What was your biggest waste of money?

[noname223]

I think the roughly 550 Euros for my PS5 were not a good investment. Thus far. GTA 6 might change that a little bit. I hope the investment for my Switch 2 will be better. I never played so much with any console in my life like with the Switch 1. One reason why I was more passive with my PS5.

I think my mom bought me Xbox Kinect and my DSi were such a waste of money.

I cannot think of much else. I am sort of stingy.

Currently, I expand my anime figure collection again. All from China. I think roughly 17 figures for 80 Euros. Which proves they are really cheap. I would be curious about feedback but I would never post a picture on here. Way too dangerous (meta-data etc.) I could imagine to sell them one day for way more money. But maybe I could get a fee because many of them would infringe safety standards.

I am glad I never got scammed. There once was a limited edition of the Switch with Animal Crossing on ebay. You could not pay with paypal and they claimed the offering is limited. I ruminated and ruminated. Almost ordered it. Later it turned out scammers hacked a legit ebay seller. If I ordered it 300 Euros would have been gone. To that time I would have tortured myself to a completely inhuman degree for that. I think I would have cried so so much. My gut feeling told me that's too good to be true. It was covid time and the Animal Crossing Switches went through the roof.

 

[Rynalia]

For clarification, we talking about purchases that were wasteful (read: exorbitant spending)? Or were a waste in hindsight 'cause it underperformed / didn't meet expectations / etc? Or like anything?

 

[noname223]

For clarification, we talking about purchases that were wasteful (read: exorbitant spending)? Or were a waste in hindsight 'cause it underperformed / didn't meet expectations / etc? Or like anything?

The latter one.

 

[Rynalia]

The latter one.

In that case, the last laptop I bought (forgot what brand it was) was probably the most disappointing purchase I've made that I can remember at this moment.

It was somewhere in the middle-upper range of stuff you could get for a good balance of productivity and gaming. Well... Within a month that little pile of junk was heating up and thermal throttling itself to death, causing multiple malfunctions across the board.

Customer service was of no use for the whole duration I tried to get help, so I just wiped and scrapped that shit.

I'm hesitant to buy another one for travel purposes. But the chances of a repeat offense is pretty unrealistic.

I would prefer to just stick with PCs I build.

 

[Hollowman]

Going to psychiatrists/buying toxic meds.

 

[Paper_Cut_93]

A €1200 sofa that was as hard as a rock. Luckily I was able to send it back and get my money back.

 

[patheticparasite]

A car that I barely used and just rusted away.