Picking on the Toaster Oven brigade - for fundamentally SHIT design.
I have had a bug up my arse for the Mistral brand for a long time.... Cheap, Cheap, Cheap and NASTY.... The retards in their marketing dept bought up a whole heap of shit cheap vacuum cleaners, that were as LOUD as all fuck - like a big 2000W screamer circular saw - had to wear ear plugs to use it... (is that a hint?) The wand was a plastic 2 piece tube, that flexed like a drinking straw, and was so short, that you had to be under 1.5 meters or 5' tall to use it, otherwise you were stooping almost to waist level. And you could only suck dry rice off a concrete floor with it, as trying to drive it across carpet - the "wand" or the two piece plastic drinking straw, would bend and could bend to the point of buckling - quite easily.... Because it was such a piece of shit, they dumped it wholesale on the market, via Kmart, for a bottom dollar price.... And when I contacted them about this - to get a proper wand - made of metal and of an adequate length - like what Hoover suppl