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What has been your costliest mistake in this hobby?

For example :I recently learned a hard lesson- I accidentally ran voltage thru my $3000 MC cartridge (kiseki purple heart).  I have a TT with 5 prong connector and a phono cable with a 5 prong connector.  I accidentally swapped where they plugged into and ran electric thru the tonearm into the cartridge.  It was a stupid - not thinking- hasty mistake. When I corrected the problem the cartridge was fried.  An avalanche of four letter words followed!

So what has been your biggest and/or costliest mistake?
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minorl
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I wouldn't necessarily call this a mistake.  But, I was shipping via USPS a non-working naim uniti serve music service back to Naim for repair.  I had a tracking number and shipping insurance.  It never arrived at Naim for repair.  The USPS lost the item.

I filed for an insurance claim and the USPS claimed that my receipt was not adequate.  They did not accept the Audiogon receipt I supplied.

Understand, that I originally purchased the item used from another Audiogon member, and Audiogon supplied their receipt after purchase.  Well, guess what, USPS not only lost the item, but wouldn't honor their insurance (which I paid for).

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