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  7 0 A photographic enlarger. A broken photographic enlarger (no lens). To make matters worse, the guy who sold it to me was a complete ass who 1) told me it was in good working condition (though, seriously, who was I kidding? I bought the damn thing not knowing how to use it, i.e. with the intention of learning on it, so, I had to trust that it was a working item and, therefore, I have to accept the outcome of my naivete) and 2) agreed to accept 3 pre-dated checks for the damn thing which he then proceeded to cash early each month! The first month, I thought: WTF?! Oh, well, maybe it was an accident, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, etc. The second month, I thought: WTF, this guy is either the biggest dumb-ass in the world, or is really just a big ass who doesn't care that he's making me bounce my checking account right now. The third month, I canceled the check so he had to call me. Which he did (wish I would've known then that the enlarger didn't work, but I still hadn't gotten around to trying to use it)! Because I had no intention of ripping him off, I just didn't want to have the lovely pleasure of bouncing checks again because of our 'misunderstanding', I actually agreed to meet him and give him cash for the final payment. Yep, I really was that gullible! The only positive thing about the experience was that I was able to tell him to his face that he was a jerk for cashing my checks early when we had an agreement that he wouldn't (his lame excuse was that he didn't 'cash' them early, he merely 'deposited' them early - didn't the banks catch things like that? Asshole.) and, because he had done so, I gave him the final payment, less the money my bank charged me for my bounced checks. Still, my sense of victory was diminished later by the fact that the DAMN THING DIDN'T WORK!!! As you can tell, I'm still not over it ... and it happened quite some time ago. That guy's got a special place in hell waiting for him, and I am a lot less trusting than I once was. A.M.L. answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  4 0 The list is endless. Clothes that don't come close to fitting (Mrs. Fnarf, looking at them: "I thought you were a 36?"), or are laughably inappropriate. I once bought a huge lot of swizzle sticks on Ebay. I bought an antique British automobile for four grand that immediately had every working part disintegrate before my eyes while I was "working on it" (i.e., skinning my knuckles and getting brake fluid in my eyes). The one that annoys me the most, and I do it all the freaking time -- buying books or records that I already own. Fnarf answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report 3 comments by A.M.L., Fnarf, and Geni… 0 0 Bless you for posting - I re-read my post and (again) felt like the biggest rube! :-) A.M.L. commented over 3 years ago | Report 0 0 Anyone who hasn't spend countless hours of their lives feeling like the biggest ding-dong in the world is lying. Being stupid is how you become smart; there is no other way. Fnarf commented over 3 years ago | Report 0 0 Oh man, I thought I was the only nimrod who kept buying second copies of books. That one is always embarrassing, since I feel bad returning books to a bookstore. Geni commented over 3 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 0 A new car. At 22. I walked into the dealership by myself. TERRIBLE CHOICE. Luckily I got out of it a year later. RM answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 The most joyously stupid thing I ever bought was a toy called the Rapinator. I got this from Target in the mid 90s. The main "problem" was that there were no rap or hip-hop elements in the button-make-funny-sound device at all except for a lone scrappy scratch sound. It was more like the HandbagHouse-inator. I still have the Rapinator, and I still occasionally bring it out so I can generate my own pre-canned Technotronic or Frankie Bones Wannabe loops for all my friends in its fizzly 8-bit glory, weeeee! It even comes with a diva! Mackro Mackro answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Chevy Cavalier. What an awful POS that car was. With less than 40K miles, the steering was already going out, it handled like a tank, got the gas mileage of a Ford F350, and accelerated like it needed a walker. It's the only car I've ever bought without spending at least a year researching it first, the only one I ever let a salesman "sell" to me, and the only one I've ever traded in. I couldn't get rid of it fast enough. Geni answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report 1 comment by Geni… 0 0 I did like the way it looked, though, which is why I was stupid enough to buy it. It was one of the two-door coupes that almost looked like a real car. Geni commented over 3 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 Everything I ever bought for my ex-girlfriend. Especially the Prada. Violet DaGrinder answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 staionary bike? $200 flame shoes? a wii? Kimberly answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 I bought a 1971 Rambler "parts" car for $200 for my 1969 Rambler Rebel because I wanted to replace it's broken windshield wiper motor. Not only did the washer motor not fit but nothing on this car was usable on my '69. It took up space in my driveway for a year before I had to pay another $40 to have it towed. Sheeeeesh! Marty Unger answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 College education...lol just kidding...sort of. Let's see...I buy a lot of stupid, useless stuff, but I enjoy it. I guess buying clothes that I don't really like simply because they are on sale. Kristin Bell answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 2 If you ask my boyfriend, it would be either my sheep-skin ottoman that's shaped like a polar bear, or my statue of a dragon riding a motorcycle (and the motorcycle is also shaped like a dragon, so it's like a dragon riding a cooler dragon). But I still stand by both of those purchases. And they were both in the $25 range. Aislinn answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 A new 2006 Ducati Sport1000. I still have it, and I still love it, and I'm keeping it. I'm not saying I regret it. I'm not saying I wouldn't do it again. Still, stupidest ever. The Roomba would be at the top but it only cost 1/20 what the bike did so it's only 1/20 as dumb. Although the bike does still work, which is more than I can say for the damn robot. On the other hand, the bike has depreciated by 8 times the entire cost of the damn robot. So it's definitely the bike. elenchos answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 0 An $800 pool heater pump for my broken hot tub. It still sits in the corner waiting for the tub to be re-skinned.... sigh... O my captain answered in Finance/Insure/Legal over 3 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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