Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

[Marvzl1357]

Buying a Padfone infinity 2 from the cheapest seller on amazon.

Some network bands don't work (might have been my fault for buying an overseas model)

Touch sensor periodically disables itself, and on top of that, it sometimes registers phantom touches

Part of the metal back is peeling off

some of the Asus implemented features decide to disappear randomly, have to manually activate them again.

Generally a terrible experience

[The Medic]

I regret buying Turtle Beach  headphones. At the time I was desperate for some new headphones, and at the same  time I was still sorta playing Xbox, so my friends recommend me to buying Turtle beaches.  After a few months the head padding was wearing off, it fits horribly on my head when wear glasses and in general and the sound quality was pretty poor. I'm glad I brought them in a Christmas sale.

[LOST TALE]

semi broken audio analog cable extension

intel stock fan.

[FizzyFantom]

The regret is any is when I bought my GTX 650 Ti to replace the GT 630, as good as the 650 Ti is I should have gone straight to the GTX 660

I bought a 650Ti SSC (huge upgrade from a GT 440). It performs excellently for the price (especially as it was on sale), but it has a fin heatsink with a single loud fan. I don't regret it really (that 440 was really bad), but I'm somewhat irritated with the noise.

 

got Daylight for free

You're sort of lucky, that game is garbage, a 2 hour long fetch quest...

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

I regret the $52 I just spent on CS:GO skin cases. Best thing I got was a M4A1-S Nitros and I unboxed a StatTrak USP-S Blood something or other.

[MangoJuiceStain]

My Samsung Galaxy S4 for $700 off of Amazon unlocked last year, and my S4 aluminum case that I bought for $15 from a Chinese seller in June that still didn't arrive and he made the estimated shipping time a day after the 45 days that eBay lets you file a dispute so I pretty much got scammed and I can't even make a dispute or leave negative feedback on his profile which is pretty crap. I'll leave a link to his profile below for you guys to beware. NEVER buy anything from this asshole.

 

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Luxury-All-Metal-Aluminum-Ultra-thin-Case-Cover-for-Samsung-Galaxy-S4-SIV-I9500-/310831341493?pt=US_Cell_Phone_PDA_Cases&var&hash=item485efddfb5&_uhb=1

[Will_Man_Dude]

buying two 6670s instead of someting like a 7770 or a 7850

[Yuval]

My keyboard, costed a month after half the price

Speakers: total overkill (SOLO7C)

original PC: locked CPU with 550 Ti SLI (when i first bought it), i only upgrade to get rid of those parts. And make a new pc with time

[Chillstice]

Have you ever bought an expensive piece of hardware (exp: a high-end gfx card) and then regret it?

Share your stories

Buyer's Remorse

[Balverine]

My Razer mousepads (took two purchases and bad experiences to find out they are crap) and my GPU & CPU (should've invested a little more).

[Sephiroth]

This may change, and I'll update it if it does, but what I regret the most is spending almost $100 on a Feenix Nascita gaming mouse this past May. It took forever for it to arrive, and when it did the buttons to adjust the DPI were broken, so I had to send it back almost immediately unless I wanted to use the default settings, which were just too different for me. While there is the redeeming factor of their tech support being absolutely amazing (I've been able to be in contact with actual people and I was told to send it back and a new one would be sent out free of charge) I still have no mouse upgrade 3 months after purchasing it... If I'd known I'd have probably just gotten a Zeus from Gamdias, as I know a few people who have had great results with that.

[TwOne]

GeForce GT 610. If I waited two more weeks for shipping and payed 20 euros more, I coulda had a GeForce GT 630.

 

It was a Club 3D though (ultra rare, since Club 3D doesn't manufacture Nvidia cards anymore, and it runs really cool even with 15% OC).

It gets unstable at 25+% OC though, but that's normal.

 

Need for Speed Undercover for PC. (retail)

I got that on my birthday after release in 2008, as a gift. It ran very bad, and it was just as glitchy. Worst EA developed game.

 

A bunch of GPUs (including Radeon X1650 Pro by Sapphire), which were in bad condition and DoA

 

My original PC (back when it costed 1500 euros) with Pentium D 915 2.8GHz, 2GB DDR2 RAM (which died quite quick, so I got some Kingstons), Radeon Xpress 1250 (even though the case sticker noted Radeon Xpress 200). I killed the entire motherboard by playing Team Fortress 2 on "recommended settings" at 20-40fps.

[Imaginaerum]

A pair of $100 Reloop headphones that I think were suggested on this forum ~2 years ago... They sounded like garbage, made my head feel like it was at the bottom of the ocean, and were in general just bad. The Amazon seller that sold them to me disappeared so I couldn't get a refund or send them back. I talked to Amazon about it and they gave me a $20 gift card so that was nice, but I still have these stupid things sitting in a drawer. Not even eBay wants them... Had them up for three months.

[OpticFusion]

I regret buying my $800/£500 PC.

[ShadowCaptain]

I wish I bought a nicer case for my rig, though I am still relatively happy with my choice, I would have loved to have some killer externals 

 

 

I regret buying my $800/£500 PC.

 

Any reason?

[Stadiz]

samsung products the horror samsung oh the horror.....

[PhantomChevron]

When I bought my keyboard, then only to see at the shop next door, a ssd was on sale and was cheaper then my keyboard, or that with the keyboard money I could have bought a new mobo

[JDS]

I try not to think of all the money I've handed over for shitty/unnecessary products.

[MyNameMayBeJoshOrIsIt?]

Surface RT, it was a cheap price and i thought what the hell, definitely regret it now

[Torg73]

I bought a Ipod 2nd gen for £282 and regretted it as the sound quality was poor compared to my Creative ZEN mp3 player and the truth is Apple products is not the best built as the Ipod lasted 3 months before had problems with it and the Zen is still going strong after all these years.

[Trik'Stari]

My azza 9000 genesis (replaced by corsair carbide air 540)

Hyper 212 EVO

Corsair H110 AIO

Larkooler water cooling kit (shittiest pump/res imaginable)

EVGA 500w 80+bronze non modular PSU

AMD A10 5700 APU

Asus FM2 a85-v pro motherboard for the above mentioned APU (so much happier with my 4690k and gigabyte z97 board)

My "HD" sony bravia TV. Advertised in walmart as "HD", turns out it's 720p@60hz *bashes head into it* WHYYYYYYYYYY? For the price I paid I could have gotten a 144hz monitor. Bought it when I was a dirty console peasant.

EVGA gtx 660 instead of something better with more Vram.

My dinky cheap Ipod, replaced by windows 8 phone

Watch Dogs

the 120gig Samsung 840 pro SSD, wish I'd saved another 2 weeks and gotten a bigger one

[labrockstar]

I bought a CS:GO weapon case and when I was going to open it, I was prompted that I didn't have the key. Me, spending all my cash on the Sale forgot about the key which is like $2. Sold the create for a cent more than what I bought it for.

[Real_PhillBert]

I can think of many purchases that were irresponsible, but I can think of anything I really regret buying. 

[Gonçalo]

The thing i regret the most buying was my Samsung Series 7 Gamer NP700G7C for 1300€ on sale. Didn't look bad in specs for the time but had terrible build quality. Wrist rest was all scratched within a few weeks. Screen had was scratched because the keyboard would touch the panel with the lid closed, the keycaps from the keyboard broke off the stands more than once and several other issues. I did manage to get a refund after 7 months of complains to Samsung so it wasn't a complete waste of money.

[SSOB]

A pair of $100 Reloop headphones that I think were suggested on this forum ~2 years ago... They sounded like garbage, made my head feel like it was at the bottom of the ocean, and were in general just bad. The Amazon seller that sold them to me disappeared so I couldn't get a refund or send them back. I talked to Amazon about it and they gave me a $20 gift card so that was nice, but I still have these stupid things sitting in a drawer. Not even eBay wants them... Had them up for three months.

Funny thing about this post is. This forum doesn't even exist two years lol. 

 

My biggest regret ever was buying a blackberry torch 9800 instead of an iPhone, man was i dumb.