Don't you just HATE when you make a mistake and it costs an arm & a leg!!!

(And NO I'm not talkin' about children...)

Tell me a tale of your most expensive mistake, maybe I'll feel better...

Mine's work related and boring but it goes a little somethin' like this...

I manufacture Hospital Cubicle Track without holes pre-punched and I just ordered a big box of the stuff to replenish my low inventory. Problem is I ordered the stuff WITH HOLES... GRRR!!

Now I have an ass-load of worthless product arriving here on a very expensive freight tag... So pissed right now!!!

I HATE it when I do stuff like that!!

My most recent expensive mistake involved auto body repair. Had a small dent w/ paint damage I needed to have fixed. Stupid that it happened anyway, but no big deal...but then I had to rent a car while my car was in the shop...again...no big deal...until the repairs took longer then they said...still not horrific

UNTIL....on the LAST day I'm renting the car I get a rock to the windshield. I hadn't insured the car because I have auto insurance....so I paid the windshield out of pocket.

So not so bad in the beginning, but twice as expensive as I thought in the end.

Over something STUPID!!!!

RenHoek said:

You can't return it?

MoniGram said:

Not in wholesale, what's done is done!

Saaaayyy, Moni I heard you'd been lookin' for some snazzy new room dividers on a bunch of curved track like in the Hospitals...

RenHoek said:

Wow..you must have been reading my mind. I woke up this morning thinking...wow I need some new snazzy room dividers, but just not any kind, but I needed ones that are like in hospitals.

MoniGram said:

Woohoo!!! How's about 400ft... I'll throw in the bending for free... (We use elves!)

RenHoek said:

And bending for free my a cute elf? Count me in!! How soon can you send them my way??

MoniGram said:

The elf or the track?

RenHoek said:

I will let you keep the elf, I get a feeling they would get home sick.

RenHoek said:

Stupid questions, because I just don't know any better:
Can you donate this product & take a tax break in 2009?

Provided that you can write the lost off - both lower price & freight expenditures? Can you find someone who'll take the product off of your hands\buy it. You can sweeten the deal by offering it at a lower price or say offer to pay for a portion of the freight expense.

Me:
I just purchased 29 Swiss 20Francs to grand total tune of US$7,500.00. Not knowing what the heck I was doing & only focusing on making up for the 13yrs of not having a pension plan with my former job (about 10k). When the price is more than I paid I'm selling them. I'm sticking to silver, from now on.

Boriqua1130 said:

I could do that but ONLY as a last resort, I'm calling some of my hospitality connections right now to see if I have any takers because I DO want to sell it at a profit...

I also have a very interested buyer right here on the org...

MoniGram said:

Would you care to try my "White Glove Home Delivery Service" it's door-to-door and I can give you a very special price... very special...

I wasn't paying attention to checking the box that said "Do you want to require signature" for my Burning Man tix last year. We ended up buying them a second time.

superspaceboy said:

Ouch! That's a tough one...

2 words
speeding ticket

totaled a car.

I worked in a grocery store which had faulty wiring throughout...the refridgeration alarms would go off all the time without incident. Once, they went off, I was the one in the office, so I turned them off just like any other time. Except this time, the units actually did stop working.

The next day, I walk in and we have empty meat counters, cheese counters and deli counters....we lost about $12,000 in merchandise.

Ah, lesson learned.

I bought a pair of panties that was ten times my size and never got a chance to take them back. So, now it looks like I have someone else's drawz sitting in my room.

KidaDynamite said:

Ahhhh stop lyin' you know dey yours... ain't no future in ya frontin'...











jus' playin'

RenHoek said:

They're pretty though...maybe I can use them as a lampshade or sumthin'!

KidaDynamite said:

A robe?

parachute?

sail?

post pics...

RenHoek said:

Cool.

re: org buyer -

RenHoek said:

Nah, I think I'll just let them sit there all pretty like.

RenHoek said:

I still haven't come to terms with it...I'm in denial. I cant think about it...I'll puke

I did poorly in a class and now I'm taking it again for a better grade
$1000 mistake....

buying a car from a family member! never again! they really screwed me over and over charged me! they took advantage of my kindness and the fact that we are family!
[Edited 9/3/08 22:04pm]

thekidsgirl said:

Ooooh, I've done those before... Those can get REAL expensive too...

Yep, just this summer, and paying for it now..

RenHoek said:

never again!