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What was your last "bad" electronics buy?

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Bought this keyboard becuase it had a rebate. The End, Home, Delete, etc. keys are not in their usual positions. The F# keys activate other shortcuts until you hit another key to turn it off. And it's ps2 only.
 
7800GT - I bought it for around $300 and it renewed the gaming experience, but it consumed so much of my life that I had to stop. I am now selling it on Ebay, and I will probably lose about $100.

Sennheiser PX100 - the sound quality is really great for the price, but the coord is too short! Now I hardly use it after I bought the Shure E2s.

Sennheiser PMX60 - I thought I would use them during workout, but they were too open, so I ended up getting the Shure E2s. Now I almost never use it.

GameCube + Game Cube Games - Other than Smash Bro, they all sucked. Now I plan to sell them off.

I'm usually good with my money, but sometimes, I fail to invest in the right item.
 
Toshiba 5915 DVD changer. I bought it after my wonderful Toshiba SD2200 player died after 7-8 years. Figured all Toshiba players were as good. Hell no. This thing is crap. Takes a good 10-15 seconds for it to decide to open the tray (sometimes it "forgets" to open and starts scanning for discs instead). Takes 10 seconds for it to decide whether a disc is present in a particular position. You can't swap discs while one is playing (hell, my 17 year old JVC CD changer can do that). Twice I've had to unplug it to reset. It crashes while playing some discs. Every once in a while, you'll see MPEG artifacts for a frame or two. They're never repeatable, very sporatic and never occurred with my old player.

If this is indicative of Toshiba quality, I'd recommend you stay away from them these days.
 
Originally posted by: MX2times
I bought Sony speakers about 5 yrs ago and still use them🙁
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I bought a sony Reciever with my Polk Audio speakers, a severely underrated reciever compared to what it was suppose to be...
 
Originally posted by: LanceM
PSP, by far. It's my most regretful gaming purchase, and I even bought a 32x when it was released.
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oh god that reminds me. mine would be the Sega CD and sega 32x. man what a waste of money
 
OK,

19inch CRT Monitor in about 1996 - $750 bucks, it got it's use I suppose, but I ended up giving it away.

and the WORST BUY EVER

IBM Ultrastar 19.2GB SCSI HD. $550!!!

Man, I wish I had that 1300 bucks back!
 
My Nokia 6102i. It is a POS, gets crap reception, the software is full of bugs and doesn't have enough processing power - the phone hangs for a second after every button push.
 
Radeon 9800AIW when I had a raderon 9800NP. The change only cost me $80, but since I had multiple monitors and ATI MMC BLOWS, I NEVER got to really use the AIW features.

Minidisc player... but I sold that to an even bigger sucker and broke even.

I too own an Toshiba e740 PDA which I got for $200 refurbished. I had all of the same problems as the other guy, but was still able to make it useful to me. I think I got my money's worth.

Every pair of sony headphones I've ever owned... three behind the kneck models, one ear clip model and MDR-V700DJ's. They all broke well before their time and the MDR-V700DJ's were very very very uncomfortable. At least I didn't get ripped off too badly on any of those in particular (got the last for $100 even)

Thrustmaster ABD Steering Wheel for my old mac.... That fvcking thing NEVER worked... and probably cost me $120...

Falcon 4 was an anormous piece of sh!t.

more will come to me....
 
OMG, as soon as I read this, I thought "Every SONY product I've ever purchased died within a year or two." Then the first two posts deal with SONY 🙂
 
Originally posted by: iversonyin
Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Originally posted by: iversonyin
Originally posted by: sniperruff
Originally posted by: iversonyin
No one has a bad IPOD?! No way....How can anyone be satisfy with battery that die out after 1 year of use?
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ipod mini. in use for > 1 year. still holds 90% of charge. spew your garbage elsewhere.
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http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/ipod_suit.html

O sure, do you mean your garbage?
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That settlement was only for 3rd generation iPod's, which is a pretty low percentage of all the iPod's out there now. Most folks have the 4th generation (click wheel, color screen in later models) iPod, 5th generation (video) iPod, iPod Mini, iPod Shuffle, or iPod Nano.

You must work for Sandisk or Creative 🙂
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I don't work for neither. The settlement covers 1st to 3rd gen ipods. (which might included some of the mini). Its cover a load of ipod populations before the 5th gen come out.

80% of people that I know have problems (battery or just died after extensive use) with their ipod (3rd gen or before). Not sure how the new ones fare - only time can tell.

$59 for battery replacement, the old price was $99- 30%-50% of what the ipod cost. Aside from the looks, theres just not much about it.
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nobody even mentioned ipods before you introduced your ****** agenda. i have a 3rd gen ipod from 2003 and it's still going strong. gtfo
 
APC BackUPS ES 350 - it gives me 5 seconds of battery backup..replaced it with a real UPS though 🙂
 
I always make sure to buy my gadgets at way below market value, that way it turns from a "bad buy" to an "ebay investment" 😀

for instance, just bought a tmobile SDA for $100, and a DS lite for $85. Last week I bought a dual core notebook for $449.
 
Originally posted by: erub
APC BackUPS ES 350 - it gives me 5 seconds of battery backup..replaced it with a real UPS though 🙂
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Oh yeah... I forgot about the crappy APC BackUPS ES 500 UPS that I bought a few months ago. Something was seriously wrong with the voltage regulator on it, which caused my computer randomly reboot itself due to undervoltage whenever I had it plugged into that UPS. I tested it with a volt meter under load, too, which confirmed that the voltage was dropping under 110 volts.

I only paid about $40 for it, though, so it wasn't worth the hassle their support folks were giving me with getting an RMA on it. I'll make sure to hold a grudge against APC's low end products in the future, though.
 
Originally posted by: wasssup
GAMECUBE: bought for $100+ tax, used for ~30 minutes
PSP: bought for $200+ tax, used for 3-4 hours
XBOX360: bought for $400+ tax, used for 20 minutes

PSP heads over to ebay tonight, xbox360 goes there soon, i don't think the gamecube is worth anything anymore so i'll just pack it up...
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gamecube? what the hell? resident evil 4 is worth $100 by itself.
 
Radeon X1900XTX - POS flickers. Probably sending masked images of something really bad. 😛

Adaptec RAID cards. They should be used for crab pot markers. Probably more effective overall. :laugh:
 
Originally posted by: MS Dawn
Radeon X1900XTX - POS flickers. Probably sending masked images of something really bad. 😛
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I don't think that suppose to happen, maybe you should RMA your video card if it does that..
 
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