Worst purchases of 2007?

[ho'ard]

Inspired by Tofer's thread, I thought I'd find out what expenditures from the past year other folks regret.

[ho'ard]

I have a bunch:
-A Gary Fisher mountain bike I bought off the street-- I didn't know a bike could be such a complete lemon; it's currently unrideable because the rear wheel hits the frame . . .

-an entire purchase from Thinkgeek-- some little class D amplifiers, a receiver/sender unit from "Amphony" . . . what a waste. Must have been right after tax refund time that I ordered i . . .

-a 256 RAM chip for my iBook/900-- I forgot there was only one slot which already had a 256 in it . . . .

[Grateful11]

1. HP dual core Desktop and the whole shabang, kept it a month and the wife said it or me,
one of us had to go. Sold the POS on eBay and gave the 19" flat panel to my son.
At least I didn't lose any money

[bruceko]

Leopard.
Most Windows like product Apple has released.
Screwed up four computers I upgraded. Each with a different problem,

[NewtonMP2100]

. . .hookers and booze (see the best purchase(s) of 2007 thread). . .

[Kiva]

[quote h']I have a bunch:
-A Gary Fisher mountain bike I bought off the street-- I didn't know a bike could be such a complete lemon; it's currently unrideable because the rear wheel hits the frame . . .
Did you take it in? Assuming the wheel is true, that sounds like it's "out of dish"...basically, the wheel isn't sitting in there right. A tech can fix that.

kiva

[Tofer]

Not so much of a purchase, but a rental:

I went to Seattle and had a rental set up for a compact car. The only thing they had was a giant SUV, which I had to settle for. I drove up to Vancouver for a couple of days and my luggage was stolen out of the vehicle. If I had the compact, they wouldn't have been able to see the luggage through the trunk...

-Tofer

[ho'ard]

[quote Kiva][quote h']I have a bunch:
-A Gary Fisher mountain bike I bought off the street-- I didn't know a bike could be such a complete lemon; it's currently unrideable because the rear wheel hits the frame . . .
Did you take it in? Assuming the wheel is true, that sounds like it's "out of dish"...basically, the wheel isn't sitting in there right. A tech can fix that.

kiva
There's no "taking it in" -- I know as much as many bike mechanics, and have access to a ton of mechanic friends as well.
The problem is the axle is bent; and this is a cheap wheel with a freewheel instead of a cassette so finding a replacement part is barely worth it. The frame also has in incredible amount of flex (especially considering it's aluminum). This is a "Tarpon", maybe 2-3 years old, was in new condition. But a bunch of totally stupid problems preceded this one . . . . the left crank falling off and being ruined was the best; I definitely got what I paid for (and a few weeks of a very good workout before I realized why it was so hard to pedal . . .)
In the meantime I found a 95-ish Trek 930 in like new condition for $200, and have gone back to my crusty but reliablemid-90s steel Gary Fisher for the winter.

[wowzer]

An old golf cart...the thing wont run, but at least I'm learning how a gasoline engine works--so at least it's fun.

[microchip13]

Probably that OWC iBook.

It seemed like a good idea at the time, and it's still not a 100% bad one, but I just can't get it to work and so I'm now going to go out and get another laptop.(Cheapie Windows one.)