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What is the biggest POS you've ever purchased?

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SuperCyrix

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I got to go with this gaming pad I bought a few years back. The POS require you to hook up the
controller both to the PS/2 mouse port and the gaming port and it still doesn't work right.
 
What is the biggest POS you've ever purchased?
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Uh, I don't purchase sh!t. I put it in the toilet where it belongs. Do you have some kind of fetish we need to know about? 🙂
 
I don't know about POS, but the dumbest thing I ever bought was my burton snowboard set ( for about $800) that I have used 3 times so far.
 
An AT&T cordless phone 2 years ago- looked awesome, specs were awesome, but the performance was on par with tin cans on a loose string. :disgust:
 
A yellow ford escort wagon, that burned a quart of oil everytime I drove it. Put more oil through that car than I did gas, and that is no joke either.
 
A PCchips motherboard...aka PC100. They didn't even put the company name in the manual. No phone #, web site, or address either. I knew I was in trouble when I saw that.


And I liked my Cyrix 486 thank you very much.
 
Originally posted by: OmegaNauce
What is the biggest POS you've ever purchased?
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Uh, I don't purchase sh!t. I put it in the toilet where it belongs. Do you have some kind of fetish we need to know about? 🙂
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I see you're still really struggling with being funny... Sorry to break it to you, but that was another failure... You should be banned for being so retarded.
 
It's a toss up between the MP3/cd player I bought when it was the only one on the market (can't remember the brand), and the MS Game Commander - you know, that thing that was supposed to replace the keyboard for rts and fps games. The CD player sucked - I went through two of them before giving up - first one had a bad headphone jack, and the motor burned out on the second one. The MS thing was so bad - you were supposed to be able to move with it, but the mechanics behind it were so spongy that the thing wouldn't go back to center so you always ended up moving too far or whatever. Two purchases I wish I hadn't made.
 
Creative Labs Digital VCR card.

At first I kinda liked it, but the more I used it the more I disliked it to the point where I have plans to replace the card entirely with a card that claims to do much less.
 
My first computer bought with my own money(not a family computer). It was a Gateway, and the biggest flaming pile of monkey poo that I have ever purchased.

List of crap that died in it -

HD x 2
Floppy
Modem
CDrom x 2
And eventually the whole thing just crapped(I'm assuming power supply went out) and they just sent me a new one.

The machine was terrible, the tech support for it was even worse.

UHG!
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
My first computer bought with my own money(not a family computer). It was a Gateway, and the biggest flaming pile of monkey poo that I have ever purchased.

List of crap that died in it -

HD x 2
Floppy
Modem
CDrom x 2
And eventually the whole thing just crapped(I'm assuming power supply went out) and they just sent me a new one.

The machine was terrible, the tech support for it was even worse.

UHG!
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Gateway's tech support skill requirements used to consist of a high school education and the ability to read. From what I've heard, their tech support has gotten a LOT better since the early days...
 
My Gateway 1Ghz Athlon PC.

This was one of the first 1Ghz PCs out and I got it the first week. Spent about $3500 on it.

First week, PSU went out. They gave me a hard time about it. Then my sound card went out. Then I realized my Plextor 8X SCSI CD-R didn't work with the mobo.

I bought their top of the line PC and Gateway's CS was horrible. They gave me a hard time about everything. Never got my CD-R to work. Had to completely rebuild my PC by buying a new MB, PSU, case and ended up spending about $500 more than I needed to.

I wrote several emails to the company complaining about their CS and they wrote me back several NASTY letters to me.

I will never buy from those bastards again.
 
refurbished 21 inch monitor (80 fukin lbs~!), lugged up to my dorms last year, worked for about 3 months, then started loosing the color red if it was on too long.. try playing vid games in shades of blu and green... not fun... :|

ah wellz now it sits in the basement gathering dust, anyone wanna buy it?!.. lol .. i'll throw in my 486 33mhz for free 😉
 
TV card from some Singaporean manufacturer. Didn't use it much, and reception was bad... ended up buying a real 21" TV a month later.


🙂atwl
 
Paintguns that I've hardly used.
Matrox G200 <- POS
AMD K6-2 <- POS

Best thing I ever bought was my airgun or my two cats.

 
easy

1. a Ford Tanus its a ford model sold in Germany. the day before my wife was to arrive in German the &%*$## clutch went out on it. So i was in the base auto hobby shop with it up on a lift replacing it. Then it was one problem after another just a huge money pit and being a E-2 and poor i went into major debt because of that car.

2. Got tired of pouring money into that car so when I made E-4 bought a brand new 1990 ponitac grand-am. Good car for about a year then something went wrong with the engine. The shop i had to take it for the warranty work even had a NEW engine shipped to Germany from Detroit. After the new engine was installed, it was good for about 2 days and the problem started again. basically an internal back fire that nobody could figure out. It would happen when ever the engine was under stress like passing a car or going up hill. it would back fire like a machine gun POP POP POP POP POP and have now power at all. GM bought the car back under the Lemon Law the AAFES new car sales had.



 
Originally posted by: BigJohnKC
... the MP3/cd player I bought when it was the only one on the market (can't remember the brand) ... The CD player sucked - I went through two of them before giving up - first one had a bad headphone jack, and the motor burned out on the second one.
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I think I fell prey to the same MP3/CD player... :|
 
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