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Phoney

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There's a good article in the Guardian about online shopping under the influence of alcohol, and all sorts of mysterious, yet now unwanted items that turn up at your doorstep a week or two after a night of perhaps a few too many beverages.

It's here for your reading, gotta love the comment at the bottom of the article....

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/19/-sp-drunk-online-shopping-regrets

Now given that this is an online site about how to make booze, with just about every thread littered with bargain buys for guys who live for a bargain, I'm curious as to what AHB'ers have bought on here after a few pints of double IPA's.....and then come to regret later.

I'll admit my shame and go first. A strap-on for SWMBO :ph34r:
(and no we haven't used it...yet)

I've also bidded on quite a bit of **** on ebay, thinking I wouldnt win and then finding out the next day I did. Then having to contact the seller and sheepishly apologize to somehow back out of my purchase for a boat or whatever the hell it was... That never goes down too well.

Though I'm convinced others have surely done much worse. :D

Anyone for anymore?
 
The primary issue with buying a strap-on while you're drunk is that your eyes may be bigger than your, er, stomach. You don't want to bite off more than you can chew, so to speak.
 
A strap on ! LMFAO, thanks for making my day,pure gold.
 
Not exactly a drunken purchase, but after leaving my eBay open my lovely work/house mate made a $1000 max bid on some leather crotchless underwear.

I don't think they believed me when I tried to explain the situation.
 
Spiesy said:
Why would he wear it?
Wow.
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Yeah... That's a thing disturbingly. You've got Google if you don't believe me...

I went to Kmart at 3am once pissed and bought a toolbox, an inflatable boat and 9 socks. It was a 10 pack with one missing.
 
Luckily I tend to avoid browsing at anything too expensive when a bit pissed, I tend to just buy sneakers and hats, I do however now own 12 pairs of Nikes that are unbelievably ugly. Why do they even make camouflage Nikes anyway.
 
I saw a Shazza in Bunnings the other day who was wearing Nike Stilettos. I didnt even know they existed. Think bright blue nike running shoes with high heels. Made for saturday morning trips to the hardware store no doubt. The mind boggles.
 
I don't know if I was under the influence but I remember the first time I used Ebay.

I wanted to buy a GPS and I bid on just about all of them thinking "I am bound to get one of these cheap"........

I realised what I had done the next day and sweated until all the auctions had finished. I ended up with none. Phew.
 
I must be dull. I buy records and t-shirts when drunk and records and t-shirts when sober. Occasional guitar pedal, adaptor lead, effects units.
Never bought a boat.
 
I bought a boat on ebay (not pissed) had it a year and never put it in the water. Then thought, I better sell it.
 
All my mates that have had boats say the two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
While drunk I've never bought anything I don't need (apart from dodgey kebabs and lap dances), I've certainly bought a lot of things SWMBO thinks I don't need. Late night ebay is the bomb. Nothing better than getting a parcel in the mail when you'd completely forgotten buying it.
 
My dodgy twisted mind has just had an horrific thought.
Phoney,yes this is advice too you, tomorrow is Father's Day .....
BRACE your self :)
 
My first purchase on ebay was a Thurmer piano from 1887. Thought it was a great buy for 57 bucks until i realised the next day that it was 600km away. Anyway i thought a deal is a deal so organised a trailer for the following weekend. Long story short, by the time I add the trailer hire, fuel money and 2 speeding tickets ( same hidden camera in Tamworth got me on the way there and the way back) the bloody piano cost me almost a grand and it looks its age. It has sat downstairs for the last nine years because I refuse to sell it or throw it out because of the associated costs and the memory of how when taking it off the trailer when i got home I had a sore foot for some reason, a few hours later when I went to take my thongs off i realised a nail had gone through my thong and into my foot so my thong was nailed to my foot.
Anyone want to buy a vintage piano for 50 bucks :D
 
only pizza and kebabs when im drunk
 
I bought a slab of VB when I was pissed once.

Ill advised.
 
bradsbrew said:
My first purchase on ebay was a Thurmer piano from 1887. Thought it was a great buy for 57 bucks until i realised the next day that it was 600km away. Anyway i thought a deal is a deal so organised a trailer for the following weekend. Long story short, by the time I add the trailer hire, fuel money and 2 speeding tickets ( same hidden camera in Tamworth got me on the way there and the way back) the bloody piano cost me almost a grand and it looks its age. It has sat downstairs for the last nine years because I refuse to sell it or throw it out because of the associated costs and the memory of how when taking it off the trailer when i got home I had a sore foot for some reason, a few hours later when I went to take my thongs off i realised a nail had gone through my thong and into my foot so my thong was nailed to my foot.
Anyone want to buy a vintage piano for 50 bucks :D
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ROFLMAO! Ahh Brad, funniest post I've read in a long while! So I've got to state the obvious... it was a "grand" piano!

Cheers - Snow.

ps - I signed up to Beer masons when I was pissed. Gotta admit I wasn't unhappy when a case of awesome beer arrived on my doorstep a month later...... but the missus made me cancel the membership after finding out how much it cost :unsure:
 
manticle said:
I must be dull. I buy records and t-shirts when drunk and records and t-shirts when sober. Occasional guitar pedal, adaptor lead, effects units.
Never bought a boat.
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Very similar for me. Although I dont buy effects units. Lucky that I am a pretty good procrastinator, which stays with me when I am drunk. otherwise I would own some very good guitar pedals that I wouldnt use. Still have a few though.
Cheers
LB
 
I was at my Dads place, we were both equally drunk. He was "browsing" ebay for about an hour that night. I got up the next morning and he looked sick, I laughed at him thinking he had a huge hangover. He sure wasn't feeling the best, but it had nothing to do with a hangover.

Turns out he just checked his ebay, and realized in his drunken stupor he bought two motorbikes. Not one, but two.
 

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