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I've bought products where I wonder if I am in some alternate reality. They are just so demonstrably awful and did not perform their basic function to the point
by sixothree 7y ago
I've bought products where I wonder if I am in some alternate reality. They are just so demonstrably awful and did not perform their basic function to the point of being borderline false description.
- lukevp 7y agoThe free multimeter from Harbor Freight is like that. One of the leads snapped off internally the first time I used it. I opened it up and it was held against pressure using a plastic weld which had failed immediately.
- nradov 7y agoHarbor Freight is for single-use tools. I think everyone knows that by now.
- rahimnathwani 7y agoThis is not a new phenomenon. About 25 years ago, I bought an airbed and a pump from Argos (UK), a popular bricks and mortar retailer. They had two pumps that worked with that airbed, and I bought the cheaper of the two. But it just didn't work, because of something about the way the tube joined the body of the pump. It didn't look like a manufacturing variation, but a design flaw. I returned the pump and paid more for the more expensive one, which worked fine.