The Worst Products Ever!

[Zetona]

I was just on another thread where the Snuggie was brought up. Essentially, it's a blanket with sleeves. The ad promises that you won't need to expose your arms to the cold to turn the pages while lying under a blanket.

Which leads to the question: What are the stupidest or shoddiest products you have ever seen or used? Tell your funny story or warn your fellow Escapists about shoddy products to avoid.

 

[KungFuMaster]

I saw that commercial...it was like an over-sized robe turned around backwards...

Sham-wow. A chamois is a chamois is a chamois, fer chrissakes...unfortunately, my wife was suckered in...

Also, anything Billy Mays sells that isn't Oxy Clean.

Chef Tony, avoid the fucker like the plague.

EDIT I watch way too much bad television.

 

[CIA]

I love the part in the Sunggie commercial where the whole family is at the "sporting event." They all look like members of a cult, specificly, the Mythic Dawn.

 

[fluffylandmine]

I love the part in the Sunggie commercial where the whole family is at the "sporting event." They all look like members of a cult, specificly, the Mythic Dawn.

I found that the old man lounging around in his chair was comical. Like a cult leader in his day off.

Back on hand: Does anyone remember those knives that were sold in the 1970s(I saw an old ad), something like banzi or something. Those apparently don't work well.

 

[crepesack]

the bedazzle, seriously why the hell would you wanna cover your clothing with shiny plastic stickers, the shamwow is a close second.

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

the bedazzle, seriously why the hell would you wanna cover your clothing with shiny plastic stickers, the shamwow is a close second.

But its a shammie AND a towel!!

 

[Incompl te]

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=gw1g2yKxb0I&feature=related

ahahahahahah is all i can say

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Obama towel holder [http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vt_related_1&listing_id=20061625].

 

[Molten Discharge]

Clap on. *clap clap* Clap off. *clap clap* Clap on, clap off - it's the clapper.

Sweet Jesus no! That is all.

 

[Sketchy]

Billy Mays' Big City Sliders!

It's kinda like a grill press, but with circles where you put the ingredients for your patties in. "No more flippin' and floppin'."

Looks so stupid. I have only seen it on youtube though, we don't get Billy Mays in Australia.

 

[MotionOTheOcean]

Two words...DVD Rewinder...look it up it exists

 

[Copter400]

Does anyone remember those knives that were sold in the 1970s(I saw an old ad), something like banzi or something. Those apparently don't work well.

Damn, you know you suck at your job when you make sharp bits of metal that don't work well.

I'm going to site [a href=http://www.cracked.com/article_15768_as-seen-on-tv-10-most-laughably-misleading-ads.html]Cracked's[/a] Magnescribe Pen, for being an absurdly clunky, thirty-dollar pen you have to wear around your neck to demonstrate your poor judgement to the world.

 

[Zetona]

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=gw1g2yKxb0I&feature=related

ahahahahahah is all i can say

That was fucking hilarious. Like the SNL skit for the Jar Glove, but an actual product.

 

[GammaZord]

Nickelback

 

[Mumpadump]

Along with the snuggie commercials which are extremely annoying, I am also put off by the commercials for the "Ped Egg" which is an egg shaped, foot scraper/corn remover. I just don't get it.

 

[aussiesniper]

The "Thinkquit" anti-smoking system. It's a cheap MP3 player with a recording of someone telling you not to smoke, repeated with enough slight variations to form eleven chapters of talking.

EDIT:

Along with the snuggie commercials which are extremely annoying, I am also put off by the commercials for the "Ped Egg" which is an egg shaped, foot scraper/corn remover. I just don't get it.

I don't get it either, partly because I don't see why people would be looking at your feet, let alone the soles of your feet.

 

[Glerken]

Lol, what's with the hate on shamwow? Vince is my hero.

Billy Mays and all his products however...
Another product I saw was some rubber sort of thing that apparently fixed leaks, could pull a truck, hold shelves up ect. Not so sure that that worked.

 

[Mstrswrd]

The "Thinkquit" anti-smoking system. It's a cheap MP3 player with a recording of someone telling you not to smoke, repeated with enough slight variations to form eleven chapters of talking.

I was going to say the clapper and agree with Molten Discharge, but, instead, this gets my vote.