Products That Don't Do What They Claim

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Have you ever bought a product only to find out it does not do what they say it should do?
Take Cascade Complete for example. They claim you can put dirty dishes in the dishwasher and this stuff is suppose to disololve the food off the dishes. Of course, I tried it. And there was still food on the dishes!

 

Well, I think that the amount of food still on the dishes kinda comes into account as well. How much was there still on it?

I once bought a lamp that didn't make any light. (yes I put in a perfectly good lightbulb) I also have a boomerang that doesn't come back to me when I throw it, but that might not be because of the boomerang

 

If you include voting as buying then government is by far the most significant example.

 

My mother-in-law, officially a thing and not a person, is always saying how she'll shut up and leave, but she never does!

Seriously, I slipped in the common sense department and bought Ron Popeil's Rotisserie. It is not nearly as easy to use as he says, and it doesn't do nearly the job he says it will. My own blasted fault for buying something from the TV, I suppose. I should know better.

 

Damn those TV shopping hosts! They're the scourge of humanity. They're almost as bad as telemarketers.

 

Any Microsoft product goes.....

 

NWN

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- Fast-paced RPG with an easily accessible interface suitable for new players and RPG veterans.... NOT
- Over 60 hours of single-player adventure... If you can play the game for sixty hours without killing your computer out of pure frustration
- The multiplayer experience of a lifetime within a huge online environment..... HAHAHAHAHHAH!
- two things that can be true, or are close to it
- Exciting, beautifully rendered 3D environments.... uh-huh
- and another thing which is close to thruth

 

The album White Ladder, by David Gray.

The Times claims it makes your life feel better by it's mere existence.

However, as great an album as it is, it did quite the opposite to me, and send me spiralling into a nervous breakdown.

 

Oh and my monitor is supposed to be 15 inch...

 

I bought an electric razor that said it was the best razor in it's class. First off...how or why does a razor have a class? And secondly, it cut me more than a nervous barber with a straight blade razor. I wonder what would have happened if I got the $55 one.

 

I had the exact same experience Depaara.

 

Khelben, if moniters are anything like TVs, it measures from one corner to the opposite one.

 

I bought a cd player who said " High quality sound " but my grand mother old radio ( I think she bought it in 85 wich mean that it is older than me...) ans it sound better!

 

Well i knew that.
My monitor is smaller than 15 inch and it's darker than it normally should be (i know the gamma and contrast features).

 

I recall a commercial for some dish detergent where the model took a freshly baked cake, frosting and all, and put the whole kit and kaboodle in the dishwasher. When it came out, only the spotless plate remained.

WOW! A detergent that destroys matter.

 

No kidding? And then they wonder why ppl are lacking interest in voting. I for one know that no matter who gets elected for what, the general machinery of bureucracy and slow handling makes sure nothing will ever change here. I mean, what's the likelyness of 200 people ever agreeing on anything. I still don't know who's the ape called Bush's puppetmaster, so I'll leave him out of this.

 

I bought one of those multi-pens, you know, the 'ten-pens-in-one' pens, and there was a money back guarantee on it so you could send it back if it didn't work. It didnt work and there was no address to send it to, and the shop refused to take it back!!

GUTTED

 

Those "Performance Enhancing" herbs (don't ask)

Marriage Vows

 

ANYTHING which mentions the words "planetary alignment" or... (shudder)... "crystals." New-Age pseudo-crap just annoys the hell out of me.