [url= http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B008J11TSO/ref=ox_ya_os_product_refresh_C ]Amazon[/url].
Few days rain and I don't trust them on my garage anymore, they feel like they will sieze up.

Mudguards from Crud. Rubbish.

By the way, why do carpenters need a special shaped pencil?

Phil & Teds tandem sport buggy. Jeez... Where to begin?

I find our easy to steer, fold, and it goes over kerbs just fine with two kids in it. The shopping basket is too low though, I give you that.

By the way, why do carpenters need a special shaped pencil?

mrblobby, it's all [url= http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_pencil ]here. [/url]

Phil & Teds tandem sport buggy. Jeez... Where to begin?

Weird. With 3 kids I reckon it was some of the best money I've ever spent, and we live in a village of no pavements so it's taken a right beating.. and still going strong. It'll resell just fine in a year too.

Fox Flux helmet,

Made me look like Calimero and the strap around the back of my head was so uncomfortable on longer rides.

A cheap kitchen timer so that I would not have to use a watch when I was RCOing a formal shoot with timings. It is/was shite. I ponied up the extra on a decent large display stopwatch that is far, far better. 87p wasted...

Also, my Rover 620 SLDi. The worst car I have ever, ever, EVER bought or driven. EVER. Horrible thing. I only bought it because of the fuel economy, but even that was not as good as expected. Still, at least I drove it until it died. I just wish I could have ensured it stayed dead. Vile car.

The pencils are that shape so a chisel point can be made of the tip, using it in the narrow edge lasts longer when making out as it is effectively a bigger surface. This means you have to sharpen it less times, and sharpening takes (IMO) less time as you are cutting fewer times due to there being four distinct sides (rather than a round or hex shape).

mrblobby - Member
Mudguards from Crud. Rubbish.

Obviously not Racer Guards, cos they are the best thing ever invented. (for road bikes)

Just remembered I brought a suunto altimeter/watch. Completely shite. You had to constantly tell [i]IT[/i] what the atmospheric pressure and often your altitude was. So you knew your altitude because you had to look it up on a ****ing map. You could tell it the pressure and altitude and leave it on the table come back 2 hrs later and it would be showing the wrong altitude. Ridiculous. I didn't really buy it for that feature, I just liked the look of it but the fact that it's main usp was so crap really annoyed me. Sold it for what I brought it for though so no real harm done.

I hope you're taking the piss dez.

Nope.

spikyjames - Member

Fox Flux helmet,

Made me look like Calimero and the strap around the back of my head was so uncomfortable on longer rides.

Exactly my thoughts, I can only assume its designed for people with very skinny necks or who ride bolt upright as if you look up the rear cradle/strap digs into your neck and either pushes the helmet forward over your eyes or up off your head :/

Lyzene shock pump utter pants Gauge was useless, too thin to pump comfortably and broke in two on literally first use. I'll never buy another of their products.

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