purchases that you regret...

[grohl]

Roomba. What a hunk of shit, didn't clean worth a damn. Woot buy, $150 down the drain.

PocketPC Dell Axim5.

Wooden model airplane kit + RC stuff that I never put together. $200 that I saved in 1984 was a shitload of money.

 

[Leros]

Roomba. What a hunk of shit, didn't clean worth a damn. Woot buy, $150 down the drain.

PocketPC Dell Axim5.

Wooden model airplane kit + RC stuff that I never put together. $200 that I saved in 1984 was a shitload of money.

Reminds me of my $400 8 foot tall model rocket. It blew up on the first launch. My 11 year old self was very disappointed.

 

[sjwaste]

Reminds me of my $400 8 foot tall model rocket. It blew up on the first launch. My 11 year old self was very disappointed.

Soviet model?

 

[FelixDeCat]

I love lolling at all the stupid purchases in this thread.

ps. I dont regret much because if I dont like something it goes back to the store pront-o.

pps. I wont even mention cars, because out of the 14 Ive owned since 1987, most had good and bad sides. I learned my lesson and havent owned a car since 2009.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Thinkpad 760ED back in the day. P133 and dedicated MPEG2 decoder.
P166MMX lappys came out a year later for 1/2 the price :S

 

[IronWing]

The McRib was probably my worst food purchase, the food that keeps on giving.

 

[Joseph F]

I'd say... My first computer:
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
512MB RAM
SiS integrated graphics
160GB HDD
Price in 2007: $500 *pukes while reminiscing

 

[Joseph F]

Sorry, double post.

 

[Spikesoldier]

Dell Axim X5
Dell Streak 5

both were DOA POS' that got returned.

 

[Leros]

Soviet model?

It was one of those standard rocket model kits from Estes. It wasn't really big (same girth as most of their rockets), just really tall.

 

[Powermoloch]

carl's JR new chicken nuggets

 

[ElFenix]

It was one of those standard rocket model kits from Estes. It wasn't really big (same girth as most of their rockets), just really tall.

how was it $400?

 

[DT4K]

My current house that I bought in 2006.
If I had rented for 2 years, I could have saved myself about 80k on the same house.
Of course, I can't complain too much because I also took advantage of the other side of housing price changes.

Bought 1480 sf house in Southern Oregon in 2003 for 140k
Sold in 2006 for 285k
Bought 3500 sf house in Charlotte, NC in 2006 for 270k.
It's probably worth 190k now.

 

[CZroe]

I'd say... My first computer:
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
512MB RAM
SiS integrated graphics
160GB HDD
Price in 2007: $500 *pukes while reminiscing

Your first computer was 2007?!

 

[HAL9000]

Your first computer was 2007?!

He's 16.

 

[evident]

Roomba. What a hunk of shit, didn't clean worth a damn. Woot buy, $150 down the drain.

PocketPC Dell Axim5.

Wooden model airplane kit + RC stuff that I never put together. $200 that I saved in 1984 was a shitload of money.

can you explain to me how you use the roomba and why you dont like it?
we were thinking about getting one just so it can do some light vacuuming during the week, and then we would probably really vacuum the house ourselves over the weekend or something.
does it just really suck (or doesn't suck)?

 

[evident]

another purchase i regret is upgrading to an E8400 and Abit IP35Pro when i had a E6600 conroe and 975X asus p7dwh or something like that ( high end asus mobo at hte time).

very minimal performance gains, spent alot of money that wasn't necessary.

 

[Oil]

Can't think of anything, but then again I don't buy much

 

[gorcorps]

Oh there's plenty. Most recently I'm regretting my Nook wifi purchase with how quickly the Nook Color came out after I bought it, and how much more useful that would have been to me. I read enough to want one, but not enough to warrant the cost of just a dedicated reader. With the stuff you can do once rooted it becomes quite a bit more useful than just reading. At 200-250 though it's just barely out of "worth it" territory for me knowing how little I use the original. Maybe if I sold my first one.

Or the PS3 Move. I guess technically I bought that more recently than the Nook, but my regret of the Nook just recently surfaced

Actually I kind of regret the entire PS3 purchase. I don't really watch or buy enough blu-rays to warrant having it even for that. It was already taking a backseat when I just had my 360, and now that I have a gaming PC it'll barely get touched.

 

[SearchMaster]

can you explain to me how you use the roomba and why you dont like it?
we were thinking about getting one just so it can do some light vacuuming during the week, and then we would probably really vacuum the house ourselves over the weekend or something.
does it just really suck (or doesn't suck)?

I actually like my Roomba (for what it was) when it works, but I've been through 2 batteries and am not going to get another one at $40 now that this one's dead. You shouldn't expect a deep clean with a small battery powered motor but for picking up surface muck it does a decent enough job and beats having to drag out the big vacuum cleaner.

 

[edro]

Every one of my NCAA tourney bets this weekend.
Sports betting just isn't my game. I guess it was a cheap lesson.

 

[fatpat268]

Homefront for PC - Shit game and can't trade it in because it's stuck with my steam account

37" LCD for the bedroom. I never use it. Ever. I used to watch TV before I went to bed, now I just read off of my Kindle. I should probably get rid of the TV, but I'll probably get next to nothing for it.

 

[kranky]

Not too many, but I guess the top one would be the car we bought after getting married. We were in love with the idea of getting a new car, and we could afford it, so we did. Threw a rod after about 12K miles, while I was on the way to the dealer to have it looked at. Fixed under warranty but it was just a bad car. Never bought another new car, ever since we've bought 1 or 2 year old cars with good reliability ratings that had bad resale value, and none of them have been troublesome.

Also, cheap furniture. Cheap furniture is cheap for a reason. It's great for the guest room where it will not get heavy use, but other than that... forget it.

 

[chalmers]

Divx set top player back in the mid-late 90's.

 

[rasczak]

99 vw passat. i never had more problems with a car than i had with that one.