Gray DVI-D Male to VGA Female Converter Adapter

What is the point of this product. As the American reviews say this cannot possibly work as the DVI-D socket does not have an analogue signal to pass on to the VGA monitor. You would need a different DVI socket for that. If you only have DVI-D you must...

I bought this to enable me to use a VGA monitor (analogue only) on a DVI-D output. True, this adapter allows you to plug the 15-pin VGA connector into the DVI-D socket, but that is literally all it does. It does not enable you to use the analogue...