To want you all to name and shame, crap products you have bought. I'll start...

[darcymum]

Mitchum, smart solid deodorant for men (what's the difference for women?)

I bought two of these stick deodorants, the deodorant part fell off both of them, making them unusable, when I rolled it up, and no I didn't roll it up too much.

Anyone else?

Sorry - don't know what that middle line in my post was - I can add another one to my list, nokia N97s. Buggy, non-responsive and all round useless!

One of those clippy hooks from jojobebemaman that you put on the back of your buggy to hold your handbag.

£10 and it broke the first time I used it. Then my smug hubby informed me I could have bought it for a couple of quid from a bicycle shop.

tummy tub, just not possible to wash baby without another adult around. but great for eczema babies for a soak in an oil/milk bath.
and great for laundry, one tub = one load :)

Talk Talk internet. The internet works OK but their accountancy and customer service is absolutely abysmal. Actually their customer service is non existant - they have muppets at the end of a phone that can only read from a script no matter what you ask or say.That is once you have sat in the long queue to get to that stage.

I am having nightmares now about how I will leave this company once my 18month prison sentence wih them is up - have read too many nightmare stories on google

Cillit Bang - Cillit Saw You Coming, more like.

Tesco 'basic buy' £3 scales. Different weight each time you step on them.

Talk Talk are a nightmare, Mum72. I think you can switch and you need a 'mac' number (which they have to give you but are reluctant).

We had horrendous problems with TalkTalk. Switch as soon as you can and force them to give you the mac number to enable you to do so. they HAVE to legally, but try not to

Each and every dustbuster / hand held vacuum device. Absolutely shit

clarins beauty flash balm
elizabeth arden 8 hour creme,just hse petroleum jelly

A 200 quid teeth whitening kit from the dentist, total crap. Does anyone have any good kits to recommend please?

With you on the Eliz Arden 8 hour stuff, I ended up using it as a foot creme. Good for hard skin, but works out very expensive.

Any air freshener made by AirWick (fragrance lasts up to 60 days? That covers the one week it lasted then????)
Play-Doh Elefun????? Have they re-written the laws of physics?
A remote control robot from M&S (£75!) that changes the channel on the TV every time it moves.
Any silicone bakeware- total cack.
My self-cleaning oven.
Virgin Media customer service department.

Pizza Express 'American Hot' pizza from the supermarket - tastes nothing like the restaurant one, toally bland. 'Famously spicy' it says on the box...er, no! Bought 2 for £3.99 on BOGOF offer and still a total waste of money

M and S boys' school trousers(expensive ones), worn at the knees after two weeks and second pair bobbly after a month - I need Bobble Off.

Also after thinking it must just be a bad batch of school pants, purchased expensive Alpaca cardigan from M & S which I noticed when walking through town wearing it, the armpit area had become completely unravelled giving the appearance of a hairy, one-armed waistcoat.

Staff member told me someone in ten mins earlier where the neck part had come off.

Take the trousers back to M and S. It is a bad batch. I took Ds's back in saturday and was told stainproofing not been applied properly and they'd had loads back.

Annabel Karmel food mill. Really not sure why I bought it (actually, I think it's because the book said babies couldn't digest the skins on peas and sweetcorn etc so you have to remove them...yeah, I know, I know...)
Anyway, it was a lump of plastic crap. You had to apply a lot of pressue to get the food through and it left half of it behind anyway.
The only redeeming feature was that I think I bought it with Boots points so it didn't actually cost me anything.

Yes, agree with 8 hour creme, may as well use lansinoh.

IKEA glasses. You just have to look at them and they brake.

Glad to see soda crystals are so popular. i am a great believer hence my name! Cheap, easy, very useful - all the things I am to be!!

"aim" to be that is. But usually fail, needless to say.

Another vote for the dreadful service at Talk Talk.

Nitty gritty comb - what a waste of £10

Agree with many things here especially Juicers, Grills marketed by ex-heavyweight boxers, Vanish (crap - stick with Napisan), Dysons (overpriced crap) and Clarins BFB (buy the cheap copy from Aldi - same effect for £2).

Mitchum roll-on however is genius - I speak as a sweaty betty.

Adding:
Swaddling blankets - waste of money and complicated
Tights from Primark (made from loft insulation and camel hair or so it feels)
Earth Friendly Baby Organic Massage lotion at ten frigging quid for a quarter teaspoon (approx) - at baby massage class, they used own brand sunflower oil.
Baby Massage Classes - goes without saying

Oh yeah, those grill things are a pain to clean. I think I used it twice and chucked it out. What the hell is a Baby massage class, sounds ridiculous to me.

Bosch washing machines and their repair departments. Utter twats.

Citroen saxo - although this could be cheap, used car of any description.

Morphy richards vacuum cleaner that it was utterly impossible to get bags for, finally ordered about 10 packs of bags online to make it worth the £5.99 postage - vacuum cleaner broke a week later.

Bagless vacuum cleaner - without realising I bought another bloody morphy richards. The suction went very quickly and the only way to get replacement filters is to pay the £5.99 postage. Now I have 3 in the cupboard I doubt the vacuum cleaner will be long for this world...

Vanish is useless, we use Shout, crap name but it works - Sainsburys stock it.

Tesco raspberry swirl cheesecake - tastes of gluey cardboard

Sofas from DHS - dh fell through the chair

Agree with Paxo about M&S men's socks - heels went threadbare v quickly

Any Roary The Racing Car merchandising - the pits, steer clear