Saturday, January 30, 2021

Products That Are Too Marked Up For Their Own Good


Just about everything is a little bit of a racket. Hell, if everything was sold at cost, there'd be no reason for anyone to run a business. It's when businesses use brand sway and deceitful practices to drive insane markups that things start to seem unfair and hairy. Even if you are spending a lot on movie theater sodas and designer eyeglasses, at least you're not following these bits of the dumbest financial advice people have gotten. On the other side of it, here are reckless uses of money that people didn't regret at all.

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Text - asecretspy 1 day ago O 2 2 3 5 & 2 More College textbooks on their 2nd to 100th edition.

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Text - suestrong315 1 day ago Bathtubs... specifically fiberglass You can buy a $900 -$1200 bathtub or shower and it will be a giant piece of shit. It won't have enough gelcoat on it, or enough fiberglass backing, and they're paper thin with airvoids that are as brittle as egg shells. Dare to drop something in it? You may get lucky and just get a ding, or maybe the gelcoat will fucking shatter like your windshield at which point fixing it becomes a world class nightmare when you try and paint it

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Text - 101forgotmypassword 1 day ago 22 3 Printer cartridges.

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Text - > Magazines192 1 day ago 2 Any cable (usb, hdmi etc). They cost pennies to make 35.3k . Reply Share Report Save mockg 1 day ago Company I used to work for would give us cables at the price they purchased them for. I would get HDMI and cell phone cables that would retail at $15-$20 for around $1-$2.

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Text - HIPS79 1 day ago 34 E Carbonated beverages and popcorn are what keep restaurants and movie theatres in business.

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Text - SlytherinGirl125 1 day ago 3 Makeup - that shit is produced cheap, especially the high end brands 28.2k + I Reply Share Report Save jengiekat 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago This!! Most cosmetics in general basically. Part of why most makeup stores have such relaxed return policies... Eyeshadow palettes cost like 20 cents each to manufacture and sell for $50.

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Text - GlutonForPUNishment 1 day ago Baby clothes are marked up by 1000% on average

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Text - Scaryassmanbear 1 day ago O 29 e10 & 28 More Insulin

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Text - ParaPixie 1 day ago Sodium Chloride IV bags in hospitals in the United States. It costs less than $1 to make but hospitals can charge over $200+ per bag.

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Text - ijustwanttobejess 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago 57 & 11 More I was a certified optician and ran a lens lab for Pearle Vision in the early 2000's. Our most expensive frames, excluding the weird Armani shit we carried, cost us $20-$30 per frame. They sold for $200-$400 depending. Our cheapest frames cost us $2-3 each, and none sold for less $50. The lenses, that's a lot of markup. I started in a brand new store, and we had a brand new lab full of Essilor hardware. Latest and greatest at the

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Text - Basically, if you have a strong prescription (+- ~3 or so) aspheric can make a much thinner and lighter lens that can give you the same vision a thicker traditional lens does. Add in anti-scratch ($) anti-reflective ($) and the cost of the lenses alone were around $400 for the customer. Pearle Vision's cost for the lense blanks? $23. The entire cost of the Essilor equipment in the lens lab at my location was only ~$250000, and we regularly sold $800+ glasses. And, the part that I really h

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Text - DownBad1 1 day ago I'll never forget learning that the movie theater I worked at paid $5 for a 24 pack of Dasani bottles. We charged $4.50 for 1.

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Text - Willis644 1 day ago a S 2 Epi-pens. They cost like 2 bucks to make and then are sold for like $150

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Text - aeleisha3941 1 day ago O 2 Barrettes, hair clips and other bits of plastic that hold your hair in place. I get these at dollar stores because the high-end pharmacies charge way too much.

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Text - brkh47 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago Designer handbags, at least in recent years to meet the demand of the newly rich. There's a huge industry of Chinese immigrant workers in Tuscany, Italy, who manufacture the bags there, so that it can bear the coveted "Made in Italy" label They are perhaps not that cheaply made but still not the value of the prices they command.

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Text - kouch 1 day ago S E Ibuprofen at a hospital. "Yeah, we just went and got this bottle from the dollar store for $4. Oh, that patient needs two of them? Sure, charge their bill $88."

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Text - dude7271 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago 3 Beats headphones cost $17.00 to make, and are sold for $100 - $500 That's insane

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Text - matanpokoj2 1 day ago 9 e2 Someone once said " 'They asked the company why they were selling their product for $200 if it costs $10 to make it?' And the company responded 'because people buy them for $200' "

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Text - PS6610 1 day ago 3 New build houses in the UK! Built by the lowest bidder, to the lowest standards possible. Crammed in so densely that two "detached" houses can be less than 18 inches apart. The biggest scam is that the developers try to sell the house, but retain ownership of the land that it's built on, then charge rent for the land. For this shit they want a minimum of £350,000.

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Text - Back2Bach 1 day ago Glaucoma eyedrops - about $379 for a tiny bottle of the prescription treatment.

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Text - RonSwansonsOldMan 1 day ago Those $350 Nikes cost maximum 20 bucks to make, shipping included. Oh, and the 15 hundred dollar ones also cost about 20 bucks to make.

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Text - Skywest96 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago Crêpes. We make them often at home here in France. 250g of flour, two eggs some milk, maybe butter, you get 25 crepes for what, 4 euros of groceries. Some street foods in Paris or other big cities will sell them 4 or 5 euros sometimes. And they buy the ingredients in big bulks at cheaper prices so they make an even bigger margin. They make 100 euros of crêpes for 3 euros of batter and add the toppings, let's say 7 euros for a pot of nutella, sugar an

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Text - manzare 1 day ago Homeopathic pills. There is nothing in it, no money used for clinical trials. Sold for around 7- 10 euros per box.

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Text - ConstableBlimeyChips 1 day ago French fries/chips/whatever you want to call them. McDonalds buys its potatoes at around 20 cents to the pound. You can get about four medium fries ($1.79) out of a pound of potatoes. Even if transport, labor, and other overhead triples the cost that's still a profit margin well over 1000%. Margins on soda are even higher while burgers and other items have more ingredients and complexity and are thus more expensive to produce.

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Text - NicNoletree 1 day ago Wedding cakes 1 1.2k + Reply Share Report Save aussiegreenie 1 day ago 4 Wedding eakes anythings Anything related to a wedding is double to 10x the normal cost.

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Text - mhatrick 1 day ago A lot flipped houses. Be careful when looking at recently remodeled houses. Most of these are cheap flips with nothing more than some new paint, flooring and appliances. It becomes very apparent when you actually view the house in person and the doors don't close right, the windows are old, and everything just feels cheap

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Text - ammarbinaslam 1 day ago Himalayan Salt - in Pakistan, we get that shit in like 0.20 cents but I've heard it being expensive in UK & US

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Text - Loga5655 1 day ago Crocs 388 Reply Share Report Save sitmonkey 1 day ago True, those clogs use a sorta complicated mold but that's it. There's no manual labor to put them together or fabrics or stitching. It's cheap foam. So you can find generic versions on other countries with the same quality and the cost is a couple bucks.

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Text - Vanilla_Neko 1 day ago Remember that alleged art piece that was a banana duct tape to a wall that some Chad just straight up ate 1 242 + , Reply Share Report Save MuhWaifus 1 day ago After its sale, while still on exhibit at Art Basel, Georgian performance artist David Datuna ate the piece, calling the intervention Hungry Artist. The banana was replaced later that day. No legal action was taken against him, though he was asked to leave the fair. Datuna has stated "What we perceive as mate

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Text - LibrarySuper9362 1 day ago Shoes. As a 3rd generation shoe repair shop owner, shoes are literally made from landfill junk. S0 many middle aged woman crawling out of their range rovers and into our shop complaining that the leather on their very expensive boots is peeling off. Well yes ma'am, those $350 MK boots are made of vinyl, they're not real leather. You bought plastic.

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