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I wish I could afford to do that with all the expensive-to-purcase-and-repair stuff I've bought over the years - items that have turned out to be expensive lemo
by hilbert42 5y ago
I wish I could afford to do that with all the expensive-to-purcase-and-repair stuff I've bought over the years - items that have turned out to be expensive lemons and a waste of money. Same goes for all the badly designed junk where user ergonomics was never considered as a part of the design plan.
A while ago it occurred to me to put my reasonably large collection (already stored in anticipation) in the carpark of a industrial estate I've access to and run over/smash them with the forklift with a camera crew to hand (I've even a favorite cameraman in mind and he's already been worded up).
...And I've special plans for inkjet printers that take forever setting themselves up before deciding to print.
Given the terrible dropoff in after sales service offered by manufacturers, especially so over the last few decades, it seems to me that this form of 'destruction' shaming is a very legitimate way of getting attention to the problem that's otherwise not possible to ordinary consumers. Platforms such as YouTube are ideal for this as the audience is potentially very large and thus manufacturers would have to take note of the bad publicly.
However, I reckon such spectacles shouldn't just become circuses - or means for manufacturers to seek revenge on those who dared post such content. Thus, if such destruction spectacles are to achieve anything meaningful then it seems to me that it's important we demonstrate the very real problems that we users are experiencing with the equipment we've purchased and show that manufacturers' indifference to the problems is a very significant issue. We need to be very clear about this before we destroy anything.
- mardiyah 5y agoAbsolute information feed gem Beautiful also "Wasting Money on a Lemon"