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30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community

Buyer's remorse is a real thing. As far as anyone goes, if you've ever shopped, you've probably made a bad purchase here and there. This Bored Panda thread was dedicated to the most regretful instances of buyer's remorse. Check out what our brilliant community has submitted!

If you want to get the gist of it, here's a summary of the thread. While many described their regretful purchases that were pretty common, like a bad tech item, some had some brilliant insights that many unexpectedly related with. Bought exercise gear that you barely use? Turns out, you're not alone, perhaps even in the majority. Other submissions were a tad bit more strange, but all the more interesting. And, of course, there are many more truly brilliant stories that are best told by the authors themselves.

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#1

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community A few years ago, Cadbury claimed they would stop selling their choco bars in the USA. I bought a gazillion of 'em. They're still available in the USA and they're fresh. Not like the evil choco-things taking up space in my pantry. As a door stop.

Final score:

120points

Benjamin Thor Collier V

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#2

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community My treadmill, elliptical, spin bike… each one with the promise to exercise more. Oh well, there is always tomorrow.

Final score:

120points

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#3

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community A college degree. I haven't been able to use it at all. I got BS's (Law Enforcement and Forensic Anthropology) and a BA (Pre-Law). Couldn't get a job. Then went back to a Community College for an Associates of Applied Science in Accounting. Now working for an international firm making the most money I've ever earned. Wish I'd known before wasting all that money.

Final score:

87points

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#4

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community An air fryer that I've used once in 6 months.

Final score:

82points

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#5

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community I bought a tablet around 5 years ago thinking I will use it for work. I used it a few times out of curiosity but never used it for work as it wasn't efficient at all for me. It's just too small for work and movies, and that's basically all I use my computer for. So it ended up being an expensive useless purchase I still have on my shelf collecting dust. It wasn't touched for a few years. I should have sold it or donated it but here we are.

Final score:

74points

Violeta Draseikaitė

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#6

A Time Share. Worst idea in the world. Can't use it and can't get rid of it. Costing thousands a year in fees.

Final score:

74points

George Foxworth

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#7

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community My first tattoo. I walked in and picked a piece of flash off the wall featuring a Chinese word that (you guessed it) was badly translated. Every other tattoo I have has either been designed by me or I worked with the artist to design it. Technically I still have my first tattoo, I just got it covered up.

Final score:

68points

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#8

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community In fourth grade, I bought a rabbit pelt on a field trip at Waterloo Village because it was soft. It's definitely in the house somewhere. Yes, I'm an animal lover and it hurts me a bit to see it.

Final score:

61points

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#9

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community When I was in my mid twenties, I was single and had a good paying job. Mind you this was in the 1990s. I went to dillards and bought this genuine leather jacket that cost around $500. I wore it maybe 6 times because I didn’t want to get it wet but it couldn’t keep me warm at all. I still have it in my closet just sitting there, reminding me of how stupid I was to purchase it.

Final score:

58points

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#10

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community This one time I brought an iPad case from Amazon as an early birthday present. I really loved it. Then about a week later I had my birthday party. My mum told all her friends about the case I loved, no about a third of them bought it. Since it was $45 I was touched, but now I had four iPad cases and no one I knew had an iPad except me!

Final score:

57points

Lita Rajasekaran

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#11

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community My truck. Couldn't drive it within 30 min of purchase. Spent $10,000 on it in 14 months.

Final score:

52points

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#12

Does an unfinished degree count? I'm still paying off the loans so it's still hanging over me..

Final score:

52points

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#13

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community The iPad/iPhone chargers that hardly even function.

Final score:

48points

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#14

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community Workout equipments😅

Final score:

47points

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#15

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community 50 beanie babies. Still want more.

Final score:

45points

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#16

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community NVIDIA 3D glasses before VR was still fiction. Used them twice and never again since the glasses were too heavy for my nose. The pain wasn't worth the slight 3D...

Final score:

41points

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#17

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community Not me but my mom. Shoutout to metro.

She needed a new phone and bought a new anderoid. The manager charged her $532 and gave her headphones she didnt even want. Then my mom went home and did the math. It only cost $432. We gave up on trying to sue because unless the cameras caught the scam on tape we would have no evicence

Final score:

41points

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#18

An $88 karaoke machine I bought from Walmart 5 years ago. We never get to use it as we live in an apartment and the times we have tried using it the quality is no better than the kids karaoke toy my daughter had. Plastic mic, music significantly lowers when you add your voice but as soon as you stop it the music goes loud creating a disorienting pitch problem. Apparently you can add lyrics displayed on the TV but I was never able to figure it out. It's been just sitting there for years. It's better worth the money to go out to my favourite karaoke joint.... how I miss going out to karaoke.

Final score:

40points

MyOpinionHasBeenServed

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#19

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community I got these hair clips/ties off Amazon and they are to big and we’re made of plastic (the pictures looked like they were metal and the description didn’t say) but yeah I spent 15$ on junk and I see them every day on my shelf :D

Final score:

39points

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#20

Idk if it counts but a crappy tattoo that has not aged well.

Final score:

39points

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#21

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community Happy meal Toys. What do I do with them?
And the little cheap useless toys at the the cash register.

Final score:

37points

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#22

A house! The mortgage is killing me! Only 20 years to go before it is mine and will be paying almost double in total than what I 'bought' it for.

€200k was the price, will have paid 380k when I'm done.... And the house is worth 350 now. (And that'll buy me 75% of the space on the current market)

Final score:

35points

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#23

An Elmo toy— scares the crap out of me

Final score:

31points

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#24

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community An I phone 6.

Final score:

29points

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#25

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community A 350-euro Samsung phone. It cracked its screen on its own after one week when the alarm went off on vibrate mode on an uneven table. I never replaced the screen but I use it for international calls.

Final score:

28points

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#26

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community About €500 worth of hair weaves. I keep changing my hair color so I can no longer wear them since they don’t match my actual hair color anymore and have to get a new one made. Such a waste…

Final score:

26points

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#27

30 Things That People Regret Buying, As Shared By The Bored Panda Community A $400.00 piece of art that I could have paid maybe $30.00 for the poster print.
Don't get me wrong; beautiful piece but $400.00!?

Final score:

22points

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#28

Very expensive hiking boots... but I'm going to return them 😉

Final score:

21points

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#29

Marriage counseling session. My ex and I walked in to the first on, he said to the counselor “she’ll tell you what she does wrong. She knows, I’ve told her plenty of times! Fix her so everything will be fine.”
He walked out of the office while mumbling that he’d be back in an hour to pick me up.
Honest to God truth.

Final score:

12points

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#30

An eyeshadow palette as a birthday gift for myself. But there are few situations where I can or would wear purple or red or hot pink eyeshadow. Plus, it is dusty, the fallout is ridiculous, and since I bought it I found out how awful the creator is. (Take a wild guess who it might be.) Now I have a 60 euro palette that serves as a reminder to think before buying.

Final score:

11points

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#31

My first car. Wanted an Austin Mini too badly. Went to look and realised later the guy scammed me. Even had someone show up partway through my looking it over who feigned interest. "Well if you don't want it this guy will buy it". Young and stupid and paid too much. And then... for every hour driving I bet I spent an hour under the hood.

Were some positives I guess. I will never buy another English car and I now just walk away if there are any pressure tactics when looking to buy something.

Final score:

10points

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#32

A Yonana machine to make sherbet out of frozen bananas and other frozen fruits. Worked miracles the first few times and then kind of lost its magic since it is such a pain to clean.

Final score:

9points

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#33

i wanted to do a craft with yarn. they only had a huge pack at michael's, so i bought it. i only used a few INCHES of it, and don't have any other use for the huge ball of yarn, and its still laying around.

Final score:

9points

nunya bussiness

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#34

I bought a $10,000 Piaggio MP3 500 scooter and rode it home.Every time I tried to ride it I had a panic attack due to fear of other drivers. I was afraid to sell it for fear someone would come and try to steal it.
Now I have a scooter sitting in the back yard that I can't ride or sell.
Mid life crisis is a real thing, over 55, female

Final score:

9points

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#35

Buffy the Vampire Slayer had it's last season and lots of clothing and props from the show were being auctioned on Ebay. I really wanted Spike's duster but alas way way way out of price range. However, I did bid on a shirt Sarah Michelle Gellar had worn in an episode and was regularly bidding on it. One night I got crazy drunk and came back home to find this one particular bidder out bidding me yet again. So I entered a crazy bid and won. That was A LOT of money and I while I had it, I really didn't if that makes sense. I still have it. It's still in its original box. I haven't even framed it or anything. That was about 18 years ago now

Final score:

8points

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#36

Sometimes when I am at the store I buy materials for a project. Most of those materials stay in the original packaging all the way to the yard sale. I can't throw them away, they are new in box. Still good.

Final score:

7points

Robert Thompson

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#37

My Ninja Blender, it sits on my refrigerator and I use a $30 one everyday, and replace it when I have to.

Final score:

6points

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#38

A bicycle ergometer. I use it every few weeks for 5 minutes. Essentially a 400€ clothes horse..

Final score:

6points

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#39

500 usd shoes, wore them once to a wedding to never wear them again. Was young and stupid.

Final score:

6points

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#40

My house. Definitely rushed into the purchase. We have since realized it was way overpriced, terrible quality materials and construction, it doesn't have some features we would really like and it's in a mediocre school district.

Final score:

6points

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#41

the worst thing for me is some stupid car i bought in rocketleague from another dude, i bought it for about 2-3 dollars when in realtiy it's worth like 20 cents.

Final score:

5points

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#42

food ninja. talk about noisy :(

Final score:

5points

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#43

the Sims 4 Snowy Escape.

Final score:

5points

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#44

I paid $350 for an acoustic guitar and hard sided case when I was in college. I cant play it.

Final score:

5points

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#45

Really expensive Topaz and Diamond necklace which I only wore for special occasions and not at all anymore. Tried to sell but the resell value was so much lower that it was better to hold and wait....20 years...still way lower than what I paid so still have it!

Final score:

5points

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#46

A massage chair.

Final score:

5points

Sebastian George

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#47

A bounce house/ball pit + 500 balls.

Final score:

4points

Lexie Von Der Snoot

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#48

Microsoft Surface Pro 3... I have rocked it faithfully for 7 years, but it's the worst form factor laptop I've ever owned. Too heavy to be a tablet, too unstable to be a proper laptop.

Final score:

4points

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#49

My dresses! They show way too much cleavage and are super tight.
Can't return them, though.

Final score:

4points

basically_bill_cipher

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#50

my cotton bedding. i discovered linen, and it's like night, and day. so i have something like 5, or 6 full cotton beddings, that will end up at the social antics very soon

Final score:

4points

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#51

Really expensive handmade dining room set that my ex and I compromised on so neither of us LOVED it. I got it in divorce and have moved like 15 times so I've spent hundreds moving and storing this stuff but it is the most valuable stuff I own and I can't make myself just donate it and could not find a buyer. It looks like something that belongs in some Grandma's house, which is not my taste, even though I actually am a grandma!

Final score:

4points

#52

my pink bag that i saved up for

Final score:

3points

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#53

The sims 4 expansion packs. Those things are a ripoff, but I can’t get rid of them, sooo...

Final score:

2points

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#54

The Divergent trilogy dvd...

Final score:

2points

Финикс Дэ Лионь

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#55

I didnt even realise but a 13 dollar outfit for a stupid game I rarely play. Yes its only 13 dollars but dang what a waste!

Final score:

2points

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#56

An insta pot. I still can’t figure out how to use it.

Final score:

2points

Elizabeth Klomp

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#57

My map,it’s not accurate and I don’t ever use it it’s just by my wall for school if I’m desperate lol 👩‍🦳🤏👩‍🦲

Final score:

2points

#58

A smart phone

Final score:

0points

Thorfin Wolfsbane

Just someone on the internet that wants to play games and sleep

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Titas Burinskas

This dude right here? He works as a Community Manager at Bored Panda. Has no back-story, cause his spine works just fine. He writes about himself in third-person, and in first-person about others. Fell in love with storytelling and cannot let that love go. Now, he's here to help you make your own story simply beautiful. Secretly makes cute music samples and writes stories in the dark that nobody has ever heard of before.

This dude right here? He works as a Community Manager at Bored Panda. Has no back-story, cause his spine works just fine. He writes about himself in third-person, and in first-person about others. Fell in love with storytelling and cannot let that love go. Now, he's here to help you make your own story simply beautiful. Secretly makes cute music samples and writes stories in the dark that nobody has ever heard of before.

What do you think ?

Dina Zikopoulos 3 years ago

any random nicknacks i bought before i was diagnosed with ADHD. if i thought it was cute, i HAD to have it.

8points

Samantha 2 years ago

Oh, yes, the ADHD tax. And the Ambien walrus. I've ordered so much random c**p that I don't need, don't use, and can't sell to break even. Ugh.

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Casey Payne 2 years ago

GoPro camera. $$. Was getting back into photography with my iphone. Figured a genuine camera would be better and looked for one with multiple functionality. What they left out of the description? To use the functions, like video editing, photo editing, webcam, you have to subscribe to their apps. They still can't get the apps including the webcam app to even work. IT support is FAQ with no email, phone, chat - nothing! Taking any picture is a complicated mess. I have to buy a harness to hold the camera to use the video function. In summary: It is a steep learning curve for the functions that do work and tons of frustration for the ones that don't. It's somewhere in my apartment in a shoebox.

4points

Daria Z 2 years ago

Steamer. Used it a few times and then retired it to the attic.

3points

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Dina Zikopoulos 3 years ago

any random nicknacks i bought before i was diagnosed with ADHD. if i thought it was cute, i HAD to have it.

8points

Samantha 2 years ago

Oh, yes, the ADHD tax. And the Ambien walrus. I've ordered so much random c**p that I don't need, don't use, and can't sell to break even. Ugh.

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Casey Payne 2 years ago

GoPro camera. $$. Was getting back into photography with my iphone. Figured a genuine camera would be better and looked for one with multiple functionality. What they left out of the description? To use the functions, like video editing, photo editing, webcam, you have to subscribe to their apps. They still can't get the apps including the webcam app to even work. IT support is FAQ with no email, phone, chat - nothing! Taking any picture is a complicated mess. I have to buy a harness to hold the camera to use the video function. In summary: It is a steep learning curve for the functions that do work and tons of frustration for the ones that don't. It's somewhere in my apartment in a shoebox.

4points

Daria Z 2 years ago

Steamer. Used it a few times and then retired it to the attic.

3points

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