What Is Your Worst Purchase Mistake Of All Time?

Seaweed · 01-26-15, 06:57 PM

Mercedes Brooke

zizoudane10 · 01-26-15, 10:22 PM

"Vorwerk" vacuum cleaner. Overprized as hell. Definition of overprized. Dumbest purchase we ever made a few years back.

Urbanwildlife · 01-26-15, 10:26 PM

Getting dental implants.

compaqDikk · 01-26-15, 11:48 PM

shaftmaster 2.0

gauchojake · 01-27-15, 12:09 AM

TMS IIRC the Tandy was Radio Shack's brand. That was definitely a hose job! These fukkin Radio Shack guys used to be on commission too I believe. That sales guy cleaned up!

My worst purchase ever was actually a leased car. I took over a lease on a BMW 335 from some girl who had unknowingly destroyed the car in the 6 months she had it. I did the deal over the phone and through email with pics. Everything looked good on the car and so I assumed the lease. Little did I know I had zero recourse when the shit hit the fan. I went to pick up the car at her work in No Cal and the girl literally couldn't find the keys. My buddy who drove me over there found them lying in the dirt near the car! Just sitting in the parking lot at Apple. She then could not produce the second set of keys.

I started walking around the car and there was obvious body damage to it. She tells me that she was just in an accident but it was cheaper to pay cash for the repairs and she didn't think I'd mind. What?

Rims - scratched to shit
Run flat tires - bubbles in the sidewalls - all needed to be replaced
Oil- car had NO OIL IN IT

I was driving it back to LA from San Jose after calling Lease Trader, BMW, and anyone else I could think of to get me out of this mess. All of a sudden lights and buzzers and shit start going off. I literally had to stop at some auto parts store and buy oil to put in the car.

She never sent me the other key so I got dinged for that when I returned the car. Paid for the other repairs along the way so I didn't get hosed at the end of the lease. Never again. Fun car to drive (6 speed manual) but man what a nightmare.

grease lightnin · 01-27-15, 12:20 AM

When I was twelve I traded a brand new Powell Peralta Ray Barbie skateboard with Thunder trucks and Toxic wheels for a Hustler mag and a set of nunchucks. Got hustled by a 16 yr old in my neighborhood--and I knew it within a few minutes of completing the transaction. First time I ever had that sick feeling of buyer's remorse.

Ralphie Halves · 01-27-15, 01:40 AM

I bought my home in 2007.

Vacuums and skateboards, LOL!!

chipper · 01-27-15, 01:52 AM

Our in-ground spa/hottub. $20G's and nothing but headaches ever since we had it built. If the wife would allow I'd take two tons of dirt and just bury that time vampire. Keeping that thing in usuable condition literally sucks the life right out of me.

raydog · 01-27-15, 02:12 AM

thats awful, chipper... the pool came with the house but im with you on filling those fukkers up with dirt and planting flowers or something..

ive bought a couple pair of boobs for girlfriends... i dunno if i got my moneys worth, but i got my hands on them as much as possible while we were together...

nyplayer33 · 01-27-15, 07:54 AM

engagement rings, shouldn't spend more then a few grand if that.

rkelly110 · 01-27-15, 08:34 AM

Didn't make the purchase, but had a guy stop by to give me an estimate on gutter guards.

It was some foam mesh shit that I knew would clog up with my maple tree seeds. I only needed 80 ft of it.
He tried to charge me 3k for that crap. I got him down to $900. He called his boss and his boss said no.

I said ok, time to leave. He wouldn't leave. I said get out now! We get outside and his bald front tire is flat.
No spare. I get out my floor jack, take his tire off, fill it with air, plug the hole, refill and put his tire back on.
Sent him on his way.

Went to Lowes and spent $40 on my own gutter guards and installed them myself.

Kermit · 01-27-15, 09:05 AM

Big Bear · 01-27-15, 09:39 AM

Jamarcus Russell fat head

Bandit · 01-27-15, 09:56 AM

sold my car to a guy in San Mateo then stupid enough to go broke - blew it all.....then realizing that eating out of the dumpters at the Farmers Market in Oakland was not good for my health - actually the judge said the same thing to me..................lmao - let me go with a warning, no record - this was 1970........ young and dumb!

warbux · 01-27-15, 02:03 PM

Originally posted by Kermit

Kermit I went to a ghetto barbershop and I swear they were cutting peoples hair with that. It was hanging on a pull down cable and people would sit in the chair and the guy would go to town.

Let's Go Rangers · 01-27-15, 02:07 PM

Originally posted by warbux

Kermit I went to a ghetto barbershop and I swear they were cutting peoples hair with that. It was hanging on a pull down cable and people would sit in the chair and the guy would go to town.

No opposable thumbs to hold clippers ?

zizoudane10 · 01-27-15, 02:58 PM

Originally posted by Kermit

Had to google it, apparently buyers on amazon LOVE this thing

The look of it alone is just great

TheMoneyShot · 01-27-15, 04:45 PM

Originally posted by Kermit

I would of given this thing a try when I was younger... unfortunately... I don't think I could grow enough hair for that contraption to work effectively.

daneblazer · 01-27-15, 05:01 PM

my first bottle of bacardi. no telling how much I spent on beer & liquor after that.

Kermit · 01-27-15, 06:27 PM

Originally posted by TheMoneyShot

I would of given this thing a try when I was younger... unfortunately... I don't think I could grow enough hair for that contraption to work effectively.

I bought one at Hill's department store in 1994 for $40

It works great if you only want a one size haircut. After a few cuts the blades start to get dull and it pulls your hair out rather than cuts it.

cashin81 · 01-27-15, 07:14 PM

I ordered my parents to buy a Sega Saturn Japanese import for £900
this fukking game was £89

It still hurts.

cashin81 · 01-27-15, 07:17 PM

hey lets make a video game of a jack in the box , call him a knight to be cool.
then we put him in bedrooms????

launch title of a console
yeah

Kermit · 01-27-15, 08:01 PM

Originally posted by cashin81

hey lets make a video game of a jack in the box , call him a knight to be cool.
then we put him in bedrooms????

launch title of a console
yeah

You want to talk about a bad System purchase?

I paid $500 for this back in 1993. 1/2 of the fukking games didn't even work.

Swaggy P · 01-27-15, 08:24 PM

lol thats crazy never knew panasonic ever made a system

Kermit · 01-27-15, 10:28 PM

Originally posted by Swaggy P

lol thats crazy never knew panasonic ever made a system

I bought it just to play Dragon's Lair and the original Need for Speed.

I also bought a really shitty Mortal Kombat rip-off game called "Way of the Warrior". The only good thing about this game was that White Zombie did the soundtrack to it and I fell in love with their music. By the way, the company who made the game is called Naughty Dog. My, how far that company has come.

1994

2015

recon1 · 01-28-15, 10:04 AM

I knew an elderly lady who was recently widowed living in one of those type neighboorhoods that changed not for the better over the 40 years she lived in that particular neighborhood. I went and bought her a Davis .380 pistol on gun salesman's recommendation. Took lady to range and the damn thing jammed after every other shot.
I was familiar with range master so we ran some premium ammo he had through with same results.

So, my answer is a Davis .380

PaperTrail07 · 01-28-15, 12:07 PM

??? I have one and would NEVER take it back....Id have missing front teeth lol....yes it was 11K...

Originally posted by Urbanwildlife

Getting dental implants.

Itsamazing777 · 01-28-15, 12:21 PM

Didnt naughty dog make sypro?

Urbanwildlife · 01-28-15, 02:04 PM

Originally posted by PaperTrail07

??? I have one and would NEVER take it back....Id have missing front teeth lol....yes it was 11K...

My experience was, and still is an absolute nightmare my friend. I had a full set of dental implants. When they tried pulling my teeth out, they couldn't extract them the normal way because the roots of my teeth have grooves on them like a screw, so they had to cut them out. By cutting them out some bone came with it, and my sinuses dropped, so therefore I had to have multiple bone grafts and 2 sinus lift surgeries. If that was not enough, all the implants on the top failed for unknown reasons, but all those on the bottom are perfectly healthy. I then tried again with having all the implants put in on top but with a different brand, as the dental experts felt that possibly my body was rejecting the materials in the implants, so they ended up using the same brand of implants that I have on the bottom, and again they failed. It is unexplainable. I now have a fixed upper denture. Total cost I have shelled out is $78,000 thousand dollars, as insurance does not cover cosmetic.

To make matters worse when I went to the dentist originally I was only going to have a bridge replaced, but was talked into getting implants, so I decided to go all out and have a full set put in, as I was tired of dealing with dental issues, as it is a hereditary problem I have in my family. By the way I had my dental care done in one of the most prestigious dental clinics in the U.S. This process has taken over 3 years.

cashin81 · 01-28-15, 02:07 PM

*goes to brush teeth*

Urbanwildlife · 01-28-15, 02:16 PM

Has nothing to do with hygiene, but everything to do with bone tissue being soft.

jtoler · 01-28-15, 03:38 PM

Mail order bride.

jtoler · 01-28-15, 03:39 PM

Originally posted by Kermit

You want to talk about a bad System purchase?

I paid $500 for this back in 1993. 1/2 of the fukking games didn't even work.

Lol Panasonic making video game consoles, never knew they did.

mcdonae101 · 01-28-15, 05:38 PM

several sets of breast implants