What is the lowest quality product you’ve ever purchased?

[mongostein@lemmy.ca]

A donair from Pizza 73

[mesamunefire@lemmy.world]

I bought an ouya. I remember just about everything sucked. It's the thing that came into mind.

[oberyn@lemmy.world]

Barely working solar charger

[scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech]

Ah floating point math. Works fine for 90% of use cases, until it doesn't.

[Guest]

My wife once bought me a Siar Wars action figure from e bay. Yes that's right Siar Wars. He fall apart immediately upon taking out of the box.

[moonmelon@lemmy.ml]

A pack of six light bulbs. Five of them sheared right off the metal base like wet tissue when I screwed them in, just one right after the other. Fortunately the last one worked. I was a poor college kid with no transport then, so getting that pack of bulbs for my single lamp was a lot of effort, I was disappointed.

[ch00f@lemmy.world]

We bought a shower mat that reeked of plastic offgassing, so we left it outside to air out for a month, and it still smelled like shit, so we threw it away.

[chaoscruiser@futurology.today]

A friend of mine made an online store and he started selling e-waste ahem… various affordable electronics. He wanted me to test a Chinese tablet, and I said yes. This was back in the day when Android Honeycomb was a thing and iPad 2 was a reasonable option, so even the best tablets weren’t that great.

I got the tablet, charged the battery, booted it up, and it was just barely ok. It worked, but it was really slow. I mean, like slower than my first Android phone. This was not even last gen hardware. It was clear that some all corners were cut. The storage, CPU, RAM, bandwidth etc. Everything was as slow as you could get away with.

Anyway, the testing went slowly, as you would expect. It ran out of battery very quickly, because of course it did. Why put large cells or even mediocre quality cells in a cash grab like this. So, I charged it up and continued testing later until it ran out of battery again. Rinse and repeat.

After a few days of testing, It just didn’t boot up any more. Apparently some of those cheap components just couldn’t take the heat that comes with using a battery powered device. Rust in pieces! I hope this abomination gets ground to shreads and drowned in sulfuric acid.

I returned the tablet to my friend and I never heard from it since.

[taalen@lemmy.world]

Might not take #1 spot, but is definitely up there.
A pair of Levi's jeans that were worn through in 2-3 days.

[spittingimage@lemmy.world]

Recycled plastic bin liners. They literally split at the seams as I was peeling them off the roll.

Second place goes to a pair of cheap shoes. Literally walked the soles off them in two weeks.

[ourkaos@lemmy.today]

"full tang" is the wording to look for on knives. I have gotten cheap ones before that had a little foil strip on the plastic handle to make it look like it was all metal.

[bradleyuffner@lemmy.world]

I bought some "Amazon basics" trash bags once. Their sides were not even properly laminated together. Just pulling them off the roll made the sides split open. Never again.

[lowtiercomputer@lemmy.world]

I've had a pair of nail clippers break similarly, but the edge split instead of cutting my nail. I think glass clippers would have been better.

[vaionko@sopuli.xyz]

Considering that a Super Nintendo will not put anything close to being able to shock you out of its ports, I think what actually happened is you shocked shit out of it and that killed it. Cus static electricity n stuff

[inenduringgrowstrong@sh.itjust.works]

Trash trash bags, hmm.

[bradleyuffner@lemmy.world]

They were so shit that I couldn't even use one to throw the rest away. I had to go out and buy some real bags just to get rid of them.

[hootinnhollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I purchased sunglasses in the Philippines and they broke the same day. I purchased a different pair from a different stand and they broke the same day. Im convinced the defective bottom of the barrel get dumped onto the Philippines

[darkdemize@sh.itjust.works]

Could be. I was sitting on the carpet. I've never seen anything like it before or since, though.

[kng@feddit.rocks]

I bought a desoldering iron for a project I was working on. Seemed to work fine although the thing had no power switch and was very uncomfortable to hold. I just needed it for one project so it made sense and I think it had a fair amount of compromises given the savings. Sometimes cheap does make sense

[Guest]

Those Dollar Store umbrellas! They are so shit they will break if the slightest bit of wind hits them, or maybe the flimsy metal frame breaks from closing it.

Sure it's from the Dollar Store, but I've bought lots of things from there that have last a decent around of time.