What has been your worst expensive purchase?

[Heavenly44]

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

Every single hoover.
I’ve bought so many that are supposedly great for dogs and none of them have been any good. I’ve got one medium crossbreed not a pack of huskies ffs!

@RosesAndHellebores

Rover 416i Two engines blew; one just before 12 months and one 2.5 years after that. They did replace the second one but part exchanged it for peanuts two years later.

They became notorious.

Oh God, I had one of these lemons. It was so badly put together that most of the panels either rubbed together and wore the paint off, or were so far apart you could get your hand in the gap. I knew I was finally done with it when washing it caused a wing to fall off.

@Thenightsky you just made me remember the day the driver door fell off! What a lemon it was. Still won car of the year 1995 though

Cordless Dyson which cost £499 and is total shite

A balsam hill Christmas tree, no better than my old Argos one

Electric reclining sofas and armchair, cost about £8.5k. Rock hard, even the tog won't sit on them

@Holothane

My giant tv I love it and saved for years for it and my 12 9nch iPad it’s brilliant for my eyes I can play jigsaws and all my shopping and stuff.

I think you’ve missed the point, it’s stuff you spent a lot on that you feel was a rip off, in hindsight.

Yes I realised and said later 😊

Our Honda Odyssey minivan although I loved it! We planned for more but only had one child and we should have kept our Honda Accord which was relatively new. When we sold it we bought the same colour and model Accord we sold to get the minivan!

A beautiful antique Painted Chinese compactum when we moved to a new house. Measured really carefully but when it was delivered we’d not accounted for a small heating pipe. It didn’t fit in, so we had to send it back. Lost about £3,000 on delivery and auction costs.

@Holothane

Yes I realised and said later 😊

Sorry, I missed that post

The house. Its a very large detached new build from a respected local builder. The first half of the estate is great, however when to they got to our phase they outsourced lots to shit cowboy builders (even though they're fairly big firms). Weve actually gotten together with half the people on the estate to complain as there are several things everyone has issues with eg the plumbing, uneven floors etc. The builders are "taking it seriously " and have extended our 2 yr guarantee period and said they'll fix it all but it's an absolute nightmare. Several neighbours have had all ceilings taken out etc. Disruption for months and months. We've been complaining since we moved in almost 3 years ago and the issues are still not fixed. Never again.

Expensive mattress from John Lewis. It's so hard I can't sleep on it - have resorted to sleeping on top of a second duvet cover as it complete kills my hips and back.

Celtic & Co merino jumpers. So thin they snagged and tore every time I wore them.

@GoodbyePorpoiseSpit

Yy to Dualit toasters - they are over designed and shite

Family of five, .4 slot still going after daily use for 8 years! A bit of mechanical whirring has kicked in recently but still good

@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

Lumea didn't work for me either. Try a Smoothskin. I researched for hours before taking the plunge and I have to remember to top up barely needed treatments now.

My house (never renovating again)
Getting my eyebrows micro bladed at a supposedly top notch salon in London. Spent £600 and they didn't ever "take". My eyebrows look exactly the same as before I had it done.

A Fiat Panda car....just got new job and wanted a new car for first time ever...a nurse friend also bought one with me....she wanted something new and reliable...ha ha....both of them spent more time in the garages being repaired than actually driving them...!!...total pile of crap...after appx one year of no car, we towed them back to the dealer forecourt and demanded a refund and staged a sit in...my friend also cried...we got our money back in a few hours !!

Not mine but both Dbro and I thought frail DM buying GTech cordless vacuum after DF died was a plan. Fucking thing lived for about a year before turning to the dark side. She now has a corded Dyson which weighs a ton but does the job.

On a similar note my year or so old cordless Bosch Athlet has now been gracing landfill for about eighteen months.

@KonTikki

I bought a beautiful Triumph Stag in the '70s for £1800, a whole lot of money then. The engine kept overheating, I could literally drive and watch the temp gauge go through the limits until I kept having to stop and let the engine cool. After 6 months the car blew up on me on the Autobahn outside Frankfurt. I left it smoking on the hard shoulder and hitched home. Never went back for it and have no idea what became of it. But it did look absolutely gorgeous

Oh...my friend had one and same issues...i think its because they had an aluminium head or something....his was expensive and always going wrong....sold for about £60 in the end on gumtree !

A house in 2006 right before the 2008 crash. Lost over €100k on that.

@BrassicaBabe

An antique desk that I can't get my knees under

This is a common problem and easily fixed e.g. by adjusting the castors or the blocks they mount on. If you approach a specialist restorer (look in the Antiques Trade Gazette) or a reputable dealer experienced in desks (Andy Gibbs - Blank Canvas Antiques) they will be able to suggest the best method to correct your desk. We never sell a desk without making sure it works with modern sized people but I’m not in the UK.

Fisher Paykel oven, three years old and on its forth element

The hob chipped when a knocked

sigh ... my luxury underfloor heating beneath the tiles. The f**ker is either stone-cold or scalding hot, had a mind of its own and doesn't follow the timer PLUS it costs me a fortune in electricity. I will never get electric underfloor heating again.

I always wanted a Remoska from Lakeland
Used it about three times, and burnt the food it was supposed to be cooking beautifully and tenderly.
Also an expensive mattress which bore no resemblance to the one I laid on in the shop. So hard I had to sleep on blankets, toppers, anything I could try. They wouldn’t take it back and I had to sell it for £100 when it had cost me over £500.

My Dubarry boots, impossible to get on, worse to get off and they are not that comfortable. Wish I’d never bought them. Cost nearly £400.

Bugaboo chameleon (although I feel awful that actually both sets of GPs bought it)
It always veered to one side and felt hard and heavy to push.

A Mazda 3. I swear to god that car tried to kill me multiple times. It couldn’t cope with even the lightest rain and had no grip, even at the slowest speed. It also used to cut out if you were travelling at speed and going uphill... like when passing lorries on the m4. I have never been so terrified of a car and never been so pleased to see the kind man at the Volvo garage where I part ex’d it take the keys away!