Purchases you regret

[Golden_Griff]

Hi, I'm slightly bored and it's bedtime

Have you ever purchased something, only to regret ever buying it later on?

I hate when that happens!

Like yesterday, I purchased a piece of ceramic ware from a gallery that I went to for my class assignment. The artist owns and operates the gallery, and many of his pieces were on sale from $6-$1000. Dude had skills. But what do I do? I go and buy a plain, cylindric mug for $14 when I could have paid 4 dollars more to get something more extravegant

Why did I do it?! Why?! WHY?!?

Sure, I can say that I own a piece of artwork done by a local artist. But I purchased something I could have made with my own hands!

*sigh* Anyway...does anyone else experience this type of thing?

[enishi]

ugh. i make a purchase i regret at least once every three months.

[agasfas]

Things I've regreted after purchase....
-FFX2. It wasn't as fun as FFX
-The few mangas I have... I never read them
-A hat that looks stupid on me
-A dvd rack that was cheaply made and worthless. It just tips over.. and if it doesn't, all the dvd's fall through the openings. Hint: if you buy a dvd/vhs holder/shelf make sure it doesn'thold the movies at a slant, make sure all the shelves are horizontal
-My gov't text book... All whole dang test came from the class notes.

[Debitt]

weiss kruez dvd - never got into the series. ^^; should have rented first.

DNAngel 10 (the second time) - was POSITIVE I didn't have it. I did. x_x

Star Ocean EX dvds - love the series. don't love the fact that the DVDs are bootlegged.

various pairs of earrings - didn't know I was allergic to cheap metal earrings. =/ No fun.

[Stephen]

LOL. How bout tonight? I spent 30 bucks for an uncensored copy of Haute Tension from France. (horror film) And I just spend 40 bucks on a special edition of Evil Dead 1. The Necromonicron special editon boxset. (Thanks for the help Ashley)

[Sync]

I bought the Love Hina tv show instead of the manga.

[Ashley]

Oh geez, where to begin. I had a spending spree with ebay a while back, and now I regret some of the stuff I bought. I mean, in a way it's cool to have collectibles, but I definately went overboard. Like my 4" KKJ cds--I guess they're cool but I don't even like the songs listed!

Other not-so-wonderful buys:
- my passport. 90 bucks for a stupid piece of plastic I won't even use that often
- Aria volume 1--pretty art, but the story put me to sleep
- Faeries Landing vol 1-3--ugh, good story til they added the shounen-ai overtones. I sold it.
- Azumanga Daioh vol 1--it's so lonesome on my bookshelf, and I'll probably never read it again.

ALL MY FREAKIN OVER-PRICED COLLEGE BOOKS! I spent close to 200 bucks (well, ok, mom and dad did ^^;; ) on books last semester I won't read again. Except maybe the Illiad, I liked that. And a nice fat book bill this semester too.
(Thanks for the shoutout, Shatterheart )

[Slater]

Airsoft gun made by the company CYMA. I quickly learned that Chinese-made airsoft guns and bbs are the epitome of suckiness.

[enishi]

I bought the Love Hina tv show instead of the manga.

but ... but .. that was a good show! how could you regret buying the anime?

[Golden_Griff]

Every book I ever purchased I regret buying...they're more useful as coasters or file cabinets

[termyt]

DNAngel 10 (the second time) - was POSITIVE I didn't have it. I did. x_x

I could fill a library.

The second time I bought the El Hazard Wanderers 3 VHS tape.
The second time I bought the El Hazard Wanderers 2 DVD.
Galaxy Angel 1. I only regret the second copy. I managed to give the third copy I bought to my brother, so at least it had some value.
My second copy of Ai Yori Aoshi 4. Actually, I have every volume published so far (like 8 or 9) and I haven't read a single one yet.
My second copy of Gall Force: Eternal Story
Thirty issues of InuYasha published in comic book form that I never read because I missed issue number two.
Vandread: Second Stage 4, Second Copy.
Ranma 1/2, Season 7, DVD 2 x 2.
And I bet not even Gypsy likes Iria enough to own two copies - not including the old VHS tapes I bought years ago.

And what is with my compulsive desire to replace every VHS tape I ever owned with the DVD? I've even done it with shows I didn't like all that much to begin with and have never watched again.

[kaji]

-FFX2. It wasn't as fun as FFX

Same here…

A ton of Hero Clix and Mech Warrior game pieces… The game is fun, but I just don’t have any one to play with. Why I kept buying them all those years ago??? Not exactly sure…

I’m sure I have had more, but I have pretty well broken my habit’s of buying regrettable things.

-kaji

[Rev. Doc]

Purchasing any item cheaper than one that is priced more only to find the reason it's cheaper is because it's cheaply made. Then I have to go out again and purchase the more expensive item so that I will have something that will last longer.

[soul alive]

all those dollar DVD's from Wal-Mart. seriously, i love old movies, but only two out of the 10 or so i got are worth watching more than once, or even all the way through. *sighs* but i got what i paid for.

the shirt i got at Cape Canaveral. sure, it's a cool shirt, but it's so ruggedly manly that i will never wear it (seriously, it's about as thick as two normal t-shirts, and has that marble tie-dye look in red and tan, i really don't know why i bought it for myself), and it will just sit in my closet.

[Godly Paladin]

Yeah, I buy junk I don't want ten minutes later all the time. Esp. used video games at thrift stores, etc.

[Jeikobu]

My biggest regret in buying something is all the money I wasted on Beanie Babies in the past. Now I don't give a rip for most of them, but they aren't worth practically anything anymore so I can't make much off of them. ^^;

[Scribs]

At one point in time I bought like half the animorph books. *weeps profusely*

I also have about 3 large binders full of pokemon cards *weeps mightily*

I then got into Redemption cards (no they arn't indulgences, its a game like magic, but with bible charachters) *Weeps with the strength of 10000 men*

There is so much more too! *weeps more than you could know*

[Scribs]

At one point in time I bought like half the animorph books. *weeps profusely*

I also have about 3 large binders full of pokemon cards *weeps mightily*

I then got into Redemption cards (no they arn't indulgences, its a game like magic, but with bible charachters) *Weeps with the strength of 10000 men*

There is so much more too! *weeps more than you could know*

[Scribs]

At one point in time I bought like half the animorph books. *weeps profusely*

I also have about 3 large binders full of pokemon cards *weeps mightily*

I then got into Redemption cards (no they arn't indulgences, its a game like magic, but with bible charachters) *Weeps with the strength of 10000 men*

There is so much more too! *weeps more than you could know*

[AngelSakura]

Your triple post magnifies your grief by three.

<<At one point in time I bought like half the animorph books. *weeps profusely*>>
I have like, ALL the Animorphs books. It was good...but by the fifth time...

- A Hong Kong bootleg of a DBZ movie
- An edited, English-only version of "Cooler's Revenge" (DBZ movie)

[blkmage]

My NetMD. It doesn't work with Linux, so I needed to get a copy of VMWare and I kid you not, it now takes about four days to fill up one minidisc.

I almost couldn't get my Canon i450 to work, but after a lot of searching, I discovered that downloading a Japanese only printer driver works just as well.

There's also that USB watch that got stuck in my USB port and I ended up having to destroy the USB plug on the watch to get it out. Still use the watch though.

Almost every console I buy or own gets unused after a while. The PC just has longer lasting gaming goodness for me. Hopefully, I'll use my Gamecube someday for some more multiplayer fun before I really give up on it. Oh, and finish Metroid Prime. I swear I'm the slowest game finisher ever.

[TheMelodyMaker]

Oh, I can't think of anything at the moment that I've regretted purchasing, but I can tell you what my mom and my sister & her husband regretted today: Plane tickets.

Did anyone hear in the news today about the airline company called Jetsgo announcing its declaration of bankruptcy? My above said family members booked a flight with them online to go to my cousin's wedding in the middle of May, and the tickets were non-refundable. So thousands of people who were scheduled to fly today were stranded at the airports!

To coin a popular expression, we were not amused.

[Roy Mustang]

I regret buying Transformable Escaflowne model. That thing is nothing, but junk!


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[Zedian]

I regret buying the Belkin FM Transmitter for my iPod...the thing cost me some money and it doesn't even work since I can't get any clear FM signals in San Antonio.

Also does spending 400 dollars for a speeding ticket count as a regrettable purchase ? Hmm....

[Slater]

Every book I ever purchased I regret buying...

Them's fighting words, good sir! *cracks knuckles*
[spoiler]jk [/spoiler]

oh yes, I also regret paying for AOhelL for about oh... 8 years. *luvs comcast*

[Aka-chan]

I'm the stingy kind of person who takes forever to decide to buy something. So, more often for me, I'm left regretting not buying something when it was a good deal. ^__^

[agasfas]

'm the stingy kind of person who takes forever to decide to buy something.

You should see me in the candy aisle... so many choices....
*two hours later* "okay, think I found what I wanted."

[Debitt]

I'm the stingy kind of person who takes forever to decide to buy something. So, more often for me, I'm left regretting not buying something when it was a good deal. ^__^

*does a Kan-chan impersonation* ">o</ Youko, you reused the tea leaves? You stingy girl! Yuck!"

xD; Sorry, couldn't help myself. >> But I know how that is. My friends hate shopping with me because I go in and out of stores multiple times before I decide whether to buy something or not.

[Cedahlia]

Heehee...I re-read my Animorph books all the time. ^^;

I regret getting the first Chobits DVD...I can't bring myself to re-watch them like I do my Kenshin ones.

The Beanie Babies! They plague my closet space...but, now I am sending them to our troops in Iraq to hand out. ^^ I have around 300, and the kids there love them, so they will go to a loving home.

[Yeito]

Two words:

Kiddy Grade e_e;;;;