Worst Brands for electric/electronic goods?

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Which items have you bought and have been disappointed with over the years?

for me off the top of my head number one would be my cheapo first TV, it was a Sanyo 21" which was fine for tv but it wouldn't pick up my playstation one for some reason? My gran had a rented Sanyo tv at the time as well and it couldn't pick up the freeview box I bought her one year? strange

Panasonic cordless phones...they just don't tend to last very long.
 
Reality|Bites said:
My gran had a rented Sanyo tv at the time as well and it couldn't pick up the freeview box I bought her one year? strange
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Do you mean ONdigital? Freeview wasn't around in the mid 90s when the PS1 was out. I had a Thomson TV at the time, ******* huge thing with Dolby surround speakers built into the cabinet, and that was problematic with the ONdigital box too.
 
I've had nothing but disappointment with Asus personally - especially the supposed premium lines. I've now stopped buying them for good but after initially swearing off them for awhile I ended up buying a couple of things again, due to no one else doing such a device, sadly with similar results.

Had several networking peripherals/routers (and not cheaper ones) which the most run of the mills bits of them failed such as the power switch (resulting in either having to open up and replace and/or hold the device on by gluing the switch), wall adapters failing prematurely, sockets which came loose, etc.

Couple of motherboards (top tier stuff like the Striker Extreme) which were nothing but trouble - North Bridge chip coming loose causing instability/crashes, DIMM sockets degrading, NIC ports degrading, etc. where the RMA replacements within weeks or months were failing the same way. (Eventually just cutting my losses).

Asus ROG Swift monitor which I had to RMA multiple times and the final replacement still died a year later just outside its warranty. (When I opened it up was disgusting for a premium product - bits just slapped in and held in place with silver tape, trash tier soldering which was all brittle and splodgy, cheap and nasty component selection, etc.).
 
TP Link but I've got over myself recently and now have a mostly TP Link networking setup lol.
 
Bosch

Boiler - Died 6 years ago because the mainboard died. Paid for replacement part.
Boiler - Died 4 years ago because the mainboard died. Paid for replacement part.
Boiler - Died last year because of water ingress through the flue. Paid for most of it to be replaced.
Dishwasher - Died 4 years ago because the side exploded outwards. Design fault and replaced for free outside of warranty.
Dishwasher - Died 2 years ago because the pump seized up. Paid for replacement part.
Dishwasher - Died last April because the pump seized up. Paid for replacement part.
Dishwasher - Died last December because the pump seized up. Part replaced for free.
Oven - Died after 6 years because the fan seized up. Design fault but had to pay for repair.

Never touching another Bosch appliance.
 
I'm sure there are thousands of "bad" brands.
Having been burned by Nvidia's infamous solder defect (aka bumbgate), I would be tempted to put them on the list.
But the brand a really came into this thread to mention is Durabrand.
It's a Walmart brand occasionally seen in ASDA when Walmart still owned them.
It's not even particularly nasty (bought a multitool with the brand in ASDA for £15 and it's been okay with very light use), it is just that, well...
...Trust an American company to come up with such an dishonest name as there is nothing durable about their stuff.
Rant over.
 
Mostly everything is trash these days, trading on reputation and brand.

Had LG and Bosch stuff all go bang. My Ranger, HiLux and Discovery have all been let downs all mainly just from the service not the product.

Anything from homebase is dire.
 
dLockers said:
TP Link but I've got over myself recently and now have a mostly TP Link networking setup lol.
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They seem to have made more of an effort of late - revised firmware to fix problems, pushed out new versions of the hardware which are vastly improved on the original release, etc. hopefully that continues.

Reality|Bites said:
doesn't argos own homebase now?
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Think they sold them again but don't quote me on that.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Bosch

Boiler - Died 6 years ago because the mainboard died. Paid for replacement part.
Boiler - Died 4 years ago because the mainboard died. Paid for replacement part.
Boiler - Died last year because of water ingress through the flue. Paid for most of it to be replaced.
Dishwasher - Died 4 years ago because the side exploded outwards. Design fault and replaced for free outside of warranty.
Dishwasher - Died 2 years ago because the pump seized up. Paid for replacement part.
Dishwasher - Died last April because the pump seized up. Paid for replacement part.
Dishwasher - Died last December because the pump seized up. Part replaced for free.
Oven - Died after 6 years because the fan seized up. Design fault but had to pay for repair.

Never touching another Bosch appliance.
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Had a Bosch dishwasher do the same. I have an AEG one now and been rock solid.

My Bosch lawnmower however is 7 Years old and still going strong.

I'm a big fan of LG though.
 
AEG ceramic hob. It arrived already not working: one of the heaters had dropped off the supports.

As for Bosch that Pigeon_Killer was ranting about, my Bosch washing machine if fifteen years old and has never broken down. Yea, that's probably done it.
 
Binatone, Alba and Bush if you’re old like me.

“They bought me a ******* Alba music centre for Christmas” flipping parents :D
 
Housey said:
Binatone, Alba and Bush if you’re old like me.

“They bought me a ******* Alba music centre for Christmas” flipping parents :D
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Bush was right up there with Alba, too.

AIWA was the curve ball. Felt similar brand wise but then Sony snapped them up.
 
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