The Official Never Buy That Again Thread!

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Perfection

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This is the thread of all the things you swear that you'll never ever buy agian!!!

1. I will never, ever, buy an E-Machines computer agian. Wanna know why? Because the following components failed on it, moniter, keyboard, mouse, power supply, the included printer, not to mention the crappiest speakers ever, and the fact that it was outperformed by the machine it was supposed to replace!

2. I will never, ever buy, an Apollo Printer agian. Absolute crap, low quality, and the worst damned driver in the history of the universe!

What are you never going to buy again?
 
Ohh, I am never gonna buy Telus DSL for my ISP ever again. it is slow, crappy, unreliable, etc, etc, etc. Now, i did not buy it in the first place, I just *borrow* my parents', but I can still complain!

I will never ever again buy, or trust ANYTHING from Chrysler, GM, or Ford again. Basically any domestic car company . . .

I am never going to be suckered into buying cheap, Zellers Truly brand clothes again. they SUCK!!! Ok, that should have been obvious to me, but I am fairly naive.

I have some more, but i cannot think of them right now (too tired) i will add them on as I think about them. And Perfection, you seemed to have some slight issues with your compuer. Was it less then Perfect?
 
Originally posted by RealGoober
I will never ever again buy, or trust ANYTHING from Chrysler, GM, or Ford again. Basically any domestic car company . . .
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Chrysler isn't domestic anymore - it's owned by the Germans. And have you heard of TQM? There's a misconception about American cars these days that still relate to those cars made in the '80s and early '90s.

I don't plan on ever buying a generic cd rom, dvd drive, cdrw drive, etc, again.
 
Not that I ever have bought one, because we got it for free, but I will never buy anything from Compaq/HP.

I've promised myself never to buy anything just because it's cheap. It's better to spend some more to get good quality than buying crappy things for half the price. I'm thinking of a DVD-player we bought of a local never-heard-of-before brand.

I also hope I'll never have to buy a dial-up connection again.;)
 
No prebuilt computers ever again. I will build all future machines from scratch
 
I will never buy from Dell or Gateway again (cheap crappy computers...I use to have 2 gateways and a dell)....I build my own computers now...but if I do buy one again I won't buy from any computer company that does not give me a choice between Intel and AMD and choices on all of the other internal components.
 
never by a Time or Tiny computers. my mate and I once spent a good few hours with his tower trying to get a new CD-RW to work. Those types of computer DESPISE other thinsg being put on it.

I'll also say, never EVER buy a Cyrix processor (dunno if they are still in business but I'll say it anyway) I had a Cyrix 333MHz in my first computer and it was the very bane of my existence, I was certain if it was a woman it would have been my old Maths Teacher, I tried to put chocolate bar on the tower as a kind of peace offering, but it was a stuck up Bi^$% to the very end. Personally I think Cyrix processors should be stuck in the same aisle as the whoopie cushion and the soap that turns black when you're using it.

Also, never buy anything out of a shop called STS. its located in Hamilton (in Scotland) the guy's a thief, everyone I know who's been there has been done out of something by him (setting up the BIOS wrong, not paying up when something goes wrong and its under warrenty etc)
 
Well...
I have old emachine emonster 550, old 4 years, and still works great. Of course, I gave it away ( to parents).
Ford- I used only ford cars in last 5 yrs, only thing fixed was one 5 yr old battery and one starter.
 
Originally posted by Azadre
I'll never buy Gateway again...
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I had a friend who feels the same way. He bought a system from them about a year ago (it cost about $1500). They told him that he would be able to upgrade any compotent in it. A year later, he's ready to install a new video card, only to see the current one is attached (in the permenent sense) to the motherboard.:o
 
I'll stay clear of HP laptops. My old workplace had them brand new shiny things I had to install. Preinstalled windows. Problem after another. There were about 20 of them and all had same problems. Faulty windows install, Instability, 3com WLAN cards didn't work properly in them. All had to changed to SMC cards. Top notch quality all the way. Of course it might been a bad luck. But I learned my lesson.
 
I will officially never buy MS Office or any other Microsoft-made operating system.
 
Originally posted by Aphex_Twin
I will officially never buy MS Office or any other Microsoft-made operating system.
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I echo this, except to support my gaming addiction, I must use XP. I am considering partitioning my computer to have everything non-gaming using Linux, and all my games on XP, where they shall work. M$ is the worst product I have ever seen.
 
KME power supplies. Had two 300W ones. Both exploded under the terrible strain of Cel466. First one killed 196MB of memory. It was way back when 466MHz was considered fast and 196MB was a lot of memory.
 
Originally posted by funxus

What do you use instead? OpenOffice? Linux?
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He plans to NOT pay for Microsoft Software, he will surely use their software still.

I plan never to buy a printer that needs expensive re-fills so bloody often!!! :mad:
 
Originally posted by kittenOFchaos
He plans to NOT pay for Microsoft Software, he will surely use their software still.

I plan never to buy a printer that needs expensive re-fills so bloody often!!!
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Woah, you actually are supposed to PAY for Micro$oft Software? i always thought it was free . . .

And for the printer, you can just take it to a place, and have the Ink refilled, instead of buying a whole new cartridge like you are supposed to. We have never bought a new cartridge, which costs like $70 CDN$ for the Colour ink, in the 1.5+ years that we have had our printer (which unfortunately I have to have attached to my computer . . . )
 
Originally posted by RealGoober


Woah, you actually are supposed to PAY for Micro$oft Software? i always thought it was free . . .
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I've never bought an MS product directly, but every time we buy/rent a computer, it is force-included and we indirectly pay for it.:mad:

Maybe that should be included as well, I'll never buy a computer package deal again, I've decided to build them myself once my parents don't provide me with them.
 
Originally posted by funxus
I've never bought an MS product directly, but every time we buy/rent a computer, it is force-included and we indirectly pay for it.
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Well, with an MS product, you "pay" for it by it being a crappy product, unreliable, etc. I figure that is good enough . . .
 
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