What was the most worthless thing that you paid money for?

Dick2

Well-known Member
Just wondering what the most worthless thing that you paid money for?

(I can just hear somebody saying "my marriage license"). Okay if you think so.

I'm still thinking about my answer to that question.
 
I bought a battery charger made by Vector. 2 things wrong with it. It won"t charge a dead battery and it won"t clamp onto a side post battery. I have GM vehicles all with side post and ford tractors. Leave the lights on in the car and kill the battery it won"t turn on!
 
Anyone ever buy a "weather rock", it hangs outside a window, comes with instructions. We got one, it is wet right now.
 
A long list but besides some of the employees at the shop, I have to say it was probably a Lexmark printer.

Cheap tools come to mind as well.
 
Something called a "Yarkvark". It was an electrical device to kill fire ants. I had read about it, then stumbled on one and bought it.

Totally worthless.
 
I'd say a good portion of my taxes go to pay for things (people and programs) that don't work, or work in a way I disagree with.

A Bostitch air compressor comes to mind as well. I was in a bind and needed a compressor quick. Didn't expect much from it and got even less.
 
More of my money is wasted on Taxes than anything I can think of. And I decided this would be my answer even before I read any of the other responses.

Gene
 
1950 Farmall M. Paid too much and the thing was junk on the inside. Luckily I bought another real cheap and junked the first one. I did all right when you consider the two.
 
10 years ago i bought a colt 1911, 2 clips and a leather shoulder holster. hated that thing; big, heavy and hot to wear. now i find that this worthless thing wishes he had it back.
 
Where do I begin?...One of those electric fly swatter things that look like a tennis racket,A high lift jack, Or as I call it. "my go up and fall over piece of sh!t", a Ford 04 SD 6.0L, and so on. Hard to find a "most worthless".
 
City permit to put in a sidewalk....did all the work myself.... 40 bucks wasted!! And I don't own the dang thing now that I've got it done. But I get to clean it.....or be fined! Wonderful!
Irv
 
Best seat ever made. Have dozens of friends that used theirs. A few recycled them, You still have it? And the rocket motor?
 
When I joined the Navy- They gave me a comb,then cut all my hair off. They then gave me a toothbrush, then pulled must of my teeth. Next they gave me a jock-strap,I climbed over the fence and never went back! I paid dearly for that.
 
So far a Gateway $3600.00 computer, never worked right from the day I took it out of the box and they wouldn't fix it. Toshiba Satellite laptop, and a cheap eMachine computer. All are junky computers.
 
Does animals count? Like that boar I bought once?
Dad bought a weed eater at Wally World and the lower bearing down by the head burned out. He took it back, they gave him another one and it did the same thing. That's when they told him it's built for only short occasional use. Dad was 85 years old at the time and had a bad back so he could only run it fifteen minutes at a time. When an 85 year old man with a bad back lasts longer than the weed eater, I'd say it's a worthless product. Jim
 
What I mean is back when I bought it I could have probably used the funds to fix the trans pto seal leak in the tractor. I used to sit in the seat when I worked on the f4 Phantom in Thailand. This seat sits in the family room. Rocket is disabled.
 
New Model White mountain Ice cream freezer, $150!
Made one batch of ice cream, Gear head wore out/locked up. Warrantee was up before I did anything about it. Bought another gear head, $60 Made about 4 batches of Ice cream Gears locked up.
Spendy Ice cream!

Found an OLD model on craigslist, $50 made several dozen batches of ice cream.



Ben
 
I have an older model White Mountain that has made a lot of ice cream. I read that the new models were not good.
 
The ex wife cost the most.

My '97 Chevy K2500 that I ordered from the factory, (my only brand new vehicle ever). Doors didn't fit right, wipers didn't work, it has 130k miles mainly because I don't drive it anymore.
It runs fine, just is junk. In 97 you couldn't have the 3rd door option since there was too much torque with the diesel. Well guess what, less than 2 months after I bought it I took it back because the doors wouldn't shut. The dealer told me it was because the cab was sealed so well you have to slam the doors. Hmmmmm.

I didn't order a Dodge Cummins at the time since the wait was longer. I was young and dumb. The Dodge would still be worth JD money right now at 130k.
 
Remington Nylon 66 .22 rifle. Paid $135 for it new, shot a couple hundred rounds and never could hit anything with it. Still have the thing with the box. Last time I fired it was in 1988, so maybe time to dust it off and try again, then put it away for another 25 years or give it to a nephew I don't like.
 
I bought one of those back in '68. Think I paid $68 for it. Didn't use it that much and always kept it in pristine condition. It was about the lightest gun possible. Problem with it was that the nylon stock did not have enough rigidity and on top of that the barrel is fixed to that stock as the bolt carrige is also part of it. No matter how you hold onto it the pressure of your hands deflects the stock/barrel so it always shoots in a different spot. Last year I decided to sell a few of the guns I haven't shot in more than 20 years. Got $460 for it on Gunbroker.com. Wish I bought the bolt action version because it is more rare and would have brought more. Naturally I pi$$ed the money away on more guns I probably won't shoot that much (can't find ammo anyway).

Jim
 
I agree Lexmark biggest piece of cr@p in the world.Bought one it broke in one month. Took it back second one lasted a week. Took it back third one feel out of my truck window. One day.

Friend gave me an Epson. Made all kinds of racket and jumped a lot. But it worked for twelve years. Before it died.
 
1977 Fairmount by Ford. Started falling apart before I left the lot. After a year told them to come get it. Tired of fighting it.They came to pick it up. Engine blew while the guy was backing out of the driveway.
 
1955 Ford 6 cylinder & 3 spd manual trans. Unbelievable the number of things that were wrong with that car. I fixed and fixed and there were still a bunch of problems that I never solved when I sold the car cheap to get rid of it.
 
Back in the late 1970s the Chinese tools were first starting to appear in a retail store [pre Harbor Freight]. I bought a grinder that smoked the motor almost minutes after starting use.
 
3.4L olds back in 92. Worst engineering ever by GM. Alternator was on the bottom of the engine. Had to remove transaxle and fenderwell to change out. Had dual overhead roller cams, timing chain failed 2 different times. Everything dealer did was 1000 a pop. Sold it for junk.
 
all 6 gm vehicles i bought becasuse the ex ,, liked the styling bu--s-it,traded 2 of them out for next to nuthin.. 4 of them were sold outrite as junk .. taxes , taxes .. taxes
 
A 1980 Chevy K5 Blazer, used, about 15 years ago. Had new engine, with paperwork and a few thousand miles, but sucked a quart of oil every 400 miles and had other problems you can't know about until driving for a while. Nice rust-free Fort Worth truck but POS otherwise. Worst vehicle decision I've ever made. I still have it -- quit driving it when gas hit $3.50 a gallon a couple of years ago. -- 11 mpg highway, about two gallons per mile in town, it seemed. Lots of pain at the pump with a 24-gallon tank. Some day I'll detail it and try to get a fourth of my money back from someone who thinks the removable half top is cool.
 
My dad bought a 1/2 inch drill at a flea market. I told him it was junk, but he said it looked like a DeWalt. Didn't drill a hole completely through a 2x4 before he smoked the motor.

Got a set of front signal housings for my first-gen Cummins off evilpay, light sockets wouldn't fit, replacement they sent had a hole in the lens the same as the first one, and the lenses were barely glued onto the housing. And the only other place to find them is amazon.
 
My first wife. Didn't pay up front for her but still cost a whole lot.

Vito
 
Second worst is a Crapsman 10" table saw I bought. It's not such a bad saw but they advertised it as 3HP when in reality it was 1.5HP. They sucked me in hook-line-and sinker on that one. Jim
 
Larry, you did OK on that one. My neighbor bought one of those angle grinders and it lasted all of 30 seconds before the smoke came out. Jim
 
Only if you live in TEXAS,Nebraska (home) and others too.
Chinese tools. Oh TAXES. Cheap Chinese tools.
 
A brand new 800 cfm Holley carb. One of the ones that splits horizontally and has integral fuel bowls. Never could get it tuned. Starved for fuel under heavy braking or turning. A tuned Q'jet was 1.5 seconds quicker in the 1320.

Plenty of top end past 120 with a 454 though!
 
regarding tools, I bought a used wood lathe about 25 yrs ago for $100. I made a round piece of wood out of a square piece of wood when I first got it. After that, it just collected dust in my basement. I sold it last year for about $50 or so. I think I still have the round piece of wood, though, so I can't say it was "totally worthless". :wink:
 

Well, if the question is phrased slight differently, say, "what was the worst investment", I'd have to say my first wife.
 
I had a '97 Pontiac mini van with that no-account 3.4. I finally just got tired of trying to keep ahead of all the fluid leaks and dumped it on a consignmnet auction.

Funny part was, it was one of the nicest driving mini vans I've driven. It was just the engine was junk.

I saw it on the road the other day. Can't believe the things still running.
 
I have 2 10 inch Ryobi table saws. I love them. Not only is it a saw, it's a router table too.
 
Any and all cars from dealerships. Price always too high and quality too low. Sorry but I hate salesmen. If their lips are moving, they are lying. Once I found an honest one,but he died. Now there are none. Dave
 
Any and all cars from dealerships. Price always too high and quality too low. Sorry but I hate salesmen. If their lips are moving, they are lying. Once I found an honest one,but he died. Now there are none. Dave
 
I bought a new 1949 Ford Convertible, so i could attract girls. The only thing that POS attracted was repairs! What a worthless car it was. I couldn"t keep the doors closed when driving it! The roof leaked! One day while driving on a local street, i crossed an area where the local towns folk had dug a ditch across the street, then filled it in halfway, leaving a 4 inch lip. When i crossed the ditch, that lip made both wheels turn outwards, and i had to limp onto the side of the street. What it did was bend the tie rod down until it dragged on the ground, and the wheels were pointed sideways! Had to be towed to the Dealer"s shop.
The inside door handles would fall off! It was originally yellow. I painted it green so i could hide in the weeds and watch the Chevie"s go by! (And, yes, I"m that old! 88.)
 
BOOZE!

Took me almost 30 years to fig'r out the stuff was an anesthetic.

Ain't bought any since 1987.

From what I can tell, from some people I know that regularly buy the stuff, it still has it's problems.
 
A 1988 Dodge Dakota. Bad quality and bad luck vehicle. When I went to pick it up had a big scratch on the hood that dealer had to fix, apparently no one noticed it (?) when they unloaded the transport truck. Had a recall on something to do with the emissions system. Got hit late at night in the parking lot of a hotel while on a trip, luckily the perp owned up to it AND had insurance. Then the O2 sensor crapped out and had to be replaced. Then the transmission (automatic) trashed itself at about 12,00 miles and it took the stealership almost three weeks to fix it (new model of tranny they said, didn't know much about it and didn't have parts). Had enough and sold it to a drunken airline pilot. Haven't owned a Chrysler product since. Wife calls all of them a POS and wouldn't take a brand new one if given to her.
 
Wow, we had 2 of them. One had a detachable clip/mag that wasn't right for the gun and would jam alot but the other one with the tubular mag was a fine gun to plink with. My complaint was being left handed the brass would burn me a lot.
 
My wedding band, i wore the stupid thing only twice in 40 years.
I'm still married though. :wink:
 

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