Some popular "opportunity" that you ended up getting screwed on

gugleguy · 16-01-2014 02:35PM #1

I'll start the ball rolling, I got over 300 eircom shares at the beginning of Eircom flotation. I lost 33% of my original investment. Did you get burned in a similar "opportunity" offered to Joe Public? Not necessarily moneywise, but remember this is Afterhours.:p

Ray Palmer · 16-01-2014 02:47PM

gugleguy wrote: »

I'll start the ball rolling, I got over 300 eircom shares at the beginning of Eircom flotation. I lost 33% of my original investment. Did you get burned in a similar "opportunity" offered to Joe Public? Not necessarily moneywise, but remember this is Afterhours.:p

So you took a gamble and lost. Did you not realise it was a gamble?

crazygeryy · 16-01-2014 02:49PM

The 21 euro tablet in " bargain alerts" that never came!
mofos

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo · 16-01-2014 03:08PM

I didn't have time to bet on the football over the weekend and all top 7 teams won.

I had a sad face.

Fishyfreak · 16-01-2014 03:10PM

My Penali Pen.

Despite what the infomercial said, it could not puncture a can, write upside down or stick to a dartboard.

debabyjesus · 16-01-2014 03:15PM

Fishyfreak wrote: »

My Penali Pen.

Despite what the infomercial said, it could not puncture a can, write upside down or stick to a dartboard.

You should try the fisher space pen!

D1stant · 16-01-2014 03:18PM

After depositing my €300, I am still waiting on the 13 million from Lagos

gugleguy · 16-01-2014 03:25PM

Ray, I do bear in mind that I lost a gamble. I could have bought a good quality printer, scanner or even monitor with what I lost. Or a telly. Or, an Atari Jaguar - this is mentioned in the same tone where this machine is venerated elsewhere on boards.ie (pcs and laptops, cost more then, even newly introduced celerons at the time).

sparksfly · 16-01-2014 03:53PM

Dare I mention the good auld bank shares that went from 85c to 7c fairly lively.

Menas · 16-01-2014 05:06PM

If Sean Quinn was a member of boards here he would be lamenting of the 'punt' he took on Anglo shares.

Specialun · 16-01-2014 05:40PM

she told me "Come in the back door"..Completely took this up the wrong way...

Gotham · 16-01-2014 05:47PM

I started mining Bitcoin years ago, but it wasn't worth much then.
Probably worth a few grand today, the wallet file might be on a HDD somewhere, and yes, it costs lots of electricity to have a hefty PC churning them out all month.
Saying all that, I might not be too late, it could still peak even higher than pre-silkroad.

krudler · 16-01-2014 05:52PM

Ray Palmer wrote: »

So you took a gamble and lost. Did you not realise it was a gamble?

sure people not realising a gamble had consequences is why we're fcuked.

NegativeCreep · 16-01-2014 06:02PM

Gotham wrote: »

I started mining Bitcoin years ago, but it wasn't worth much then.
Probably worth a few grand today, the wallet file might be on a HDD somewhere, and yes, it costs lots of electricity to have a hefty PC churning them out all month.
Saying all that, I might not be too late, it could still peak even higher than pre-silkroad.

Mining bitcoin? Is that not like an internet currency? How would you mine that?

I'm so confused right now

Gotham · 16-01-2014 06:11PM

It's probably not very easy to explain, but you use a computer to generate codes.
If it generates a code that "fits" a certain criteria, then its a bitcoin and you can sell it and share it.
The codes can take a long time to "discover" but thats one of the ideas behind it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_mining#Bitcoin_mining

alb · 16-01-2014 06:46PM

NegativeCreep wrote: »

Mining bitcoin? Is that not like an internet currency? How would you mine that?

I'm so confused right now

With Bitcoin there is no central company or group of people controlling or regulating it. Anyone is free to run the software that validates the transactions in the network, and in return new bitcoins are created and awarded periodically (every 10 minutes) as a reward to people doing this. The process is called mining, named after gold mining, but it's not really the same thing at all.

To prevent people from easily attempting to validate fake or illegal transactions anyone doing the mining must prove they did difficult computational work. The more computational work you can do the more likely you are to get the periodic mining rewards.

seenitall · 16-01-2014 07:08PM

Yes, life.

gugleguy · 16-01-2014 07:37PM

seenitall wrote: »

Yes, life.

:(:(:eek:
hmmm. let me see. tellya wat, why not start a new thread on the story of yours, seenitall.

seenitall · 16-01-2014 07:46PM

gugleguy wrote: »

:(:(:eek:
hmmm. let me see. tellya wat, why not start a new thread on the story of yours, seenitall.

Was a joke!

kind of

ballsymchugh · 16-01-2014 07:55PM

Gotham wrote: »

I started mining Bitcoin years ago, but it wasn't worth much then.
Probably worth a few grand today, the wallet file might be on a HDD somewhere, and yes, it costs lots of electricity to have a hefty PC churning them out all month.
Saying all that, I might not be too late, it could still peak even higher than pre-silkroad.

could be worse, a lad in wales threw out his hard drive with about £4m worth of bitcoin on it.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/27/hard-drive-bitcoin-landfill-site

ofcork · 16-01-2014 07:59PM

Specialun wrote: »

she told me "Come in the back door"..Completely took this up the wrong way...

So did she!

K.Flyer · 16-01-2014 08:04PM

ballsymchugh wrote: »

could be worse, a lad in wales threw out his hard drive with about £4m worth of bitcoin on it.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/27/hard-drive-bitcoin-landfill-site

Heard him talking about it on the radio a few weeks back, he was so laid back about it.

Some popular "opportunity" that you ended up getting screwed on

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