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30 Terrible Products That Are Still Sold By The Millions, As Shared By This Online Group
Have you ever found yourself being angry at your printer that stops working out of nowhere and then spits out a dozen of the same copies? Or maybe you were disappointed by the game that you waited for for so long? Experiencing situations like these where people find some well-known product to be useless and irritating can make them wonder why these products are so popular and who still buys them.
Having this in mind, Reddit user @jezbez asked people online “What terrible product sells by the millions?” and besides receiving 57.1k upvotes, they also found out what products made someone a millionaire but are actually awful products.
Which one of these products do you find unnecessary or useless? Leave your thoughts in the comments down below!
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Puppy mill puppies. Sorry to compare them to a product, but that’s how they’re treated. No one should purchase a puppy from a pet store, EVER. This now extends to online brokerage websites like greenfield and puppyspot. They’re like Amazon, a few clicks and a puppy will be sent to your door, and these puppies are coming from the exact same place as the pet store puppies. Because of people’s need for instant gratification, these facilities with hundreds to thousands of breeding animals persist. They are the best cash crop you could hope for.
Never believe a store who claims they only sell puppies from responsible breeders. No, not even if the owner has visited the breeders and “know” they’re good! By definition a responsible breeder would NEVER send their puppies to a pet store. Even pet stores that claim to only have rescues need to be scrutinized because some mills will use a shell rescue to “puppy launder”. “Licensed and certified breeders” should be a red flag - depending on the state, a breeder only needs to be licensed if they have a large number of dogs, are selling to brokers to go to pet stores, or to people “sight unseen” (online). YMMV depending on the state.
People sometimes justify their purchases as “saving” puppies from a pet store. But that is still investing in the industry and funding their operations by giving them profit. Legislation hasn’t stemmed the tide. Only a loss of profit will make mills move on to another hustle.
So please educate yourself and anyone you know who loves dogs and might ever be tempted to purchase a puppy from a pet store or online. Either adopt from a responsible rescue, or purchase from a responsible breeder.
Women’s pants/trousers which STILL have tiny pockets.
This is so horrible! I heard they do this to market the purse industry
Diamonds.
Diamonds are fu*king worthless and fuel a gigantic slavery trade business. We should have stopped digging for em.and just using lab made ones.
Speaking as a European, Hershey bars are absolutely horrendous
Speaking as an American, about every 2 years, I order an 5kg block of Callebaut dark chocolate from Belgium. (We do have quality artisanal chocolate makers in the US, but Hershey is just disgusting. It's too sweet and the texture is off-putting.)
this should go without saying, but coffee pods
Regardless of what it may say on the label, they aren't actually recyclable. The ones that look like a little bag with a plastic ring at the top are just as bad, there's as much plastic in that ring as there is in an entire cup.
Detoxification miracle products.
"Get all the toxins out of your body!"
You have already have a pancreas and liver.
Edit: and kidney(s)Edit 2: Thanks for the silver!
Edit 2: Glad to see so many people actually are educated about their digestive systems. One of my favorite areas of study right now are the gut microbiome and it's ever increasing known impact on our overall health. So far it really seems like one of the most important factors (if not the most) is the quality of care you give your ol' poop machine. So yeah, don't consume garbage branded as detox products that f**k your colon.
GOOP
Never heard of it, had to google. Apparently not working well in Sweden.
Plastic water/soda bottles. Environmentally terrible
I am not 100% sure about that one. Yes plastic isn't easy to recycle. (Although HDPE (Lids) and PP (bottles) can be recycled quite well. IF you recycle).. but: It is a lot lighter than glass. Less weight means less energy/fuel for transport. And that means less CO2 (for transport). So.... if you look at the facts and add up the numbers (instead of just going: "Plastic is Evil) you might be surprised. Could be that, as enviromental bad as they are, they could still be better than glass
I think they mean the single use bottles they have in the US (and many other places) when you have a deposit system (like we do in Scandinavia), where you get money back when you return the bottle, it's a much smaller burden on the environment
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My local supermarket in UK are selling water bottles made from sugar cane. They last up to 2 years!
I like that idea! I hope it catches on everywhere.
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Many people in my town have a lot of rust in their water from old water pipes. The rust stains every thing orange then red and the amount that’s there is really harmful. And filters can only do so much. So they don’t have much of a choice.
We charge people for plastic bottles. The bigger ones for longer than I can remember, 25 cents a bottle, and a new law was just made to charge 10 (or 15, I'm not sure) cents extra on small bottles too. You get the money refunded when you hand the empty bottles in on your next grocery trip. Every supermarket has a machine where you can stick the empty bottles in. Works quite well
Depending where you live bottled war is essential, if you live in certain places, that is your drinking and cooking water. Further after natural disasters and emergencies their are vital. Bottled Soda is changing with Pepsi now owning SodaStream as well as brand switching to new bio-degradable plastics.
In Romania, starting this autumn, people will recieve 0.5 lei (1/8 USD) for each plastic (p.e.t.) bottle brought to special collecting places; a great chance for our nature and for poor rural areas kids, who will collect the billions of bottles in the lakes, rivers, forrests etc.
Maybe if my water was poisonous I would buy bottled water. Don't know.
some of us are really trying, but individuals can't do very much, it's the corporations that need to enact change
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Not just environmentally terrible; They are known to have at least 2-5 times the bacterial load of most tap water, and if the bottle is left out in the sun for any appreciable length of time, it reacts with UV and releases Dioxin, a known carcinogen, into the water. Yeah, F plastic water bottles.
1. No. 2. Glass isn't toxic, and is a naturally occurring substance. 3. There are water bottles not made out of plastic OR glass. 4. SCIENCE. Look into it.
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There used to be drinking fountains around towns so people could get a free drink of water. You don't see those any more either
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Any product where marketing is 95% of the production budget
Cheap toilet paper that your finger goes right through unless you fold it over several times.
Homeopathic “remedies” that are so diluted they might contain one molecule of what they purport to hold. And no, shaking them does not “activate” them. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1800-studies-later-scientists-conclude-homeopathy-doesnt-work-180954534/
They are facing a problem im the EU now. They cant be labled by what they are working against (because they don't) and they can't be labled by what's suposed to be in it... because there is almost nothing of it left. So soon they will habe to be labled as what they are... sugar
Herbalife.
One of the techs at my dialysis unit just started this. She's only in her 20's and has no idea how long it's been around. She was going on and on about it and I just rolled my eyes.
Beats headphone, speakers etc. The headphones are so cheaply made that they put weights in them to make them feel higher quality
Edit: for those asking, you can't go wrong with JBL - they're invincible, affordable and unbelievably high quality for the price.
Edit 2: not saying weight = quality, I'm saying that people think weight = quality
Other excellent headphone manufacturers include Sennheiser, Klipsche, Audio Technica, Sony (they have a wide range including some very good stuff) and Bose (overpriced, but better than Beats).
Stuff with microbeads.
Seriously, how was this ever legal in the first place and why is it still legal?
Edit, apparently mictobeads were mostly banned in the US (where majority of redditors are from) in 2018 (enacted 2015) but I missed that. However, this is not a strict ban as they are still allowed in "non-rinse off" products such as make-up or pillow stuffing and you can order large quantities of them on Amazon. So while this is a step in the right direction, it is certainly not good enough. Furthermore, they should be banned worldwide like CFCs were as their environmental impact is equally as bad.
LOL surprise Toys or any such surprise toy , they sell like crazy and the whole idea is to buy them open the wrapper and see what you have got , once opened the toy is never used
Microtransactions in games.
The cosmetic ones I can understand, they can be fun, but the pay to win ones are terrible and yet they make millions every year.
Hartz brand pet flea treatments/medication. It's dangerous and has been the cause of death for many pets. IIRC it's a nerve agent that's supposed to make the pet's blood toxic to fleas.
I used some on my cat once and she started freaking out, then had trouble waking normally (her legs were twitching and kicking, clearly out of her control), and tears of brown thick liquid started streaming down her face. I picked her up and frantically gave her a bath hoping to wash any of the remaining chemicals off the back of her neck before any more of that poison seeped into her skin.
Cable TV (from major providers)
They made money f*****g people over and then when streaming services changed the game they decided to continue finding new ways to f**k you over. God help you if you live in a rural area.
There is absolutely no reason to have cable anymore. I have Netflix, Disney+, Amazon prime, Hulu and Funimation subscriptions and all of them combined cost a fraction what cable does,. Include limitless on demand content (much of which is better than anything on cable) and without 30% of the air time being commercials. Cable is dead. It died a horrible and well disserved death and it will not be missed.
There's an old IT joke about being in a room with three truly despicable people and a printer and a gun with two bullets. Who would you shoot? The answer for IT people is you would shoot the printer twice.
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And commercials that pop up every two minutes on non-premium! Everyone hates those commercials no one wants them, no one watches them.
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Commercials on cable TV or streaming services you pay for. Why am I paying if you're already being paid for by commercials?!
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Why in blue blazes does BP truncate every thread? I can understand showing only the top 50 of 100+ items - but showing only the top 30 of 40? Seems absurd.
The more interacting a website has from the public the higher it ranks in search engines. If you're compelled to click again in order to see the full article, the article ranks higher and its more likely to be seen in a search engine.
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2 Threads with exact the same content in one day. Do you guys at BP don’t talk to each other?
Easy. It's still better than random cat pics all the time.
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Hearing aids for most old people. It's like putting more petrol in your car and expecting it to go faster.
Or glasses for asinine commenters. They shouldn't be allowed to see!
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And commercials that pop up every two minutes on non-premium! Everyone hates those commercials no one wants them, no one watches them.
Load More Replies... Commercials on cable TV or streaming services you pay for. Why am I paying if you're already being paid for by commercials?!
Load More Replies... Why in blue blazes does BP truncate every thread? I can understand showing only the top 50 of 100+ items - but showing only the top 30 of 40? Seems absurd.
The more interacting a website has from the public the higher it ranks in search engines. If you're compelled to click again in order to see the full article, the article ranks higher and its more likely to be seen in a search engine.
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Easy. It's still better than random cat pics all the time.
Load More Replies... Hearing aids for most old people. It's like putting more petrol in your car and expecting it to go faster.
Or glasses for asinine commenters. They shouldn't be allowed to see!
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