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Worst impulse buy ever?

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Al Neri

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Honestly, as for ever, I'd say running out and leasing a car after I got a job. The car set me back $360 a month (it was in 04, an accord coupe ex, gold trim, alloy wheels, etc.) with nothing down. I drove maybe 4,000 miles a year. I turned it in in August of 07 with 15k miles on it. I smartened up and bought a 1997 maxima with cash, no car payments, low insurance 🙂

Also, recently I sprung for an iMac (the new model) and I use it maybe once a month. I should have just listened to myself and just been happy with my laptop that I use 99% of the time.


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camcorder I got a few years ago that was like $400. I shoveled snow for a day and made about $450 and I had always wanted a camcorder. however i never use that thing ever. i've probably used it like 5 times since I got it other than just screwing around with it when I first got it.
 
dvd of The Matrix - $12

led to several dvd players, 2 TVs, 3 receivers, 2 sets of front/rear speakers (only 1 sub fortunately), and many, many, many DVDs, most of which are not watched any more.

*note* the dvd of The Matrix was bought first before i even had any equipment. it was a "hot deal" back then when DVDs were costing ~$25 on average.
 
HP Ipaq 2795b, of which I'm trying to sell now on FS/T forums. NIce PDA, but it doesn't do what I needed it to do, and a $30 U3 thumb drives does. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: HN
dvd of The Matrix - $12

led to several dvd players, 2 TVs, 3 receivers, 2 sets of front/rear speakers (only 1 sub fortunately), and many, many, many DVDs, most of which are not watched any more.
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haha... that's awesome...

Edit: for me, it was probably a camcorder. I wanted a new Hi8 one before i went to India in Jan of 2005. I think son the trip i put three tapes through it and since then maybe one. Worst $250 ever. I can't even get rid of it now at a repectable price.

Oh well, you live and learn... No more camcorders for me now until i have kids or something like that.
 
Creative Zen Vision:M I actually did use it quite a bit when I commuted by train. Now that I moved and commute by car I never use it.
 
Hard to say really.

I guess some speakers that I didn't need when I was younger, I didn't research them first or anything and was totally impulse.

They were just "OK" but I ended up getting a nice setup of Polk Audio speakers a few years ago and gave the other ones away.

I have a ton of crap from over the years that I bought and never use though.
 
Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
Originally posted by: HN
dvd of The Matrix - $12

led to several dvd players, 2 TVs, 3 receivers, 2 sets of front/rear speakers (only 1 sub fortunately), and many, many, many DVDs, most of which are not watched any more.
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haha... that's awesome...

Oh well, you live and learn...
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see...i thought i did learn (and i've been good about it for awhile now), but then i was able to jump in on the $99 toshiba hd-dvd player deal. i think the home-theater-bug is about to hit again 😱
 
Originally posted by: maddogchen
i bought a stock once, it went bankrupted. yeah i didn't research it that well. dot com bust 🙁
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Same here. Wasn't a dot com though and it didn't go bust. I wanted to get my feet wet in the stock market and the only things I was really familiar with were computers. At that point Intel was tops in the chip market so I figured they'd be a good investment. Only had like $600 bucks to play with since I was in college so I bought 14 shares of Intel. It was at it's 52 week high for the most part so it pretty much dropped back into the 20's.
Me being stubborn I didn't want to sell it until I could break even so I just held onto it. Was getting like 30 cent dividends every couple of months lol. Finally it hit 19 bucks last year so I bought another 40 shares to make a couple of bucks and erase the loss when I went to sell all the shares. Ended up making like $60 bucks after all the fees. Learned my lesson though and at least it wasn't an expensive one.
 
A high end Toshiba Satellite laptop back in 2000. POS. Circuit City gave me the runaround on getting it fixed, even with the extended warranty. Eventually, it was in a class action lawsuit and I got back $1000. That was nice. Still pissed at CC tho...

A 98 Blazer in 2000. (Jeeze, 2000 was a crap year!) Full loaded, fairly low miles. Just FELL APART after 90k miles... I'm VERY bitter towards GM right now.

My Sony DSC-P1 was crappy too... Jeeze, bought that around 2001...

 
Intel Q6600 combo from Fry's. Multitude of hd drives that I didn't need but got them due to the attractive prices (or what they seemed at the time).
 
Laptop last November and my car this year in Oct. Spent way too much money on both of those. I was looking for another vehicle already, but actually purchasing the one I did was kind of impulsive. Wound up buying an 04 Sebring Limited.
 
Car...it was an 01 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder. Bought it used in 04 for 15,000. Then the $2,000 60k mile service...that was a big money pit! 😀
 
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