Your best and worst purchases

[The Fox Covert]

On 04/09/2023 at 13:02, outfoxed77 said:

Best = My VW campervan, paid £2000 for it plus a fair bit more getting it converted. I've been all over the UK and Europe in it on some amazing adventures.

 

Worst = Probably the Ukelele I bought thinking I would learn it, it; still in the garage never been out the box!

How long ago did you buy that VW? Vans are silly prices at the moment and a VW for £2000 has probably been to the moon and back.

[Parafox]

10 minutes ago, The Fox Covert said:

How long ago did you buy that VW? Vans are silly prices at the moment and a VW for £2000 has probably been to the moon and back.

 

Probably bought a long time back. 

 

We looked at buying one instead of a used car and the average price for a VW at around 10 years old was around £30,000 with around 60,000 miles on the clock.

 

Cheaper ones were high mileage, 80 to 90,000 

 

 

[FoxesDeb]

9 hours ago, Dunge said:

Really?

Nobody’s going to say their worst purchase was a wedding ring?

Haha I was thinking my best purchase was my divorce, before I realised I didn't actually pay for it 

[Dr The Singh]

Pub exact draft beer setup.  Great for me, bad for family

[foxfanazer]

[outfoxed77]

20 hours ago, The Fox Covert said:

How long ago did you buy that VW? Vans are silly prices at the moment and a VW for £2000 has probably been to the moon and back.

Bought in 10 years ago it's a 99 plate T4, was just a plain van.

 

Probably spent around £8000 on it since but it's taken me literally all over Europe as far north as Denmark and as far south as Lake Como and pretty much everywhere between.

Edited 8 September 2023 by outfoxed77

[FoyleFox]

Best: buying my ex out of our house for £1k, which was quite a struggle at the time. But, it then increased in value by £40k when I sold it 2 years later. Karma for carrying on with my mate behind my back 🙂

 

Worst: a Mercedes. Lots of issues and unpleasant to drive. Premium prices but not a premium motor. 

[Daggers]

Worst: the two saxophones I bought, planning to learn. Didn’t, sold one, bought a new one, didn’t. It’s gathering dust.

 

Best: any of the doggos

[Parafox]

46 minutes ago, FoyleFox said:

Best: buying my ex out of our house for £1k, which was quite a struggle at the time. But, it then increased in value by £40k when I sold it 2 years later. Karma for carrying on with my mate behind my back 🙂

 

Worst: a Mercedes. Lots of issues and unpleasant to drive. Premium prices but not a premium motor. 

 

I assume it was a used one?

 

I had a 2010 Merc bought from a reputable (non-merc) dealer. It was 6 yrs old at the time and of reasonably high mileage TBF, but it spent almost as much time in the workshop as it did on the road.

 

Costly to have faults fixed.

 

It wasn't a bad drive, just noisy. The Audi I got next was far superior.

[FoyleFox]

4 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

I assume it was a used one?

 

I had a 2010 Merc bought from a reputable (non-merc) dealer. It was 6 yrs old at the time and of reasonably high mileage TBF, but it spent almost as much time in the workshop as it did on the road.

 

Costly to have faults fixed.

 

It wasn't a bad drive, just noisy. The Audi I got next was far superior.

3 years old, 22k milage. Half the issue was the dealership failing to actually resolve the issue the first time. Finally sorted after I'd googled a lot of it, 9 months later. Fortunately, we didn't pay for any of it, as it was under the 12 months warranty it came with. Got rid just after that expired. 

Mates Dad has the same car, hates it too.

[The Fox Covert]

On 07/09/2023 at 19:31, FoxesDeb said:

Haha I was thinking my best purchase was my divorce, before I realised I didn't actually pay for it 

I paid for mine and although it cost a lot of money I kept my house, which I now own outright, and all my pensions.