What’s something you are angry at yourself for paying for?

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>inb4 "my wife", "my wife's son", or "my wife's life-saving hysterectomy".

I'll start: Bought pool weights for the bottom of my pool, and they ended up getting rust on them because I left them out in the rain. What an amazing story.
 
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My first car, a 2003 Ford Taurus. The piece of shit broke down on the highway and I had to get my dad to come pick me and my girlfriend up. There was something wrong with the engine block, or I got scammed, I'm not sure, but I ended up having to buy another used car, which worked just fine.

I don't miss 2007.
 
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Everything in Canada, and probably America.

I do not understand the North American obsession with adding extra steps and middle men and demanding peoples pay for them.

Also I really don't understand why they are so content with paying for services that do not get provided.

It's like seeing someone get pissed on and have them laugh at you for being dry because it's a degree or two above average
 
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Newman's Lovechild said:
That big A3 scanner for physical comic pages, just before I discovered it was all easier to do digitally.
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I've just had to buy one and the larger format scanners are ungodly expensive for what they are, on the plus side they seem to get various chips first and get longer hardware support as a result.

I was going to get a A2 scanner but the price doubled from that for a A3 and I wouldnt use it that often so I can likely just rent time on one at a graphics studio when I need one.
 
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Back before Smartphones were ubiquitous i spent 300 yurodollars on a Sony digital camera, big money for me at that time, was going on vacation not even a month later. After a bit more than two weeks the whole fucking LCD panel became loose, kinda peeled off. I thought, okay, no biggie, got two years of warranty due to the laws in my country. Went back to the store, talked to their customer service and the motherfucker tells me the camera must be sent back to Sony, they take care of replacements. This takes anywhere from two weeks up to three months.
Went on vacation with that piece of shit camera instead of risking not being able to take any pictures at all. Vowed to never give Sony a single cent of my money ever again and never did since then. Fuck Sony.
 
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Phalanges Mycologist said:
I've just had to buy one and the larger format scanners are ungodly expensive for what they are, on the plus side they seem to get various chips first and get longer hardware support as a result.
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My situation was flipped. I got a clunky second hand office scanner/printer for relatively cheap but still a good chunk of change that I couldn't even get the official ink cartridges for anymore, let alone a replacement paper tray that was plainly in the sellers photos but that he didn't include with the machine.

Well it worked well enough for what I wanted, scanning B&W drawings and ocassional printing, but as mentioned, it quickly became redundant for one of those things when I discovered pressure sensitive styluses.
 
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Lee Crabb said:
Buying things from overseas and then realizing I could have got them at a fraction of the cost via a domestic distributor.
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That's happened to me a few times with bad timing - I use Phillips Cold Blue for cosmettic touch up kind work and needed a lot more than the local suppliers carried in single bottles so I ordered 2x1l bottles from an American supplier week they arrived the UK distorbutor started selling 5L bottles for less than I paid for shipping from the US...

I only do that now with small manufacturers or single small shop craftsmen who haven't got distribution networks and they are more often than not willing to help with the costs as best they can, one guy I bought from had a friend coming to the UK who he got to post to me once he got to the UK, saving me a arse load of costs.

A lot of the smaller Japanese guy's selling Ink's and Paper (even camera parts and ultra light fishing tackle) are great for that and will often try and work something out with you on the price as well if you get to know them i.e. can you send me X and I will send you X so it's more of a gift exchange.

Newman's Lovechild said:
My situation was flipped. I got a clunky second hand office scanner/printer for relatively cheap but still a good chunk of change that I couldn't even get the official ink cartridges for anymore, let alone a replacement paper tray that was plainly in the sellers photos but that he didn't include with the machine.

Well it worked well enough for what I wanted, scanning B&W drawings and ocassional printing, but as mentioned, it quickly became redundant for one of those things when I discovered pressure sensitive styluses.
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I've got a Epson Ecotank A3 printer that I use for printing but for some reason the scanner they put on it was a larger A4 size but not quite A3 so that need for a larger scanner was kinda imperative, and I wish I just spent the extra on the version with the A3 scanner module tbh as this thing is playing silly buggers with the USB connection and it's happening accross Mac and Windows an separate machines.

BTW if anyone is on the edge about buying one of those EcoTank printers I can recommend it but do your home work if you need the scanner, and you can do some really detailed settings changes especially for B&W print jobs and it's onpar with laser printers for cost, and it's not fussy about the paper it takes I've ran 60gsm - 200gsm (light card) through it no issues.
 
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Flatline said:
Kingdom Hearts for Nintendo Switch. Thought I would kick back and enjoy a nostalgia-filled playthrough only to realize, after purchasing, the game is stream-only and not native to the console.
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Modern console too weak to run PS2 games. Please understand
 
the extended warranty for my first couch. It turned out damage caused by normal sitting on the couch wasn't covered by the extended warranty
 
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