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What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 5:53:41 AM

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We all bought things online that were a flop= I want to hear your story.

PLease tell us.

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 6:18:53 AM

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Hands down: for me, it would be the hair straightener!

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 7:06:54 AM

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Hiking boots. I should know better-I have a 4" surgical screw holding my left foot together and my right foot is also pretty odd-shaped from decades of hard use, so when I need shoes I really have to try on different examples to find a pair that fits me. Whenever I go shoe-shopping, I always ask for three of the same style to find the "right" ones, because usually one side from one box works while the other doesn't. Most places are cool about this when I explain why.

About two years ago, I'm surfing and at one of the bigger e-tailers are some good name brand hikers, so I figure on taking a chance. 40 bucks plus shipping for boots that are normally over a hundred seemed like a good idea at the time. I get 'em, and sure enough one fits fine, the other was a cruel shoe. So I box them back up and send them back (costing me nearly twenty-five bucks), and the store sends me another pair. This time, the OTHER shoe doesn't fit right. My forty-dollar bargain shoes are now sixty five bucks, but stupid me, I send them back again. Twenty-five more dollars. The third pair arrives. This time, the same side that didn't fit the first time won't fit. I call the company, they won't accept returns anymore because they closed-out the line and I'm stuck with them.

I figure that, no problem, They're brand-new in the box, never worn. I'll just stick 'em on Craigslist and someone'll buy them. Three months later, I give up and ended up donating a brand-new pair of hiking boots to Amvets.

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 9:29:24 AM

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DaddySatyr, funny mate :-)

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 9:49:43 AM

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Oh QVC knows me by first name. But it's those infomercials that get me.

I bought that headlight restore kit...FAIL!!

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 10:10:42 AM

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I recently spent £180 on a heated chrome towel radiator from ebay that was far too big for the space it needed to go in. And I do this for a living :-/

No, they wont accept returns.

Anyone after a towel rad :D ?

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 10:14:52 AM

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Gee- just hang the towels near the heat vent....

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 10:36:41 AM

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it was for a job I was working on..... dooh !

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 11:05:47 AM

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Gee- just hang the towels near the heat vent....

Europe seldom has houses that have heat vents. We don't tend to heat with forced air.

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 11:20:48 AM

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Gee- just hang the towels near the heat vent....

Europe seldom has houses that have heat vents. We don't tend to heat with forced air.

How do you heat?

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 11:27:52 AM

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I would have to say resistance bands. I bought them so that I could work out on deployment- a set of cables ranging from 2-50 lbs of resistance. All of them maybe gave at best the equivalent of 10 lbs of resistance, and the one rated for 50 lbs broke halfway through my first workout with them, leaving a nasty welt on my ribs for about a week.

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 11:32:50 AM

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Gee- just hang the towels near the heat vent....

Europe seldom has houses that have heat vents. We don't tend to heat with forced air.

How do you heat?

Usually radiant heat by means of radiators, that are heated with hot water coming from a furnace.
The fact that he bought a radiator towel rack tells me that the house in question was probably heated like that.

More common in recent years is in floor heat, again usually powered by warm water, instead of the electric type that's far more common in the US.

I'd never seen a heat vent before coming here, it makes sense to use them when you've got A/C but seeing that's not at all a common feature in Western-Europe, they tend to opt for other heating options that are far more efficient than forced air.

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 1:42:24 PM

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Two years ago, I was being extremely frugal and bought a computer mouse for a buck on Amazon.com. It didn't come for more than a month, and when I got it, it wasn't compatible with my machine.

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 3:32:04 PM

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I'd love a heated towel rack but no space for it.

I don't think I've bought anything online for a while but e-books. And some of them have been dreadful. One chapter in and to hell with it.

Life's too short to read bad books.

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 4:04:41 PM

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The dumbest thing I bought online was a limited edition leather bound copy of fairy tales for my kids. The ad didn't say it was in korean! 70 bucks wasted. I donated it.

The dumbest thing I ever bought ever was from catalog though. I bought a cream that was supposed to enhance breasts when I was younger. Had cost 60 bucks and caused a severe allergic reaction I had to be hospitalized for. I was so humilitated. Had huge histimine blisters right before a paegant and had to explain to parents and emergency medical professionals and doctors what caused the reaction. Ouch. Lol

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 4:19:37 PM

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We all bought things online that were a flop=

Are you regretting your Ronco Hairline Tattoo Kit purchase already?

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 4:38:09 PM

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I go thru phases of online book buying.. not really a flop or stupid but I have this habit of buying books I already own.. I even have my list of books in excel and while that helps, some repeat purchases accidentally still slip thru..

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 4:41:54 PM

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I bought that headlight restore kit...FAIL!!

Me too!!!! Ugh!!!!

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 5:04:56 PM

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I once bought a masturbation sleeve from an online US retailer. This line of sleeves comes from a Japanese company called Tenga. I had bought one previously while traveling in Japan and it was the most remarkably similar to sliding myself into the real thing, that I'd ever experienced. This U.S. web site had them on sale for $9.95, rather than the almost $20 USD that they sell for in Japan. Such a deal, right?

The trouble was that the one I bought and used in Japan was the U.S. export version and the one I bought online from the U.S. web site turned out to be the home-island version. You guessed it, the operative phrase for the home-island version is "Hung like a hamster."

Naturally, the site had a no-return policy, due to the nature of the product. But I did at least get them to change the wording of the listing for the item, to indicate it only suited a male of "modest endowment."

I bet their U.S. sales have gone into the dumper ever since, save for a few kinky bastards who feel driven to masturbate their thumb.

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RE: What is the stupidest thing you ever bought online? - 8/5/2013 5:21:18 PM

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Security cameras for my father.

The cameras themselves were actually really nice. Wireless, infra-red capab;e and crystal clear sound.

The software that came with them was made of fail. Roast fail on a bed of wilted failed with fail sauce and a side of lose.

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