Shitty products.....

[bryan_kilco]

Girlfriend got me a 22" Sylvania LCD tv for Xmas....the thing always made this horrid high pitched buzzing tone/hum from the rear side of it....

Came home today, buzzing louder than normal.....Standby light is OFF, and the thing will not turn on. Awesoooooome.

 

[JayB]

I bought a Toshiba 1 TB external hard drive and it won't even mount or reformat. So I'm sending them back a brand new drive for a refurbished one. GO TOSHIBA

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Oh man, fuck both of those companies. haha

I had some microwav that wal mart sells that also had a grill inside (yeah you heard right, a grilling element in a microwav).

Needless to say that shit almost set my apartment on fire, amazing that it was allowed on the market IMO:

It was this (notice it the one star rating):
http://www.google.com/products/cata...og_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDAQ8wIwAg#

 

[Chris_P_Critter]

You should have a waranty - send it back!

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

Sylvania, Emerson, Memorex, GPX, they're all shit - I hate that they're pretty much the only brands we sell for portable CD/DVD players (and standalone home DVD players) at Radio Shack, cuz even though I feel bad selling them to people, well, homie gotta get paid, which heightens the guilt even further But at least we have Sony and Samsung Blu-Ray players, and some decent stereos with iPod docks (and of course brand-name GPS's, cameras, laptops, routers, cell phones, etc.)

 

[timislegend]

i spend $8.99 on the finest 6 rolls of toilet paper that money can buy. (because i care about what i wipe my ass with).


i am willing to bet that it costs more to manufacture my toilet paper than this brand's version of an lcd screen.



just sayin'



edit: in case anyone cares... renova

 

[006]

Wait, Marcus, people still buy/companies still make portable CD players? :zombie:

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

Haha, yup, mostly the elderly So I guess it makes sense that RS wouldn't bother stocking high-quality products of obsolete tech

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Last time I saw a portable CD player it was $18!

My first portable CD player was a brick, no skip protection and ate batteries like a motherfucker (I think it was 2 AA batteries per CD ).

The last CD player before I stopped listening to CD's on headphones ran on one AA battery (and it ran for quite a few hours before dying), had 60 seconds of skip protection and shock protection, read mp3 files and was water resistant and was just over the size of a CD.

Fuckin technology man, haha.