What's your most expensive moment of stupidity?

[HangingOver]

Cheer me up MN.

I visited DF for the first time since moving a loooong way away on the train this weekend. The train fares were over £200 all in but worth it to see DF. Raced to the station today to get the connecting train home and realised the return journey I booked was, in fact, yesterday. Minutes to spare and only first class seats available. £198. So my two days with DF cost me over £400. What an absolute wally! Am trying to channel my inner Love Islander and just say "it is what it is" (and obviously being grateful I actually had the money in my account to buy it). I was trying to think back and I think this is probably my single most expensive incident of stupidity (the one time the waiter accidentally charged my card €300 instead of €30 not counting as that was his fault).

Tell me yours while I drink my fifth cup of free tea.

Been caught with the goods from china/USA before you also get messages from the courier regarding VAT and import duty. We always refuse to pay, they then have to send it back or bin it

I can't believe this thread is still going. I got a whopping £46 because it was late

Left the locking pins in on an aircraft radar scanner, then turned said radar on for test!

£1.5 million item wrecked.

Penners, I would declare that a faulty design tbh.

I have another one. I had a bracelet which went missing and I claimed on the insurance for a replacement. Wore replacement for new job and lost it on the very first day!

Couldn't claim again so bought replacement which I've worn about twice as I am so worried about losing it. It does have a safety chain on it, I don't know how I lost it twice.

@HangingOver
You forgot to add the £500 of free snacks and drinks in with that £46 🤣🥨🥐🍟🍕🍪🍧🍹🍸🍺🍫🍮🧁☕

@tgt123 I work for a LR garage and our diag is £120 if that helps (we are a main dealer)

@Camphillgirl

Any of those ads that pop up in MN for footwear and clothing. Check carefully as most are Chinese, although they give the impression they are UK . Goods nowhere near the advertised goods in colour, size, materials or quality. You have to return at your own expense to an address in China and they don’t guarantee receipt therefore don’t guarantee refund. BEWARE

THIS. I've fallen for it twice and know now that it's definitely a waste of time and money because the items are NEVER anywhere near as good as they look in the photos. Buy online only from companies you know are trustworthy.

Invested a lot in Bitcoin mid-May just days before it crashed

@janj2301

Been caught with the goods from china/USA before you also get messages from the courier regarding VAT and import duty. We always refuse to pay, they then have to send it back or bin it

It's not always like that, I hasten to add - we've bought a number of rugs from an American company in the past year and they're good value and quality, arrive within days and we're never asked for shipping costs, much less duty, etc.

The most recent one had clearly been left by the UK courier where it got rained on - we complained and the US company sent another within a week. Didn't want the original back - so we've dried it out and now have two!

@janj2301
It's not always like that, I hasten to add - we've bought a number of rugs from an American company in the past year and they're good value and quality, arrive within days and we're never asked for shipping costs, much less duty, etc.

Could you tell me which company please?
I have been looking for a nice rug.

[quote Debetswell]@janj2301
It's not always like that, I hasten to add - we've bought a number of rugs from an American company in the past year and they're good value and quality, arrive within days and we're never asked for shipping costs, much less duty, etc.

Could you tell me which company please?
I have been looking for a nice rug.[/quote]
It was me you wanted! Company is called: iRugs.co.uk

It's an American company and most stock comes from there.

@Penners99

Left the locking pins in on an aircraft radar scanner, then turned said radar on for test!

£1.5 million item wrecked.

Makes forgetting to remove washing machine transit bolts into proportion

Are you still paying it off

I was cleaning the oven and leant too heavily on the glass door. Oven still worked fine so thought I'd got away with it.. but no🙈Escaping heat damaged all the drawers beside the oven... whole new kitchen

My BF at the times mother knitted a beautiful Arran Sweater for me it took her about 3 months. I stupidly put it in the washing mashine. It came out the size of a 5 year old childs.

I think I must be really stupid. My third post. I just remembered another time a brand new fifteen thousand pound dishwasher had been installed at one of my sites. I was showing the staff how to work it when I realised the water hadnt been connected yet. It burnt out the motor costing thousands to repair.

I missed my train from London to Edinburgh, which cost a fortune for the three of us by getting Kings Cross and Euston mixed up. The train time wasn't on the in/out tickets but on the reservation stubs. When the conductor came round, I handed over the three tickets and pretended I'd lost the reservation stubs. He didn't seem to believe and said to keep looking. Every time he walked past I looked more & more sheepish. Didn't charge us the penalty but I paid in having the most uncomfortable long journey. Now I make sure to be an hour early and have a coffee at the station, like my dad does. Although for him, it's more 4 hours before departure time.

Booked a family holiday with DH and young DC about 15 years ago. Packing tickets, passports etc the night before only to discover that my passport had expired about 4 months previously.
It was a Saturday night so everywhere was shut. We tried to change the name on the ticket to that of a family member who did have a valid passport but this was in the days before the internet as we know it today.
The upshot was none of us went away (DH didn't think it was right to leave me behind) and £2k was wasted.
I.HAVE.NEVER.DONE.THIS.AGAIN and nor has anyone in my family, we always check our passport dates!
The next day we all went out for Sunday lunch although I found it really hard to eat anything.
The best part was that neither DH or DC gave me a hard time despite me deservingly it 😔

Another passport one (although slightly luckier than yours). If I'm being honest, I was always a little smug and judgmental about people that didn't check the expiry date on their passports. Until it happened to me. Fortunately I was able to book one of the very expensive passport in a day services at Victoria. Reminds me every time I look at it as my new passport was issued on 1 April and I was indeed the fool.

First time we went abroad about 1973 we didn't know you needed a passport to go to Belgium. Luckyly in those days you could get a travel permit from the post office with a driving lisence for ID. Touch wood never had a document issue since and we lived in the Far East for 6 years when our girls were tiny

Not expensive (thank God!) but incredibly stupid.....

The very day I learnt at university the reason why you can't put foil in the microwave..... I did!!!! the paper was white on the outside and freakin foil on the inside!!!!

I managed to stop it straight away and not damage the microwave

[quote SpongeBobJudgeyPants]@honeybuns007

So you are that person who decides to park very close to the only other car in the car park. Do you also choose to sit very near the only other people in a cinema ? Grrrr

No actually. I would explain further, but it seems you just want a scrap about it, and I can't be arsed, and frankly, it's none of your business... And that's all you took from that? Seriously? And who says Grr? In RL? Are you a grizzly bear? On a semi light-hearted thread to make the OP feel a bit better? Grr (or a more articulate version of it) right back at you. [/quote]
I took this as being one of the last people to leave .... some love to find fault at every and anything unfortunately.