- These are the 10 deals
I regret buying the most. Hey guys, I am The Deal Guy, Matt Granite. Welcome back to the channel. This is a very different video. I've never done anything like this before. I'm opening up to you about my regret. If this is the type of content
that you'd like to see, please give this video a thumbs up, subscribe and turn your
notifications turned on. Of course, I hunt down deals, I use algorithms to attract price drops, and I'm always advocating for your wallet, but there are things that I've purchased just for myself in the past
where despite the deal, and the price, and the timing,
I could've done better. We all make mistakes and I've made many. This is tied to my personal purchases. Now, of course, before you see a product
reviewed on this channel, it goes through extensive
testing and product comparisons and sometimes I'll sit on a
product for five or six months before I ever feature it to
ensure that it's right for you, but I did find some things
that were not right for me. Before I show you each of these products around my home and in my studio, I just wanna remind you guys that on mattsdailydeals.com, I have my favorite product
that you won't regret buying, the most popular product
on my website right now is this lantern that
drops to as low as $9.99 depending on how many you buy. It's an emergency lantern. I do use affiliate links, which
means I benefit monetarily, if you're kind enough to use my links. The first deal that I regret buying, Amazon Basics batteries. I have more Amazon Basics
batteries than you could possibly think of all because an
incentive appeared in a coupon and I figured my daughter
has toys that need batteries and I wear microphones and I broadcast to national television from my home and there's gotta be a
way where between this and smoke detectors and everything else, I can use batteries, and it looked very much like
what you see on your screen, promotions galore and low battery prices, and I quickly regretted my
decision for this reason. I will attest to the fact that the Amazon Basics batteries are great, but I will die with extra batteries, and I hope to live a very long life. Battery pack after battery pack. Not only is that a draw on the wallet, not great for the environment, but I don't know what I'm gonna
do with this many batteries. There is an alternative and that's what I should have
purchased in the first place. These Eneloop rechargeable
batteries by Panasonic, you can see, I finally
purchased these January 21, 2019 after I realized that I'm still
going through AA batteries and I wanted something
that was dependable. When you guys are actually
watching me on TV or on YouTube, these are the batteries that I use in all of my microphone packs, they're what I use in my daughter's toys, and they're what I should've
purchased in the first place. There's no memory effect
tied to these batteries, so it doesn't matter whether
you use a little bit of them and you charge them or
you draw the full capacity out of them and then recharge them. They're just constantly ready
and interchangeable batteries and a better purchase in the first place. The second purchase that I deeply regret was a smart home security system. In the past, if you guys have
seen the tours of my home where I've showed you how this all worked, I got an amazing deal on the equipment. Most of it was free and I
paid very little for the smart thermostat and the
smart video doorbell and it worked with my Echo and was
just an absolutely phenomenal device that was monitored,
but it came with a contract, in fact, a three-year contract, and when I needed equipment serviced, every time I got that equipment service, they actually had me resign
a three-year contract. I kept thinking to myself,
I'm not going to move, but circumstances change and I decided to actually move my family, so we're unable to move
a lot of the equipment and the buyout on my
contract right now is $1,000. My wake up call came when
I really started to test the Ring security products,
where for $10 per month, you get unlimited video
storage, it's a DIY system, you can take the equipment
with you, you own it outright, it sets up in minutes
and you still get that 24/7 monitoring with no contract. It's a much better decision and I deeply regret getting
all excited about the free equipment and the low
monitoring fee and all of the promotions and price drops
that were imparted to me at the time that I signed up. I regret it and I'm not
happy with that purchase. The next product I
deeply regret purchasing is a Kodak selfie printer. I actually purchased this while a lot of the photo printing
kiosks were inoperable due to what's going on in
our communities right now and I wanted to print my own
photos, and I bought this. Of course, this is Canadian
pricing, US pricing is less, but I purchased this on July 6, 2020, and I thought this would be highly useful, so I could print all of my
wonderful family memories and put these into frames and
give them to family members, and it was useful to an
extent, that's a duplicate, but I haven't printed that many photos. This is them washing the windows. Once you take into account
the expensive costs of the toner, the special
Canon selfie paper, and the fact that I don't
really use it that much, for the bulk printing that
I could easily get done from a Walmart kiosk or a Kodak kiosk, or even just Snapfish, I'm spending a lot less
money on their services and by the time that I
realized that this is not as fun as it was the first time I used it, the novelty wears off very quickly. The next product that I
deeply regret purchasing is a pair of Bose headphones. I know you guys are thinking,
wait, Bose, awesome, amazing. I'm actually going to show you the deal that I took advantage of. It's a $230 list price down to $159. This is still available right now. These are the Bose SoundLink
around the ear headphones. I was so excited because
compared to Beats by Dre, which I feel you're
overpaying for an aesthetic most of the time in a brand name, Bose has tremendous sound engineering, these are lightweight, they're over the ear
headphones rather than on ear, and they ticked all of
the right boxes for $159. I was even willing to get
past the fact that there's no active noise cancellation
with these headphones 'cause I'm thinking to myself, I often need to hear my
daughter when she's in her crib if she's napping and I'm
watching YouTube videos or trying to learn
something or doing a Skype or business communication
or listening to music, maybe I don't need active
noise cancellation. The battery life on here
is billed at 15 hours, I got a little bit less, and as someone that reviews
headphones for a living, you'd think that these would fold. All headphones fold, right? My MPOW headphones fold,
Beats by Dre headphones. They don't fold. Even the overprice Beats
by Dre headphones fold. The Decibel headphones that
I've featured in the past on this channel, which have
better performance and fold and are $99 versus $159
were a much better purchase. I needed to actually
buy my Bose headphones to realize that what I've
been saying in the past is not only true, but just
because there was a deal on a pair of Bose headphones
advertised to me by Amazon does not mean this is something that I should have purchased, and I regret it. I deeply, deeply regret this
purchase from Cuisinart, which is a griddler, and I
figured that based on the fact I'm in a smaller space now, this would help cut down
on the pots and pans in the dishwasher. You remove the top or the bottom of this and you do your grilling. You can turn it into a panini press. You can even make them
go down on their side. It seemed perfect. Plus, I got a deal on it at the time. I saved $20 over the purchase price. First one out of the box
didn't work properly. There are all these circuitry issues. I returned that one. The second one stained really badly. The third one started rusting. I'm on my fourth, and I wanna
show you the difference. As you can tell from my home,
we're not sloppy people. We're very clean. Even if we were sloppy, it
shouldn't make a difference. I wanna show you what the grill looks like when it comes out of the box. Beautiful, great, easy
to clean, these come off, they go into your dishwasher, no problem. If the circuitry arrives working, it cooks everything very
quickly, you get a nice sear. This grill is maybe four weeks old and while the top part isn't rusting, welcome to the bottom of the grill. No matter what type of stainless
steel cleaner I've used and different cleaning solutions, the rust that has formed
through oil and use over time, over a very limited amount of time, is a testament to poor
manufacturing on the grill. I figured that maybe
with the Cuisinart grill, I was just having bad luck. If you guys can see, I've purchased this four
times since August 9th, trying to either get the product to work or trying to handle the rust issues, but I'm legitimately trying to
find the best in this product that's made by Cuisinart. It's a number one best-seller, it's got 11,000 nearly perfect reviews, and I can't figure out as a
tech reviewer and someone that actually reviews kitchen
products, what I'm doing wrong, but you can see, this has been a disaster and I deeply regret this
purchase, not one, two, three, but four times and I've had enough. I'm not returning the next one. It looked great in the photos and it's one of the dominant brands, but this is the worst soap dispenser ever. Both soap dispensers have
a differing price of $10. I realize the aesthetic
is completely different, but the soap inside them is the same. At a $25 soap dispenser,
soap comes out, it's quiet. Great. Everything you want in a soap dispenser. This soap dispenser makes flatulent noises and also barely dispenses
the soap in a normal way. Again, why soap had to fly
into the sink when I did this versus. This is an awful mental image. I'm not trying to waste soap, but I'm going to get
rid of this dispenser. This might've been a deal,
it might've been well-rated. It is a piece of garbage
and it's a small financial contribution I have
made now to the garbage. Although, I guess I am
going to return this, but not worth it. Absolutely not worth it. I deeply regret buying
that deal and that product. As you can see, I recently purchased this
GLUBEE soap dispenser and from right out of the box
to where we stand right now, it has not been a great situation. If you look at the soap dispensers, GLUBEE actually dominates a
lot of the search results, so it's not crazy that I
came across this product, but between the noises and the pump, really not worth it for $15. The next product I deeply regret making is an Apple TV replacement
remote that was also around $15. We could talk about the
Apple TV another day. It's not my favorite streaming system, but aside from the fact
that you get much better bang for your buck with a
Roku or a Fire TV stick/cube, we needed something tied to iTunes that I could entertain my daughter with. Anyhow, long story short,
I hate the Apple TV remote, and if you've ever lost one, it's about $50 or $60 to get the manufactured Apple version replaced. I went on and bought
an aftermarket remote. This one is proudly made
by Hizgang, Hizgang, and while it does offer the
full control of your Apple TV, you lose one very important function, and that folks, it's the volume control. You cannot control the
volume on your remote, so you end up having to
use the television remote and at the end of the day, for the slight amount of
money I saved on the remote, the theory that I feel every
single time I have to control the volume and reach for another remote is just not worth it on my Hizgang. I deeply regret a deal I took advantage of recently on a Black
& Decker Dustbuster. In fact, any Dustbuster, I'm not gonna blame it on Black & Decker, but for the really good
Dustbusters out there, you can actually get something similar to what I have in front
of me where it does both, but it does so effectively. I'm all in favor of Dyson, but I think you're
overpaying for a brand name and on the Shark IONFlex, of all of the vacuums that I've tested, this is the best of both worlds and this is what I wish
I got in the first place. What I wanted was something
that can store easily. This becomes a full vacuum. You can vacuum effectively. It's relatively quiet and it stores perfectly well as a vacuum, but as a Dustbuster, you
can store the vacuum, take the $100 you would put
into a really good Dustbuster and pour that into a vacuum, and for this, I get something that can clean perfectly. You could use this in a car,
upholstery, couch, blinds, conventional dust busting, but you're doing it with
something that really is the size of a Dustbuster that's
rechargeable, that's wireless, and that's one device that you
need to worry about, not two, and when you get a vacuum
that stores as easily as this and has all the attachments you need, I wish I didn't get any
Dustbuster in the first place. In fact, I wish the last
three or four Dustbusters I've purchased over the last decade was just pooled monetarily into a vacuum that could've done both
in the first place. The next product I
deeply regret purchasing was actually a huge deal. It was $150 off a brand new iPad. After having spent some
time with the iPad, it's a fantastic tablet if you're going to produce a lot of content, that means 4K movies and
that beautiful retina display and photo editing, and these are all things
that I don't do on my tablet. I use my MacBook Pro for that, so what I should've
purchased was a Fire HD 10 or a Fire HD Eight, and for roughly the price
of the tax on my iPad, I have a tablet that's almost just as fast for the basic tasks, the
battery life is better, it's got a micro SD slot so
I can expand my solid state drive storage and I'm not overpaying Apple more money tied to iCloud, and it's exactly what I
need to consume content. I think a lot of us
need to decipher between are we using a tablet to create content or to consume content, and if it's streaming
Netflix or Prime video and you're sitting on the couch
and you just want something that's an extension of your smartphone or a little bit larger, a Fire tablet for $49 or $89
is exactly what I needed. I can quickly call up all of my content, I can actually download it
for offline viewing if I'm, for any reason, not connected
to WiFi, and it's responsive. I actually uploaded a YouTube
video not too long ago after realizing my blunder, comparing the speeds and
the tech specs between the iPad and the Fire tablet. Well, the iPad is definitely
a much more robust, better equipped tablet for a
lot of things that you would otherwise use your laptop for, the Fire tablet rocks and it held its own in many categories, including speed on certain
web browsing related tasks, so I would go for the $49 or $89 versus whatever I paid, over $250 for the iPad. The next deal I deeply regret buying is this beautiful LG TV. I actually got this at a
pre-Black Friday price. It was the lowest price
this TV had ever sold for, and it was LG and next to it, there was a TCL television
and I thought to myself, well, LG's better than TCL, it's just sort of like a Samsung and I'm going to put aside the
TCL brand, which in my mind, I've miscategorized in the past
as very similar to Insignia, which is the Best Buy in-house brand TV. TCL, I like them a lot better. I've actually seen them
improve over the years at the Consumer Electronics Show where I frequently
present on TVs and audio. I should know my stuff, but I went for the brand
name and with the brand name, I've got this very pronounced typical black border on the television,
and unlike a TCL TV, which I'm gonna show you in a moment, where for less than this price, I could have got a frameless television with slightly better specs. I'm constantly reminded that despite that great bang for your buck I got on the inches for the television and the specs overall,
I got a black border, and it haunts me. I could've completely eradicated this for a slightly lower price as I said by going the TCL route. Had I invested or barely
invested in a TCL TV, I would've been able to
enjoy a lot more performance given the fact that it's not
an LG or Samsung, a Toshiba, so you get a little bit
more bang for your buck, but you're going to
notice that I'm getting almost edge to edge glass. That black frame border that
now drives me crazy on the LGTV is not present on most of
the series six TVs for TCL, nor was it present at the time, but I avoided the brand
because I had an allegiance to what I thought was just better, and TCL is very different from Insignia. They've been around
for more than 35 years. They're as old as I am. I should have given myself more credit and I should have given them more credit. Dolby Atmos, the THS, the engineering, the fact that you get this beautiful nearly frameless display for $80 less than I paid for my LGTV,
I'm going tell you right now, that is a product that I regret. I wish I went a completely different route and purchased the TCL. See, they're cheering. I'm not. Those are the purchases and the deals that I most deeply regret buying. Just because something's on
sale or advertised to you with a promotion or at a deal price doesn't mean it's worth your while and doesn't mean it's necessarily
the best fit, and yes, I, The Deal Guy, Matt Granite, have made deal mistakes
that I'm not proud of, I have to live with them, and one of the foundations of
this channel is to ensure that you live with better
deals and better products and better insights, so I can make the mistakes
in my own personal life, in my spare time and spare you from them by the time it goes to show you
a new product or a new video or some piece of insight, so thank you so much for watching this. This is a very personal video. I debated making it 'cause I was thinking, I didn't really wanna show
10 screw-ups, but they are, and I'm acknowledging them
and I'm going to do better. Thank you so much for watching. If this is the type of
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