Expensive things you bought but don't like

Expensive things you bought but don't like

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Frimley111R

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15,533 posts

233 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Mrs 111R went for a nice white Italian leather corner sofa for our new house. It was about £6k and I don't like it. It looks nice but it's just too soft and not really well shaped for watching TV.

Our old one, that cost about £2k is still in the other room and it it's just a nicer place to sit. Bit gutted and I'll have to suck it up for a few years at least but what have you paid a lot for that you just don't like/regretted?

thewarlock

3,234 posts

44 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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A Clio 182.

POS.


Monkeylegend

26,226 posts

230 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Frimley111R said:
Mrs 111R went for a nice white Italian leather corner sofa for our new house. It was about £6k and I don't like it. It looks nice but it's just too soft and not really well shaped for watching TV.

Our old one, that cost about £2k is still in the other room and it it's just a nicer place to sit. Bit gutted and I'll have to suck it up for a few years at least but what have you paid a lot for that you just don't like/regretted?
Did the same but at much lower cost with an electric leather recliner chair last October. Looks very nice but not as comfortable as the old 20 year old chair I sat in which we still have.

It was me who wanted it so I have to make a token gesture occasionally.

SturdyHSV

10,083 posts

166 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Frimley111R said:
white Italian leather corner sofa

I'll have to suck it up for a few years at least
It sounds like one accidental red wine spillage and you're out of the woods.

You're welcome. bowtie

Camelot1971

2,698 posts

165 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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I think there is something in having to "break in" sofas from new. I have a 2 seater leather sofa that was like a rock to start with, but after 4 years now, it's like a comfy pair of shoes and I would be reluctant to change it.

alorotom

11,907 posts

186 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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A BMW 530I (E39) ... bought based on the repeated chatter on here about them ... hated it. It was gone within 2-3 weeks.

Our last house - it was a bargain (as far as house prices go) but I hated the place, it had zero curb appeal as there was minimal windows to the formal street facing front of the house making it look like a prison block (IMO)... last 7years before I bought a plot and had a house built.

Not me but my dad ... when he retired first time round (2000ish) he treated himself to a Holland and Holland P38 Range Rover ... it took nearly a year from order to delivery, he sat in it and instantly hated it. He put up with it for 3mths and moved it on (at significant loss)

Timmy47

12,915 posts

197 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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My ex wife. Ok in a sense I didn't exactly buy her, but when I think about the car I could have had for the money she's cost me.....irked

Psycho Warren

3,087 posts

112 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Timmy47 said:
My ex wife. Ok in a sense I didn't exactly buy her, but when I think about the car I could have had for the money she's cost me.....irked
For some women, marriage is a transaction. They provide some sex in return for a financially stable home, etc to bring up the kids they want. So if shes the money grabbing type you probably did buy her. lol.

CopperBolt

787 posts

66 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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I'm on my fourth armchair, trying to find something thats comfortable, doesn't give back ache, supports me ok and doesnt make me lean to one side or the other when sat on it. It does at least have a suitable armrest for supporting a glass of wine between slurps.

Frimley111R

Original Poster:

15,533 posts

233 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Timmy47 said:
My ex wife. Ok in a sense I didn't exactly buy her, but when I think about the car I could have had for the money she's cost me.....irked
LOL, i wondered how long before this 'purchase' came up hehe

P-Jay

10,551 posts

190 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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I bought a Mountain Bike for £4k once, back when £4k was a lot for a bike, it had rave reviews, the greatest thing since whatever came before sliced bread.

Spent 6 months trying to ride the thing, assuming it was me, not the bike, because everyone said it was so amazing. Finally accepting it was fundamentally and deeply flawed due to some creative, yet unforgivable penny pinching, another 6 months and a pile of money upgrading it, it was still pretty st and someone nicked it.

Heartbroken and unwilling to spend thousands more, I paid a grand for a older, lower spec second-hand version of the same thing, rode about 10 times better.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Probably shouldn't admit it on such a website, but hey ho.

a BMW M3 CSL, thankfully I didn't take a bath when I got rid.

crofty1984

15,830 posts

203 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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E46 BMW 320 estate. It was st.

TwigtheWonderkid

43,246 posts

149 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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P-Jay said:
I bought a Mountain Bike for £4k once, back when £4k was a lot for a bike,
In my world, it still is.

TorqueDirty

1,500 posts

218 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Vandenberg said:
Probably shouldn't admit it on such a website, but hey ho.

a BMW M3 CSL, thankfully I didn't take a bath when I got rid.
There is a theme developing here.

Me - a 2 year old E46 M3 with 15k in the clock.

Pretty underwhelmed and the sodding thing cost me a fortune to run because of the "M tax" and its consistent unreliability.

To be fair if all the reviews for it had not been so ecstatic I might have been less disappointed - but they were, and I was!

No torque, crap brakes, poor steering and awful manual gear change.



BritishBlitz87

655 posts

47 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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I spent £450 for a "design your own" suit from Moss bros Navy with a very subtle gold grid pattern and a double-breasted waistcoat (It was a lot of money for me, we can't all be company directors!)

In of itself it looks great, but it's too formal for everyday casual wear, I don't have any ties or shirts that match it, and brass buttons mean I can't wear it to work or college without looking like a pillock. I only ever got to wear it once on a night out and I kept my coat on most of the night because it was the middle of December.

Now I'm too fat to fit in it. cry

P-Jay

10,551 posts

190 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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Vandenberg said:
Probably shouldn't admit it on such a website, but hey ho.

a BMW M3 CSL, thankfully I didn't take a bath when I got rid.
I doubt you're alone, I worked in Finance in the early 2000s and a big part of my work was high-end cars, it wasn't massively unusual for people to want to get 'out' of them a few months after that bought them, sometimes it was because they were in high demand and they could make a quick 'buck' not mostly either they bought them for the wrong reasons (Ferrari as a daily?) or they never lived up to expectations.

Some that I remember vividly:

Ferrari F40 was "Rubbish to drive" apparently, I almost cried because the claw-back on the commission was horrific, but then he bought an F50 instead, so that was okay. but it sent the Fraud / Anti-Money Laundering Team into fits.

996 GT2, I financed two, one guy HATED it, said it wasn't that nice to drive normally and terrifying if you put your foot down, another chunk of commission gone. The other one was bought by a "Driving God" who didn't want the "rip off" short-fall insurance and parked it up a lamppost. I dread to think the loss on that one. ( I also know of 'someone' who may be a PHer who took the RTI insurance on a BMW as it was a pre-requisite of underwriting and then promptly cancelled it to save himself £12 a month and when it got stolen denied doing so).

Ford GTs didn't seem to last long with buyers, nor Exiges. I'm sure a lot more Merc SL500/55 and BMW 6-series owners would have gotten rid of them sooner if they could, I'm sure they were and are lovely cars, but it seemed one minute you couldn't find them for less than 10% over list and the next they were depreciating like a burning building. Some owners had really terrible, nasty shocks when they got to their end of their finance deals with those. RVs weren't guaranteed, twenty grand or more to give back a car?.

I didn't get to finance many CSLs, I financed LOADs of E46 M3s I was doing a couple a week at the peak, but BMWFS offered insane residuals on the CSLs and my underwriters didn't have much faith in them, limited run cars from mainstream manufacturers were very rare back then. Same story on the E60 M5, lost loads of them to BMWFS.

Ikemi

8,438 posts

204 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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I love watches. I bought a TAG Heuer Link Calibre S because it looked stunning, was incredibly comfortable on the wrist and had a really interesting electro-mechanical movement inside!

Bought for £2K, sold 3 months later for £900!

The central chronograph seconds hand was fine to begin with, but after a month or so, I noticed a half-second wobble either way when tilting the watch. Pretty crap for a luxury watch that was essentially quartz and could ‘accurately’ time to 1/100th second!

I sent it back to TAG, waited a month, only for the watch to return with a note stating ‘the play in the chronograph hand is normal for Calibre S movement’. Immediately hated it. Couldn’t un-see the wobble! It had to go ...




anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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P-Jay said:
I doubt you're alone, I worked in Finance in the early 2000s and a big part of my work was high-end cars, it wasn't massively unusual for people to want to get 'out' of them a few months after that bought them, sometimes it was because they were in high demand and they could make a quick 'buck' not mostly either they bought them for the wrong reasons (Ferrari as a daily?) or they never lived up to expectations.
Glad I am not alone, its seems almost sacrilegious to say you don't like something when the majority think the very opposite.

Jamescrs

4,445 posts

64 months

Thursday 4th March 2021
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I knew a guy, friend of the family who made a significant sum of cash in a company management buy out a number of years ago and bought a Brand new Aston Martin DB9 without apparently ever test driving one, or even sitting in it. He had it for 3 weeks and realised it was causing him significant back issues and sold it on again.

I've done it with a number of cars, basically every time i've tried to buy something sensible I end up hating it within a few weeks.