Expensive things you bought but don't like
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VR99 said:
Two obvious ones for me:
Paying £1.6k for a Tag watch (more than 10 yrs back now) that is worn once possibly twice per year. They sell used now for about £1k so if I sell it's a fairly chunky loss... it's a nice watch but £1.6k worth of nice...no. I tend to prefer wearing G shocks and cheap Seiko/citizen for my daily's.
Shoes - lots and I mean LOTS of Loake/Barker/Grenson and quite a few others....the cumulative spend on them makes me want to cry...as I now only wear a cheap pair of Clarks (when in the office). The pricier ones are far too uncomfortable and cumbersome too wear and never actually seem to 'break in'.
I personally find decent shoes much more comfortable and cheap shoes to have sPaying £1.6k for a Tag watch (more than 10 yrs back now) that is worn once possibly twice per year. They sell used now for about £1k so if I sell it's a fairly chunky loss... it's a nice watch but £1.6k worth of nice...no. I tend to prefer wearing G shocks and cheap Seiko/citizen for my daily's.
Shoes - lots and I mean LOTS of Loake/Barker/Grenson and quite a few others....the cumulative spend on them makes me want to cry...as I now only wear a cheap pair of Clarks (when in the office). The pricier ones are far too uncomfortable and cumbersome too wear and never actually seem to 'break in'.
tty thin soles and look crap...legless said:
5 years ago I bought a Sony Bravia XD93 TV. It was at the top of Sony's LCD range and set me back about £1,700.
I bought it on the strength of the 40" Bravia that I bought 13 years ago (and still provides sterling service on my kitchen wall to this day).
What a hateful piece of st the newer one was. Not only did it have a seemingly unfinished and untested OS, successive OS OTA upgrades only made it worse. It felt like it was powered by a potato and I had to reboot it on a daily basis to make it work properly. It couldn't seem to do HDR properly, and ended up with washed-out colours, and it was based on an older platform than other models lower down the range, meaning that it lacked native support for things like BBC 4K broadcasts.
The power distribution module failed on the set 3 times in 4 years, fortunately sorted under warranty every time. However, about a month ago I almost cried with joy when I switched it on and there was a corrupted horizontal line across the screen. Called Sony and they agreed that the panel had failed, and they exchanged it under warranty for a current model XH95 set, which is better in every conceivable way.
I feel your pain. I’m running a top of the range X series which has been anywhere near as good as my last one. I bought it on the strength of the 40" Bravia that I bought 13 years ago (and still provides sterling service on my kitchen wall to this day).
What a hateful piece of s
t the newer one was. Not only did it have a seemingly unfinished and untested OS, successive OS OTA upgrades only made it worse. It felt like it was powered by a potato and I had to reboot it on a daily basis to make it work properly. It couldn't seem to do HDR properly, and ended up with washed-out colours, and it was based on an older platform than other models lower down the range, meaning that it lacked native support for things like BBC 4K broadcasts. The power distribution module failed on the set 3 times in 4 years, fortunately sorted under warranty every time. However, about a month ago I almost cried with joy when I switched it on and there was a corrupted horizontal line across the screen. Called Sony and they agreed that the panel had failed, and they exchanged it under warranty for a current model XH95 set, which is better in every conceivable way.
Runs Android software that is hopeless. Can’t wait for it to break.
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