Worst Purchase Ever?

I saved $500 to buy a car when I was really down on my luck. Got to the seller's house, took it for a quick spin around the block - no problems. Paid the man his cash and off I went. About 5 minutes later it started sputtering and knocking. Bad water pump.
 
Maniacal Pete said:
Think that's bad?
I bought a Renault.

pete
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Yea I had one of those when I was a kid. My brother took it to the beach with some of his friends and noticed that the water level was low. The knuckle head didn't have water so he put a gallon of lemonade in the radiator. duh. Soooooo a real piece of junk turned into absolute trash. My Dad was furious -- he filled the thing with Rislone and sold it to some poor guy who said he liked to tinker with cars..... I will always remember Dad saying "You like to tinker with cars? well I think this is the one for you." The guy stopped by the house a week later spittin mad and threatened my Pop which was the wrong thing to do with the 3 of us there. As he left the property my dumb brother shot him with the hose and soaked him. What a mess.
 
I bought a ceramic field steel, and then I dropped it on the cement. now I have 2 little ceramic steels
 
Jeep Wrangler 2005 was the best buy ever along with my Kahr K9.

I bought a Smith and Wesson 622 .22 and it jammed every other shot. After two trips to the S&W shop, it was fixed. Wish I bought a Ruger .22. Ford Mustang was also a lemon, always breaking down. With knives, anything under $100 except the Swiss Army knives.
 
Tech 9 - remember those before they were outlawed as "assault weapons"? POS. Rusted before I got it home, and the pin to pull back the slide snapped off - real high quality steel.

I still have it - waste of money.
 
Roger999 said:
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.......
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And I've been installing and installing and installing stuff on Microsoft PC's since 1989. Were you born then? ;)

I finally got over the cost comparison and bought my Mac (and only because of my professional need as a photographer). I forgot how troublefree it was untlil I bought the Kitchen table PC. Within days I had to 'install' three outside spam/virus/adaware/firewall programs. NO ONE doesn't recommend this. After all that it was another 6 hours to figure out why MY website would not display on IE8. (Stooopid compatibility mode).

No, your cost comparison's don't take into account my time and stress. ;) That said, I am certain you are smarter than me on this. Keep at it. :)

Coop
 
I have to 100% agree with sharpbycoop. I use MS product in my office job and its always requiring our techs to update patches, viruses ect... I also owned two MS computers and they were always requiring anti-virus software, and it was always stalling. I went ahead a purchased a MAC, and its trouble free. When it requires an update, you just have to click yes. I have never had it stall. I've now owned two desktops and one laptop. I still have the desktop after four years and my laptop for a year and a half w/o a problem.

For Hatiuda: Was is the MOA fees on that waterfront property?
 
2002 Chevrolet Silverado, too many replacement parts, electrical gremlins, etc. I am reminded daily of that POS when I pass a Chevy truck with only one daytime running light working. I own a Toyota now, and haven't looked back.
 
Just bought a Brother HL22 laser printer for the home office. It worked for five mins, and then the lights in the office flickered while it ran off a copy. Hmmmm.....

Then it didn't turn on. :( Back in the box, replacement being sent. I'm hoping this doesn't qualify, but this is strike one.

Coop
 
An eagle talon , biggest Pos with another problem every month . And a blackberry pearl which was the most useless smartphone I ever had , not to mention it would delete my text messages and emails when ever it felt like it !
 
Piso Mojado said:
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.
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Your worst purchase only cost you 29 cents? Thats pretty awesome. I wish I could say that.
 
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