What has been your worst expensive purchase?

[Heavenly44]

A laptop for £600 , shouldn't have bothered , awful thing.

An expensive and very uncomfortable mattress they wouldn’t exchange

I spent a lot of money ordering what looked like fabulous kits for desserts from mon dessert. Waited over a month for delivery too but felt it was worth it for high quality kits with kitchen gadgets I could use again.

What a complete rip off. Particularly disappointed with the croqembouche one. £38 fir dry packets I could get in the food store for under £5 and the tiniest styrofoam cone I could get four for £1 in Poundland or Home bargains. Wouldn’t have minded about the mix if I’d at least had a better cone (have seen subsequent ones that are £20 on Amazon). This was to be special treat for us to make together during Xmas as we planned all along, months ago, to have small Christmas just us, due to covid.

@cactusisblooming

A cordless Dyson. No auction at all and goes flat after half a room.

Yes they're rubbish compared to the original dysons. They lose charge so quickly

Hand held Gtech.
I bought it to clean the car.
It has Zero suction.

@thenewaveragebear1983

My Philips lumea. Everyone raves about them on here but it just doesn't work for me, and I get bored. It's too long between uses and i have to start the whole process again. I've decided to give it one last chance and if no improvement to my beard then sell it on eBay

Same here! I bought one when they were quite new and exciting, and quite honestly I found it to be rubbish. The hair reduction wasn't anywhere near as much as they claim, and I also found it quite painful, too.

@Fluffycloudland77

White company bedding. Didn’t last and customer services said anything over 6 months was fair wear and tear.

I still buy cotton pyjamas from them, but only in the sale. Oh, and the sleeves on all the dressing gowns bought me from there shrank like you would not believe.

I bought a robe last year in the sale. It shrunk so much it's unusable. I've shoved it into my airing cupboard because I think I might use the fabric for something. So irritating.

@Rainbowandscarlett

An air fryer-£170 (it’s massive) Used twice-you have to peel spuds,soak them for 45 minutes and it takes another 45 to cook Then they taste like soap

I can’t seem to cook anything else in it-if I try to cook meat it comes out a soapy,half raw mess

What make? My tefal does potatoes / chips in half an hour. Just chop and chuck in? Bit of oil and salt and pepper. They're very nice! Also have the 2 in 1 so can do sausages / mean on the top. Couldn't live without mine!

@dollyknocker

Also agree with Dualit toaster! Has never toasted evenly now the dial sticks so you have to constantly watch the fecking thing or it just carries on toasting forever.

If it's the clockwork type, it's easy enough to replace. That's the whole point of them. The components are all replaceable, reducing waste.

An underpowered, almost new Vauxhall Astra. It struggled to go up hills. I took it back to dealer after a month and was offered 2.5k less than I paid “because Vauxhall has to look to its profit margin” - part exchanged for a beautiful Honda Civic and Honda offered £500 more than Vauxhall right off the bat.

I must be the thickest person around I’ve said about my beloved things and have just seen the thread full tittle worst purchase, 🤦‍♀️ and blames one working eye.

My primark dressing gown has lived forever. I keep trying to kill it so I can buy a new one but I can wash it at 90 and tumble dry for hours and the bugger won’t die. I have a very expensive bike which I love. I can carry everything I own on it.

But most expensive thing and worst is definitely my house. Hell hole. Rats, dodgy wiring, broken garage door, crap upvc windows everything old and wrecked and it’s only 17 years old

Joules tops and knitwear. I love the styles and they look nice for about two washes them go all discoloured, faded and generally out of shape. Such as shame as they are more expensive than a lot of other items of clothes

When we first bought our house we had someone come round selling conservatories, doors and windows. We got a quote for a back door and unfortunately were young and naive enough to fall for the spiel and the "this offer is only valid today, you gave to say yes now or it will double in price".
The door cost about £1500 to buy and install. We had to get them out twice to fix it and adjust it because it didnt close properly.
The third time it went wrong I was told the company had gone into administration so my guarantees were now void.
I then got multiple phone calls asking if I wanted to be included in their brochure and prize draw. I asked how a company in administration could have a brochure, didnt get a response.
I eventually just wrote it off as our own stupidity and will never fall for a similar thing again, so at least we learnt a lesson from it.

A £100 Will Bees clutch. They send me the wrong colour - black rather than brown - and have yet to reply to my complaint logged a month ago. I will never make another purchase from them.

@Zeetah

Dualit toaster Cooked the toast unevenly and broke after a few years. Cheap Tesco one was better!

I’ll add Dualit kettle. Broken after a couple of years - it sprang a leak. Never had a kettle last such a short amount of time and this one was bloody expensive.

Mercedes convertible. Second hand but still nearly 30k. Had nothing but issues with it, was in and the garage like no ones business having faults rectified. Within a year two different accidents, not my fault, and hit a pot hole and damaged the wheel and then a huge stone chip in the windscreen. Bubble in the tyre meant I had to replace the pair for £400. It was a money put.

Cost me over 3k to get rid of it after 18 months. Bought myself a cheap, secondhand mini which I absolutely love. Much prefer it to the merc.

Dualit toaster here too. Cost £££. Broke after a couple of months. Got a replacement. That broke too. Bought a £10 toaster that's still going strong after decades.

De'Longhi kettle that cost 10 times that of my previous cheap plastic one and lasted a fifth of the time 🙄

Beautiful-looking sofa with down-filled cushions and covered in a textured oatmeal linen-ish fabric.
Looked grubby really quickly and the cats loved
the texture and shredded the arms within weeks .

But the worst thing was the cushions. You had to plump them constantly to keep them looking decent - they had no automatic
bounce-back whatsoever. Eventually, sitting on it became torture from really sharp feathers sticking through everywhere.

Never again.

Memory foam mattress, why did I ever think I wanted my mattress to remember me? I want it to spring back into shape the moment I roll over (which is hard work on a memory mattress)

Lucy & Yaks corduroy dungarees - supposedly warm for winter, but the fabric was so thin that my legs were constantly cold & also they didn't hang nicely at all after the first wash.

My first wedding dress. I was persuaded to have one that didn’t suit me, that I had to slim down for so much that I looked ill, my bridesmaid stepped on the train going in to the reception and ripped it off and the marriage only lasted 18 months.

Hot tub.

Eldest child allergic to it & chlorine. Serious reaction -never went in it again. Hated emptying it and refilling it on my own -total shit.

Never again ever.

A Chinese moped. What a heap of shit that was.

Apparently they are notorious.

I found that out after I'd bought the bloody thing.