What did you buy that looked great on paper ?

But in reality was a huge disappointment ?
I bought a Valve stereo (with CD bluetooth and DAB radio ) cos I thought valves are cool and it was 65 Watt RMS to use with my computer for you tube videos !
But it shuts down if you leave it off for two minutes (no way of changing that function ) and takes a full minute to switch back on as the valves have to be preheated ( counts down from ten Flashing to one ) which is annoying making it completely useless for what I bought it for ! so I use it at work as a really fucking expensive radio on my desk !
what was yours ?

 

My parents bought this 5 egg cooker.
They went to use it and the whole thing melted on them.

 

this looks great on paper:



i can't say it's ever been a huge disappointment though.

 

Champagne, fancy reputation.......tastes like arse!

 

A samsung phone. It kept on shutting down on me.

 

A Filter ??

 

Probably a PC on ebay. But really it wasn't even good on paper, I just thought all the numbers looked big so it must be good. Lol. When you don't know what you're looking at, just adding a number to the end of GTX like GTX2400 well fuck yeah that sounds good. Gotta be better than the 2300. We'll whatever I got wasn't. and I've had to live with it for years.

 

not the part i was referring to, but it might actually be a good answer for this thread. it seems like a good idea in concept, but since i've never actually tried a filtered joint i'm not sure if it's actually a disappointment or not. i imagine it getting pretty clogged honestly.

 

I got a pawnshop guitar recently that would look bad on paper, but the damned thing is a monster in reality.... So, kinda the opposite deal.

 

This fucking thing:


It's an adapter for reading IDE and SATA hard drives trough a USB port. Only it didn't work as advertised. And eventually it just didn't work at all. Tried salvaging 3 hard drives from failed PCs. The first 2 kinda sorta tried to react to it. With the 3rd one it was just dead. 25 bucks down the drain. Should've known better when it's Chinese made and obviously of poor quality.