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What Was Your Biggest Waste of Money Ever?

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why did it skyrocket? Jesus Christ. My memory costs double what it did... DDR4 isn't even out yet.

The prices lowered when retailers or whoever manages prices though that the upcoming release of Haswell would get everyone excited to buy more parts. The prices rose up when it turned out Haswell didn't make that much of an impact.

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I bought my computer case a few weeks before they announced some new ones. Mine is great for air cooling but now I am looking at water cooling. 

 

Waste of $180

 

 

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probably loads of PC games I should of waited for the sale to buy :3 

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probably loads of PC games I should of waited for the sale to buy :3 

 

All the games I bought on sale because how could I pass up a $1.27 game.

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My HTC 8x.

 

Windows Phone 8 is rubbish

I like Windows Phone 8 :( but if you don't like the platform, you don't like the platform I guess :) , I mean I don't enjoy the IOS experience... For example.

 

 

 

And definitely my iPod Touch, I just play Music on my phone now.... didn't like it, and never used it... D: what a waste.

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i'm on the same boat as you, i'm selling my xbox and all my games + everything that is involved with my xbox as soon as i can :P

woot :D

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while I was saving for my pc I got impatient and splurged and bought a ps3. I already owned the games for it plus I already have a ps3 but it ran out of room on the hdd. so instead of getting a new hdd I just kinda blew $270 on a new console. I used it for 3 months then sold it for $150 to save up for my gpu. biggest waste of money ever...

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Gamewise: diablo3 for full price

Pc-Hardwarewise: 3d setup. Not really usefull for the most games, sadly.

Generally: my 42" TV which i used like 3times in the time i own it.

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R9 3900X - Peerless Assassin 120 SE - Asus Prime X570 Pro - Powercolor 7900XT - 32gb LPX 3200mhz - Corsair SF750 Platinum - 1TB WD SN850X - CoolerMaster NR200 White - Gigabyte M27Q-SA - Corsair K70 Rapidfire - Logitech MX518 Legendary - HyperXCloud Alpha wireless


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Biggest waste? No freaking idea, I've lost thousands to stupid things in the past. The only thing that comes to mind right now is my 128gb Corsair Voyager GT.... I've had it for 4 or 5 months or so and the only thing I've used it for is to create a 1 gigabyte Ubuntu boot disk

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2 years ago i bought a brand new tablet. 

died 5 days after.  

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My Audi A3. I bought it for £5500 had to sell it a year later due to escalating insurance and fuel costs and by this point the market was on its arse and i only got £2250 for it. I could of bought the most awesome pc with the £3k instead.

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The Kinect... Don't know why I bought that stupid thing (I already sold it obviously).

#OhCrap #KilledMyWife

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I hope im not about to blow 180$ on a 7870. But anyway mine was probably when I bought 2 remote control heli-copters. It was only 60$ but at 10yo thats a lot. 

Life is pain. Anyone who says any different is either selling something or the government.

 

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PS2

Bought it for $175 and then one month later the PS3 came out and stores were were selling it for $50... That plus I only played it for about a month.

Wii

Played it for about a month.

iPod Touch 3rd Gen

It broke within 6 months and stupid me didn't realize that it had a warranty so I opened it up and broke it even more.

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Spending thousands of dollars on WWE Rawdeal TCG damn it.

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Pc wise it was my packard bell laptop... overheated and died after 2 weeks. 430$ gone :(

non pc wise it was a 350 chevy smallblock engine without checking it out first... the nice guy selling it never mentioned a crack in the block :/

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WHAT WHY 

 

You can just swap it out  :P

it was more about having a gaming item in my room and a media hub in the den :p

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:o no comment. lol

its a sad story that I'm ashamed to tell

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Window 7, I needed it, but I wish I could use Linux instead.

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I bought a Korean 1440p monitor, which arrived destroyed by Fed Ex. The eBay seller paid for the return shipping, but I was never refunded the $50 Fed Ex charged me to bring the thing across the border.

 

I basically paid $50 to have a ton of my time wasted by an incompetent eBay seller.

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Alienware M11x R2...

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Probably my biggest waste of money ever, was my camcorder. Aiptek AHD AF1 Full-HD camcorder. Not capable of recording 1080p footage at 30 fps even it was advertised with that framerate, microphone is terrible (and in awkward spot), night shooting is absolutely terrible... I probably should've saved 500€ for a decent DSLR.

 

So protip: don't buy a camcorder that's only 100€. It's gonna be almost worse than cameras that modern smartphones have.

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