What was your most intense purchase

monkeysnapper · 19-07-2015 12:18AM #1

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 · 19-07-2015 12:19AM

€10,000 on a push bike.

Kwiecien · 19-07-2015 12:25AM

A house.

€130,000.

corner of hells · 19-07-2015 12:30AM

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 · 19-07-2015 12:33AM

My wedding dress. It was perfect - just what I wanted, and was on sale for just under Ã¢Â‚Â¬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 · 19-07-2015 12:40AM

€2500 for a Laptop in 2003.

Faster processors in a €59 android phone today.

hattoncracker · 19-07-2015 12:42AM

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 · 19-07-2015 12:45AM

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 · 19-07-2015 12:47AM

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 · 19-07-2015 12:47AM

My first bottle of poppers.

Simonigs1.0 · 19-07-2015 12:52AM

A house in December paid for up front.

The whole day was intense but I do not regret it

Mint Aero · 19-07-2015 12:59AM

Swimming pool

Calibos · 19-07-2015 01:03AM

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 · 19-07-2015 01:14AM

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 · 19-07-2015 01:29AM

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 · 19-07-2015 01:44AM

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

Hammer89 · 19-07-2015 01:50AM

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 · 19-07-2015 01:51AM

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 · 19-07-2015 02:04AM

Bought a lighter once, man I got burned

efb · 19-07-2015 02:08AM

Yeah, my house.

TomBtheGoat · 19-07-2015 02:18AM

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

monkeysnapper · 19-07-2015 08:40AM

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 · 19-07-2015 09:25AM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote:

You could have just said you bought a few bits for your telescope for Ã¢Â‚Â¬2k.

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

Gongoozler · 19-07-2015 09:51AM

eternal wrote: »

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

But.. I said we bought them.

AndyBoBandy · 19-07-2015 09:54AM

Her name was Lola....

Anesthetize · 19-07-2015 10:30AM

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Her name was Lola....

Me too

Red Kev · 19-07-2015 10:45AM

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 · 19-07-2015 10:54AM

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 · 19-07-2015 11:07AM

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 · 19-07-2015 12:20PM

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 · 19-07-2015 12:33PM

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

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