Whats the one purchase you have always regreted?

[66Fury383]

I'm fishing for some stories here. What is the one purchase that you always look back on and say, "why the hell did I buy that?". Cars or otherwise, monetary loss does not have to be the base of the regret either.

Every once and a while I play video games. Three or four years ago, I purchased an Xbox One. I played it a solid amount as I had more time on my hands. Fast forward to Black Friday 2018, I found a special edition of my system on sale (essentially the same thing with some marginal upgrades) and decided to pick it up. Almost immediately, I regretted buying the system and the seller didn't have a "cancel order" option. I would have to pay $30 to ship the system back for a refund and decided I would have a better chance selling it on craigslist. After a couple weeks of lowballs and trade offers for old iphones I finally just hooked up the system and "enjoyed" the marginal upgrades. I ended up giving my old Xbox to a buddy who is now really happy with it so I guess my story has a happy ending.

 

[Big_John]

Dinner on the first date with my ex wife.

 

[C Body Bob]

2004 Chrysler Crossfire. Not that it was a bad car but I was traveling nearly every weekend for a few Years about that time as I was racing. Working full time during the week from a work truck. So the Crossfire just sat while I made the $400 a month payment. Then in 08 the economy crashed & sports car values plummeted. I traded it in for peanuts on a work van that I still drive today. So maybe I did get my money back in the long run.

 

[Newport 66]

A new '79 Mercury Cougar. Worked at a small Ford/Mercury dealer and he talked me into buying the car (he was underwater unbeknownst to me and eventually got foreclosed on) and trading my '75 Cordoba. I was young and dumb!!! That car was the biggest piece of crap I ever owned. I quit working at the dealership because of his financial issues and lost my butt getting rid of the Cougar!

 

[detmatt]

Dinner on the first date with my ex wife.

I too immediately thought about that first wedding ring....

 

[Mudeblue]

Keurig coffee maker! Not one, but two! Biggest piece of junk I ever bought! In the Garbage! Buyer Beware! But then there was my first car, 1958 Ford Fairlane, 352 Police Interceptor, 2 door hardtop. Piece of junk! Traded it for a 1965 Sport Fury, 383, 3 on the floor. Had to sell it when I got drafted in 1969 but have since replaced it in 1989 for my 1965 Sport Fury convertible which is sitting in the garage making my billfold cry; but I love it!

 

[65sporty]

I had a 80 YZ125 dirt bike I bought in 85 I don't regret buying it, I regret selling it. I wished I would have kept it, I love riding off road and my son likes riding also. When I sold it, a 14 yr old bought it and I was happy to see how overjoyed he was with his new to him bike, so many years ago though I believe it was 91.

 

[twostick]

My 73 Newport Custom I bought in 1976. It was a complete gongshow. Almost cured me of Mopars. lol

My 87 Freightliner that I bought new. First and last new one or new anything motor vehicle for that matter.

Kevin

 

[300rag]

I know it's Japanese, but when I upgraded to the Datsun 710 from my 510. Loved that 510, but the loss of the IRS did not make the 710 a fun car. Got rid of it after 6 months.

 

[66Fury383]

My 73 Newport Custom I bought in 1976. It was a complete gongshow. Almost cured me of Mopars. lol

My 87 Freightliner that I bought new. First and last new one or new anything motor vehicle for that matter.

Kevin

Hey, if that doesnt cure it, maybe the cost of parts will!

 

[66Fury383]

I know it's Japanese, but when I upgraded to the Datsun 710 from my 510. Loved that 510, but the loss of the IRS did not make for a fun car. Got rid of it after 6 months.

Nothing wrong with the right import. Too many hoe-hums are too focused on the american auto and refuse to even let the greatest foreign cars shine!

 

[Zymurgy]

Jet boat. It is super fast but it has twin 2 cycle engines. It has an enormous appetite for gas, it smells, loud, no windshield, engines leak at the mounting point, it fouls the plugs 12 of them, if it sits a week you need to prime the carbs, it will not go straight at no wake speed.

Other than that I love it.

 

[crv]

Cars, so many lemons and so much money down the drain. Kind of regretting my latest purchase, I have a bad feeling about the whole thing.

 

[GJS]

Sold my 62 Les Paul that I’d had since I was 16 and bought a Rickenbacker 381v69. It’s not the Ric I regret, I didn’t like it from a playing standpoint but that was no big deal, I just sold it.

That Paul went into a collection never to be seen again.

 

[BLUPORT]

A pack of cigarettes when I was 14. Took me almost 25 years to quit. I haven't smoked in a year and 10 months.

Everything else that I've bought, I've somehow managed to avoid buying anything I regret, but LOTS of things I regret getting rid of.

 

[GJS]

A pack of cigarettes when I was 14. Took me almost 25 years to quit. I haven't smoked in a year and 10 months.

Everything else that I've bought, I've somehow managed to avoid buying anything I regret, but LOTS of things I regret getting rid of.

Yup. Good job quitting. Still working on that myself.

 

[BLUPORT]

Yup. Good job quitting. Still working on that myself.

Try vaping. (aka playing the douche flute) that's how I got through the first year. It got to the point where I lowered the nicotine enough that I got away from the addiction, and I just got tired of walking outside to make puffy white clouds that smelled like applie-cinnamon muffins.

 

[67Monaco]

That house in CT. I'd be about $40K ahead and still have my R/T Magnum.

 

[commando1]

75 Olds Starfire in 1975.
I was stoned out of my mind.

 

[67Monaco]

Then there was not one but two Samsung refrigerators. First on froze in the center making us "defrost" it every three weeks. Be one thing if it was the freezer, no it was the fridge.

The second, a Chef's Collection, and this is how dumb I am, paid $5k for the f'in thing. The fridge and freezer were fine but the ice maker always froze up. It was worked on so much over three years the refrigerant systems let loose and spewed isobutane all over the house. Sears actually just refunded the purchase price of that one last week.