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  • said_aouita
    Spinoff thread- Anything you regret not buying?


    My regret is missing out buying an IH Scout 4x4 (right hand drive-former postal delivery truck) dirt cheap.
  • Belly35
    Just got out of the Army lots of back pay and my first disability check. A friend dad who was in the insurance had invested in new private lake property development. He offered me three on the lake lot properties little over $1200.00 per lot. I had the money just didn't do it. Hate even thinking about it now....
  • Fly4Fun
    JJHuddle membership
  • Belly35
    Oh! 58 thunderbird convertible
    I saw this car in parking lot one day, loved the look. I took 2000.00 out cash in my pocket.
    next day I waited in the parking lot, this guy come out to the car. I ask if the car for sale. Not really what your offer 1800.00 I will take 2500, 2000, how about 2200.

    200.00 from ownership and I walked away..... Never saw the car again...
  • Sonofanump
    A rental house in Hicksville.
  • ernest_t_bass
    I had a buddy who bought Apple stock in early 2000's, and had to sell before their last split. He'd easily have a few 10's of thousands of $$$.
  • Commander of Awesome
    Coupe of years ago before I had tried Founder's KBS, I was on the hunt for it. Came across a store with bottles of Founder's CBS sitting on the shelf. I had no idea what it was at the time and passed because it wasn't KBS. SMH at myself, even though it was an expensive beer, almost the price of a KBS 4 pack, the beer was basically KBS aged in maple barrels. Supposed to be an awesome brew. lolfail on me.
  • Iliketurtles
    Tickets to the BCS National Championship game this year.

    CoA that sucks man. I'm going to guess this was before smartphones? Anytime I'm looking at beers and see one that sounds good I'll go and check out some reviews haha.
  • ernest_t_bass
    Commander of Awesome;1567534 wrote:Coupe of years ago before I had tried Founder's KBS, I was on the hunt for it. Came across a store with bottles of Founder's CBS sitting on the shelf. I had no idea what it was at the time and passed because it wasn't KBS. SMH at myself, even though it was an expensive beer, almost the price of a KBS 4 pack, the beer was basically KBS aged in maple barrels. Supposed to be an awesome brew. lolfail on me.
    There is a place within 30 miles of me that sells KBS (at least they did last year), and I will be bound and determined to score it this year.
  • Sonofanump
    Commander of Awesome;1567534 wrote:Coupe of years ago before I had tried Founder's KBS, I was on the hunt for it. Came across a store with bottles of Founder's CBS sitting on the shelf. I had no idea what it was at the time and passed because it wasn't KBS. SMH at myself, even though it was an expensive beer, almost the price of a KBS 4 pack, the beer was basically KBS aged in maple barrels. Supposed to be an awesome brew. lolfail on me.
    I've only seen a bottle of CBS in a guy's collection, never had it.
  • Commander of Awesome
    Sonofanump;1567542 wrote:I've only seen a bottle of CBS in a guy's collection, never had it.
    The one and only time I've see it. Never had either. Not sure if they'll ever brew it again either.
  • I Wear Pants
    Belly35;1567510 wrote:Oh! 58 thunderbird convertible
    I saw this car in parking lot one day, loved the look. I took 2000.00 out cash in my pocket.
    next day I waited in the parking lot, this guy come out to the car. I ask if the car for sale. Not really what your offer 1800.00 I will take 2500, 2000, how about 2200.

    200.00 from ownership and I walked away..... Never saw the car again...
    Can I ask why you were walking around with $2000 cash?
  • reclegend22
    A guy in an everyday van drove up to me at full speed in a parking lot one day while I was in college and offered me a great deal on a premium home theatre system. Said all I had to do was give him $500 cash for the unit and 15 bucks for a case of beer -- just a little something extra since he was giving me a "once in a lifetime price" -- for a system worth 3 grand. He was actually doing me a really big solid, since if the system wasn't sold by the end of the business day he'd have to return it to the warehouse where it would just go to waste as the model was being discontinued. All I had to do was promise not to tell anyone where I got it. He even offered to follow me to an ATM since I told him I wasn't a drug dealer and didn't carry around hundreds in my pocket.
  • TedSheckler
    I Wear Pants;1567667 wrote:Can I ask why you were walking around with $2000 cash?
    He was supposed to deposit it in his wife's bank account, but he didn't know how to use an ATM.
  • friendfromlowry
    reclegend22;1567671 wrote:A guy in an everyday van drove up to me at full speed in a parking lot one day while I was in college and offered me a great deal on a premium home theatre system. Said all I had to do was give him $500 cash for the unit and 15 bucks for a case of beer -- just a little something extra since he was giving me a "once in a lifetime price" -- for a system worth 3 grand. He was actually doing me a really big solid, since if the system wasn't sold by the end of the business day he'd have to return it to the warehouse where it would just go to waste as the model was being discontinued. All I had to do was promise not to tell anyone where I got it. He even offered to follow me to an ATM since I told him I wasn't a drug dealer and didn't carry around hundreds in my pocket.
    I think I'd say no to any deal that started out that way
  • majorspark
    WTF is an everyday van?
  • gut
    majorspark;1567712 wrote:WTF is an everyday van?
    A child molestor's work truck
  • Scarlet_Buckeye
    ernest_t_bass;1567517 wrote:I had a buddy who bought Apple stock in early 2000's, and had to sell before their last split. He'd easily have a few 10's of thousands of $$$.

    This.

    I had a chance to get in on Apple stock when it was $33/share (like earnest_t_bass said... right before the "split"). I didn't have much "disposable income" at the time, so I asked a family member or 2 if they would help me, because I really thought $30-some dollars a share was a steal. Flash forward 10 years, and now the stock is trading at $553/share.

    Figure you purchase 100 shares @ $33 = a cost of $3,300
    Now "sell" 100 shares @ $553/share = a sale of $55,300.
    Could have made a profit of about $52,000.

    Still to this day one of my biggest regrets in life. :-/
  • ernest_t_bass
    Scarlet_Buckeye;1567971 wrote: Figure you purchase 100 shares @ $33 = a cost of $3,300
    Now "sell" 100 shares @ $553/share = a sale of $55,300.
    Could have made a profit of about $52,000.

    Still to this day one of my biggest regrets in life. :-/
    You're not figuring in the 2:1 split.
  • thavoice
    In an ironic twist....mine was a jet ski. Yeah, a jet ski I purchased was my biggest regret, but the one I passed on was somethign I regret not getting.
    A lady was getting divorced and was sellling everything dirt cheap of her husband's. SHe was selling a very new jet ski for about $2k, about 5 times less than it was worth. I didnt get it because I kinda thought I would get screwed out of the deal because they were just separated and such and thought.
    Guy I know swooped in and bought it..and has had it for 7-8 years now with no trouble.s
  • reclegend22
    majorspark;1567712 wrote:WTF is an everyday van?


    Do I want to buy that home theatre that you just procured during a home invasion? Sure.
  • mcburg93
    Had a chance to buy a side by side .45-70 fifteen years ago signed by Teddy Roosevelt for 2500. I could have bought it but would have been tight on money for awhile. Not sure what it would be worth today.