The 2025 Scammie Awards: Worst Tech Scams and Products of the Year

Worst Value

• 🏆 DKOldies takes home the award for Worst Value, with a special mention for ItsWorthMore.
• 💡 DKOldies was recognized for selling consoles like an Xbox that eats discs and a Wii U that scratches discs, highlighting a focus on their own value over the consumer's.
• ⚠️ ItsWorthMore significantly devalued a trade-in offer for an iPhone, dropping it from $65 to $30.

Most Nightmare Fuel

• 😱 The This Is Teeth Head is crowned the winner for Most Nightmare Fuel, a product that caused significant distress.
• 💡 A special shout-out goes to an Xbox Series S purchased from Amazon that contained a family of bedbugs.
• ⚠️ The lesson learned from the Teeth Head award is to practice good dental hygiene and avoid purchasing medical supplies from platforms like Temu.

Biggest Letdown

• 💔 GameStop Retro is awarded Biggest Letdown for its high-quality mystery boxes and overall disappointing product selection.
• 💡 Decluttr is mentioned for its interesting value proposition that quickly shut down its website after a video was made about it.
• 📌 Amazon Haul is noted as a shamelessly blatant ripoff of Temu.

Worst Product

• 🏆 The Xbox Series S from Amazon Renewed, which came with bedbugs, is the winner for Worst Product.
• 💡 The HP Stream laptop, previously a contender for years, has been reformed and is no longer the worst product.
• ⚠️ The bedbug-infested Xbox Series S was accepted by a representative who threatened to bite.

Worst Service or Company

• 🏆 Grok Waifu, Ani, is the winner for Worst Service/Company, representing existential dread and chaos.
• 💡 DKOldies is also recognized for its consistently terrible customer experiences.
• ⚠️ Ani's acceptance speech thanked doubters and hinted at more chaos in the future.

Most Dangerous

• ⚠️ The Tent from Woot! is declared the Most Dangerous item of 2025.
• 💡 The tent's representative, who punched Austin Evans in the face, accepted the award.
• 📌 Wonderful Honey, purchased from Wish, was a close contender, containing actual pills instead of just disgusting honey.

Biggest Scam

• 🥇 Mode Mobile is awarded Biggest Scam for its deceptive offer of a free phone that pays you.
• 💡 The reality of Mode Mobile's offer involved paying for a subscription and waiting six months for a phone that cost more than buying it outright at a retail store.
• ⚠️ Mode Mobile continues to frequently contact users for money, offering useless shares in their company as earnings.