What is the worst item you ever bought. Mine had to be the copper pans on the late night info-mmercial. Junk

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11. A projector that projected videos film-style.

I didn't buy it, my brother did, but I was the one who took it out of the box and used it for the first time. It did everything the manufacturers/marketers claimed, but so what? Unless you projected the image on a clean white wall or projection screen from a very short distance, the image was so dim that you had to have a perfectly dark room to see anything. And if you projected it from a short distance, the image was so small that you lost all advantage of watching the video in that way. Also, you had to project it straight-on. If there was an even slight angle, the image was distorted. That thing was pathetic. It was worse than useless. Nobody would want to watch a video like that. I told my brother his money was wasted, but he was a real pack-rat about things like that and kept it anyway. I don't know if he ever actually used it, though. He died six years ago and I think the useless "projector" was thrown away then.

I bought one of those late-night commercial products that was useless. It was a kerosene-lantern style lamp that ran on batteries. It was supposed to give you something to light your room during power failures, but it wasn't even as good as an ordinary flashlight or a for-real kerosene lantern. Not only that, but during the phone call they kept me on the line for an additional 35 or 40 minutes trying to sell me more stuff. I swore off those late-night commercials because of that experience. I've never bought anything from them since then and never will. And I will never believe the claims presented in those late-night television commercials.

-- Ron