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Worst Tech mistake you have ever made?

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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.

Then 1 and a half years ago, but it's nearing 2 years. I made an account in February 2013 and the forums were around before then, I don't know how long before.

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Then 1 and a half years ago, but it's nearing 2 years. I made an account in February 2013 and the forums were around before then, I don't know how long before.

Holey donkey balls, time is going so fast! If only you could buy time.. that would be so awesome.

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

Share your stories :D

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Not high-end, but I feel like I may regret my purchase I'm making today- a Moto G.

Google Edition? 

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Google Edition? 

Nope

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WatchDogs, Elder Scroll Online is part of the list in things I regret buying.

Lumia920, somehow my unit has a lot of problem end up selling it and go back to my Nexus4

Asus Z77V-LK, turns out it is a very fragile motherboard and I had PCI-e problems within 1year of owning it

CM Hyper 212 Evo, not that it is a bad cooler, in fact it is the best in that price range but maybe I had more unrealistic expectation on it so kind of regret it. Should have spend more from the beginning...

OCZ Illuminati Keyboard, this is a very terrible keyboard after i know mechanical...

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I'm very methodical when shopping for new technology. I can confidently say that extensive research helped me to prevent making a purchase that I've regretted. 

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Not high-end, but I feel like I may regret my purchase I'm making today- a Moto G.

I don't think you will regret it. It's a very good phone.

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I regret buying a beats by dre product.. once

 

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My dad bought a macbook pro. I tried to talk him out of it. "We can program in objective-C" he said, "It's good to try another flavor of UNIX" he said. I will never forget that day as long as I live. $2100 down the drain for a dual core with 4 gigs of ram

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Maybe when I got my 780 ti instead of a 780

seriously??? why? i'm thinking of getting a 780 ti over a 780. why wouldnt you get the ti?

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i regret buying another one of my 7970's because it was cheap. i should have saved for a 780 or a 780ti instead of going crossfireX :(

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i regret buying another one of my 7970's because it was cheap. i should have saved for a 780 or a 780ti instead of going crossfireX :(

I talked myself out of buying another 7990 for this reason. Now I'm waiting to see what the 800 series brings. 

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I kind of regret my Xbox One.  It's an okay media box but I could have worked out other ways and had enough leftover $$$ for SLI or like 1/2 of a Surface Pro 3 or some crap.

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i kind of regret buying a $650 tablet, but then i remembered i bought it for my mother :)

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I had an almost regret when I was buying parts for my first build and the Asus dcuii 780 was out of stock when I was about to drop $750 on it. Then 2 months later the price dropped to $500 and the 7970 I got instead went up $100 in value because of coin mining haha. 

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a 7850 for $200. As soon as I clicked order, I felt sick, and I couldn't send it back fast enough.

 

it was probs cause I only had $200 at the time. (This time it was different, I had a whole $700 when I made my most recent upgrade)

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The Fractal Define R4, the Lian Li PC-V354, my Fractal PSU.

 

 

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seriously??? why? i'm thinking of getting a 780 ti over a 780. why wouldnt you get the ti?

ehhh i don't think i need that much performance :P

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I half regret buying my new camera (sony A7) but I also love it

 

Is there such thing has half regret?

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Buying a Vita at launch, total of $500 and I've done nothing but use it to watch YouTube in bed.

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I bought the Acer Liquid E2 (smartphone) it's only a year old and stuck on 4.2.2. It also has some bad screen ghosting issues. Now i'm trying to get my money back :P

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I bought a R9 270x when bitcoin was still going strong... wasted $320 when I could have waited a week or two and got a R9 280x...

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