Anyone else think this is a really stupid design?

[Kiki-frog]

I've just fired off my very first ever consumer/Victor Meldrew complaint email to a manufacturer. Regarding the new Vosene shampoo bottle design

http://www.vosene.co.uk/vosene/#home

Just picking it off the shelf in the shop, the damn thing slithered through my hands to the floor, then made another bid for freedom when I picked it up. It's going to be interesting using this in the shower. I wonder if I can sue for bruised toes?

Anyone else think this design is stupid beyond belief?

[mrs_overall]

It looks so....wrong

[wolf63]

It looks pretty - but a few grooves along the side would be nice for gripping.

My gripe is shower gels that don't have hooks for hanging on the shower curtain rail.

[Hopkirk]

Simple solution - wear marigolds in the shower.

[mrs_overall]

wolf, we buy Asda's own brand shower gel simply because it has a hook for hanging in the shower

[Psybbo]

Lost the darned thing in the shower this morning, why oh why did they not make that silly point into a hook?

[wolf63]

Designed by a male ?

[tonyav]

Whats the matter with it ?

[mrs_overall]

I've just sent them a message under the "contact us" section to say I think the bottle shape is rubbish

[Buenchico]

I agree that it's daft. (It would make more sense if the top had a hook for hanging up in the shower).

However I humbly suggest that it's not as daft as this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk...ize&item=260676460915
That's a bottle of Avon's Tai Winds Aftershave, just like the one I was given in the mid-1970s. The base is made of very heavy glass but the top is just a push-fit onto a regular bottle top.

The result of that design is that picking it up by the top results in the glass bottle coming away from the ornamental top, with the result (in my case) that it drops into the bathroom sink, cracking it into two.

When I mentioned my accident to my next door neighbours, they said that exactly the same thing had happened to them, so I wonder how many bathroom sinks across the world were destroyed by falling bottles of aftershave!

[Psybbo]

Tony, its got a point but is pointless

[Kiki-frog]

*Sigh* Imagine being in the shower (you, tony, not me). You reach for the shampoo on the shelf. And it slips straight through your fingers because of the slippy texture of the plastic and the way it tapers off to a point. So you go to pick it up. And it slips out of your hand again. And again. And again.

[wolf63]

When my lady cat was at the vet earlier this year she was a 'little upset'.

The vet went to get a cat muzzle for her. To put the muzzle on the vet had to get close enough to put the muzzle over my little princess's face and then close a clasp under her chin. To get within two feet of her with out injury would have been impossible. A truly useless object.

The vet and nurse were female, my pal and I are female - so we decided that such a useless device had to have been designed by a male.

[Kiki-frog]

Did you, Mrs O? I feel a shampoo revolution coming on!

[Buenchico]

I can't help wondering whether Hopkirk's suggestion is simply derived from his sense of practicality or perhaps through some strange fetish?
;-)

[tonyav]

Righto, sibton, maybe you laydeees need someone to hold the bottle for you.

[shaneystar2]

All these sort of things are designed to annoy you .I can't stand these flip top bottles of shampoo etc .I have fumbly arthritic fingers .By the time I get them open I've either scraped the skin on my finger or broken a fingernail . Grrrrr.

[mrs_overall]

Yes I did Kiki.
I did it out of solidarity for us sisters.
Not that I am hoping for any freebies or anything you understand

[sherrardk]

I buy Aldi shampoo & conditioner (because I am tight) and the labels on them are different (ie one is upside down) and I stand the bottles on their lids - drives me barmy that they are different.

[Kiki-frog]

Finally got your link to work, buenchico. What can I say. Apart from bloody hell. Now that really is bad design.