The Worst 5 Electronic Products I Have Ever Purchased

I buy a lot of electronics, DVD players, CD players, MP3 players, cameras etc. Some have been great, some not so great, but there have been some that should never have been allowed to leave the factory. Here are the Worst Five Electronic Items I have ever bought - all expensive and all that should have worked for longer than the one year warranty.

1. The Canon PowerShot A95 Digital Camera - At over $300 when I purchased it, this digital camera has caused me nothing but problems since the warranty expired. Three days after the warranty ran out, I began to get an E18 warning, and then it would shut itself off. I would turn it on twenty times, only to have it automatically shut down without taking photos. I did a search on the internet and found this was a common problem with this camera, with hundreds of people reporting the same message. It eventually takes the picture but, by the time it does, what you were trying to photograph has already packed up and gone home!

It also turns itself on and off when it feels like it, takes very fuzzy photographs even at 6.0 mega pixels, is a nightmare to set up to get close up shots, and has now decided it doesn't want to take anything inside, only outdoors.

I must admit it does seem to be resilient as I've thrown it across the room at least ten times and it's still working, but the pictures it takes are hardly worth hitting the on/off button for. This camera doesn't even deserve the name 'camera' - more likely 'frustrating, expensive, rectangular thing with 14 shooting modes, none of which work correctly'.

2. The Toshiba Satellite L45 Laptop Computer - I had this computer for 1 year and 2 days. Two days after the warranty, the CD-Rom drive stopped working. It has a combination CD-Rom/DVD drive - the DVD drive works great, but I haven't been able to play a computer game, upload a computer program, or play music if the information I need comes on a CD. This is a common problem reported all over the internet for the Toshiba Satellite computers in almost all their models.