What was your biggest money blunder?

[novasatori]

Sold something for 500$ used Billpoint (? Billpay? Around 5 years ago) Anyways, never used it before always usually used Paypal, Wells Fargo called me later that night saying since the CC was from France and they couldn't process it and to not send the item. Unfortunately the item had already shipped. Later the guy was saying thanks for the free stuff etc etc.

I hate Wells Fargo to this day, they could have just processed it. They actually told me they were going to after I told them I shipped the item, but then they backed down.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Banana
So many . . . But the biggest in recent memory was when I failed to use about $1300 saved in my flex spending account. Lost it all The account manager said that my claim was a cosmetic procedure, so she denied it. No, it wasn't penis enlargement.

Looks like I win the dumbass prize.

goddam I hated those flex spending accounts. what a fvcking scam. let's see, guess how much money I'm gonna need to spend on sickness for the year, if I underestimate I'm screwed, if I overestimate I'm screwed.

 

[Atomicus]

Ipod 3rd gen $300

3 weeks later, 4th gen came out (better battery life, cheaper, etc)

I hit my head on my keyboard. End.

 

[Brackis]

Edit:

$250 to some horrible/shady domain website for them to list my domains on their site with free escrow service.

 

[tk149]

I bought some shares of AMD at $20 a last week... :|

 

[DainBramaged]

$5 that Bush would win Wisconsin

 

[poopaskoopa]

I've bought several items with MIRs only to let them expire. The last one was a cell phone I bought for $220 that could be had for $80 after rebates. Did I send them out? Nooooo... Is my time to send 2 pieces of mail worth more than $140? Hell nooooo.....

 

[Shawn]

Wasn't there already a thread like this? *cough* REPOST *cough*

Anyway I spent over $300 on a 4x DVD+R and 50 DVDs 2 years ago. Now they are dual layer and almost free.

 

[gabemcg]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Lost a paycheck (~$400) and a half ouce of pot once. That sucked balls.

tear

 

[nageov3t]

at my last job, I made a typo that cost the company $2,000... I was booking 3 people for a $75 dinner. I meant to hit 3.0 on the keypad to indicate 3 adults and 0 children. it came out as 30. instead, though, and no one noticed until 3 people showed up for a dinner that the company we booked through set aside 30 seats for :Q

 

[NL5]

$20,500 - bad, bad decision

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: NL5
$20,500 - bad, bad decision

Details?

 

[PoPPeR]

$15 entry fee into a fantasy football league and I didn't even show up for the draft. In a league where quarterbacks get a point for every completion, Yahoo's preranking drafted me Portis, Barlow, and Dominick Davis with my first three picks.

Needless to say I finished 9th out of 12th. I'm sure i've lost more money than that, but this was just like, as soon as I realized what happened, it was $15 lost.

 

[amol]

$1800 on a shoddy HP laptop :|

 

[NL5]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: NL5
$20,500 - bad, bad decision

Details?

Let's just say, it was the biggest securities fraud case in WA state history.....

 

[artikk]

Originally posted by: Wanescotting
My first (and only) Dell

:laugh:

My biggest money blunder was buying a compaq . I am still using it though.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Got a Compaq Presario 5474 with that ass-stinkin' i810E-DC100 chipset. No AGP slot, yay for me!

It's still running fine so no problem with quality. Well the floppy doesn't work anymore, something on the MB broke.

 

[Ausm]

2 failed marriages


Ausm

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: Ausm
2 failed marriages


Ausm

ouch!

Mine would probably be dropping a few hundie on some car stereo sh!t, installing it, and selling the car a week later to a guy who only wanted the car for the stereo stuff. dumb da dumb dumb

 

[stnicralisk]

The bookstore held my charge for textbooks for 5 days. I took money out of the ATM on Sunday after checking my account. Used card on saturday to purchase 20 bucks of gas, Wendys, and a candy bar. That candy bar cost me 28$ and the wendys and gas was extra special too!

80 bucks down the drain .

It doesnt sound so horrible but I am poor!

 

[SWScorch]

I once lost my wallet with $200 bucks in it. No idea how I lost it. Luckily, two years later, I was walking by the pond behind our house, and saw something lying in the mud. I picked it up, and it was my wallet! The money was still in there, just stuck together. Brought it to a bank and got my money back So that has a happy ending.

Over Christmas, I bought my gf some presents, and since I never use a checkbook register, I only keep a rough estimate of how much money I have in my account in my head. I knew I'd be getting low, so I deposited $150 in the account. Unbeknownst to me, the bank doesn't actually credit your account until 2 days after the deposit (fvcking bastards). I then bought a sub from Subway, which overdrew my account by 8 cents, costing me $32 in insufficient funds fees. Then, all the purchases I made on gifts came through, each one incurring its own insufficient fund charge. $160 in fees because of that. Pissed me off to no end.

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Banana
So many . . . But the biggest in recent memory was when I failed to use about $1300 saved in my flex spending account. Lost it all The account manager said that my claim was a cosmetic procedure, so she denied it. No, it wasn't penis enlargement.

Looks like I win the dumbass prize.

Was it Lasik? Please say it wasn't.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Lost a paycheck (~$400) and a half ouce of pot once. That sucked balls.

If you lost the check itself, you could still claim the money.

 

[dman]

Many stock market purchases that failed, I was too stupid to sell as they were dropping and limit my losses until they went to complete worthlessness. In a few cases I still haven't actually sold the shares / written them off as dissolved or whatever (company is gone) so I haven't even claimed the loss on my taxes either... ugh...

Life goes on.

 

[lightpants]

Not the biggest, but most recent:

Had $20 balance on credit card
decided to pay it off - even though payment wasn't due for 2 more weeks
submitted payment request online
didn't realize the saved bank account information for the online payment was for a checking account that I only had $5 in, instead of my main checking account. (the last payment had been made from my secondary account)

returned payment cc charge $29
NSF charge from bank $20
cc submitted again for payment a day later
NSF charge from bank $20

Not noticing the account that the payment was to be debited from was not the account I wanted it to be debited from cost me $69