The Great 'Which gadgets were your biggest waste of cash?' Hunt

bossymoo

The usual juicers, mini choppers etc. and kiddies games consoles (thankfully, hand-me-downs)

But, love:
iPad
Hand blender
Gtech sweeper (use all the time!)
Electric toothbrush

Just wish the kids weren't always after the iPad. I get relegated to reading MSE on my phone :mad:

Elbo

Philips Lumea hair removal gadget, doesn't work. Wasted £400 on this last year.

Clarisonic facial cleaner, cost £108 (and that was on offer).
Worked out my dermolgica facial brush cleaner which cost over £100 less does the same job and the bristles are much more softer on the skin too.

Bliss facial pore cleaner which cost over £100 May as well go to the Body Shop and buy a facial scraper for a lot lot less cash which does the same job!

loracan1

That pasta maker I wanted for years is residing in the back of a cupboard somewhere having been used once. I had such plans.

loracan1

Mr_Toad wrote: »

As for the best gadget.

It has to be a clockwork torch. I have several and keep one in the car.

Hands up all those people who keep a torch in the car and the one time you need to use it the batteries are flat? A wind up torch puts an end to that.

Windup torches are brilliant, even if they don't give off great light they work.

I also keep one of those headtorches (on a band) in the car along with one of those extendable wrenches. I'm fully aware they look a bit weird and my ex laughed at it...until he had a flat tire outside my house and I produced both of them. Makes changing a tire in the dark a darn sight easier.

shjo558

A juicer - was taken in by the price drop tv hype, paid £100 for it.

Was so excited when it arrived, I drove straight up to the supermarket and bought a pineapple at £2 and bag of apples.


Returned home, chopped up the pineapple, juiced it and ended up with about 30 mls of pineapple water.


It was utterly hopeless.


I then tried the apples and what little juice did come out was all brown and oxidised.


It was allowed to live in the cupboard for a while but was subsequently skipped.

prowla

DuncanDavis wrote: »

Any tablet that isn't a Blackberry playbook, it does everything an Android can do but faster, more reliable and with better privacy. And it can run most android apps. And as for the ipad, its cheaper, better and doesn't transfer all kinds of private information to apple.

For me the Blackberry Playbook never really made it. I bought it and it's OK as a handy web browser, but that's about it. And of course I use it so infrequently that the batter is always flat. The iPad blows it out of the water.

But the biggest error I made was in buying a Netbook - I thought it would be a handy carry-about with a bit of storage, but actually the small screen and low-powered CPU means it's just been sat in its pouch in a corner of the room for 2-3 years.

Arbuckle

And with breadmakers I think it depends on the brand as I had one that was brilliant and wore out(!) replaced it with a cheaper model and never bothered after the first time. It helped losing weight though!!

I also have a steam generator iron :T:T:T

Hopeless gadgets -
Battery manicure set
Nintendo wii - don't ask
Pressurised Coffee machine - got 3rd degree burns :eek:
Sewing Machine - still brand new in box
Rotating hair styler - burnt my hair

consultant31

pixiewolfe wrote: »

Amazon Kindle. I had 2, boyfriend had 1 and all 3 broke before a year (or just over). It wasn't a regret buying it, just the short life scan, and the fact if you got a new one you didn't get any extra cover

Gosh you must be heavy handed or very unlucky :eek:

I got my Kindle for my birthday in 2009. It has over a thousand books on it, I use it almost every day and it's still as good as new.

bibbly

Handheld steam cleaner
Battery operated vibrating brush (came free with a vibrating foot pad)
Vibrating foot pad!
Electric mop/floor cleaner thingy

Love
Ipad
Steam generator iron (couldn't do without it as I can iron a short sleeved shirt in 22 seconds!). Yes I'm sad and timed it!

Looking to get an electric can opener and this thread has convinced me

Mr_Toad

prowla wrote: »

But the biggest error I made was in buying a Netbook - I thought it would be a handy carry-about with a bit of storage, but actually the small screen and low-powered CPU means it's just been sat in its pouch in a corner of the room for 2-3 years.

Funny how these things work for different people.

I bought an Acer Aspire One just after they came out, it had Linux as the OS and a 120Gb HDD and cost me £199, they had them on offer in Tesco.

It became the most used PC in the household, despite being Linux, and I rarely got to use it! My daughter thought it was 'cute' and grabbed it at every opportunity, my wife also liked the size and used it for on-line shopping and email rather than going upstairs to use her own PC.

After two weeks of not being able to lay a hand on it I gave in and went and bought another for myself. By then the offer had ended and I had to pay £50 more.

Both are still in daily use.