That's an awful lot of bad buys!
Image via Pexels.comThe pandemic has made it really difficult to resist those impulse buys, but a lot of the time, their fairly useless items to be fair.
Whether you've bought something on a budget site or it's just not what you hoped, there's plenty of reasons people throw their money down the drain.
It's not an insignificant amount either - a new study has revealed that the average person wastes over $70,000 (€59,500) in their lifetime on disappointing online purchases.
Respondents said they typically spend an average of around €760 per year on disappointing online purchases, with clothing (60%), tech (27%) and toys/kid products (25%) topping the list.
Conducted by OnePoll on behalf of Fakespot , some of the respondents told of their online buys that fell down in areas like the quality (64%), size (46%) and color (31%) of the purchase upon its arrival.
One respondent bought a leather jacket that turned out to be plastic, while another received steaks that tasted like shoes.
PEOPLE'S MOST DISAPPOINTING ONLINE PURCHASES
● “I ordered a leather jacket and when it arrived, it was a plastic jacket.”
● “Steaks that tasted like shoes.”
● “Supplements to help me lose weight, but I gained weight instead.”
● “Wrong name on personalized jersey for [my] son.”
● “An alarm clock — it had only one brightness button and you could not lower the brightness. It was so bright you couldn’t use it.”
● “A fan that did not blow enough air.”
● “It was a Nike Air Force 1 shoe, turns out it [was] fake.”
● “Recliner chair — very uncomfortable.”
● “I bought a book that I needed for community college and when it arrived, it was only the cardboard shipping container and nothing else. That was disappointing.”
