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Money you've lost/wasted for the dumbest reason

When I was a kid, I buried $5 worth of coins in a bag in the front yard, and forgot where exactly I buried it.

Another time, I signed up for what Midtown Comics considered a subscription, and I wound up getting 10 copies of the same issue, with no way of returning them. So that was $30 down the drain.

I also ended up spending $425 at a charity auction when I didn't really want the stuff, I was just bidding to raise the price and hoping someone would outbid me. But it was for a good cause, so I don't exactly consider it "wasted". Just incredibly reckless.
 
In 2001, me and a good buddy wanted to visit Japan and we booked our flight tickets with Swissair. Tickets costed around 700 EUR each. .

A few weeks before our trip, the assholes went bankrupt and just like that our tickets went up in smoke and we never received any damages.

I still hate Switzerland up to this day and will never set foot there and spend any money.
 
brau said:
I gave a total of 15 copies of MGSV to people here and on twitter, bought my own copy and also the CE edition of the game. :( I think it was like $750 worth. lol.
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haha why did you have that many to begin with?! Were you worried it would sell out?
 
Lent £100 to a colleague to "go see his daughter". He never came back to work and I never heard from him again. Learned my lesson as a naive teenager.
 
Sevenfold said:
IRL. I walked away from 100 quid at a cash machine a few months ago. The sort of thing you only do once. Took about 3 hours before I realised what I'd done, at which point I recalled the scatty looking kid behind me at the time. Goodbye cash.
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Did you bother contacting the Cash machine provider? If money isn't taken within a short amount of time it gets taken back into the machine. If you check with the provider they can cross check the timings and the amount and credit you. Did this myself many years ago. Was early in the morning with no scatty looking kid stood behind me though :/
 
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I bought a bunch of wrong parts for my most recent pc build and had to eat the cost of restocking each of them. That hurt.
 
Cyanity said:
I bought a bunch of wrong parts for my most recent pc build and had to eat the cost of restocking each of them. That hurt.
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I had an Alienware 14 and was showing my brother a funny video on Christmas day, only for it to fall about two feet onto its side. I sent it in to see what the repair would cost. Needed a new CPU and motherboard, would have cost just $35 less than I spent on the laptop to repair it. I'd only had it for a year. So sad.
 
brau said:
I bought tons of copies of MGSV at full price. I thought it would be a good game.
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I mean it is a good game but I'm not understanding why you'd buy copies and why the giveaway?

Anywho, I paid about 350usd for an art commission. It was the most boring piece of art I ever commissioned and I hate myself for having spent so much money for it.
 
Got lost in London once after a night out, every taxi number I could find on Google told me that they didn't operate in the area, ended up paying £50 to get a rickshaw back to the hotel.
 
Back when I was 17 and earning around £195 a month in a part time job I had a bet with a friend to the tune of £150 that I could scan more items per minute than him on the supermarket checkout that we worked at, he beat me by one item.......
 
Left my $100 ATM withdrawal in the ATM years ago.. Ran back when i realised but had made someones day by then lol.. Never withdrew money that stoned again.
 
When I was 21, backpacking in Europe alone, I lost 60 Euros betting at a "card trick table" in the streets of Paris ... I was convinced to know where the right card was but, obvioulsy, It was a trick... The guys doing the trick was not alone in this (but naive me didn't see this at the time) and other people around the table were winning small amounts. So, stupid me, caught up in the moment, I just outloud said where I thought the right card was and then I got husled into betting... got peer presured by the other people around the table (previous "winners") to go ahead and that I would win...

I later convinced myself that I learned a very good life lesson (stop being stupid) for 60 Euros. Could've been worst...
 
Did a bank transfer for an eBay purchase many years ago. I thought since I had the guys name, address and number he wouldn't pull a fast one, how wrong I was. People are scum. Luckily it was only £50. Lesson learned.
 
Lost a lot of money because of credit card payment instead of cash payment. The ATM was nearby I didn't ask the dealer.
 
Dropped my summer semester thinking I would get no penalty since every other semester gives you a week to drop all your courses with no payment.

Didn't apply to summer semester and ignorance wasn't an excuse. $500.
 
Most recently I bought some stuff that was on sale for full price because I didn't want to make a scene of it. The person in front of me had just spent about 10 minutes juggling gift cards and point rewards to buy some shit and it was the only register open so I just decided to just ignore that the stuff wasn't being scanned in at the sale price. It was only about $10 lost but I honestly did it 99% because I didn't want the attention of being the asshole holding up the line again.
 
Bought one of those old people cell phones for my dad. Dad ended up losing the phone and he went out on his own to buy a new one and signed up for service, despite me paying for his current service. Keep forgetting to call to cancel the service I'm paying for which is ~40/mo and he hasn't used the phone for 5 months. I only remember when they start calling me to pay the bill, then I pay it and forget again. Fuck.
 
I backed Star Citizen... Luckily I did the cheapest option that lets you play but it still sucks. I can't believe there are people that have poured thousands of dollars into it.
 
Went to New York City for the weekend for a wedding. The night before my return flight I had the thought "oh, that's weird, I can't check in yet..." only to realize I'd actually booked the return flight for a month later like a moron. Had to spend a couple hundred bucks to reschedule tickets at the last minute.
 
I was on the phone with my financial institution, exercising stock options worth over $30,000. It was just before market close, and one of my customers called. I hung up with my bank to take some trivial customer call, after which the market was closed. Oh well, can do it tomorrow.

The next day the market was down so I waited. Our stock tumbled a bit over the coming days, so I waited longer.

Rinse and repeat until our stock was worthless. I rode it all the way down.
 
Chuck the Bean said:
When I was 21, backpacking in Europe alone, I lost 60 Euros betting at a "card trick table" in the streets of Paris ... I was convinced to know where the right card was but, obvioulsy, It was a trick... The guys doing the trick was not alone in this (but naive me didn't see this at the time) and other people around the table were winning small amounts. So, stupid me, caught up in the moment, I just outloud said where I thought the right card was and then I got husled into betting... got peer presured by the other people around the table (previous "winners") to go ahead and that I would win...

I later convinced myself that I learned a very good life lesson (stop being stupid) for 60 Euros. Could've been worst...
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That's what you looked like to the people at the table.
 
If you play games on PC you know the allure of Humble Bundles etc - even though you own 4 out of the 7 games already. I mean it would be madness not to spend the 7 quid to get 3 games and 4 keys you are not going to do anything with and of course you aren't going to play any of the 3 games. Not speaking from Experience of course.....
 
thequickandthedead said:
I just accidentally spent £50 on buying a digital code for the WII U Version of BOTW when I was trying to buy the Switch version and need to feel better about myself.
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You can get a refund from Nintendo.

Symphonia said:
Nintendo don’t do refunds. I did something similar with Minecraft Story Mode (albeit on PlayStation, not Switch) and bought the PS3 version instead of the PS4 version. I tried explaining to Sony but they refused to budge.
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That isn't true, Nintendo does a 2 week refund grace so all OP needs to do is contact them and get a refund.
 
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