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Generally Speaking => Power On => Topic started by: Tupin on October 09, 2007, 04:45:32 PM

Title: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Tupin on October 09, 2007, 04:45:32 PM
My PS2 just wouldn't read any discs anymore until we got it professionally cleaned. ::)
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: えっちーせんぱい on October 09, 2007, 04:46:18 PM
My old PS2. What the intercourse , didn't even last 3 months >_>
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Friendly Hostile on October 09, 2007, 04:48:09 PM
My first Mp3 player.  So glitchy.
Also haha, my PS2 is still going stong.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: bluaki on October 09, 2007, 04:48:46 PM
Pelican anything. Thread over. :|

Seriously, they suck that bad. Normally, the worst you get with 3rd party accessories is it not working out of the box. With Pelican, it can do any or all of the following:
1. Not work out of the box
2. Short-circuit your game system
3. Make your system overheat
4. Render the system unusable

Meh, I'm glad that I've only had 1&2 happen to me, but I've seen all four happen to somebody else all with one use of the same accessory...
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Red on October 09, 2007, 04:50:45 PM
My toe nail, came off like that.

For real; My first cell phone... 2 days.... >:(
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Insane Asylum on October 09, 2007, 04:51:01 PM
The 360.  Piece of poop barely lasted 3 months.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Trini on October 09, 2007, 04:55:45 PM
Quote from: bluaki on October 09, 2007, 04:48:46 PM
Pelican anything. Thread over. :|

Seriously, they suck that bad. Normally, the worst you get with 3rd party accessories is it not working out of the box. With Pelican, it can do any or all of the following:
1. Not work out of the box
2. Short-circuit your game system
3. Make your system overheat
4. Render the system unusable

Meh, I'm glad that I've only had 1&2 happen to me, but I've seen all four happen to somebody else all with one use of the same accessory...
I've never had a problem with them. :P It was mad catz that didn't work out for me. :D
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Tupin on October 09, 2007, 04:57:47 PM
Quote from: bluaki on October 09, 2007, 04:48:46 PM
Pelican anything. Thread over. :|

Seriously, they suck that bad. Normally, the worst you get with 3rd party accessories is it not working out of the box. With Pelican, it can do any or all of the following:
1. Not work out of the box
2. Short-circuit your game system
3. Make your system overheat
4. Render the system unusable

Meh, I'm glad that I've only had 1&2 happen to me, but I've seen all four happen to somebody else all with one use of the same accessory...
I have some 3rd party GCN controller that I use just because it has a fan in it and is very ergonomic. ;D
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: JOSEGRANADOS95 on October 09, 2007, 04:58:52 PM
a nes clone
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: bluaki on October 09, 2007, 05:01:53 PM
Quote from: Trini on October 09, 2007, 04:55:45 PM
Quote from: bluaki on October 09, 2007, 04:48:46 PM
Pelican anything. Thread over. :|

Seriously, they suck that bad. Normally, the worst you get with 3rd party accessories is it not working out of the box. With Pelican, it can do any or all of the following:
1. Not work out of the box
2. Short-circuit your game system
3. Make your system overheat
4. Render the system unusable

Meh, I'm glad that I've only had 1&2 happen to me, but I've seen all four happen to somebody else all with one use of the same accessory...
I've never had a problem with them. :P It was mad catz that didn't work out for me. :D
The only thing I've had happen with Mad Catz is memory loss when I left a gamecube memory card in my mother's car for a week (during summer in Florida).
I've gotten a Pelican GBA link cable, my GBA immediately turned off from being short-circuited as soon as I connected it. Same thing with a GBA-GCN cord, except it made both the Gamecube and the GBA turn off and the cord got pretty hot. I've seen somebody use a rechargeable Pelican battery pack for the GBA and his system got fried the second that he turned it on.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: StarWindWizard7 on October 09, 2007, 05:12:49 PM
Those stupid Madcatz Game Cube/Nintendo 64 Controllers.   :robotindifferent:
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Judas on October 09, 2007, 05:16:35 PM
Windows XP. psyduck;
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 05:17:37 PM
Sony CD burner.
It worked for 2 months, ate a CD, and died.
Worst $70 ever spent.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Cecil_and_Kain on October 09, 2007, 05:20:11 PM
Quote from: Snorkel on October 09, 2007, 05:16:35 PM
Windows XP. psyduck;
You probably don't understand how to work it.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Cardinal on October 09, 2007, 05:21:20 PM
My Windows ME computer.

I swear, it freezes if you move the mouse.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: sonicdude164 on October 09, 2007, 05:23:27 PM
Quote from: Snorkel on October 09, 2007, 05:16:35 PM
Windows XP. psyduck;
High five

I agree with the third party accesorys and everything, but also my brother's acion replay. Piece of poop lasted 2 weeks before it broke
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Cecil_and_Kain on October 09, 2007, 05:27:22 PM
My Madcatz dancemat. Piece o' crap.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Fell on October 09, 2007, 05:30:59 PM
Pelican brand N64 controler.

My sister tripped on it, and it broke. >_>
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Omega Pirate on October 09, 2007, 06:02:49 PM
Xbox 360..although really it was a dumb design more than a build quality thing.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: ResidentZoidberg on October 09, 2007, 06:06:17 PM
ALl 3 of my PS2s work fantastic, and two I've had since launch however many years ago. The other would be a slim. And, I've dropped them, had a 40" TV fall onto one of off a 5ft dresser, etc. Maybe you guys just suck?  ???

Also, my first MP3 player. A Rio that broke and I never got to work. Though there's probably been worse.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: NJNETSFAN15 on October 09, 2007, 06:15:20 PM
Gamecube <-<

Everybody in the world, but mine's, gamecube lasted forever. mine died out in like, 4 or five months.

My ps2, on the other hand, has lasted me a couple years. Anything madcatz. Madcatz controllers, specifically. they are poorly made, and I've had one break in a world record 2 sessions of timesplitters future perfect.

<_< that made me mad, couldn't shoot anymore. Oui.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Zovistograt on October 09, 2007, 06:29:33 PM
Can't remember the exact name of it, but it was this stupid "virtual piano" thing where you put on these weird gloves and it's supposed to be like a piano without the piano.

It was hard to press the "keys" fast
It was hard to get more than one sound out of it at a time
IT ONLY HAD TEN FREAKING NOTES (one for each finger)
It was really crappy sound
It broke after a few weeks
It cost 50 bucks.

I think I gave them away somewhere...I felt like selling them would be unfair to the person who bought it.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 06:44:41 PM
Oh, and also my first 2 mp3 players. (Sandisk Sansa m240s)
The first fell off my bed (a distance of less than 1 foot) onto carpet...and the volume button broke, jamming it as high as it could go.
The second one had a bad headphone jack.
Third one's perfect. :)
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Zovistograt on October 09, 2007, 06:45:24 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 06:44:41 PM
Oh, and also my first 2 mp3 players. (Sandisk Sansa m240s)
The first fell off my bed (a distance of less than 1 foot) onto carpet...and the volume button broke, jamming it as high as it could go.
The second one had a bad headphone jack.
Third one's perfect. :)
mmm is it an e200 series?
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 06:56:22 PM
Quote from: Zovistograt on October 09, 2007, 06:45:24 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 06:44:41 PM
Oh, and also my first 2 mp3 players. (Sandisk Sansa m240s)
The first fell off my bed (a distance of less than 1 foot) onto carpet...and the volume button broke, jamming it as high as it could go.
The second one had a bad headphone jack.
Third one's perfect. :)
mmm is it an e200 series?
m240.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Mystic on October 09, 2007, 06:57:39 PM
PS1
PS2
Sony batteries
Sony Answering Machine

I see a trend...
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 07:04:05 PM
Quote from: Mystic Swampert on October 09, 2007, 06:57:39 PM
PS1
PS2
Sony batteries
Sony Answering Machine

I see a trend...
I dunno, my Sony Trinitron lasted over 20 years before crapping out.
...I only owned it for 5 or 6 of those 20 years, though. :P
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: YoshiGal7 on October 09, 2007, 07:04:24 PM
My face. :(
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 07:06:10 PM
Quote from: YoshiGal7 on October 09, 2007, 07:04:24 PM
My face. :(
:(
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: YoshiGal7 on October 09, 2007, 07:06:51 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 07:06:10 PM
Quote from: YoshiGal7 on October 09, 2007, 07:04:24 PM
My face. :(
:(
I had to send it in for repair at least 201809 times. D:
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 07:07:31 PM
Quote from: YoshiGal7 on October 09, 2007, 07:06:51 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 07:06:10 PM
Quote from: YoshiGal7 on October 09, 2007, 07:04:24 PM
My face. :(
:(
I had to send it in for repair at least 201809 times. D:
D:
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Jono2 on October 09, 2007, 07:09:12 PM
All plastic rulers.

don't know why I kept buying them.

bendy rulers FTW.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: YoshiGal7 on October 09, 2007, 07:09:39 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 07:07:31 PM
Quote from: YoshiGal7 on October 09, 2007, 07:06:51 PM
Quote from: Silverhawk79 on October 09, 2007, 07:06:10 PM
Quote from: YoshiGal7 on October 09, 2007, 07:04:24 PM
My face. :(
:(
I had to send it in for repair at least 201809 times. D:
D:

I sent it in last year and they haven't returned it yet.
Title: Re: Most terribly built product you've ever owned?
Post by: Tsu on October 09, 2007, 07:19:22 PM
Quote from: bluaki on October 09, 2007, 04:48:46 PM
Pelican anything. Thread over. :|

Seriously, they suck that bad. Normally, the worst you get with 3rd party accessories is it not working out of the box. With Pelican, it can do any or all of the following:
1. Not work out of the box
2. Short-circuit your game system
3. Make your system overheat
4. Render the system unusable

Meh, I'm glad that I've only had 1&2 happen to me, but I've seen all four happen to somebody else all with one use of the same accessory...

My old Madcatz PS1 controller shorted out 4 PS1's. I stopped using it when I found out the controller was the problem.