bargain basement vs dead-end

bargain basement

• Of poor quality; of little or no value; low-end, shoddy. 

• Inexpensive. 

• An area within a retail store, especially an area located below ground level, where the least costly merchandise can be found. 

dead-end

• A position that offers no hope of progress. 

• A road with no exit. 

• Going nowhere; blocked. 

• To come to a dead-end.