Most Expensive Item You've Purchased and Not Used?

[Gary Huynh]

What's the most expensive item you've purchased and not even used once.

I know that people buy ebooks and/or software and never even use them or read the ebooks.

I was just looking through my old files and found a product that I had purchased with resell rights for $3,000. The sales letter which inspired me to purchase was a physical letter and I was a hot prospect at the time.

Other opportunities came and I eventually forgot about that purchase.

Would be interested to know anybody else's experiences.

[JamesFrancisIM]

Hmm... I buy wisely, so I suppose mine has to be spending $250 on Intellichat.

Completely changed my business model from an e-book into a membership website, so the campaign they created was worthless.

Have asked them to re-design the campaign but i'm better off getting replies from a brick wall.

- James.

[BizBoost]

Originally Posted by Gary Huynh

What's the most expensive item you've purchased and not even used once.

Fine post example, Gary. I think the most expensive thing I ever purchased and not used was your Wordpress Elite? or Empire?... or whatever it was called.

I was under a different name at the time... and, actually, the truth is, you let me in to look around for free.

Tell me, when you get a moment, whatever happened to that?

[John Taylor]

Hi Gary,

I spent $700 on an expired domain, about three years ago,
because it had a perfect fit with a project I had in mind.
The project fell through so I installed a blog, added a few
articles and haven't touched it. It's been making $70+ a
month from Adsense ever since. ;-)

John

[Andyhenry]

I spent $10k getting some software developed and then had someone check it out before I launched it (I already had $30k of pre-orders for it) and found out it had some code snippets which were a little too similar to another software product already on the market and in all good conscience I couldn't sell it in case it had been taken from someone elses software.

So I wrote off the $10k and never used or sold the software I'd had made.

[dave147]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

I spent $10k getting some software developed and then had someone check it out before I launched it (I already had $30k of pre-orders for it) and found out it had some code snippets which were a little too similar to another software product already on the market and in all good conscience I couldn't sell it in case it had been taken from someone elses software.

So I wrote off the $10k and never used or sold the software I'd had made.

wow...now that was an expensive venture

[jasondinner]

1987 Mazda RX7 Turbo II

Bought it with a blown motor for $1400 with the intentions on rebuilding it
and making it a total BEAST.

But when my other car's motor was going (which also was my baby) I ended
up trading the Mazda for a motor rebuild job.

Sorry Gary, didn't really have any bad purchase experiences with IM that were
worth noting

[nggablog]

I bought one or two blackhat software with a valued around $400. After using 3 times, I think it useless. No targeted traffic unless new reputation as spammer.

[mandyg33]

Originally Posted by Andyhenry

I spent $10k getting some software developed and then had someone check it out before I launched it (I already had $30k of pre-orders for it) and found out it had some code snippets which were a little too similar to another software product already on the market and in all good conscience I couldn't sell it in case it had been taken from someone elses software.

So I wrote off the $10k and never used or sold the software I'd had made.

Talk about being honest... this world needs more folks like yourself... It's better to keep your integrity than sell it for money...

[Steven Wagenheim]

I spent $300 on a sampler for my music production studio that I never used
because I could never figure out how to use it.

Have I mentioned that I hate technology?

[NMP]

5 baby carriages during one year. Around 3k. Don't say kids
are expensive. Wifes are. That is why I am divorced haha....

[Scott Ames]

$16,000 + travel for a real estate seminar in Hawaii. I went there, my fiance got sick, and returned the next day. Didn't get a thing out of it.

i hired a programmer to create a membership site i decided not to do after all, and got the website designed...so a few hundred...its bad to not be SURE of what you want when you start...very expensive...i went a completely different route after all that...

[Hardi Wijaya]

What's the most expensive item you've purchased and not even used once.

That's what I am selling. People buy my products and rarely use them


Hardi

[sega001]

bunch of home study courses that are all rehashed products

[Hardi Wijaya]

Originally Posted by sega001

bunch of home study courses that are all rehashed products

If you're a true marketer and you're making great money, you'll retract your words here

Sorry. Not to stir up something negative pal. We're all surrounded with tons of rehashed products (not just info-product). But we still end up buying them. Bother to ask why we're behaving this way? If anyone knows the answer, he or she will hit the gold mine.

Hardi

[mandyg33]

Originally Posted by Hardi Wijaya

What's the most expensive item you've purchased and not even used once.

That's what I am selling. People buy my products and rarely use them


Hardi

No, kidding.... it's the best market to be in... why do you think so many internet gurus are friggin rich...

They are simply selling the shovels and tools to dig the gold in California. That's where the real money is... it's not physically digging for gold but simply selling the tool.... lol

[Hardi Wijaya]

Originally Posted by mandyg33

No, kidding.... it's the best market to be in... why do you think so many internet gurus are friggin rich...

They are simply selling the shovels and tools to dig the gold in California. That's where the real money is... it's not physically digging for gold but simply selling the tool.... lol

Or sell slave workers to dig for the gold miners. That's even more money

Hardi

[Glenn Leader]

Originally Posted by Hardi Wijaya

What's the most expensive item you've purchased and not even used once.

That's what I am selling. People buy my products and rarely use them


Hardi

Don't you think you should do something
to encourage them to use it then?

I'd hate to think that some folks don't use
my products, and I certainly wouldn't smile
about it.

Glenn

[derekwong28]

I paid $4500 for a watch that I intended to resell quickly on eBay for a quick 30-50% profit.

What I didn't know was that buyers in the US would have a pay huge import duties on gold watches. I still have that watch with me 10 year on.

[debra]

Mine was Mark Joyners Farewell Package. I dust it off every week or two. $1000.00 I was one of the first ones to purchase that.

I even kept the sales letter. Fine piece of work. Never find a sales letter to top it either. The formula in that sales letter turned out to be worth more than the package itself.

[Chris Johnson]

I bought my wife a brand new car 2 years ago and she only used it twice, so much for a birthday gift.

[Chris Lockwood]

Nancy Pelosi's private jet

[MommyEnterprises]

After reading some of these posts, I don't feel so bad for the money I have spent on ebooks that I don't use.

[jmidas]

A couple of years ago I spent 4-5K on Yanik's big Ultimate whatever it was. Still in the shrink wrap in my closet.

[TimG]

About $4000 for a Global Resorts Network membership - was jazzed to start making money with that opportunity but got sidetracked by some other $97 ebook I purchased - yea I know, priorities....go figure!!!

Respectfully,
Tim

[jmidas]

for non-IM - about 3-4 years ago I decided to buy my mom a Christmas gift - something she had talked about for - no kidding - 30 years. It was some impossible to find nicknack collector something or other. I spent about two months searching for it, found it, paid a couple grand to get it to me... could not have been more excited to give it to her on Christmas.

So, she opens it and says "Oh, I already have one of these..." and set it aside. Now it is in the attic with her other collector item crap. She got a scarf from Walmart the next year. Seemed to like it better, too.

[John Taylor]

Originally Posted by debra

Mine was Mark Joyners Farewell Package. I dust it off every week or two. $1000.00 I was one of the first ones to purchase that.

I even kept the sales letter. Fine piece of work. Never find a sales letter to top it either. The formula in that sales letter turned out to be worth more than the package itself.

You can thank Paul Myers for that piece of copy.

John

[Makabongwe Maseko]

Mine was "adwords tycoons" which cost a little over $1000, still haven't used it.

But although I haven't used I still feel like I made an investment because google adwords seems like its still going to be around for quit sometime.

[BrainDance]

Chris: I'll take the car and use it, I promise!

This thread supports what i have said in the past, those making money are the ones that are showing people how to make money, not the people who bought the product on how to make money!

BUT this is not the case for all products,there are many very sincere and helpful people and products, apart from the dude from singapore selling stuff he knows people won't use, no kind words or respect for you at all, geesh man.

When I was developing my stock photo site I bought 5 or 6 different off the shelf scripts, none of which I ended up using, total invested there about..2k maybe?
but because of that experience I started writing reviews which in turn brought business and income, so maybe it was a good thing?

[Presto]

4X Made Easy: $3K. Useless software. I know there's money to be made (and lost) in the forex market, but I don't think I could ever lose that much trading...

[Michael Lee]

I spent hundreds of dollars on articles and content written by different writers. Many of them were so badly written it would take me much longer to edit them than to write from scratch. And many of them didn't even deliver after they got my money. Lesson learned.

[Peter Soos]

Opened Traffic Secrets...as far as it went...bought and was into a lot of other things at the time and seminars scheduled...taking courses...LIFE...LOL. That's my story and I'm sticking with it!

[Devon Brown]

I've lost a lot in monthly fees due to software I thought I would need or use and end up never really logging into them.

[michellec]

Which piece of $800 plus exercise equipment shall I admit to...?

[Steadyon]

Over $600,000 spent on software development that was eventually bought from us by one of the big boys and moth-balled before it was ever used.

I guess it made sense to them

[Neil Morgan]

The most expensive item I didn't purchase when I should have was a domain name renewal a few years ago.

It cost me $5,000 to get it back!

Cheers,

Neil

[tday01]

Gary, Iv'e got about $5,000 in stuff I've purchased in the last few years..All with the best intentions... funny how we can get distraced and side tracked.

Oh well I wouldn't still be here if I hadn't learned a little from this crap.

Terry...

[valerieSONORA]

Piece of crap software. Sales page was pretty good. Software was not. Was so bad I couldn't use it

And a few more bad purchases.

[webABCs]

I bought Reese's Traffic Secrets 1 and did not even go through the entire program...got distracted and moved on to other things. All those tapes and workbooks now collect dust in storage.

[JamesFrancisIM]

Originally Posted by webABCs

I bought Reese's Traffic Secrets 1 and did not even go through the entire program...got distracted and moved on to other things. All those tapes and workbooks now collect dust in storage.

This is the main reason why most internet marketers fail - because they move on too quickly.

They don't stick at it long enough to get results, just because they can't get results overnight.

Stick at something long enough and you'll see results. I have.



- James.

[Baystreet]

Originally Posted by Lewis Turner

$7 on a miss-spelt domain by complete accident... i was having a dumb moment and got 2 letters the wrong way round and even triple checked and didn't notice.

It now just site's in my account and does nothing.... ahh well it was only $7!

I did the same thing, but to make things worse, it auto-renewed a year later.

If it happens again I will just delete it and get it over with.

[Izesta]

I spent a little over $400 for a product called MailLoop. Was supposed to be the grandmomma of autoresponders. Got everything set up and it never worked properly. I use Get Response now.

I have a few other small ones, but this was the biggest $$ mistake I can recall.

And ever since the big, very popular $495.00 Real Estate seminars back in the day with Al Lowery and other supposed millionaire real estate investors, there has been and always will be tremendous potential in teaching others how to make money. We all know that. Because we keep buying the stuff and storing it on the shelf. The guru marketers know many of us will buy and never do anything with it. Perhaps we attribute that to their great sales copy combined with our pipe dreams.

We get involved in MLM and buy stuff we never put to task as soon as we see the purchase itself did not make us rich.

There's nothing "inherently" wrong with being in the business of selling "opportunity." It's a great business to be in.

But what is wrong is being in the business of "intentionally" selling useless print.