What do you regret buying?

about 300 records at about £5 each. Ended up moving into a small room with no room for my turntables. Ended up getting a them all as mp3's and use a £60 controller to play them all now.
 
Xbox 360, got it for christmas not played it since, I think that video games just don't have the appeal that they did when I was a kid, only play a few online rts and fps games on the pc now.
PSP, games were far too expensive, and the psp had far too many hardware and software issues when I bought it around japanese release time.
Laptop got it as a present for passing my gcse exams but never needed to use it, uni has tons of computers and I don't go away often.
PDA Phone, regret spending so much money on one, didn't use any pda functions other than the large screen for decent internet browsing, which is way too expensive anyway p&g.
 
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My RS4 an unreliable depreciation beyatch of a motor.

Every console I ever bought (and I've bough most of them!) as I always end up playing PC games if I ever play games at all.

I also have 4 PDA's, one of which I nearly used for a whole month all of which now sit in a draw in my office.

I bought a Time Manager (posh and VERY expensive Filofax) in the 80's and used it as a pad.

Samsonite laptop bags (3 off) over the years as ALL have been utterly useless, the latest being simply terrible with awful locking system.

Sony Vaio A317M from xxxxxxx for my wife. An overpriced and unreliable heap of crap.

Scott Elite Racing mountain bike sat on a wall in my garage for years gathering dust and covered around 5 miles.

A Bridge of Italy laptop bag and wallet. Extremely expensive and beautiful like most Italian things and both broke within a week!

My Yamaha drum kit. Such a good idea at the time.

I have spent mad amounts of money on stuff I certainly don't need, very rarely use and often detest. Oooooo look, shiny :D
 
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PS2 - never gets used and was barely used even when I first got it.

Various bits of PC hardware over the years which weren't really needed at the time but seemed like a good idea.

HP C3000 Unix workstation .... used a bit but barely touched now (in fact its currently in the garage).

Numerous DVDs
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PS2?? i had 3, probably the best console ever, have still got it somewhere with 80+ games might dig it and the gamecube out (will probably regret it though) :)
pro evo 5 still the best footy game ever made, shadow of the collosus, katamari...etc*hehe
 
My Ford Focus. I loved it at first but now everything is going wrong with it and it hardly gets any use. If i sell it I'll get at the most half of what i payed for it and will still have to buy something else with that money that will probably be even worse.
 
Buying cheap cars when I first started driving. I drove old bangers for about 6-7 years while most people I knew had decent cars. The worst part about it was that it saved me no money at all because of the constant upkeep. Bought a brand new car 5 years ago on 4 years 0% finance and it's the best and cheapest motoring I've ever had. No maintenance and I saved a small fortune on petrol, tax and insurance.
 
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Last week bought Star Wars Episode I-III on DVD, seperately... didn't realize the Prequel Trilogy box set was out for less money. :/
 
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Acer laptop paid almost a grand for it and just after the guarantee runs out the geoforce onboard gfx chip goes pop :mad:
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If that's the well known GeForce problem that ocurred fairly recently, under the sales of goods act you may still have a claim against the retailer as this was a manufacturing defect and not thorugh misuse - you'll need to gather evidence of the problem and that you are affected by it (after 6 months the onus is on you to prove the defect was there from the start).

As for purchases I regret, probably a Canon LBP-5000 colour laser printer, no 64 bit drivers so had to share it via a mac mini with bonjour printer sharing and decided to spew toner onto the page just outside warranty, constantly. Freecycled it and got a small B&W one as my wife realised she wasn't printing out nearly as many colour hand outs for her lessons as she thought se would.

Also, her new iPod which has somehow disappeared after I brought it in from the car to charge - I suspect our 2 year old son has thought "ooooh...shiny" and hidden it somewhere, but with no time to tear the house apart it's just going to have to turn up when it turns up!
 
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