Worst purchase you made in the last year or so?

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: duragezic
I haven't been able to think of anything.

All of my stuff is real petty, [...]

edit: On the lines of that... buying opiods though I'm on suboxone so I already know they won't do much but just have to do it anyway... lol waste of $$ there.

:shocked:

 

[nageov3t]

leather recliner back in november-december.

$800 and I've sat in it, like... three times? it seemed like such a good idea in the store, but when I got it home, I remembered how little tv-watching I do in my living room because my computer's in the bedroom and I'm a compulsive multitasker.

runner-up might be the $40 compressed air toilet plunger I bought this weekend... it got great reviews online, but didn't do a thing for the huge clog I had. so I went out a bought a $5 snake that fixed it in 30 seconds (although the clean-up was gross).

 

[d33pt]

$12 for a pair of universal remotes off woot. They're pretty much useless...i can't even give them away. Just splurged on a harmony. should've just done that in the first place.

 

[ChaoZ]

I haven't bought jack shit. Not even sure if I got any new clothes.

 

[RandomFool]

A new clutch, brakes, tires and belt for my 94 Escort.

 

[oiprocs]

Subscription to AT forums. The contract ends in 2 years.

Rossman said if I want out before that, I have to pay an ETF. So I guess I'm stuck.

At least he gave me unlimited posts.

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
Hellgate London

Damn you pontifex!

lol, I was having trouble thinking of something till I read your post... mark two for Hellgate:London

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

HP iPAQ 2795B. $500+ and the damn thing sucks at reading excel files. Should have stuck with my Palm Zire 71.

 

[toolboxolio]

Originally posted by: OdiN
I don't make bad purchases.

just bad posts.

for me... gamblimg. I am about even but I spend my winnings too loosely and then I am down later.

 

[toolboxolio]

Originally posted by: ryan256
A diamond necklace for a woman that dumped me. Glad it was only $130.

70 more dollars and you prolly could have found a more worthwhile time off of craigslist

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: TheTony

Originally posted by: loup garou
5 letters:
HD DVD

If you've got a TV with HDMI, you've still got a great upconverter. If you invested in a lot of discs, that's another matter.

haha that's an expensive upconverter.

Not really ... after price-matchs from Amazon I paid considerably less for my A30 then I would have for an Oppo.


The 18 HD-DVD movies I purchased on the other hand might be the worst purchase I made in 2007.

 

[cubby1223]

Worst purchase? I bought Cubs / Cardinals tickets for STL from a broker site, then had nearly everyone bail on the game. Cardinals were coming off a World Series win, tickets were expensive. Season began, Cardinals stunk, ticket resale value tanked. Then as if it seemed nothing more could possibly go bad, game was a blowout loss.

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
Worst purchase? I bought Cubs / Cardinals tickets for STL from a broker site, then had nearly everyone bail on the game. Cardinals were coming off a World Series win, tickets were expensive. Season began, Cardinals stunk, ticket resale value tanked. Then as if it seemed nothing more could possibly go bad, game was a blowout loss.

Don't feel too bad ... I bought Mets post-season tickets!

(I got all my money back but it was still unpleasent)

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: OdiN
I don't make bad purchases.

 

[TallBill]

Even if you had only good purchases, one of them has to be the worst.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim

Originally posted by: homercles337

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
an escort off craigslist

What did that run you? $20? $50?

$200

It always amazes me that people still think escorts cost fifty bucks. Thats what a toothless crack whore costs if you wanna bone her in the street.
Two hundred is actually a good deal in most places for a classy escort chick.

Portland supposedly had the highest density of strip clubs in the world, and you would still have to pay around 300-400 an hour for a girl here.

Go to TER. Much better girls than CL.

- EDIT -
For me: Just about everything in the past year. I got fired about two weeks ago, and now it seems like all the junk I aquired was a big mistake. I loved my La-Z-Boy when I got it, now it looks like 400 bucks worth of dead weight to me.
I dont wanna deal with having to move all this new furniture when I get a new job.
Also bought a nice, expensive dresser. 6 huge drawers and the thing weighs a little over a hundred pounds. Cost me about 700 bones.
Hate it. Too much for me, but I wanted to have nice things.

I think the worst purchase was a 360. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, now I know. People are dense. The handful of games I like are available on Windows now.
This thing sucks but I cant find anyone local to buy it, and I hate dealing with unknown people online.

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: yovonbishop
An airsoft gun. My fiance's best man convinced us for about a week that it'd be neat to try out. Now it's just a big fat waste of money sitting in the closet :roll:

"Neat to try one out"? Meaning he'd never actually owned one before?
Sorry to hear about that. Was it one of the expensive custom models from Japan?
Or was it a cheap American brand you find in Walmart?

 

[ultimatebob]

Probably that refurbished Netgear 802.11g router that I bought from Woot. It was only $20, but the damn thing crashes and kills the wireless connection every 48 hours or so.

Honestly, most of the purchases that I get from Woot are disappointing. There is a reason why they're so cheap!

 

[crystal]

lol. after reading some of the posts I remember what my most useless things I brought last year. A water pressure washer. With tax, that thing cost me about $150. I use it exactly once.
Another thing I regeted buying was a Legend keyboard. A few day after I got it, I got a key stuck - send it in under warranty. That got fix, but now it got into a habbit of double or triple types on some keys. The right shift key seem to stuck sometime... Swap back my old keyboard and I am much happier.

 

[LaBang]

It'd be a memory foam mattress pad that I bought from overstock.com. I can feel my hard bed through it.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I bought Microsoft Corp, im so dumb I should of bought Exxon.

 

[MotionMan]

I bought a 32" Vizio LCD for the home office in our new house (and the wall mount to go with it). I use the TV a lot, and I do like having it hanging on the wall, but I should have come up with a way to use one of the two perfectly good CRT TVs that are sitting in the guest room right now.

I have cable running to the office, but not digital, so no HD (except on the rare occasion that the HD OTA antenna gets a signal (that would be my second worse purchase)).

So, all around, buying and having the LCD is a real waste.

MotionMan

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: JS80
Engagement Ring.

Wow, and only three days before the wedding!?!?

MotionMan

 

[DrumminBoy]

<$5 purchase at McD's while my checking acct was unknowingly overdrawn - $40 cheeseburger ftw

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: DrumminBoy
<$5 purchase at McD's while my checking acct was unknowingly overdrawn - $40 cheeseburger ftw

McDonalds takes checks?

MotionMan