Actually, the worst purchase I have ever made (and thanks for reminding me
) was for a Roland VS 880EX from a mom and pop's store called Styles Music in my old area.
I paid about $2700 for the VS 880EX, the custom case, and cd burner.
It was an 8 track recorder with some virtual tracks (just in case no one remembers what it was in the late 1900's and early 2000, lol).
I remember I headed over to my brother-in-laws place to show it off to him and I found him using digital means to record called a Cakewalk computer program which allowed him to move around between all the windows where I was having to hurt my eyes looking at the little window on the VS 880EX at the store plus trying to remember where everything was located.
I immediately went back to the store and they told me there was NO REFUNDS just store credit.
I had 29 more days to decide what I wanted to do with it (they had nothing I wanted there especially since I was getting everything at a much lower price back then at GC).
Well, I waited until the last day then decided to open it before returning it that day, and they said they wouldn't give me even store credit now since it was opened (I think they new the VS 890EX was coming out the next day).
I figured I could sell it at a few $100 less but then the DAMN 890EX came out literally the next day for $700 less and my unit dropped to below $900 for a new one and a used one was at a price below $600. I was pissed off about the whole thing because of the high price and loss and especially since I remembered how my brother-in-law used his computer monitor for everything.
I quickly jumped on the computer software wave for recording and never looked back.
The unit is BRAND NEW and sitting in it's case.
One day I will donate it to a recording history museum and hopefully get a tax write-off, lol.
I know I wasn't the only one pissed off about the VS 890EX coming out because I saw many of these being sold over the next year at close to $300 and $400. I tried putting it up for sale at $700 because of it being so new and coming with a case and a person called me up and said I was a douchebag for listing it so high and that he sold his the year before for $300 then he hung up on me, you could smell the alcohol on his breathe, lol.
I never bought a new Roland product again (I wait until Sam Ash or GC clears out their new but discontinued Roland products for new Roland replacements (I get them at a much, much, much, lower price this way)) and I never listed my number on a site like Recylcer or CL again as well.
We learn from some mistakes.
