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

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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Samsung Galaxy S. Great phone, except when writing to the flash storage, it would completely lock up. So in the middle of writing a text, it would start doing an update and you'd have to just put it down and come back to it 5 minutes later. Even the power button wouldn't dim the screen, it was absolutely locked solid until it finished.

Pace RC405. Moaned about this before on here. Apparently massively falling rate design, coupled with rocker arm hitting the pivot brace at full compression meant even with a Push tuned shock with a custom bottom out bumper you'd have virtually no small bump movement, then it'd bottom out with a harsh metal-on-metal thud as soon as you went over a rock. In hindsight I wonder if the pivot had been welded in the wrong place or something. Looked nice though. Oh except for the paint, which lost its shine on the top tube after a single ride!

Water bottle from sainsburys. The sealer nib thingy is made of sharp plastic not rubber, and it's incredibly tight. Can't get enough purchase with your hands to open it, but if you try and use your mouth, the sharp edges virtually guarantee a cut to your mouth. The bottle cage it came with snapped on the first ride and pinged said bottle into a muddy field.

Soft close bog seat. Quite expensive. Problem is that it will not stay balanced upright like a normal seat, despite adjustment. So in the middle of the night, you go for a wee, lift the lid and off you go. Mid flow it descends into the stream and causes severe splashback and sock wettage.

Ellsworth I.D

Quinny buzz 3.

Heavy, bukly, doesn't roll nicely, hard to manouver, expensive, impossible to strap child to, doesn't fit a buggy board, pay extra for the accessories, POS.

Now have a Phil & Teds Sport double which, despite earlier rants, is a brilliant peice of kit.

Peugeot 306 (that was expensive to get it past 1st MOT, and the safety recalls were fixed FoC!)

KMC 9sp chain
The chain splitter bit on a Specialized multitool

Fortunately the free app for the local trams was superb, and was extremely useful 😉

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

The wife had 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.

+1 to most of that. Considering the new price we have been considerably underwhelmed by the Phil & Teds tandem.
Compared to the Nipper 360 single it replaced, it is incredibly complicated, very heavy (even accounting for the extra needed to carry 2 children) and it steers like a pig as the handle is too far forward relative to the rear wheels. The latter point also makes it a bit of a dog getting up and down steps and a even steering in a straight line on uneven pavements. I'd have replaced it with a tandem nipper in a heartbeat if we could have gotten one through the front door.

Cycling wise my Heckler was just terrible and I was embarrassed to be seen on it. Old school xc geometry given a couple more inches travel and a few more pounds weight. Didn't last long.

any can opener that isn't one of these [img] [/img]

Cycling wise my Heckler was just terrible

I've got a can opener like that - it won't even cut through the lid! Utterly useless, had to use a pair of scissors to get the blueberries out when me and my boy made some muffins! Argh!

Campagnolo rear mech shifter unit. Currently with the manufacturer for correction... 😐

Quinny buzz 3.

Heavy, bukly, doesn't roll nicely, hard to manouver, expensive, impossible to strap child to, doesn't fit a buggy board, pay extra for the accessories, POS.

Now have a Phil & Teds Sport double which, despite earlier rants, is a brilliant peice of kit.

Strangely I can agree with all of that, made the same switch!

I've got a can opener like that - it won't even cut through the lid!

(and even when knackered you can normally cut the lid in ~8mm sections at a time used like a pair of snips)