  The notion of isometric and unitary asymptotes was introduced for power
bounded operators in 1989 and was generalized in 2016--2019 by K\'erchy. In
particular, it was shown that there exist operators without unitary asymptote.
In this paper operators are constructed which are quasisimilar to isometries
and do not have isometric asymptotes. Also a contraction is constructed which
is quasisimilar to the unilateral shift of infinite multiplicity and whose
isometric asymptote contains a (non-zero) unitary summand.
