What it feels like to lose close to $700!

[crashwg]

I was just thinking about how much I don't use my Dell Axim X50v 624mhz PDA so I figgured I might sell it.  I go to the place I saw it last, the side table next to my bed, and it's not there!  I search my entire room, no luck!

I've looked everywhere that I can posible think of and I can't find it.  I'm freaking out.  It's even got my 2gig SD card it it!  WTF!

Needless to say, it friggin sucks beyond belief!

[AtomSmasher]

Ya, I bought an Axim about a year ago and used it a couple of times before I realized I hated it, but then I only spent $250 on mine so I didn't feel too bad.

[danny_galaga]

have you checked inthe fridge? i leave all sorts of stuff there...

[DrewKaree]

Danny, the freezer would be the more likely place.

Call 411.  They told me my socks were behind the couch, maybe they can help you with this

[Harry Potter]

Have you tried your workplace, the boot of your car or under the car seats.


Or maybe Seph's mum mistook it for a sandwich. 

[Sephroth57]

my mom has been known to eat electronic devices. last time i checked she was still waiting for chads vibrating detachable wang

[danny_galaga]

but yeah, try losing 500$ in blackjack it feels worse lol

only because you have yourself to blame...

[M3talhead]

I did something pretty stupid on eBay once. I sold one of my R/C cars for $500 and had it all boxed up and ready to go by the front door of my apt. The only thing I had to do was wait for Paypal to confirm payment and send it to the postoffice. Well, my roommate, being the nice guy he is, sent the box for me while I was at work. I come home to find the box gone and the seller writing to me saying he wanted to retract his bid because he thought he bid more than he could pay.

So I was out a car, money and had no one to be upset with.

[duffjr]

what was the feedback of the seller?  did you try to contact him and arrange something?  someone can beat him up here if you still know the address.

[ChadTower]

my mom has been known to eat electronic devices. last time i checked she was still waiting for chads vibrating detachable wang  to poop out.

I told her she could keep it.  Call it a Frequent Customer Reward.

And dude, try walking to your parking spot and finding your car missing when your insurance has just lapsed.

Or coming home and finding your water heater busted open and everything in your basement is destroyed.

If $700 is the biggest one time loss you ever incur you will have led a hella lucky life.

[missioncontrol]

I lost a quarter in a pacman machine once.........

[MikeQ]

I lost $28,000 on some stock options that I though would go up in value.  The stock went down below the strike price.  The options expired and I never got to excersize them.  If I had sold them at the peak it would have been $28,000.

[Nailz]

I lost $28,000 on some stock options that I though would go up in value.

[danny_galaga]

I lost $28,000 on some stock options that I though would go up in value.  The stock went down below the strike price.  The options expired and I never got to excersize them.  If I had sold them at the peak it would have been $28,000.

Same thing happened to me... except take what you would have peaked at and multiply it by 10.   

Same thing happened to me... except take what you would have peaked at and multiply  divide it by 100000000.     

what are you guys, all related to gordon gecko or something...

[missioncontrol]

oh and there was another time I lost 35 cents in the pepsi machine outside Red and White groceries in Bicknell, IN. 

[DrewKaree]

Same thing happened to me... except take what you would have peaked at and multiply  divide it by 100000000.     

what are you guys, all related to gordon gecko or something...

I dunno who gordon gecko is, but I once lost elevety brazilian posts when saint turned the EE counter off.  Oh, but I DID save a lot of money on my car insurance!

[Stingray]

I lost a hunk of gouda cheese under the sofa once. By the time I found it, I discovered that I no longer wanted it. It was a sad day.

-S

[danny_galaga]

Same thing happened to me... except take what you would have peaked at and multiply  divide it by 100000000.     
what are you guys, all related to gordon gecko or something...

I dunno who gordon gecko is, but I once lost elevety brazilian posts when saint turned the EE counter off.  Oh, but I DID save a lot of money on my car insurance!

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[DrewKaree]

I lost a hunk of gouda cheese under the sofa once. By the time I found it, I discovered that I no longer wanted it. It was a sad day.

-S

It no longer looked very gouda.

c'mon.  You know SOMEBODY had to say it!

[Stingray]

I lost a hunk of gouda cheese under the sofa once. By the time I found it, I discovered that I no longer wanted it. It was a sad day.

-S

It no longer looked very gouda.

c'mon.  You know SOMEBODY had to say it!

I set it up, knowing full well that someone would be along shortly to knock it down.

-S

[ChadTower]

I lost $28,000 on some stock options that I though would go up in value.

[missioncontrol]

I value a can of Pesi higher than a can of coca-cola

[MikeQ]

I lost $28,000 on some stock options that I though would go up in value.

[ChadTower]

Oh, I probably had a max of about $30k in vested options during the process, but never got the opportunity to even pull the trigger on those.  They fell so fast you could hear the plop.

[Nailz]

I lost $28,000 on some stock options that I though would go up in value.

[More Cowbell]

MMMmmmm..... Pepsi......

[missioncontrol]

MMMmmmm..... Pepsi......

The choice of the new generation........

[MikeQ]

We have free vending machine at work.  We can get free coke or pepsi.

[nostrebor]

I usually have a code red. It is free you know. We get this perk rather than unvested stock options. The payoff is almost instantaneous!

[Ed_McCarron]

I value a can of Pesi higher than a can of coca-cola

I thought we all agreed no politics...

[DrewKaree]

you politics guys with all your talk of red or blue cans 

 

[missioncontrol]

I value a can of Pesi higher than a can of coca-cola

I thought we all agreed no politics...

Sorry.... I didn't realize you were a big RC fan.........

[danny_galaga]

I lost $28,000 on some stock options that I though would go up in value.  The stock went down below the strike price.  The options expired and I never got to excersize them.  If I had sold them at the peak it would have been $28,000.

In 2000 I had half a million dollars in unvested stock options.  By the time they vested in 2001 they were worth less than a can of Pepsi.

woulda, coulda, shoulda. if you didn't call it in time you never owned it...

i on the other hand have at the same time owned a bottle of pepsi AND coke...

[Otraotaku]

so did you find the Axim?

[Stingray]

Some people drink Pepsi,
Some people drink Coke,
The wacky morning deejay says democracy's a joke...

-S

[missioncontrol]

I'm right Pepsi is better so take that...........

[rchadd]

I lost $28,000 on some stock options that I though would go up in value.

[crashwg]

THE AXIM HAS BEEN FOUND!    It was in a bag of junk that was cleaned up from various places arround the house that was to go back to my desk. 

[missioncontrol]

was my my quarter in there?

[DrewKaree]

dont work for Siebel do you???

What do they do?  Oddly enough, someone had a packet/booklet/thingamabob with that name on it at our open gym last night.