Worst Purchase Ever?

2002 VW GTI with the 24 Valve VR6 motor.
Car was great, beautiful interior, intoxicating motor, nice hatchback to throw my mountain bike in.
Reliability, what's that?
Say no more.
Needless to say, I will never buy another VW/Audi product.
Lenny
 
You already named it.....I bought a 9mm High Point piece of $hit. Jammed right from the start and every three rounds after that. Glad I got rid of it.
 
Bought a 94 Jeep Wrangler with a rusted out frame.......after it was all said and done, I was into the thing for about 6 grand.:barf:
 
Brown Derby beer. Even I couldn't get the 12pk down.

$1,000 diamond necklace for a girl when I was a PFC in the Army in '88. That was about 2 mns pay to me then. She wanted a ring so it went over like a fart in church and I was out all of it. Got off cheap that time, but still!

A knife with a Brown Recluse custom handle only to annoy the Wife since she hated spiders. Horrible reason to buy a knife!

Most things related to women.
 
Cham-WOW! Actually, the ex-girlfriend got them.
A few overpriced guitars. One should buy a nice used one that will appreciate, they go up with infation.
Every cell phone contract I've been involved with.
 
SharpByCoop said:
High in the running of frustration vs. satisfaction are the multitudes of products which have Microsoft products installed.

The amount of regular hours I have spent 'fixing' things, and installing glitchy updates, and add-on must-haves for their product to work with efficiency is mindboggling.

We just accept this. I still own one PC and a laptop. I'll never learn, will I ?

Coop (Typing this from his 3-yr-old Mac which has NEVER failed.)
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I've been installing and using Microsoft stuff since I was 12, it's not that hard...

Not to mention the price difference between a Mac desktop and PC desktop.
Eg I built my PC from scratch:
Nvidia 250GTS ($150)
AMD Phenom II X970 Quad core 3.5Ghz ($200)
4GB DDR3 Ram ($50)
ThermalTake Case ($60)
500GB SATA 3 HDD ($45)
AOC 22" Monitor ($200)
ASUS Mobo ($90)
Total: $795

An iMac at Aussie pricing:
21.5" Monitor
ATI 4670 256mb(worse performance than 250GTS)
Intel i3 (dual core) 3.06ghz
500GB HDD
4GB DDR3 Ram
Total: $1449 and all the components are still made in china even with double the price.......
 
Any Ford, Chevy, or Dodge/Chrysler I've ever owned.

Cheap vacuum cleaners in the $100 - $150 range. They all suck, and not in a good way.

Gerber knives.

Cheap fishing tackle.
 
Jeeps... ill say again Jeeps... the wrangler wasnt as bad as the grand cherokee (2002).. THE biggest POS i have ever bought. at 80k miles the tranny started slipping, electrical issues galore and the seals were coming off around the door... you could feel the cheapness. ill never own another chrystler product.. the only one ill even think about is a wrangler... inline 6 manual tranny. mine leaked like grandpa after a 12pk. bought a toyota tacoma 4x4 and wont look back.. damn fine trucks
 
Henry Survival rifle. I originally wanted a Springfield Armory M6 but my dealer couldn't get one so I went with the Henry. The thing was a jamomatic and very poorly made.
 
Two different Kahr pistols. One 9mm, the other in 40 cal. The 9 had to go back to the factory for a complete top half. Choked on every other round after it had been "fixed". The 40 was so inaccurate that it wouldnt have hit a billbord from 5 feet away. Love the looks and handling, but not very reliable.
 
a 1977 jaguar xjs..beautiful car red with black leather. when it ran right it was a wonder to behold. of course that only happend a couple of times in the 2 yrs i owned it. should have bought the 911 that was the same price. traded it in on a bmw one day at lunch, next day i saw it on the side of the road with the hood up. laughed all the way to work.

I'll never buy a jag again.

cricket
 
Crewdawg said:
BTW, anyone want to trade a good used American-made pickup truck for a Jetta?:D
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So you can have a bigger pit to toss your money in? My worst purchase was a GMC pickup with ~40k on it. 2WD with the 4.3L V-6. Great motor, and I put 160,000 more miles on it before passing it on to my dad, but went through three transmissions, two starters, paid for a couple of tuneups, and replaced the water pump, heater core, ignition lock cylinder, door handle, dash gauges, and probably some other stuff I don't remember. It was always something.
The 2001 Toyota Tundra 4x4 that I bought with under 40k on it recently got the 60k maintenance done at a little over 200k, and(aside from a couple of trips to the body shop for fender benders) has never had anything but oil changes and a set of spark plugs. It would get my vote for "best" purchase, btw.
 
Forgot to mention Sportsman's Steel Safe Co. and Pentagon Safe. Trust me , you don't want to deal with those guys. E-mail me if you are ever thinking about it.

DancesWithKnives
 
Passing through East Dubuque, Illinois — a sleazy bar strip across the Mississippi from Dubuque, Iowa, and Iowa's ABD liquor control — I bought a quart of Bohemian Club beer for 29¢, a very low price back in 1971. This was not the Bohemian Club brewed by mobbed-up Bohemian Brewing Co. in Joliet, Illinois: they went out of business in 1958. My 29¢ quart was brewed and bottled by Warsaw Brewing Corp. in Warsaw, Illinois, remembered by fans of crap-tasting Midwestern beer for Burgomeister. Bohemian Club was their cheaper line. After drinking half a glass, I noticed I had a headache and poured the rest into the toilet, where it looked and smelled at home. About a month later, I went to the Kingston Mimes blues club in Chicago and ordered a tap beer, which was served literally ice-cold in a frosted glass. Due to the brew's extreme chill, I didn'tt recognize Bohemian Club's distinctive taste and smell until I finished the pint and noticed I had a splitting headache.
 
a couple of gold fish, they died two days after :mad:
and Petsmart refused to refund my 60 cents that i paid:grumpy:
 
Two new 30 Carbines from Auto Ordnance. One for a friend, one for me. Ha! We tried commercial and newly reloaded ammo in both and no go. I measured the chambers but they were okay and an empty case chambered fine. However, the barrel throats immediately in front of the chambers were .305 to .306 rather than the .308 to .309 they should have been. Damn! I did some research and it seems the War Dept of the US initially put out undersized Carbine ammo, I have some old WWII stuff and it measures .356. Anyway, I made up chamber reamers by seating and crimping Carbine .308 bullets in unfired but 'to spec' cases and without primers. I then soldered 1/8" brass welding rod bent at a 90 degree angle into the primer orifice for use as a handle, coated the bullet with medium valve grinding compound, and started working the 'reamer' side to side while applying forward pressure. It tookl several hours but the cartridge went in deeper and deeper and, finally, it chambered. No problems since then but Auto Ordnance's ears should be fried off because I sure cussed them out for being damned fools with no attention to detail. I'll NEVER buy another gun from them or any of their subsidiaries.
 
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Weezer's first CD...

No joke this came to mind when I read the OP post.... you would think a $15 puchase that was twelve years ago and I would bve over it, but for whatever reason they piss me off every time I hear one of their songs.
 
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