What was your worst ever purchase?

[SleepingBeauty]

Mine has to be a OJON set especially the Hair Restorative Treatment! The smell was awful, some say it smells like chocolate! more like an old ashtray

Could be the Skagen TSV, if reports from other contributors are correct,still awaiting its delivery anyway

 

[Mrs James]

The Crock'o'sh**e

 

[Evie]

A pasta maker. My kitchen looked like a disaster area, I was covered in flour and after several attempts I gave up and called CS. They arranged to pick it up from home and gave me £10 in compensation! Greg and Max had made it look so easy!!!

 

[bbelle]

The Crock'o'sh**e

Is that the B&W bag or have I missed something here?

 

[Mrs James]

Is that the B&W bag or have I missed something here?

That's the villain....

 

[Evie]

The Crock'o'sh**e

Yes, that was sooo bad but the laugh it gave us more than made up for it! What an expensive piece of plastic that was!

 

[Fraggle]

That pasta thing - basically a pot that you poured water into to heat up pasta. I thought it would be useful for when I stay away from home and I get back to hotels late as I could just take dry pasta with me and use a kettle in the room to make it.

Result: soggy, half cooked, half raw pasta that tasted like crap.

Didn't take me long to realise i'd paid way over the odds for this rubbish gadget when a 79p Pot Noodle works just as well

It went back and I resolved never to watch late night shows again, clearly my wits are addled after 11pm!

 

[dollydimple]

ooh, one of mine was the terrible ' No wet wonder foam' utter carp but I fell for the hard sell :hypnotise:. It went back rapid.

 

[AngelGab]

This thread is really good - cos I've often wondered if that pasta pot is any good - now I know (thanks Fraggle)......

I hate to say it but one of my worst purchases was a Models Prefer TSV - it was in an all singing all dancing faux croc vanity case - contents were terrible though - for some reason I didn't return the damn thing....

I'm older and wiser now......very rarely fall for the TSV hype now ...even resisted the Lola Rose (what a let down)....

 

[Pinkearplugs]

Has to be a pair of Markon boots.

 

[SleepingBeauty]

Hi ya, my sister returned 3 pairs!

 

[SleepingBeauty]

That pasta thing - basically a pot that you poured water into to heat up pasta. I thought it would be useful for when I stay away from home and I get back to hotels late as I could just take dry pasta with me and use a kettle in the room to make it.

Result: soggy, half cooked, half raw pasta that tasted like crap.

Didn't take me long to realise i'd paid way over the odds for this rubbish gadget when a 79p Pot Noodle works just as well

It went back and I resolved never to watch late night shows again, clearly my wits are addled after 11pm!

thanks for that, hubby and i had good laugh! Ive seen them play about with it in studio and often wondered,even considered getting one,glad i didnt.

 

[Fraggle]

... a close second would be a pair of slimming pants (can't remember the brand.. not Spanx, the other one). I wriggled and fought my way into them and frankly it was like being encased in concrete from the waist down! I had to ask hubby to help me get them off and everytime I tugged at them I started to giggle because I kept remembering that scene in Bridget Jones with the enormous pants

They were also returned post haste!

 

[bbelle]

Is that the B&W bag or have I missed something here?

That's the villain....

Always thought you were a lady of taste. Shows how wrong I was. Lol

That pasta thing - basically a pot that you poured water into to heat up pasta. I thought it would be useful for when I stay away from home and I get back to hotels late as I could just take dry pasta with me and use a kettle in the room to make it.

Result: soggy, half cooked, half raw pasta that tasted like crap.

Didn't take me long to realise i'd paid way over the odds for this rubbish gadget when a 79p Pot Noodle works just as well

It went back and I resolved never to watch late night shows again, clearly my wits are addled after 11pm!

Always wondered what that would be like Fraggle. Now I know not to buy, so thanks!

 

[a107]

worst purchase a centigrade winter coat which was supposed to be brand new but had scrunched up tissue in the pocket yuuuukkkkkk and it was a dreadful fit. also the gt express snack maker, everything i made stuck to it unless i coated it with oil or butter or it was made with fatty chesse etc,so it went back.

 

[bbelle]

worst purchase a centigrade winter coat which was supposed to be brand new but had scrunched up tissue in the pocket yuuuukkkkkk and it was a dreadful fit. also the gt express snack maker, everything i made stuck to it unless i coated it with oil or butter or it was made with fatty chesse etc,so it went back.

I got a Centigrade coat too- it was horribly made and the cloth was cheap and nasty looking. Had quite forgotten about it.

 

[dingledangle]

It was a Centigrade coat for me, too. It was made of suede and the 'real leather smell' was so bad that it stank us out of home and hearth. I had to hang it outside in the shed until I could get round to returning it. So if you ever received a Centigrade coat with a mouse/rat/spider in the pocket - that was meee!:grin2::grin2::grin2:

 

[Jenni1]

That pasta thing - basically a pot that you poured water into to heat up pasta. I thought it would be useful for when I stay away from home and I get back to hotels late as I could just take dry pasta with me and use a kettle in the room to make it.

Result: soggy, half cooked, half raw pasta that tasted like crap.

Didn't take me long to realise i'd paid way over the odds for this rubbish gadget when a 79p Pot Noodle works just as well

It went back and I resolved never to watch late night shows again, clearly my wits are addled after 11pm!

Thanks for that, thought aabout buying one of these now I needn't bother.

 

[Pinkearplugs]

Glitter gold earirngs let me down.

 

[beauty junkie]

Freeze 24/7 what a load of rubbish it just made my skin feel dry and did nothing for any lines.