What's the most money you have lost in a day?

Johnny Foreigner · 27-12-2011 03:27PM #1

What's the most money you have lost in a day?
I lost £8,000 in an Employment Tribunal.

UglyBolloxFace · 27-12-2011 03:29PM

What do you mean by 'lost'? Do bets count? If so, a fiver for me on a horse.

As you can see, I like to live on the wildside.

Biggins · 27-12-2011 03:30PM

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

What's the most money you have lost in a day?
I lost £8,000 in an Employment Tribunal.

Your waiting for someone to ask "How?" aren't you...

Exits thread...

Sunnyisland · 27-12-2011 03:30PM

:rolleyes: Coming through the airport with four K,s of .......................ah forget it

TouchingVirus · 27-12-2011 03:31PM

Two weeks wage, about €900 at the time. Threw it in a bin along with the payslip. Searched for an hour, no joy. Went and got it set up to go into my bank account after that.

Johnny Foreigner · 27-12-2011 03:32PM

Biggins wrote: »

Your waiting for someone to ask "How?" aren't you...

Exits thread...

No.

woodchuck · 27-12-2011 03:37PM

I lost a 50euro note in boots once. I was doing my Christmas shopping and realised it was missing as soon as I went to pay for something in another shop. When I went back into boots they actually had it put aside for me :eek: Restored my faith in humanity

UglyBolloxFace · 27-12-2011 03:40PM

TouchingVirus wrote: »

Two weeks wage, about €900 at the time. Threw it in a bin along with the payslip. Searched for an hour, no joy. Went and got it set up to go into my bank account after that.

That's harsh.

Similarly, my friend's brother did nearly the same. back in the day. He was clearing up the table after dinner and threw it all into the fire to burn.

Few minutes later he's looking for his wage packet. Yep, it was thrown into the fire too. Must have been about 800 punts.

UglyBolloxFace · 27-12-2011 03:41PM

Biggins wrote: »

Your waiting for someone to ask "How?" aren't you...

Exits thread...

Ah no need for that Biggy!

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

What's the most money you have lost in a day?
I lost £8,000 in an Employment Tribunal.

How?

Dunny · 27-12-2011 03:43PM

Something to do with that brothel I bet..

John Doe1 · 27-12-2011 04:14PM

I exchanged a precious priceless ring belonging to francis drake to shady london underworld dealers, the bastards had fake bills:(

AnonoBoy · 27-12-2011 04:15PM

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

I lost £8,000 in an Employment Tribunal.

What were you doing with eight thousand pounds in cash at an Employment Tribunal way?

padd b1975 · 27-12-2011 04:40PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

What were you doing with eight thousand pounds in cash at an Employment Tribunal way?

Ah crap!
Thats what I was going to ask.

CatFromHue · 27-12-2011 04:59PM

I've never really lost any large or even small to medium sums of money.

My dog did eat 50 euro on my dad once though. He left it on the counter top and went out. When he came back the dog had eaten half of it and pretty much shredded the other half.

He was a funny animal though. You'd be out walking him and a cat would walk in front of us with no reaction from him. Now if a leaf blew across the road he'd pull the shoulder off you trying to savage it!

RichieC · 27-12-2011 05:03PM

I lost a 50 pounds in 98 and Im stll gutted when i think about..

Tar.Aldarion · 27-12-2011 05:07PM

couple hundred euro. mmm poker

marryabroad · 27-12-2011 05:13PM

i lost 36000 euro in a scam carried out by ex-business partner. he borrowed 280,000 in total against company and did a runner. bank came after me and i found partner had forged my sig on different agreements, quite badly too. except for one, even i couldn't tell it was fake. bank made a deal with me that if i took on the loan they'd chase partner for rest. following my solicitors advice i agreed........therefore losing 36,000.

Biggins · 27-12-2011 05:27PM

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

No.

Fair enough. My apologies, was having a bad morning getting sick. Stomach bug going around.

I lost (if it can be called that) in one day about £150,000+ (Punts) through a divorce.

Posy · 27-12-2011 05:27PM

marryabroad wrote: »

i lost 36000 euro in a scam carried out by ex-business partner.

Ouch. That's harsh.
I lost £600 in a 'buying something from e-bay' scam years ago. I'm still gutted, and angry at myself for being such an idiot. But it made me wiser, and a lot less gullible in the long run!

kincsem · 27-12-2011 06:08PM

Horse race £715; poker tournament €3,500+; shares €5,000+.

Mr Simpson · 27-12-2011 06:11PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

What were you doing with eight thousand pounds in cash at an Employment Tribunal way?

Bribes of course

robman60 · 27-12-2011 06:21PM

Back in early 2007 (aged 11) I spent my life savings of €1500 on feckin bank shares.

Cheers for the advice Dad.

scopper · 27-12-2011 06:22PM

I used to be somewhat of a gambler. For around 6 months I'd built up a nest of around 2500e that I intended to act as a limit i.e. I would try build on it, but if I lost it then no major stress since I'd won it (gambler's logic). I mostly bet on horses, but I'm also a huge fan of German soccer. Anyway I'd been following my fave team for a while (2nd division team in with no such big support). Watching a match I had a feeling that that my team was going to come back from 3-0 down - to win. Something about the shape of the team, the drive, and so on just clicked. I bet 800e on it :eek: They did, in fact, come back to 3-3 as I suspected. With 10 mins to go I was sure they'd get another. I nearly died about twenty times watching it. Match ended 3-3.

shrewdness · 27-12-2011 06:22PM

About €450 one night, online gambling is the devil's work.

WoollyRedHat · 27-12-2011 06:31PM

I lost €200 in a football bet.

Family lost half a million in shares.

Johnny Foreigner · 27-12-2011 06:36PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

What were you doing with eight thousand pounds in cash at an Employment Tribunal way?

I didn't have £8000 cash at the Employment Tribunal.
£8000 was the amount I would have received if I had won the Employment Tribunal.

Redlion · 27-12-2011 06:40PM

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

I didn't have £8000 cash at the Employment Tribunal.
£8000 was the amount I would have received if I had won the Employment Tribunal.

Key thing about losing something is having it in the first place...

shrewdness · 27-12-2011 06:40PM

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

I didn't have £8000 cash at the Employment Tribunal.
£8000 was the amount I would have received if I had won the Employment Tribunal.

Oh right, I'll have to revise my one then.

The most I ever lost is a few million euro. I had a big football accumulator on but a load of teams lost, but I would have won a few million euro had I won the bet.

ThePower11 · 27-12-2011 06:41PM

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

I didn't have £8000 cash at the Employment Tribunal.
£8000 was the amount I would have received if I had won the Employment Tribunal.

So you didn't lose any money then. You can't lose what you never had.

Sure I lost a million in the lottery the other night, its what I would have won if my numbers had come up.

Johnny Foreigner · 27-12-2011 06:43PM

Posy wrote: »

Ouch. That's harsh.
I lost £600 in a 'buying something from e-bay' scam years ago. I'm still gutted, and angry at myself for being such an idiot. But it made me wiser, and a lot less gullible in the long run!

Was it a Chanel handbag?

Bigcheeze · 27-12-2011 06:48PM

marryabroad wrote: »

i lost 36000 euro in a scam carried out by ex-business partner. he borrowed 280,000 in total against company and did a runner. bank came after me and i found partner had forged my sig on different agreements, quite badly too. except for one, even i couldn't tell it was fake. bank made a deal with me that if i took on the loan they'd chase partner for rest. following my solicitors advice i agreed........therefore losing 36,000.

I'm calling boll0x on this one.

What's the most money you have lost in a day?

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