What have you bought that you regret?

deefstes

OK, so we all seem to constantly have to fight off the GAS attacks. I'm interested to hear what items of gear you have purchased which, in retrospect, you feel were mistakes.

I'll get the discussion kicked off with the Peavey Ampkit Link. It seemed like a great idea at the time and it's probably not bad but I find that I just never use it and it's now just collecting dust in a cupboard.

So what are your buyer's remorse items?

DonovanB

I bought a beat up Epiphone flying V once. Thought it would be cool. Ended up getting rid of it for next to nothing. Was flipping uncomfortable to play.

I actually have more things I regret selling...

IceCreamMan

Boss MT 2 ...sheeesh it sounded so damn sweet in the store ..... ?

Marshall MS2 - gimmicky

some tuition video's that turned out to be crap.

dont regret to much else actually ,,everything else is a learning curve i guess and one has to buy them and use them to learn from them..... and move on...

Alex-B-Broadway

Donovan Banks wrote: I bought a beat up Epiphone flying V once. Thought it would be cool. Ended up getting rid of it for next to nothing. Was flipping uncomfortable to play.

I actually have more things I regret selling...

I had a Cort VX-2V that I had a lot of trouble with - strangely enough, now it's among the guitars I really wish I kept. That and a Cort bass that I should've held on to.

Things I regret buying? Not really much. If I bought something I don't care for I'd exchange or sell it and everything (so far) was of some use to me when I got it.

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A Strymon Timeline

No pedal, only R2000 refunded after almost a year... still R3000 short

My first and last pedal purchase in South Africa..

guidothepimmp

Regret buying my first guitar.. Because of that I've become a hoarder of all things guitar..

Only real regret is the line6 toneport, never got round to using it.. Gathering dust

Boss compressor.. Was cool to record with, but now that I don't record, it gathering dust..

Got a couple of guitars I actually need to sell because others came up and I never play them, they just take up space..

Uhmm.. Marshall vs 30.. Although I made a R1k profit on that..

Have plenty of regretted sales..

chris77

IceCreamMan wrote: everything ~~else~~ is a learning curve i guess and one has to buy them and use them to learn from them..... and move on...

Nevertheless, I think I wasted money that could have been better spent on these:

Fender Showmaster - rusty piece of crap
Ibanez EW20WNe - new piece of crap
Stagg ovation type guitar - Enough said
Cort 12 string - nice guitar, but I never ever play it.
Marshall Class 5 - Nice amp, too loud.
Zoom GFX5 - O.K'ish features but toneless. Currently on permanent "loan" to friend
Boss Bluesdriver pedal - Thought it would work with the Class 5. Didn't.
Marshall G'uvnor2 pedal - Ditto

A quick tally of what I paid for those items reveals I could have bought a Gibson Les Paul and have some pennies to spare had I rather saved the money. Maybe even a Cabronita. ☹ >☹

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guidothepimmp wrote: Have plenty of regretted sales..

+1

ES-335 ☹

aubs1

I don't think I have ever bought anything I've regretted buying ....... here's my thinking, if you buy something, it means (most of the time), that you have given it some thought, or that you were curious about what it would do to enhance your playing, tone, ...etc. So if it does nothing for you, then you know that that item did not work for you (pretty much what ICM says)......but if you did NOT buy it, you would always wonder ....... and never know ..... does this make sense? Bought stuff that I have not got around to messing with yet, but no real regrets ......

I obviously speak for/ and of myself ......... ?

@ Deefstes, when I saw your headline I thought, geez, the new Strat.......and I checked if I had money ...... hahahahaha ......

arjunmenon

? This should be fun...

Boss Micro BR - Got it at a give away price but rarely got around to recording with it. Mostly used as a jam-along tool.
Ibanez RG320FM - Nice guitar but was a bitch to intonate properly
Ovation (can't remember the model) - Cool looking guitar but kept slipping every time i wanted to sit & play.

There are a couple of swaps i regret making, most notably swapping a Boss GR20 & GK3 pickup for a beat-up Washburn 24 fret Strat copy. Again a good guitar but it was really showing its age cosmetically.
I then swapped this guitar for an Ibanez AG75 (i think) which sounded great but was the frets were literally mangled.

deefstes

Aubs1 wrote: @ Deefstes, when I saw your headline I thought, geez, the new Strat.......and I checked if I had money ...... hahahahaha ......

Hahahahahaha. Hahahahahahaha.

and Hahahahahahahahaha

That was too funny. No seriously, I think we could start another thread of "what is the best thing you ever bought" and I will be happy to post there ?

vic

From another angle perhaps...I bought a '70's WEM Copicat (echo chamber) in"great working condition" from someone that I trusted would not sell faulty stuff. I did not even try it out at his place only to find at home it was n't working. Had to have it fixed (thanks Karel). These WEM's are rare and great Fx for echoes, etc...so no regret....but I'm still disappointed in the person.

Nitebob

chris77 wrote:
IceCreamMan wrote: everything ~~else~~ is a learning curve i guess and one has to buy them and use them to learn from them..... and move on...
Nevertheless, I think I wasted money that could have been better spent on these:

Fender Showmaster - rusty piece of crap
Ibanez EW20WNe - new piece of crap
Stagg ovation type guitar - Enough said
Cort 12 string - nice guitar, but I never ever play it.
Marshall Class 5 - Nice amp, too loud.
Zoom GFX5 - O.K'ish features but toneless. Currently on permanent "loan" to friend
Boss Bluesdriver pedal - Thought it would work with the Class 5. Didn't.
Marshall G'uvnor2 pedal - Ditto

A quick tally of what I paid for those items reveals I could have bought a Gibson Les Paul and have some pennies to spare had I rather saved the money. Maybe even a Cabronita. ☹ >☹

Do I smell a gas sale in the pipeline? :woohoo:

Alex-B-Broadway

If anyone wants to get rid of stuff they don't want, I wouldn't mind finding a use for it. ?

jt

Cort n70 earth or something. I thought i would be cool owning a acoustic i could plug into my amp. I have played it for about two hours in the five years i have had it.

morely steve vai bad horsie wah- i have used it like eight times. Its active (didn't even know about passive and active back then) and could never figure out how to get rid of the hum and the drastic volume change when its turned on from off? What are the remedies for this btw?

Nitebob

Alex B Broadway wrote: If anyone wants to get rid of stuff they don't want, I wouldn't mind finding a use for it. ?

:yup:...I have a bakkie...and a weekend...

Alex-B-Broadway

Nitebob wrote:
Alex B Broadway wrote: If anyone wants to get rid of stuff they don't want, I wouldn't mind finding a use for it. ?
:yup:...I have a bakkie...and a weekend...

:yup: Sounds like a good plan. ?

ragges

Gibson Sg Standard.............its gotta go.......prefer my Tele's and Les Paul... ?

AlanRatcliffe

I'm with Aubs and ICM - every purchase is a learning experience, even if it doesn't work out to be a keeper. These days - and largely thanks to some of the "mistakes" I've made - I have a better idea of what I do and don't like and will and won't use. I know what my dealbreakers are and what my "must haves" are.

Of course, knowing that I won't bond with (for instance) a Tele or a Les Paul doesn't stop me from GASsing for them on occasion.

BMU

What Alan said is exactly what I was thinking. I don't use all my guitars equally anymore, but each of them was my go-to at some point, and taught me something about what I want and don't want in a guitar.

Like Arjun I got a Boss Micro BR at a giveaway price, but it's too finicky to use for any real-world recording purpose. Computer or nothing for me, was the lesson learnt there.