Overpriced hardware....

[slaveofconvention]

We've all done it, I'm sure - but I'm in a nosy mood so here's the question... What piece of hardware (preferably computer related but not essential) have you bought in the past which you know (and knew at the time) you paid WAYYY too much for?

My personal beast.... A Lian-li 343-B cube case - I paid £250 for an empty aluminium cube (which I love to this day) but really??? $400+ for an empty computer case???? heh

http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/slaveofconvention/imagestore/343b.jpg

So what's your white elephant??? :P

[AmEv]

My tip for my charger, which I previously mentioned.

(don't go getting any ideas from what I'm going to say, be honest, but...)
Originally, the price was $15 with shipping O.O Really?!? I could take a plastic mold and wire, get same results for less price!
Thankfully, I got hooked up with the right rep, she allowed me to just pay $5 since I got the original tip, which was known to have problems.
Better than getting/making a mold.;)


Does "Level 10" mean anything to anyone? :p

[farlo]

probably an old samsung CRT i bought about 8 years ago, i think 21". i wanna say i payed around $400. easily the most expensive part ive gotten

[Oneslowz28]

Anything made by Lian Li. But my personal Doh moment was when I bought a USB SD card reader back in 2006 for like $15 from walmart and then I get on newegg and see the same one for $2 + $2 shipping.

[SXRguyinMA]

getting my 5850 for $370, then a month later I get the 6870 for $279 :facepalm:

it's all good though, the 5850 is goin to charity :D

[farlo]

did i mention my middle name is charity?

[PauL]

I suppose I can consider my Lian Li V1200B as overpriced considering it was about $260. I love the case to death, but there are definitely alternative Li Lian cases I liked, and could have bought, but the V1200 just looks so amazing to me. I suppose it was worth the cost considering I've had it at least 4 years now.

Generally I am pretty aware about what prices I pay and my case is one piece of hardware I could have sacrificed price without losing performance.

[x88x]

I think the worst for me was a 32MB stick of RAM for $100....in 2005... It was for my Toshiba Lenovo 110CT and is a special, proprietary format that I couldn't find anywhere used, so I had to get it special-made. Unfortunately, with just 32MB of RAM the laptop crawls even with 98SE. With 64MB it's like an entirely different computer. Oh well, at least I have a lifetime warranty. :D

[SXRguyinMA]

another of mine was probably my Tt Armor case. I paid ~$300 for it brand new, which was way too much lol. Then the new gen armor's came out with side panel fans, etc for less $!

[artoodeeto]

I've bought video cards in the past for over $500 - there was a time when I thought the more money I spent on it the better it must be. Then I realized I really don't ever need to spend that much on a single component...

[Kayin]

I bought a pair of 4870x2s.

Yep, a grand on video cards. However, in DX10 they're still pretty competent. DX11...

[Twigsoffury]

my asus vento case

But the weird thing is, its went up in price since i bought it

i got it for 149.99 at the time even though i knew a sale was coming for it (119.99) but i HAD to have it.


oddly enough vento 3600's are selling for 250~300$ now hahahah

oh i also got jipped spending 190$ on a duron 1800+

[diluzio91]

oh i also got jipped spending 190$ on a duron 1800+

A what?

[x88x]

oh i also got jipped spending 190$ on a duron 1800+
lol, I have one of those around here somewhere...I don't think I spent that much on it, but I got it on the rear end of the inverted bell curve that is technology prices (ie, I had a Socket A system that needed a good CPU and that was the best I could get).

On the flip side of that, I had a Radeon X800 XT All-In-Wonder AGP card a few years ago. I ended up actually only losing a little over $100 over the two years or so that I had it because they were so rare by the time I was looking to sell it that I got a really good price for it. $175 in mid 2007! For a (then) 3 year old card (granted, one that cost almost $350 new, iirc, but still)! The sale covered most of the costs of a used PCIe MBB and a GeForce 8600GTS. :D

[AmEv]

I spent $5 on a Athlon XP1800+, MSI K7N2 V1, heatsink combo.
My other $5 deal?
Micron ClientPro PIII450, 128MB PC100 SDRAM, 6GB HDD, the full computer.
Not very good now, but a few years ago, it was a steal.

[billygoat333]

any lga 1366 board I buy which I will have to pick from soon. haha

[blaze15301]

bought a 4870 for 170 2 weeks later dropped to 130. bought a 5830 for 210 a month later could of gotten the 5850 for the same price.

[blaze15301]

I bought a pair of 4870x2s.

Yep, a grand on video cards. However, in DX10 they're still pretty competent. DX11...

your wife has these now right?

[Kayin]

Nah, I have them. They're collecting dust.

BTW, I'm about to put almost a whole system up for sale. LGA1156 i7. When I go and dismantle it, I'll be posting it here in case anyone wants it.

[msmrx57]

Does buying a Gateway count? My wife bought one just before we got married. Friggin POS.

[diluzio91]

Does buying a Gateway count? My wife bought one just before we got married. Friggin POS.

and you let her?

[msmrx57]

and you let her?

Didn't really have a say at that point.

[Lothair]

At least it wasn't an e-machines.

[Kayin]

gateway owns e-machines and now is in turn owned by Acer.

[AmEv]

Emachines lol.
The "this computer is never obsolete" program failed. So now you have a 266MHz non-obsolete machine gathering dust somewhere.

[x88x]

I forget who the company was now..I think saw their add on Ctrl-Alt-Del's website..but there's a smallish computer seller (ie, assembler/support, not manufacturer) who has a deal where if you pay them, iirc it's around 20% more than the original cost of the system, every 2 years they'll exchange it for a new system of power comparable in the market to the original when you bought it (if that made any sense). Pretty neat deal, I thought. ..though it does require the company to actually be around in 2 years...