# Ever been "suckered" into a bad financial deal?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 3, 2014, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-suckered-into-a-bad-financial-deal/706210 "2014-12-03T07:03:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-suckered-into-a-bad-financial-deal/706210/41 "2014-12-05T21:02:26Z")

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I once bought a tv and stereo through one of the national rent-to-own chains. Managed to get out of that only paying about 150% of what they would have cost me in the store.

Lost a couple of thousand dabbling in day trading when the dot com bubble burst. I can’t really call that a sucker play though.

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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-suckered-into-a-bad-financial-deal/706210/42 "2014-12-05T22:04:02Z")

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I bought this house aka “The Money Pit”

This applies to every house I’ve ever bought.

Oh, and a few years ago when I had to sell something and my broker said, “Sell the Netflix, it’s as high as it’s gonna get.” Right.

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