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i picked up this tv on black friday on amazon and now its much cheaper

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001S2RDCC/ref=ox_ya_os_product

i paid 375 shipped for it, now its 254 shipped. i am recommending it to my sister. its a great tv, i mostly got it for gaming and the newer xbox games look awesome on it. but man, if i had waited a couple of months, i could have saved a bundle, i knew it was a bit more expensive than similar brand models but i got it mostly because of brand name(sony's tend to last) and when i tried buying tvs that weekend, and i finally made a decision, like a 32 inch toshiba at newegg for 300, it would be sold out.

this same tv is still 450 bucks at best buy so at least i didnt buy it there.

this is sort of like buying a video game system and then it has a price drop 2 months later :( (and yeah i have done that too, but meh thats the nature of the beast).

just felt like sharing, and would recommend this tv for anyone who wants a hd tv but on the fence, and this looks like a pretty solid deal(to me at least).
 
That's not really that bad. Technology almost always drops. Think of it as having had the pleasure of being able to use it in those 2-3 months for the extra $100.

It's like, oh no, I paid $40 for 4 MB of RAM in 1996.
 
I regret all the baseball cards I blew my money on when I was a kid. No one told us it was like a stock market when it came to value. Of course, at that age, we probably didn't even know what the stock market was.
 
Sports cards for me, too. Of course, if I didn't blow my money on them, I would have found something else. It wasn't like a 10-year old was gonna do something actually smart, like save it.

As far as video games go, the Final Fantasy XI/PS2 HDD. Wow. Played the game once for about 10 minutes. Then, the HDD had almost no use for me, except for the improved replays in 2K games.
 
For me it's been a handful of games and movies. I don't regret my baseball cards at all though :cool:.
 
Japanese Dragon Ball Z Super Battle Collection figures back in 2001. I blew every penny I had on these, thinking "If it's imported, it has to have value!" The only ones that hold any kind of value are the 1992 releases, and the ones I had were the 1996 releases, which are the some of the most common DBZ figures in the world.

I must have spent $200 on all of them. :(
 
Easily the Wii. Its the biggest disappointment in the gaming world of all time. I still have such fond memories from my 3d0 and Way Of the Warrior for god sakes, i have no such fondness from anything ive ever played on the Wii. It might sell like crazy, but many people like me who have been gaming since the atari 2600 was released just never play it. I keep it around just in case something comes out i want to play, but everything ive played on it so far is just disappointment after disappointment. And i loved the NES and SNES so much its ridiculous.
 
The fucking DJ Max Limited Edition thing.

$100+ and I can't even open the game because the fucktards had to sign the shrink wrap instead of the game itself.

All it does is sit there now and I hope it will go up in value someday.
 
Final Fantasy 12, and the strategy guide at full price.
The guide is like an over saturated instruction book.
 
My Wii.... And the PS2 Video Game "State of Emergency". I tried to convince myself it was worth the 50-60 Bucks but I was wrong :(
 
[quote name='Nathan_Sama']Final Fantasy 12, and the strategy guide at full price.
The guide is like an over saturated instruction book.[/QUOTE]This too! Bought the steel book edition and collector's edition guide on release date on Halloween, I think I was in 8th grade and had saved my money for a while.

Played it for a couple hours with a friend until we realized the battle sytem was a piece of shit.
 
I have to say, to those saying Wii, what's your reasoning? I don't buy the whole "there's no games for the Wii" argument, because there are a wealth of good games to play. So far, no one's provided a good reason (besides FroMann, because there really wasn't anything to play that first year).
 
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']Sports cards for me, too. Of course, if I didn't blow my money on them, I would have found something else. It wasn't like a 10-year old was gonna do something actually smart, like save it.

As far as video games go, the Final Fantasy XI/PS2 HDD. Wow. Played the game once for about 10 minutes. Then, the HDD had almost no use for me, except for the improved replays in 2K games.[/QUOTE]

LOL! I too bought the FFXI/HDD combo when it came out. I was SOO excited and had been waiting for what seemed forever (because I found out after I'd purchased for the PC that my comp couldn't run the game properly) to play again. And it was a waste too, since you couldn't even save games to it (at least I wasn't able too).
 
[quote name='Chairman_LMAO']I have to say, to those saying Wii, what's your reasoning? I don't buy the whole "there's no games for the Wii" argument, because there are a wealth of good games to play. So far, no one's provided a good reason (besides FroMann, because there really wasn't anything to play that first year).[/QUOTE]There are good games for the Wii, but the Wii is sitting in a box somewhere in the garage since we moved. No games have convinced me to go find the Wii, the hookups and controllers, batteries for controllers and set it up when instead I can just wake up, reach to my dresser for the PS3 controller and turn it on.
 
[quote name='darkslime']There are good games for the Wii, but the Wii is sitting in a box somewhere in the garage since we moved. No games have convinced me to go find the Wii, the hookups and controllers, batteries for controllers and set it up when instead I can just wake up, reach to my dresser for the PS3 controller and turn it on.[/QUOTE]

+1

My PS3 and 360 are making my Wii seem like a last gen system.
 
The Wii, motion control was suppose to expand game play but with each new game I find myself spending the first couple hours adapting my controller movements so the system will interpret them correctly rather than enjoying the game.
 
I have some slight remorse over my Wii. Thing is that there's really only a handful of games that come out for it on a yearly basis that gets my attention. Like last year was Mad World, Metroid Prime Trilogy(although, I have to admit that if it weren't for my buying the Orange Box for $10 last year, then this would have been the best bang for the buck video game I bought) and SMB Wii. That said, its a hell of a ice breaker for parties.

Anyways, in recent memory, I have to say it was Brutal Legend. I thought it was going to be one of those games that I would be hooked to for a while. But no, turns out that its more of an "rent for the weekend then forget about it" games(IMO of course).
 
Sega CD and 32x for christmas instead of a playstation. They were on clearance at toysrus and I was able to get both systems and like 40 games for the price of the playstation. 36 of those games sucked. Had to wait until the following christmas to get my playstation.

Biggest non gaming. exercise equipment... ughh makes a nice coat and hat rack. Got a noricitrack elliptical for like 7-800 and was like Oh I can play videogames on this and work out at the same time. It didn't work out that way. I could kind of play games but couldn't concentrate. Need to sell that thing on craigslist or trade it for some video game crap.

I probably would say my wii but I just bought it for animal crossing and between family and friends probably over 200 hours have been put into that alone. It was the only game I owned and only reason i bought it until new super mario bros came out. (except BUild a bear, someone gave that to me as a gag gift and I played it for an hour) I rent the great reviewed games for it but haven't found any that I need to own.

Also the fact I bought a 60 gig xbox instead 120 because it was oos and I was too lazy to go elsewhere.
 
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My PS3 and 360 are making my Wii seem like a last gen system.[/QUOTE]

That's because it technically is.

Still, I play the Wii far more than I do my PS3. My 360 on the other hand... that's where most of my playtime goes.


As for my greatest buyers remorse for games, it'd have to be Blue Dragon for the 360. I don't care if the game picks up on the second disk. I am not going to torture myself with the first disk just to see if it actually gets any better.
 
One of my greatest (gaming related) remorses is spending about $200~$250 on a bunch of Final Fantasy VIII figures. After all these years, I'd be surprised if they were worth half that.

A minor one is Tekken 6 LE. I didn't pay much for it (less than $60 I think), but I wish I had gotten it on 360 instead of PS3, because of all the shmups on 360.

My GPS sometimes, but I bought it on sale, and looking at ebay, it's still worth almost the price I paid used, so I'm not too upset about that. And I do use it all the time. But I probably should have gotten something cheaper (instead of a Garmin 765T at $300), since I don't use the FM feature, or memory card feature.
 
[quote name='Chairman_LMAO']I have to say, to those saying Wii, what's your reasoning? I don't buy the whole "there's no games for the Wii" argument, because there are a wealth of good games to play. So far, no one's provided a good reason (besides FroMann, because there really wasn't anything to play that first year).[/QUOTE]

I don't own a Wii, but my cousin does and there is ONE good game on the system and that is Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I have no interest in any other game on the system other than that. Your opinion is not law, so IMO the Wii does NOT have a wealth of good games. I'm kind of happy that the contest I won a Wii in couldn't give me a Wii, but instead sent me a $320 check for the stuff I was supposed to win.

[quote name='elessar123']

My GPS sometimes, but I bought it on sale, and looking at ebay, it's still worth almost the price I paid used, so I'm not too upset about that. And I do use it all the time. But I probably should have gotten something cheaper (instead of a Garmin 765T at $300), since I don't use the FM feature, or memory card feature.[/QUOTE]

Until you got to the end, I was wondering why you were regretting purchasing a GPS. A GPS is one of the best technological advances ever in my opinion. My GPS cost me $400 and I think it was worth every penny, but then again this was almost 4 years ago and I could probably buy a GPS with the same features mine has (and possibly some extras) for $150 =X.

My PS3 is my biggest buyer's remorse. There are 2 reasons; 1) I could have waited less than a year to get a slim and it would have been $100 cheaper and 2) I just don't game on it all that much. There are some games that interest me, but in between school, movies (I watch quite a bit of movies since I get to rent them for free at BBV) and playing games on my 360 (where most of my game time goes) I just don't have that much time to play the few games that interest me no the PS3. Pretty much every PS3 game that comes out is available on the 360, so I always end up playing the 360 counterpart just because I prefer the 360 controller.
 
i guess i sort of understand the part about the wii, if you bought it at launch for 250+tax(about 270), and barely used it, and not it is maybe worth 100 to 150(i havent price checked, but i am guessing if it sells for 200 new, then its about 125ish or 130ish if you try to sell it used on ebay or whatnot?)


egad, i forgot my comic books, i must have spent close to 2000 bucks on those from age 13 to 17, and now they are probably worth a few hundred.

but yeah the people saying 'baseball cards', i feel you(tho i collected comics, not cards). at least they were a fun hobby, but a lot of those comics, i would buy one to read, and then one to keep mint and collect(whoops!).

the good news, is that most of us just buy so many discounted products that we actually use, that it has more than evened out. tho the comic and baseball card collecting is at least sort of fun as a hobby. getting a piece of exercise equipment that you dont use or cant sell, or for me, my POS car, ugh yuck


[quote name='blitz6speed']Easily the Wii. Its the biggest disappointment in the gaming world of all time.[/quote]

sega 32x may be a bigger disappointment. one of the genesis games has a 100 dollar msrp, when every other game was 50. it was one of the rpgs, dont remember which one.


if i got a wii, i would just use it for the wii shop channel, there look like some decent games on there for the turbo grafx and neo geo that i would play, and they are pretty cheap for the most part
 
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Star Wars Galaxies at launch. That thing was a mess when it first came out and has soured me on mmorpgs. All the damn hours I left the computer running just so I could become better at observing...
 
[quote name='Chairman_LMAO']I have to say, to those saying Wii, what's your reasoning? I don't buy the whole "there's no games for the Wii" argument, because there are a wealth of good games to play. So far, no one's provided a good reason (besides FroMann, because there really wasn't anything to play that first year).[/QUOTE]

Exactly what other reason is there for not using a certain game console?
 
How about being one of the few people who payed full price for halo 3 legendary edition only to come across it years later on a clearance sale for 20$. even then it didn't sell out. :/
 
When I was younger I used to buy bargain bin GBA titles for ~$30. I remember being very dissapointed with some of them and angry because I couldn't return them after opening them.

Live and learn....
 
[quote name='DarkRider23']I don't own a Wii, but my cousin does and there is ONE good game on the system and that is Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I have no interest in any other game on the system other than that. Your opinion is not law, so IMO the Wii does NOT have a wealth of good games. I'm kind of happy that the contest I won a Wii in couldn't give me a Wii, but instead sent me a $320 check for the stuff I was supposed to win.[/QUOTE]

I never said my opinion was law, I just stated what my opinion was. You're stating that if you have no interest in other games for the Wii, those games are not good. The vast majority of Wii haters use that logic, and that logic is flawed. Kind of like the argument that there are no "hardcore" games for the Wii, with "hardcore" being some abstract that no one person can define. You could cite No More Heroes or MadWorld as "hardcore", but that won't fit someone else's definition of "hardcore". I know, I'm rambling.

My point is, if you gave games that seem like you'd have no interest in a chance, you might find a game that you love. Even if it is on the Wii. And that's my argument. People who claim to hate the Wii, by and large, don't give games on the Wii a chance.

I should state that I'm by no means a Wii fanboy. While I love that system, I enjoy my PS3 more.
 
Honestly, I can't really name anything I have buyer's remorse over... even the couple of things I was dissapointed in when I got them (say, the Final Fantasy 12 Ultimania Omega guide), I know I'm be feeling remorse for not buying them if I hadn't- after all, I didn't know it wasn't what I had mind until I got a chance to actually read it. If I have no other way to figure it out that to buy it, and I'm not forgoing food or putting myself into debt over it, then it's not a big deal.

I don't count de-valuing media, either. Everything loses its value. So my DVDs and games are worth a fraction of what I paid for them- so what? If Id've waited and bought them all now, years after the fact, they'll still be worth a fraction of what I paid a few years down the road when everyone's jumping up to blu-ray and PS4/Xbox 720/Nintendo Kok or whatever they come up with. Damn near all of this junk will be worth nothing in a few decades time, but that doesn't mean I don't want to enjoy it now... that's what I'm paying for.

The closest thing I have to a dissapointent is, of course, my Wii- with the exception of Klonoa, nothing I've wanted on it so far has been enticing enough to pull me away from my other systems. However, the internet on my computer went schizo the week they made the Wii's web browser free. I discovered the Wii has a great lil' browser- it's better than the PS3's anyway. That saved my sanity for a week by letting me check my email and such until we got the computer fixed. (And actually, for gameplay, I think I've put less into my PS3 than the Wii. However, Little Big Planet is some of the most fun I've had in any game in recent years, so I don't really care.)
 
I won my Wii in a contest so I don't feel bad about it (as I didn't pay for it) but it seems like the console is all hype. I don't think I would have spent $250 on it, it costs less now but not sure its worth even the $199. It would be worth a purchase at $99. I found enough games to play on it, although I am not exactly too picky about games. I am a girl, and I don't like FPS games so I am not sure if the other consoles would meet my needs anyways. I also still use a CRT TV so purchasing a Xbox360 or a PS3 is probably pointless. At least I can play on my CRT and it looks good and I don't have to invest in a new TV just to play games since mine works perfectly.

The one I feel bad about is purchasing the original Nintendo DS in 2004 when they were NO decent games to play on it at all, and decent games didn't come out and drop in price until the DS Lite came out. That was a completely wasted purchase since the system didn't get used for anything but GBA games until Nintendogs came out which I hated anyways and ended up selling on ebay for more than I originally paid for it.

Never again will I purchase a system and software at launch, I am waiting until the second revision of console x comes out because by then the system is better (and you KNOW that second revision will happen), your not stuck with the first version and the games are cheaper in price. Its just not worth it to buy anything at launch. If the industry goes all digital I am done with buying new gaming systems, I am pretty sure I can live off what I have for the rest of my life.
 
I'm gonna say the Wii. It wasn't simply because of the money, but because of the trouble in finding one too. My brother had to stand outside Target for 4 hours at sub-zero temps (not to mention the wind chill) to get one... I paid him $50 for his trouble (so the Wii theoretically it cost me $300 + tax).

And with all that said, the Wii has 4 or 5 excellent games and a handful of decent to good games. But compare that with the 360 and PS3, and the Wii's library simply doesn't hold up.
 
[quote name='tenaciousmonkey']LOL! I too bought the FFXI/HDD combo when it came out. I was SOO excited and had been waiting for what seemed forever (because I found out after I'd purchased for the PC that my comp couldn't run the game properly) to play again. And it was a waste too, since you couldn't even save games to it (at least I wasn't able too).[/QUOTE]

Another dissatisfied FFXI/HDD combo purchaser. Biggest waste of money ever. Nary any games supported by the HDD and don't get me started on that shitty MMORPG FFXI that came packed with it (FFXI gets my vote for worst Final Fantasy game, and also my vote for worst MMORPG ever made). So now my PS2 has a huge $100 brick stuck to the back with a gawdawful nearly unplayable MMORPG installed on it. What a waste of $100.
 
Sports cards/comics/pogs from when I was a kid. I also went through about 400 bucks a few years back playing Sangokushi Taisen. It was a Japanese arcade game my local Gameworks got in. It was a strategy game where you moved player cards across a board and every game you play you get a free card. Of course I had to get a gold card my first game and got hooked. Now I'm left with a shitton on gold cards for a game that is now obsolete.
 
Media can only devalue so much, if your paying $10 for a game, its not going to devalue much further than that even if you wait a few years to sell it. You can always get a few bucks back for it somewhere along the line if you so desire, and the amount you don't recoup can be chalked up to entertainment dollars since its so little. I try to purchase games at rock bottom prices for this reason other than a few exceptions which are very worth purchasing at full price.

Heck a game rental here is something like $7-8 at blockbuster, for that price might as well wait till it drops to $10 and just keep it and resell it if you so desire. At least you don't have to worry about returning it in a certain time frame.
 
I have to say I'm pretty surprised at how many people count the Wii as their MOST regretted purchase. I understand the argument that the release schedule is slow, but when has that not been the case for Nintendo? The games they do put out (Zelda, Smash Bros, Sports Resort, Mario, Metroid) have no competition on the XBOX or PS.

Anyway... my most regretted purchase is the PS3. Never have I owned a system that gets in the way of enjoying my games as much as the PS3. Honestly, I have spent more time installing, updating, troubleshooting... than I have spent playing. Switching over to the wii feels like a relaxing break after trying to enjoy something on the PS.
 
Atari Jaguar shortly after release Alien vs Predator and Tempest 2000 were the only good games and the system failed miserably. My Sega CD was a better buy than that pos.
 
The Wii in its first year was more valuable than it is now. There was hope then. The future was bright. We, the lifelong gamers, believed that Nintendo had truly ignited a revolution in gaming, and there would be no going back. Then we found out in the years to come that their definition of revolution in the gaming industry was something wholly different from what we had imagined: they meant to entice the "I've never played video games before" population with applications that didn't fit the mold of traditional game genres. It was a sound business strategy and paid off hugely, but we gamers realized that what we wanted was something that Nintendo either could not or would not give. Perhaps the Nintendo we so nostalgically remembered was a fiction that could not be returned to us. Perhaps it was a mere stepping stone in the company's evolutionary direction away from our childhoods. Either way, our dreams had been shaken, and we were brought back to reality. Now we see the Wii for what it is: a toy of slight build with a transcendent idea but directed far from us.

I think one of my biggest gaming regrets was Seaman. The technology was something to behold, but in the end, you were wasting hours upon hours to feed, clean, and teach something that would only hate you more and more. It was an exhausting lesson of life.
 
[quote name='Spacepest']Another dissatisfied FFXI/HDD combo purchaser. Biggest waste of money ever. Nary any games supported by the HDD and don't get me started on that shitty MMORPG FFXI that came packed with it (FFXI gets my vote for worst Final Fantasy game, and also my vote for worst MMORPG ever made). So now my PS2 has a huge $100 brick stuck to the back with a gawdawful nearly unplayable MMORPG installed on it. What a waste of $100.[/QUOTE]

I wouldn't say it's the worst MMO ever made, though it's certainly not the best. The main problem with it is that you need to devote alot of time to it before you begin to enjoy it. I've been playing it for around 4 years and the worst part was easily the first month.
 
Last year it was definately buying Ghostbusters and Brutal Legend at full price.

Ghostbusters was only bought because I got pressured into it by all the other Ragtag CAG members and Brutal Legend was only purchased because of the TRU B2G1 free deal, but I still regret it.
 
I've seen several people complain about the FF 12 guide, but I felt jipped when I bought the FF 9 guide. After Brady released a pretty good FF 7 guide and a phenomenal FF 8 guide, I expected very big things from the FF 9 guide. But Square decided that for any big, helpful hint, they'd rather send gamers from the guide to the Web. So you'd have to create an account, log in and THEN get the hint you'd normally get by turning a page. This was before laptops and broadband became the norm, too, so I'd have to dial up my ISP every time I needed help. I blame that fucking guide for FF 9 being the only FF game of the last 15 years I haven't finished.

Thank God for Gamefaqs.
 
Before becoming a CAG, it was Guitar Hero World Tour guitar set for Wii. I ended up buying RB2 during TRU's $110+$25GC which was shortly after. Plus GHWT's dropped like a stone. I got rid of the disc on Goozex and the guitar is somewhere in a closet. Waste of $100 but I've learned my lesson and have become more stingy.

After becoming a CAG, The Conduit for $50. I bought it during the B1 new game, get one 60% off. I got Force Unleashed. I later found out the Sith edition would come out so I returned it. The Conduit's price fell rapidly. It was a decent game, but not worth $50.

One I can't get too pissed about is I bought Prime Trilogy, Bowser's Inside Story, and Dragon Quest IV during Amazon's B2G1 Free. MPT went on sale for $20, BIS for $25. DQIV was only $28. I never thought the former two would go on sale seeing as how it takes forever for 1st party Nintendo games to drop.
 
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