What was your most intense purchase

monkeysnapper

I think mine was my Astra I bought in a auction back in 1995 .

It was my second car and I saw it in the car park before coming in . I only had 1000 on me and I loved car and really wanted it .

Car sold for 950 and I was winning bidder . I had that car for years . I don't think I ever had so much adrenalin run through me .

What was yours boardies .

Tony Beetroot

€10,000 on a push bike.

Kwiecien

A house.

€130,000.

corner of hells

A hot dog at a concert , the bloke selling them was in a marquee .

I bought a pint in a marquee too five minutes later , so my hot dog and pint were both bought intense.

NicoleW85

My wedding dress. It was perfect - just what I wanted, and was on sale for just under €400. I remember the first time I tried it on, I just stood there staring at myself - which I never do as im as far from narcissistic as you'll get. I knew it was "the one"

NachoBusiness

€2500 for a Laptop in 2003.

Faster processors in a €59 android phone today.

hattoncracker

My second car which is currently on order. I'm intensely hoping it comes in soon before I wreck my teeny weeny city car because I am now living totally rural on roads with potholes you could bathe in.

Filmer Paradise

House.

Bought it as a single guy in '02.

Under serious pressure at the time & rented out rooms to make ends meet.

Still here now with my wife & kids.:)

mighty magpie

Single ticket to liverpool man city in 2014 when liverpool won 3-2. There was only 300 or so for sale and demand was very high. Somehow skipped the queuing system and got straight into the centenary stand allocation. Tickets sold out in less than a minute.

drunkmonkey

My first bottle of poppers.

Simonigs1.0

A house in December paid for up front.

The whole day was intense but I do not regret it

Mint Aero

Swimming pool

Calibos

Discovered that a Premium Telescope Eyepiece maker was doing a 20% discount during an Astronomy tradeshow in the states to celebrate the shows 20th anniversary.

My ears pricked up when I read that on an Astronomy forum...

Then read a post where someone posted an 11% discount voucher code for a retailer that had some in stock.

I started to sweat...

I went to XE.com and checked the dollar/euro exchange rate. $1.42/€1

Hands started shaking...

Rang Visa to up my credit limit so I could buy the full set and they did so immediately.

Heart started pounding...

Rang me Aunty in Seattle to ask permission to have them sent to her and for her to forward them on to me in Ireland as the Retailer only shipped CONUS

Giddy at this point....

Aunt forwards them a few weeks later and unbeknownst to me had marked them as a gift on the customs form.

Ended up with a full set of Premium 'Rolls Royce' level eyepieces for what in Europe would have cost €5,000 at the time and would now cost €6,000 for the princely sum of €2,000.

That was my most 'Intense' purchase.

Eyepieces of this quality depreciate very very slowly. The current weakness against the dollar and current higher pricing in Europe means that even what little they've depreciated in the last 4 years has mostly reversed. They were actually a great investment even if I never used them......which it turns out I haven't. Health and other reasons mean I've fallen out of the hobby the last few years since I bought the eyepieces. Don't feel too bad though. I could still get €5,000 back out of them if I decided to sell and still be massively quids in seeing as I only paid €2,000 for them

Cee-Jay-Cee

Calibos wrote: »

Discovered that a Premium Telescope Eyepiece maker was doing a 20% discount during an Astronomy tradeshow in the states to celebrate the shows 20th anniversary.

My ears pricked up when I read that on an Astronomy forum...

Then read a post where someone posted an 11% discount voucher code for a retailer that had some in stock.

I started to sweat...

I went to XE.com and checked the dollar/euro exchange rate. $1.42/€1

Hands started shaking...

Rang Visa to up my credit limit so I could buy the full set and they did so immediately.

Heart started pounding...

Rang me Aunty in Seattle to ask permission to have them sent to her and for her to forward them on to me in Ireland as the Retailer only shipped CONUS

Giddy at this point....

Aunt forwards them a few weeks later and unbeknownst to me had marked them as a gift on the customs form.

Ended up with a full set of Premium 'Rolls Royce' level eyepieces for what in Europe would have cost €5,000 at the time and would now cost €6,000 for the princely sum of €2,000.

That was my most 'Intense' purchase.

Eyepieces of this quality depreciate very very slowly. The current weakness against the dollar and current higher pricing in Europe means that even what little they've depreciated in the last 4 years has mostly reversed. They were actually a great investment even if I never used them......which it turns out I haven't. Health and other reasons mean I've fallen out of the hobby the last few years since I bought the eyepieces. Don't feel too bad though. I could still get €5,000 back out of them if I decided to sell and still be massively quids in seeing as I only paid €2,000 for them

You could have just said you bought a few bits for your telescope for €2k.

Filmer Paradise

hattoncracker wrote: »

My second car which is currently on order. I'm intensely hoping it comes in soon before I wreck my teeny weeny city car because I am now living totally rural on roads with potholes you could bathe in.

Forgot about cars.

Tis nearly 20 years ago to the day since I bought my Capri.

I wanted one since I was a child seeing them on the telly. Bodie & Doyle & all that....

By '95 the Capri was hopelessly outdated & I only got a 1.6, not a 3litre like my heroes.

But what the hell? It was Laser spec & it was MINE!!!

JonEBGud

CB Radio.
Them days it was all the go.
Cost me three weeks wages.
Breaker,Breaker,
What,s your 20?

Hammer89

Probably my first lapdance, which wasn't all that expensive, but it was very, very intense because I was nervous as sh*t.

Firstly, I didn't really want one, but I'm one of those people who can't really say no. I can't refuse Jehovah Witnesses, with whom I've had half-an-hour conversations with at my front door, let alone a 10/10 with lovely tits.

Anywho, we go upstairs to the VIP area. She sits me down on a sofa and puts a bandanna over my cock area. I can only assume this is incase of spillage. Then she starts gyrating on my boner for the length of a song, which must've been Song 2 by Blur because it seemed to only last about 40 seconds.

Gongoozler

I suppose it was probably buying flights to Perth for €382 last year. Wasn't planning on going anywhere, wasn't looking, but happened to see the thread in BA about the deal. Had a look, got excited. Went hmmm, with my boyfriend, thinking can we really do this. Freaking out a bit trying to work out how many days we could take off work. Being caught between not wanting to make a rash decision and not wanting to miss the deal. Freaking out about the flight time, and of course the reality of the bitey poisony things over there.

We booked them because we thought fcuk it. And just as well because the next day they were finished selling at that price.

uch

Bought a lighter once, man I got burned

efb

Yeah, my house.

TomBtheGoat

My most intense purchase was a house and my most regretful purchase was a house.

monkeysnapper

NachoBusiness wrote: »

€2500 for a Laptop in 2003.

Faster processors in a €59 android phone today.

Yeh I bought a Pc in 2003 and it was close to 2 k , you'd get 50 times better now for under a 600 quid .

Mines still going tho !!!!! Well I got rid of huge monitor for a flat one . Oh and it's got a big hole where cd rom was. The reason I still have it I have a printer and scanner that only work on xp

NicoleW85

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote:

You could have just said you bought a few bits for your telescope for €2k.

That wouldn't have been quite so entertaining to read though

Gongoozler

eternal wrote: »

How did it go?? Don't leave us hanging woman!!

But.. I said we bought them.

AndyBoBandy

Her name was Lola....

Anesthetize

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Her name was Lola....

Me too

Red Kev

Munich around 1996, saw a crashed Lotus Esprit for sale for DM35,000 (about €17,500). Only had body panel damage, but as its made out of fibreglass there were very few people in Germany who could fix it, the UK was far better and far cheaper. Spoke to the dealer who told me to contact the insurance company, car was sitting up for over a month with nobody interested. So I rang the insurance company who said someone from the UK was coming over, but I could buy it that day for DM22000 (€11000). Drove from Frankfurt where I lived to Munich (400 km) to try to get there before 4.30 before the dealer shut his office and to get there before the UK lads who were getting the car the next morning at 8.00 if I didn't pay for it that evening.

Managed it just in time with the sweat dripping off me, eventually took it on a trailer to the UK, had it fixed, drove it back to Germany and sold it for a profit of about €9000.

I knew when I saw the car that there was serious money to be made on it, then finding out it had a deadline of sorts to be there with the money. The moment I stepped out of the office and realised that the car was mine was a seriously high feeling.

It wouldn't happen today, the internet would have that car sold in a few days, but back then if you were in the right place at the right time, the odd opportunity still came up.

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

You could have just said you bought a few bits for your telescope for €2k.

Longer version is better...more intense.

FortySeven

Paid £20 for a Pink Floyd ticket out of the for sale ads in a local newspaper. Included the bus both ways. Was sure I was being ripped off right until they started playing.

dodderangler

FortySeven wrote: »

Paid £20 for a Pink Floyd ticket out of the for sale ads in a local newspaper. Included the bus both ways. Was sure I was being ripped off right until they started playing.

Nope you were ripped off alri.

somefeen

Jesus some seriously high faluting people in this thread. With your houses and sports cars.

I won a van at a county council auction once for £300

wush06

Every time my dealer pulls into the carpark my heart skips a beat

Medusa22

My vibrator :pac:

frozenfrozen

does intense still mean the same thing or have they changed it

Filmer Paradise

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

Forgot about cars.

Tis nearly 20 years ago to the day since I bought my Capri.

I wanted one since I was a child seeing them on the telly. Bodie & Doyle & all that....

By '95 the Capri was hopelessly outdated & I only got a 1.6, not a 3litre like my heroes.

But what the hell? It was Laser spec & it was MINE!!!

Similar.

Wanted an MR2 since I was a teenager.

Looked at them for the last 10 years and just never made the leap.


Very recently the proud owner of a 21 year old MKII MR2 with a sexy as hell TBar roof. Paid more than it was worth in the end, but I've been looking for a good one for so long that it was worth the extra. Big decision though, knowing you're handing over too much money but also not wanting to lose out on it for the sake of a few bob. So worth it

Calibos

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

You could have just said you bought a few bits for your telescope for €2k.

The 'Intensity' is in the context of the purchase my friend.

I also bought a Telescope in 2009 for €1,100.

Without context thats simply a statement. You wouldn't know that that was actually an 'Intense' purchase too.

Same thing as the Eyepieces basically. This particular Telescope normally retailed for about €2,600 on the European Astronomy retailers sites. Found out about a UK Distributor discount. Found a UK retailer that was also doing a 10% Christmas discount at the same time. Checked XE and realised that I'd lucked out and it happened to be the one and only time that Sterling was at Parity with the Euro. Ordered straight away and ended up with a Large 16" Telescope that would have cost me €2,600 a few weeks before and nowadays a few years later still up to €2,800, for the tidy sum of €1,100.

They were as much 'Canny' purchases with great lucky timing where several factors came together like concurrent discounts and exchange rates to generate the large savings. They were 'Intense' because they were time limited and one had to act fast and get the finances in place quickly to take advantage of them.

Bought a Goto robotic motor system for the Telescope in 2010 that should have cost about €1,800 for about €1,200. That wasn't as 'intense' because the relative percentage savings were smaller and it involved waiting and watching the Dollar/Euro exchange rate for a couple of months till I pulled the trigger when the exchange rate hit $1.60/€1 Tis only $1.08 these days for perspective.

jonon9

Calibos wrote: »

The 'Intensity' is in the context of the purchase my friend.

I also bought a Telescope in 2009 for €1,100.

Without context thats simply a statement. You wouldn't know that that was actually an 'Intense' purchase too.

Same thing as the Eyepieces basically. This particular Telescope normally retailed for about €2,600 on the European Astronomy retailers sites. Found out about a UK Distributor discount. Found a UK retailer that was also doing a 10% Christmas discount at the same time. Checked XE and realised that I'd lucked out and it happened to be the one and only time that Sterling was at Parity with the Euro. Ordered straight away and ended up with a Large 16" Telescope that would have cost me €2,600 a few weeks before and nowadays a few years later still up to €2,800, for the tidy sum of €1,100.

They were as much 'Canny' purchases with great lucky timing where several factors came together like concurrent discounts and exchange rates to generate the large savings. They were 'Intense' because they were time limited and one had to act fast and get the finances in place quickly to take advantage of them.

Bought a Goto robotic motor system for the Telescope in 2010 that should have cost about €1,800 for about €1,200. That wasn't as 'intense' because the relative percentage savings were smaller and it involved waiting and watching the Dollar/Euro exchange rate for a couple of months till I pulled the trigger when the exchange rate hit $1.60/€1 Tis only $1.08 these days for perspective.

Are they Televue eyepieces by any chance?

Baron Kurtz

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

€10,000 on a push bike.

Are you a professional cyclist?

failinis

Saved up for a mac book and graphic tablet for uni - hope they last me till the end of my degree at least.
Most I ever spent - not as much as other people here though.
Still saving for a decent camera as well

Galwayguy35

Hammer89 wrote: »

Probably my first lapdance, which wasn't all that expensive, but it was very, very intense because I was nervous as sh*t.

Firstly, I didn't really want one, but I'm one of those people who can't really say no. I can't refuse Jehovah Witnesses, with whom I've had half-an-hour conversations with at my front door, let alone a 10/10 with lovely tits.

Anywho, we go upstairs to the VIP area. She sits me down on a sofa and puts a bandanna over my cock area. I can only assume this is incase of spillage. Then she starts gyrating on my boner for the length of a song, which must've been Song 2 by Blur because it seemed to only last about 40 seconds.

Never saw the point of a lapdance, there's a sexy woman grinding a few inches from your knob but you can't touch her.

A hooker is better value if money is going to be spent IMO.

endacl

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Never saw the point of a lapdance, there's a sexy woman grinding a few inches from your knob but you can't touch her.

Indeed. Like paying somebody to make you hungry by waving a sandwich under your nose, and refusing to let you take a bite.

Maybe Pierre Coffin was right on the minions thing? I can't imagine a woman doing the same thing. Maybe we are that stupid?

Hammer89

Galwayguy35 wrote: »

Never saw the point of a lapdance, there's a sexy woman grinding a few inches from your knob but you can't touch her.

A hooker is better value if money is going to be spent IMO.

You really get an insight into how sensitive a girl's nipples are. It's one thing to get stiff nips when engaging in mutual sexual activity, but she was having her tits fondled by a fat sweaty Irish bloke and her nips were like golf tees. This was in Canada, by the way. The only place you can't touch is the gee and anus.

Tony Beetroot

Baron Kurtz wrote: »

Are you a professional cyclist?

Yes i am, i did the ring of kerry in 2 hours this year.

Aongus Von Bismarck

I had a particularly successful year in work in 2012, and received an extremely generous bonus as a result. I decided I was going to get a sauna and steamroom installed in the apartment. Had to convert one of the bedrooms, run it by the local department of housing, and get it installed. Started to have doubts as the work progressed. Silly amount of fuss and money involved.

As intense a purchase as it was; it wasn't half as intense as when I first disrobed and headed into the sauna for a 45 minute session. I emerged rather light-headed, but knew that my decision was the correct one!

Simonigs1.0

Deleted User wrote: »

Similar.

Wanted an MR2 since I was a teenager.

Looked at them for the last 10 years and just never made the leap.


Very recently the proud owner of a 21 year old MKII MR2 with a sexy as hell TBar roof. Paid more than it was worth in the end, but I've been looking for a good one for so long that it was worth the extra. Big decision though, knowing you're handing over too much money but also not wanting to lose out on it for the sake of a few bob. So worth it

I own your cars younger cousin :P

And like yourself paid well over the top...mainly because I had no other choice. None for sale here

Tony Beetroot

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

As intense a purchase as it was; it wasn't half as intense as when I first disrobed and headed into the sauna for a 45 minute session. I emerged rather light-headed, but knew that my decision was the correct one!

You wanked the shit out of it didnt you aongus?

monkeysnapper

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

Yes i am, i did the ring of kerry in 2 hours this year.

2HOURS!!!!!

Excuse me while I go off to bed crying .

Aongus Von Bismarck

Tony Beetroot wrote: »

You wanked the shit out of it didnt you aongus?

There's no need to be so vulgar. No offence, but your post wasn't exactly Rabelaisian.

Projection as I believe it is known in the study of the human mind.

NotYourYear20

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

I had a particularly successful year in work in 2012, and received an extremely generous bonus as a result.

Rent allowance came through?

Calibos

jonon9 wrote: »

Are they Televue eyepieces by any chance?

Yep

3.7,6,8,10,13,17&21mm Televue Ethos and a 31mm Nagler. The 4.7mm wasn't out when I ordered the eyepieces in May 2011.

For anyone wondering, "Nearly 6 Grand for eyepieces!!". Very complicated multi lens optics made from exotic glass. Equivelent to fancy Camera lenses, hence the price. Generally one would only buy a subset of the full set, the specs of your particular Telescope determining which 3 or 4 you buy. I bought the full set because I was getting them so cheap and knew they were actually a great investment given the price I was getting them for.