Sunday, August 30, 2020

Absurdly Overpriced Stuff People Have Seen


We all know someone who, against better judgement, will buy into the complete BS of an expensive product, and assume that the high price tag is a legitimate marker of quality. It's sad to see, but when someone spends literally any money on a rock in a bag, that's kind of on them. Here are some products that are getting more expensive and somehow worse, as well as some signs someone is trying way to hard to look rich.

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Text - Nicod27 42.5k points · 5 days ago · edited 4 days ago & 3 More Literally any pair of dumbbells during the Covid 02 lockdown.

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Text - rickeysneekzzz 32.0k points · 5 days ago · edited 4 days ago I saw a small thing of Lysol wipes being sold for $22 in a store last week

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Text - PoorEdgarDerby 29.5k points · 5 days ago There was that novelty app awhile ago that was just a red gem. App Store made him delete it. But he was always up front what it was. I Am Rich O MCAfee MECURE was priced at the max expense for an app then, $999.99.

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Text - Dead-Shot1 28.2k points · 5 days ago Printer ink. narcissistical_ 11.0k points · 4 days ago + I had a friend in college who would buy a new $20 printer every time the ink ran out bc it was cheaper than buying ink

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Text - Happy_Fun_Balll 26.5k points · 5 days ago A few years back Nordstrom was selling a rock in a leather pouch for $85.

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Text - dramboxf 9.7k points · 4 days ago · edited 4 days ago Neiman-Marcus used to put out the most hilariousChristmas gift catalog. MCAfee OUSECURE One year they offered his and hers Lear jets. No kidding. Just about anything in that catalog was wildly overpriced. More recently, they offered in their Christmas book, as a potential gift, a Boeing Business Jet for the wonderfully affordable price of "north of $35 million."

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Text - Ahhh_Ahhh_Ahhh 25.8k points · 5 days ago That $6 asparagus water Whole Foods sold a couple years ago; it was a 16oz bottle of water with 3 stalks of asparagus. Also, everything from goop.

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Text - BiscuitMiscuit 24.4k points · 5 days ago There's a 50,000 dollar HDMI cable on Amazon ConspiratorM 14.9k points · 5 days ago I once read a review of an "audiophile" grade ethernet cable. This guy actually claimed changing the ethernet cable from his router to his PC made his music sound better.

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Text - Back2Bach 15.4k points · 5 days ago In a downtown consignment shop, an oil painting of sheep grazing in a meadow had a price tag of $18,700. It was by an unrecognized artist. When asked why it was priced so high, the shopkeeper said "because someone will like it and buy it."

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Text - Buwaro 400 points · 5 days ago Yeti Coolers $400 for a plastic cooler with plastic wheels. That thing probably costs them $5 in material and there are coolers that cost <$100 that will perform just as well. Specially when 99% of the people I see with a Yeti are just rolling up to an outdoor party with some beer, you don't need a Yeti.

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Text - nickzpollard 14.1k points · 4 days ago There used to be a nerdy collector's store nearby, and when I was about 10 (20 years ago. Pfff..), I used to love it in there. Even if not buying anything, I was stunned by the individual Pokemon cards that they had in the glass cabinet, with their rarity emphasised by their ridiculous prices. There was one that always caught my eye. The Ancient Mew card O. With baffling illegible text, the WHOLE CARD being shiny and it being Mew, this was amazing. T

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Text - Lone-Oak 8.6k points · 5 days ago Bottle service at bars is fuckin stupid... I'll just go to a corner liquor store and buy the "4000$ bottle" for like 40...

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Text - The_Tell_Tale_Heart 7.5k points · 5 days ago Weddings. I don't disagree with wanting the day to be special and memorable, but the industry jacks up the prices if they know it's a wedding, and there are way more affordable options while still getting to celebrate love and the future. No reason to break the bank. Use the money saved for even more memories.

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Text - IceClimbers_Main 6.9k points · 5 days ago · edited 4 days ago S The 40 gram Pringles can. IT'S LIKE 5 CHIPS AND IT COST'S 1EURO (1.18USD).

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Text - B-416 6.7k points · 4 days ago $800,000 for a 500 square foot "condo" in toronto

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Text - t1runner 5.5k points · 4 days ago 12 2 & 2 More Insulin. Discovered over 100 years ago and is now synthetically produced and still is being sold for hundreds or thousands of dollars in many cases. The drug companies decided they were going to make their gigantic profit margins off life-saving medicine.

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Text - brownsheepinasweater 5.2k points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago The $700 Juicero. As if a Wi-FI connecting juicer was even necessary, let alone worth the price point. Ninjachibi117 2.2k points · 4 days ago + "Juicer" since it didn't even actually juice anything, just squeezed bags of premade juice.

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Text - i_fuckin_luv_it_mate 4.8k points · 5 days ago Gold-plated, diamond-encrusted Nokia cellphone ikindalold 2.2k points · 4 days ago Why the hell would someone try to put fancy armor around something that's already indestructible?

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Text - Sirhc978 4.7k points · 5 days ago As a machinist who has made things for the military, most people don't understand what overpriced means.

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Text - ViridianLens 3.6k points · 5 days ago Luxury million dollar homes built with the same wood wall framing, plywood and cheap vinyl siding as normal homes. Varvatos_Vex 1.9k points · 5 days ago · edited 5 days ago + I've told this story before. My wife and I were checkin out yard sales. We end up in the rich neighborhood across town. I'm driving a dirty suburu cross trek. Seeing everyone's classic cars brand new trucks and bmw's. We felt really out of place. Well we stop and start checking o

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Text - patchyj 1.5k points · 4 days ago A couple of years ago, Mark's and Spencer Food, a high end supermarket in the UK, tried selling "Cauliflower Steak" which was a thick slice of cauliflower for £2.50. It was covered in plastic You could literally buy a whole cauliflower in the same row a bit further down for 40p. They were crucified for it, it was hilarious

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Text - holla09 284 points · 5 days ago When I was in Dubai 2 years ago there was a cell phone store in the mall that sold phones that ranged from $30k -$120k. They were basically phones covered in diamonds and gold. That's $100k for something that is probably already obsolete.

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Text - Silent-Zebra 76 points · 5 days ago Monogram dumbbell weights by Louis Vuitton that'll set you back $3800AUD.

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Text - wongrich 53 points · 5 days ago CHANEL TENNIS BALLS: $475 USD FOR 4!! WWTTTEE TacoBellPhD 43 points · 5 days ago You're gonna love this Louis Vuitton volleyball Ofor $2860.

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