What is the worst purchase you ever made?

[Elle23]

this is interesting- We currently own our third Caravan and they have been amazing work horse vehicle. We are sad Dodge stopped making them as they are our go to dog show vehicle.

They stopped making them?!!

That is surprising considering how popular they have been.

I think I got a bad year, to be honest. A friend has a later model and it doesn’t seem nearly as bad.

 

[tcufrog]

All of the exercise equipment my dh bought for himself.

 

[lsyorke]

GE Refrigerator. Worst piece of junk I ever bought. After repairing it numerous times finally let it go after 3 years.

Total Garbage!!!! I got rid of mine after 3 compressor replacements(each requiring a week with no fridge waiting for parts) Lasted for 3 years. Never again for GE GE in this house.

 

[ronandannette]

GE Refrigerator. Worst piece of junk I ever bought. After repairing it numerous times finally let it go after 3 years.

Total Garbage!!!! I got rid of mine after 3 compressor replacements(each requiring a week with no fridge waiting for parts) Lasted for 3 years. Never again for GE GE in this house.

Good to know I guess. I was strongly leaning towards a full set of GE for my kitchen as they were pricing out at less than half the cost of the Kitchen-Aides I ended up with (and dislike).

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I would have to say a 1997 Dodge Neon. It worked fine for a few months, but it started heading downhill quickly. For whatever reason, it would not start if it sat more than like a day. I would have to call the "Emergency Roadside Service" to get it jump started. I would take it back to the dealer, and they would put new battery in it and send me home. They kept telling me I had bad batteries (when they were the ones that put the battery in it themselves from their shop). It had other issues with stuff breaking on it. Like one day I noticed the plastic cover in front of the speedometer was split down the middle for no reason, the seats started coming apart on the sides. I was not getting charged for the repairs, but it was still a huge pain in the behind to always be taking it in to have it repaired. I ended up trading it off when it had like 19k miles on it. I got it brand new myself, so probably it had not been in a flood or anything. It still had a lot of the factory warranty left, but I was tired of messing with it.

On a cheaper scale...Whirlpool washer (front loader), it died about a month after the warranty expired. It was about month before we sold the house. The house sold really quickly so I was not out of a washer for too long really. Part of the offer on the house was, "We want the appliances". I was like "you want the broken washer"? They said that they wanted it.

 

[tazdev3225]

this is interesting- We currently own our third Caravan and they have been amazing work horse vehicle. We are sad Dodge stopped making them as they are our go to dog show vehicle

I just bought a 2019 Grand Caravan. It's almost identical to my mother's 3 year old Caravan. So far I love it.

All of my worst purchases were cars. We had a 1979 Ford LTD II that was a piece of junk. I had been in an accident that totaled my car and my DH has no car buying skills. He told the dealer we needed to drive out with the car immediately and we did. They saw him coming and had a good laugh when we drove off the lot. The car had a bad oil leak and started to shimmy before we traded it in within a year. Turns out that it had been in a bad wreck and was supposed to have been scrapped.

Then my DH decided to lease a 1984 Ford Escort. Within a year it went through a Catalytic Converter, a transmission and the brakes failed constantly. I was terrified to drive it. The dealer refused to let us out of the lease so we let them repossess it. At the time leased vehicles were not covered by the Lemon Laws.

I think the worst car ever though was a 2006 Kia Sedona. It ate brakes, literally, I went through a set of brakes 4 times a year and rotors once a year. The rear wheel bearings fell out at a little over a 1000 miles and the motor mounts snapped at 10,000 miles. The oil pumped seized at 20,000 miles and Kia refused to repair it since I went 5 miles over 3,500 miles for an oil change. This also damaged the engine we found out later. So much for their wonderful warranty. The dealer I bought it from was impossible to deal with which didn't help matters.

I no longer let my husband buy cars. The Kia was replaced with a 2006 Freestar that had been my aunts. I bought it with 3000 miles and except for a bad transmission that the car is known for I got 11 years out of it. My current car I knew what I wanted and what i was willing to pay. I negotiated hard and walked out with everything but the bluetooth radio I wanted at my price.

 

[Pooh2]

My first vehicle, 1978 Chevy Vega. I was a poor HS student and this was all I could afford. Should've kept saving and bought something better. Very cheap replacement engines--I know, because I put 3 in it.

On Spaceship Earth there's a Vega outside the garage scene. Whenever I go by it I feel this strange combination of nostalgia and PTSD.

A Vega was our worst purchase as well! And it was over 30 years ago!
The seller had repainted it a pretty shade of yellow which hooked me.
That car always stalled and left me on the road side EVERY time it rain?!
Sold it at a big loss 6 weeks in since it was spring rainy season and we could not get anywhere too quickly!

 

[DisneyHardin]

Our worst purchase was a vehicle too. It was a 2008 Chrysler Town and Country. I think we just had a dud because there are tons of them on the road and everyone else that I know who has one hasn't had terrible problems with it. We had to replace the brakes/rotors/calipers 3 times in the year we had it. WE had it almost exactly a year and we traded it in for the payoff - so at least we didn't go upside in our Odyssey we bought because of that one.

 

[Atlas722]

In January 2000, I bought a Samyang 18-28mm wide angle lens for my film camera. The pictures that I took with it were really bad, and I returned the lens. I should've kept the pics for evidence.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Red Pants, I know it wasnt an expensive one but its one that will live infamy at low keys house. When I was a young teen, my grandmother gave me money to buy some school clothes (up until this day, and all days after it i would get school clothes, by coming home and my mom would have the stuff she bought laid out on my bed).

Anyway I wanted to go bold and bought a pair of red pants. My mom and dad, kept telling me to take them back "Jay you never will wear them " . But I knew I would. Well I never wore them, and from that day forward anyone about to make a dumb purchase everyone says "it will be just like Jays red pants"

LOL. This reminds me of when I would go clothes shopping for my DS (now 25). I actually had him vow to the salesperson that he would, in fact, wear the clothes we were buying. So, so many clothes got given away still with tags.

My poor choice -- La-Z-Boy furniture -- whole living room full. The coffee/end tables and entertainment center scratch just by looking at it cross-wise. The leather chair and sofa wore out in less than 3 years. The most we ever spent on furniture, and will never buy it again.

 

[frog3101]

Not the worse by far, but I bought a bag of gummy worms today and let’s just say not all gummy worms are created equal.

 

[low-key]

I had a laser treatment done on my face and it was horribly painful and did not work at all!

really, what was it suppose to do and what did it do ? I never had nothing done but if I were rich I would have a new everything

 

[STLDisney_Freak]

The worst purchase for my husband and I was his ITT tech education. I would like to give the piece of paper that is worth no more than toilet paper back to them.

 

[Kitty 34]

My last Kenmore washer from Sears back in 2013. It literally chewed our clothes, especially around the collars and certain sleeves.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Sigh.

So, once I purchased tickets to a sporting event, becuase I was pretty sure I would want to go and, if the stars aligned poorly and I didn't, I figured I could resell them online for at least part of their value. Well, I didn't realize I had purchased tickets that could ONLY be picked up in person by me (i.e., not transferred through a person-to-person sale). Turns out I didn't end up wanting to go, and when factoring in the airfare, hotel, food, transfers, etc., it would have been throwing double the cost of the tickets themselves away in order to attend a sporting event that, because of the vagaries of the sporting "gods", I was no longer interested in attending.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

The red copper ceramic pan they advertise on TV. I just got the smaller frying pan for $15 or so at the store. It was great the first use. The second use ok. By the 4th use it wasn't non stick any more. Worst purchase ever. The pan is now warped, doesn't sit flat, isn't non stick any more. Useless.

 

[AntimonyER]

I have a lot of them. Probably my biggest is couches. We are on our 3rd set of couches since we got married, and we have hated all of them. 1st set got horribly stained, recliners broke, and fabric tore within 2 years. 2nd set, we bought an expensive leather set from a high end dealer, 6 months later the leather was ripped and they wouldn't repair it. And since they wanted almost as much as the set to repair it, I used black electrical tape instead, so much for looking expensive. Last set we bought it holding up ok, but it ended up being way too small for our massive living room, and my wife says its not comfortable enough.

My worst purchase from a financial standpoint was my Corvette Z06 that I bought when I was 21 and just got my first job out of college. But even though I only had it 9 months, and lost over 10k between purchase, trade-in, and payments, I have a hard time regretting it as I checked the owning my dream car box, and it got my wife to notice me... Worth every penny.