Worst impulse buy ever?

[Al Neri]

Honestly, as for ever, I'd say running out and leasing a car after I got a job. The car set me back $360 a month (it was in 04, an accord coupe ex, gold trim, alloy wheels, etc.) with nothing down. I drove maybe 4,000 miles a year. I turned it in in August of 07 with 15k miles on it. I smartened up and bought a 1997 maxima with cash, no car payments, low insurance

Also, recently I sprung for an iMac (the new model) and I use it maybe once a month. I should have just listened to myself and just been happy with my laptop that I use 99% of the time.


You?

 

[BlackTigers]

Buying a 750W sound system for a very small (10x11 maybe?) bedroom. Totally useless.

=/

 

[purbeast0]

camcorder I got a few years ago that was like $400. I shoveled snow for a day and made about $450 and I had always wanted a camcorder. however i never use that thing ever. i've probably used it like 5 times since I got it other than just screwing around with it when I first got it.

 

[ITJunkie]

This...

 

[Maleficus]

dreadlock hair kit.

 

[HN]

dvd of The Matrix - $12

led to several dvd players, 2 TVs, 3 receivers, 2 sets of front/rear speakers (only 1 sub fortunately), and many, many, many DVDs, most of which are not watched any more.

*note* the dvd of The Matrix was bought first before i even had any equipment. it was a "hot deal" back then when DVDs were costing ~$25 on average.

 

[maddogchen]

i bought a stock once, it went bankrupted. yeah i didn't research it that well. dot com bust

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

HP Ipaq 2795b, of which I'm trying to sell now on FS/T forums. NIce PDA, but it doesn't do what I needed it to do, and a $30 U3 thumb drives does.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: HN
dvd of The Matrix - $12

led to several dvd players, 2 TVs, 3 receivers, 2 sets of front/rear speakers (only 1 sub fortunately), and many, many, many DVDs, most of which are not watched any more.

haha... that's awesome...

Edit: for me, it was probably a camcorder. I wanted a new Hi8 one before i went to India in Jan of 2005. I think son the trip i put three tapes through it and since then maybe one. Worst $250 ever. I can't even get rid of it now at a repectable price.

Oh well, you live and learn... No more camcorders for me now until i have kids or something like that.

 

[trmiv]

Creative Zen Vision:M I actually did use it quite a bit when I commuted by train. Now that I moved and commute by car I never use it.

 

[lokiju]

Hard to say really.

I guess some speakers that I didn't need when I was younger, I didn't research them first or anything and was totally impulse.

They were just "OK" but I ended up getting a nice setup of Polk Audio speakers a few years ago and gave the other ones away.

I have a ton of crap from over the years that I bought and never use though.

 

[Linflas]

Our house.

 

[HN]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence

Originally posted by: HN
dvd of The Matrix - $12

led to several dvd players, 2 TVs, 3 receivers, 2 sets of front/rear speakers (only 1 sub fortunately), and many, many, many DVDs, most of which are not watched any more.

haha... that's awesome...

Oh well, you live and learn...

see...i thought i did learn (and i've been good about it for awhile now), but then i was able to jump in on the $99 toshiba hd-dvd player deal. i think the home-theater-bug is about to hit again

 

[tyler811]

bn

 

[AMCRambler]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
i bought a stock once, it went bankrupted. yeah i didn't research it that well. dot com bust

Same here. Wasn't a dot com though and it didn't go bust. I wanted to get my feet wet in the stock market and the only things I was really familiar with were computers. At that point Intel was tops in the chip market so I figured they'd be a good investment. Only had like $600 bucks to play with since I was in college so I bought 14 shares of Intel. It was at it's 52 week high for the most part so it pretty much dropped back into the 20's.
Me being stubborn I didn't want to sell it until I could break even so I just held onto it. Was getting like 30 cent dividends every couple of months lol. Finally it hit 19 bucks last year so I bought another 40 shares to make a couple of bucks and erase the loss when I went to sell all the shares. Ended up making like $60 bucks after all the fees. Learned my lesson though and at least it wasn't an expensive one.

 

[secretanchitman]

$7.99 nyko wireless sensor bar for the wii...i dont really need it at all, cause i leave the wii on most of the time.

 

[DefDC]

A high end Toshiba Satellite laptop back in 2000. POS. Circuit City gave me the runaround on getting it fixed, even with the extended warranty. Eventually, it was in a class action lawsuit and I got back $1000. That was nice. Still pissed at CC tho...

A 98 Blazer in 2000. (Jeeze, 2000 was a crap year!) Full loaded, fairly low miles. Just FELL APART after 90k miles... I'm VERY bitter towards GM right now.

My Sony DSC-P1 was crappy too... Jeeze, bought that around 2001...

 

[Ns1]

420 dollar concert tickets
guitar hero 2
computer upgrades

 

[zoiks]

Intel Q6600 combo from Fry's. Multitude of hd drives that I didn't need but got them due to the attractive prices (or what they seemed at the time).

 

[Kabrinski]

Laptop last November and my car this year in Oct. Spent way too much money on both of those. I was looking for another vehicle already, but actually purchasing the one I did was kind of impulsive. Wound up buying an 04 Sebring Limited.

 

[zinfamous]

Where's that Bennylong guy? I bet he has a good answer

 

[syee]

Car...it was an 01 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder. Bought it used in 04 for 15,000. Then the $2,000 60k mile service...that was a big money pit!

 

[mundane]

Skis. Bought them while in college and had very little money, and never used them.

 

[Nevada]

apple 13" macbook. xbox 360.

 

[iRONic]

Mail order bride.