Anything made by ALBA
I started with a dual tape machine with built in radio and detachable speakers. The brackets on the speakers broke so they wouldn't attach properly to the main body so I couldn't carry it around any more. One of the tape deck broke so I could never do "high speed" dubbing. This was actually rather good as when I had managed to do "high speed" dubbing one of the tape decks was slightly out of time so everything sounded just a little bit speeded up. No pirating of mates tapes for me.

Then the radio failed and produced nothing but static unless I was within 30 feet of a transmitter or the programme was in Spanish or Arabic. All this within 6 months of buying the thing.

I then stupidly bought a walkman by ALBA that ate all my slightly speeded up pirated tapes. But hey, at least they were cheap!
(Designated Slagger, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 16:02, 12 replies)

AND she was shit in 'Fantastic Four'

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 16:08, closed)

Hahahahahahaha

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 16:09, closed)

Sigh!

(Designated Slagger, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 16:47, closed)

Matsui were the same

(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 16:09, closed)

Binatone was worse

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 16:53, closed)

Apart from these:

( snee held his breath since, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 8:25, closed)

And Goodmans
Had an mp3 player by them. I took it back to Argos
(wehttamman via B3ta for microwave, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 4:44, closed)

But 'Waterloo' was a great pop song...

(SonoraAeroClub "OH SWEET HELEN OF BALLS!", Thu 29 Sep 2011, 16:31, closed)

DAMN YOU
I had a "Does YOUR MUM know?" gag all lined up
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 10:02, closed)

Nonsense.
I was given an ALBA radio alarm by my grandparents 30 years ago. It still works fine.
( 4Q just lurking, Thu 29 Sep 2011, 20:59, closed)

Yeah, but it only picks up Radio Caroline

( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 30 Sep 2011, 16:24, closed)

The Lord spills the beans
Read Lord Alan Sugar's excellent autobiog "What you see is what you get" for the lowdown on OEM, how brand name products like Amstrad, Alba and Binatone are just badged versions of standard products made in Asia down to a specified price to beat high quality brands.
(Classic Ray, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 5:39, closed)