What is the most expensive thing you ever bought and never used?

For me, it would have to be the starter kit of a multi-level vitamin sales deal. Also, the other vitamins each month. I would have to say thousands , but we did use a little of it for personal comsumption.

Still, we didn't use $5,000 worth which is about what we spent. All the vitamins we didn't sell just expired, and we had to throw them out.

 

asus mypal 640bt pda with gps , £400 and never used it

 

I tend to make a habit of only buying things I'll actually need or use. So I'd probably say a DVD or CD that I haven't got around to watching or listening to yet.

 

For some reason I got offered some expensive home tutoring program complete with assesments and work you filled in and sent off and tonnes of custom made VHS tapes that got sent to you years back, I got told it was very expensive but if I'd use it I could have it. Agreed(For some odd, odd reason) but of course I never touched any of it. Had to hide that fact from my dad for years 'cos I knew I'd get a right bollocking if he found out.

The folly of childhood I guess.

 

not me, but my dad bought a countach about 3 years ago. guess where it is 99% of the time.

 

$200 copier/scanner/printer combo.. only needed the $50 printer only model

 

Mmmm... my old Palm never got much use (bad calibration and no great homework tracking app, not to mention crap syncing), at about $100 I think. I'm too tight to buy useless stuff very often.

Well, not counting my education here. Absolutely worthless. But that's on the parents' tab.

 

$250 wheel/pedal combo for my xBox. It's still in the box in the cupboard. I only remembered I had it when looking for something different in the cupboard 2 days ago.

 

I don't think I've ever bought myself something that I wouldn't use. But I got a pool table for a birthday that got packed up pretty quickly and never got used again. Not that I didn't want to use it. Just my brother got a go-kart and thats more important than my pool table.... Bloody biased parents.

 

I think it would be my 360, i used to use it, but im on my PC most of the time, there again i am waiting for Halo 3 on the 360 before i use the damn thing again.

Sam

 

loads of little stuff like video games, I must have at least a dozen games on various systems that are still in there shink wrap, probably spent hundreds on them and there now worth probably no more than a couple of quid each.

I bought all the bits for a car PC over the last year , had it in my car for about 2 months and never really used it (probably £300- £400)

I brought an entire half terrabyte 1U rackmount file server for a busness venture that never took off (although I use the disks and the RAID controller at home and I keep meaning to sell the rest)

There's probably more but not that I can think of at them moment

 

my mum brought a ping pong table for some reason.... its been used about half a dozen times and sits in the garage for the rest of the year..... already turning mank...

 

A Nintendo DS lite. hand held gaming is so overrated

 

Car insurance
Pretty damned expensive for a 23 year old driver, and I've never (touch wood) had cause to use it.

 

Wanna psp instead?

 

I've got a Neo Geo Pocket Color somewhere that's probably still on it's original batteries...

 

1:6scale Petrol Buggy sitting int he garage that i don't use as i spend mos tof my spare time on a beach or field.

 

my laptop

never use it

 

This could be applied to most things in our lives... How many of us have some piece of art we bought as we liked it, but clearly will never 'use' it?

Have to say in general, most of the expensive things I have I do use, as I put some thought into buying it. Got a cupboard full of general crap I dont though.

 

Marantz ST6000 tuner....£180. Looked nice on the hifi rack with my other kit, but it didn't get used much after the first couple of days, indeed in the two years I had it I reckon I used it three times. Sold it in the end for £90 so not a complete loss!

Last month bought a second hand Denon TU-260L Mk2 to replace it, which cost all of £20 so I figure it being used less doesn't matter so much if its that cheap, and it actually sounds better than the Marantz tuner did.

Suppose you could count my Teac VRDS-7 cd player too, though its lack of use wasn't my fault...cost £195, had £200 (plus £100 of labour) worth of mods done to it before I used it, then city link managed to smash the crap out of it on its way back to me, before it was ever actually used in my system. Still working out the claim to get my money back on that