New purchases that are faulty or crap

[Mally Mackem]

Is it just me or is everything you buy nowadays seems to be pot luck.. i got two new tyres 2 weeks ago and one was knackered ater 2 weeks.. my son bought a bairns snooker table from argos and there was no balls with it.. i bought a new parcel shelf hanger for my car and the string is too short.. rant over

 

[Wild Card]

Is it just me or is everything you buy nowadays seems to be pot luck.. i got two new tyres 2 weeks ago and one was knackered ater 2 weeks.. my son bought a bairns snooker table from argos and there was no balls with it.. i bought a new parcel shelf hanger for my car and the string is too short.. rant over

Just about every is shite. If it's not the product, it's the distribution company. Half the reason Amazon is so popular, it nails the distribution and customer side.

Finally caved to the Mrs and bought a ninja air fryer the other week. When it was delivered it was used. Luckily the company give me the money back straight away and it seems so far they have forgot to arrange a pickup.

 

[EDGE]

What does fried air taste like?

 

[Gothdad]

What does fried air taste like?

Probably similar to milled wind, but hotter and greasy.

 

[citybythesea]

Planned obsolescence

Usually cheap stuff from China

Quite often its designed to fail, for you to re-buy it again later….it’s their business model

Best off going elsewhere first

 

[Mally Mackem]

Planned obsolescence

Usually cheap stuff from China

Quite often its designed to fail, for you to re-buy it again later….it’s their business model

Best off going elsewhere first

I personally think this is true.. and they dont really need much qualiity control we the consumers are the quality control we send it back if its shite.. it seems excepted now watever you buy has a chance of being duff more than ever..

 

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[PinzaC55]

Is it just me or is everything you buy nowadays seems to be pot luck.. i got two new tyres 2 weeks ago and one was knackered ater 2 weeks.. my son bought a bairns snooker table from argos and there was no balls with it.. i bought a new parcel shelf hanger for my car and the string is too short.. rant over

You can't get a longer piece of string and fix it ?

 

[Fetch Fletch]

Planned obsolescence

Usually cheap stuff from China

Quite often its designed to fail, for you to re-buy it again later….it’s their business model

Best off going elsewhere first

I find the whole forced obsolescence thing mental. We are told it’s illegal, yet take Apple for instance, a few firmware updates and you can’t use your phone anymore. Same across the board, everything has a shelf life of months nowadays

 

[Gobuchul]

Smartphones are some of the worse for planned obsolescence.

Non-user changeable batteries is the biggest joke, along with the fact that the first thing you have to buy is a case and a screen protector because the things are so femma.

 

[League Wan]

Is it just me or is everything you buy nowadays seems to be pot luck.. i got two new tyres 2 weeks ago and one was knackered ater 2 weeks.. my son bought a bairns snooker table from argos and there was no balls with it.. i bought a new parcel shelf hanger for my car and the string is too short.. rant over

Just saying this today everything we buy whether expensive or cheap is just shite . Ive been building the bairns beds today, they looked decent in the shop but they comes as a flat pack and just seems shite quality. Really can't be arsed to pack them back up and send them back.

 

[EDGE]

Buy cheap, buy twice (at least).

 

[RestlessNatives]

Just about every is shite. If it's not the product, it's the distribution company. Half the reason Amazon is so popular, it nails the distribution and customer side.

Finally caved to the Mrs and bought a ninja air fryer the other week. When it was delivered it was used. Luckily the company give me the money back straight away and it seems so far they have forgot to arrange a pickup.

Looks like your keyboard is knackered as well.

 

[Guinness Guzzler]

One thing I'm sick of is headsets for the Xbox for the bairn. Seems like every one we buy (varying price ranges) break after a few weeks or months, generally due to the microphone bit not working. I'm careful to make sure he uses it properly, it's stored away when he's not using it, but every one breaks. Absolute shite!

 

[The Truth]

Bought the bairn a scalextric set, played with it for a full 10 minutes before one of the cars broke.

 

[Wild Card]

Looks like your keyboard is knackered as well.

My posts are always shite. Cannot be arsed to re-read what I have written.

 

[Mally Mackem]

Buy cheap, buy twice (at least).

part i bought was a proper audi part just the wrong one..

 

[League Wan]

One thing I'm sick of is headsets for the Xbox for the bairn. Seems like every one we buy (varying price ranges) break after a few weeks or months, generally due to the microphone bit not working. I'm careful to make sure he uses it properly, it's stored away when he's not using it, but every one breaks. Absolute shite!

Your not wrong although his latest one is a Microsoft one and it's been the best one either kid has had. At one point I bought my oldest a good one, it knackered within the 12months so took it back at least two times and upgraded each time

 

[Mally Mackem]

You can't get a longer piece of string and fix it ?

no its all moulded at the bottom and the top is the eye that clips onto the borble... ... i could tie a knot with another piece of string if i could find the same string halfway but haway man..

 

[RestlessNatives]

I find the whole forced obsolescence thing mental. We are told it’s illegal, yet take Apple for instance, a few firmware updates and you can’t use your phone anymore. Same across the board, everything has a shelf life of months nowadays

The latest one will support phones released six years ago and older ones will still work if you don't do the update. A line has to be drawn somewhere.