Choice Shonky Awards 2017.

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"Ticket resale website Viagogo, sugar-coated children's Vita Gummies and a fabric softener that performs worse than water are among eight products to receive a gong at this year's Shonky Choice awards in Sydney.
In its 12th year, Choice said the awards revealed the worst-performing products and services that have served up poor value, false advertising, hidden charges, faulty goods and questionable claims.
Choice chief executive Alan Kirkland said some of the biggest brands were continuing to sell lemons.
"Whether it's for targeting the unborn with a poor value savings account, financially exploiting those in pain or chipping away at kids' teeth with dodgy vitamin products, this year's winners deserve their awards," Mr Kirkland said.
'A waste of time and water'
Top of the list, for the third year in row, is electronics giant Samsung, this time for a $3,000 washer-dryer that took 6.5 hours to complete a cycle and used 149 litres of fresh drinking water for a 3.5kg load of washing.

The consumer lobby group said Samsung's WD16J9845KG is a "waste of time and water".
Last year, Samsung won an award for their Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, which had a habit of heating up and catching on fire.
The device was eventually discontinued.
The South Korean multinational has a worrying record with both washing machines and fire, having won in 2015 for a line of faulty top loaders that caught fire.
'Performs worse than water'
Still in the laundry, Cuddly Sensitive Hypoallergenic fabric softener made the list "for performing worse than water while costing 3,000 times more."
In Choice's in-house lab testing, plain water received a higher score than the Cuddly product, which got the lowest score despite being one of the most expensive on the market at $6 per litre.
'Safety device that can kill'
From poor value to serious safety issues, Choice also tapped major car manufacturers Honda, Toyota, Lexus, BMW and Mazda for their handling of the Takata airbag recall."

[roKWiz]

Vita gummies wins hands down in the shonky awards.
NBN is a close second.

[GasoLane]

More details on their official site.

https://www.choice.com.au/shonky-awards

[Adamz Ghia]

Viagogo is legalised scalping and should not be legal. Disgraceful that no one will do anything about them.

The Westpac bank account isn’t surprising, no bank is going to give away $200 for free. I’m surprised more people don’t do this of their own accord anyway. $20 a week for 18 years is nearly $19,000 and that’s before interest. Not a bad 18th birthday present, or wait till their 21st for over $22,000.