What products are just designed to break, so you buy just another (new) one ?...

Doug · May 22, 2007

there must be shitloads of stuff that could be made to last better than they are are now.

A common one for me is the AC cord for a laptop... costs about $100 if you buy it retail at Radioshack, maybe $20 on ebay. The cost has to be mainly the transformer, they could use reinforcements where it plugs into the computer and/or strong heavy gauge wire between transformer and laptop.

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another one :

collars for pets like a cat: they now have an elastic loop thing designed to stretch, allowing the cat or whatever critter to escape the collar if they get hooked.

that could be made a bit stronger, to last better. Collar breaks... I buy elastic cord for $1 (yards of it,needing only a Skinsraj28 penis length worth ! ) to fix it, instead of a new collar for $8 or so.

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So what crap is just made shoddy on purpose, in your opinion ? :missingte

Fighting_Irishman · May 22, 2007

Light Bulbs.....

FI

LEYKIS101 · May 22, 2007

Frigidaire appliances, mainly refrigerators and dishwashers, absolute garbage.

levistep · May 22, 2007

Hamsters.

gtc08 · May 22, 2007

Timetopay · May 22, 2007

Wives

Doug · May 22, 2007

I don't wear shoes ( unless somebody dies) but I can never replace sneakler laces ( usually have to buy them at Walmart) with anything close (in quality)to what came with the sneakers to start with !

by the time those replacement sneakerlaces croak ( about two weeks) you need new choes !

Whyizzit they don't give you at least one set of replacement laces with the $150 tennis shoes ?

You can't buy the right laces ever again !

Could it be they want you to buy the shoes again , instead of the laces?

Its never right once the laces wear out !

You need to know about aiglets, or is it aglets ? :think2:

Doug · May 22, 2007

levistep said:
Hamsters.

Levi : Have you ever bought a lightbulb at Joblot ?

Doug · May 23, 2007

Here's a good one, its a dental flossing tool with replaceable heads, made by Reach

good idea, but the heads are like 15 cents each, Walmart makes a handheld tool that costs like $2 for 100, and is more complex to manufacture than the head J&J sells.... they give away this tool quite often at store demos (handle and one head) so you buy the replacements at 8X what they should cost... must be a patent so Walmart can't make them,yet.

quantumleap · May 23, 2007

Anything petrochemical: tires, pantyhose, etc.

American cars.

Doug · May 23, 2007

gtc08 said:
cars

Cars are way better now than ever before, a car can go 200k miles pretty easily, 30 years ago 100k was the exception.

HarryCaray · May 23, 2007

I am convinced Playstation 3 is already developed before PS2 comes out, etc. That type of thing.

I guarantee Golden Tee 2010 already exists.

It's called "planned obsolescence."

Doug · May 23, 2007

quantumleap said:
Anything petrochemical: tires, pantyhose, etc.

American cars.

pantyhose I'll bet are made to decay superfast, wouldn't have came up with that one.

Tires seems a bit more of a stretch.

Doug · May 23, 2007

appliances seems a good answer, crap like coffeemakers ( a year max) refrigerators and dishwashers are bad

electronics

clothing ( buttons and zippers)

kids toys, pet toys

Doug · May 23, 2007

lamps

We should be able to build a light fixture that lasts 100 years+

I'd almost say furniture and tools, but you can buy furniture made by somebody other than Sauder, and good tools that are guaranteed forever. So that's not really fair.

Journeyman · May 23, 2007

Wiffle Balls.

Doug · May 23, 2007

Journeyman said:
Wiffle Balls.

I can understand disposable in some cases... what's a whiffle ball and bat cost ($4-5 bucks ?).

I have a bigger problem with the laptop cord... that can be made more durable.

Sneaker lace replacements bug me too, you can never get replacements as good as the originals....NEVER ! In fact you often have to comprimise and cut an aglet, shorten the ace, and use scotch tape to ****** rig an aglet.

Doug · May 23, 2007

This is classic example, they just want that 4cents worth of elastic cord to break,ASAP !

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ZZZSpeedster · May 23, 2007

Razor Blades!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey we'll give you the Razor for free, but the blades cost $3 a piece!!!!!

and the real joke is the little "strip" thats supposed to tell you when its time to replace the blade! they wear out after 3 uses, god help the people that actually go by that!

BIGGEST RIP EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Presto · May 23, 2007

personal radios, undershirts, fans, from back in the day VCR's, printers, lawnmowers, last but not least politicians

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