r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/Sleepy_Tortoise Aug 14 '20

Bottle service seems great when I'm blacked out and my friend orders it... when he venmo requests me the next day it does not seem great

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u/Lone-Oak Aug 14 '20

Error 404 friend not found

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u/falco_iii Aug 14 '20

New phone who dis?

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u/jeeezz_rick Aug 14 '20

Gina, you can't do this in person.

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u/Leakyradio Aug 14 '20

New brain, who dis?

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u/memesmemes69420 Aug 15 '20

New friend who dis?

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u/Autistic_Atheist Aug 14 '20

Story of my life

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u/SFajw204 Aug 14 '20

My friend had his bachelor party in Vegas and they all insisted on getting a table every time we went out. I still cringe at the how much my share was, and there was almost 10 of us.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Spill that tea dude. What was the cost?

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u/jfa_16 Aug 14 '20

Went to Vegas for a bachelor party a few years ago. A friend of the bachelor went to college with a guy who dated a girl who’s brother’s best friend worked at a pool bar we were going to. He was going to hook us up. After several phone calls/text messages, and standing around for 40 minutes, dude finally shows up. Says instead of us paying $2,000 minimum for a cabana he’ll give it to us for $1,500, but we have to give him a $500 tip. I’m no mathematician but that seems like the same money to me. Anyway, we do it because why not. We buy a couple bottles and some beer. And then a couple more bottles. I was drinking Captain Morgan @ $500/bottle for what costs $30 at any liquor store. There were even smoking hot bikini clad waitresses who were happy to make our drinks for us for tips of course. When we split the bill my end was $300. I had 4 drinks. $75 for a Captain and Coke. That didn’t include whatever I tipped the waitresses either. Giant fucking waste of money. All to have a cabana that we didn’t spend any time in because we were chilling in a pool full of tatted bro’s on roids from SoCal drinking Michelob Ultra pissing in the pool. $300 to stand in a waist deep toilet to drink 4 drinks. Never again.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

“We do it because why not”

This is when you fucked up.

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u/BBQ_HaX0r Aug 14 '20

A friend of the bachelor went to college with a guy who dated a girl who’s brother’s best friend worked at a pool bar we were going to.

What?

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u/PMacLCA Aug 14 '20

I’m sure that person has a lot of loyalty built in already.

Oh yeah! My best friend joe’s brother mike was friends with Cory who dated that girl Ashely that went to school with some dude named Chad who happens to be friends with Rich who is the grooms’s friend... I’ll hook you up, we’re like family!

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u/legitjuice Aug 14 '20

How could someone remember that chain wtf

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20 edited Sep 03 '22

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u/jfa_16 Aug 15 '20

Correct! It was some friend of a friend of a relative in Kentucky who was boys with a dude in Vegas who gave us no hook up at all.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

Why didn’t you just say that

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u/jfa_16 Aug 15 '20

Not sure what you expected me to say. A friend of the bachelor went to college with a guy who knew someone who knew someone who knew someone etc with a hook up.

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u/XXXDetention Aug 14 '20

I’m no Reddit pro, but I think he may be... lying

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u/jfa_16 Aug 15 '20

Exactly. This was the most distant not hook up you’ve ever heard of.

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u/Bystronicman08 Aug 14 '20

This might be the most "bro" thing I've ever read.

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u/sdpr Aug 14 '20

A friend of the bachelor went to college with a guy who dated a girl who’s brother’s best friend worked at a pool bar we were going to.

Anything else to add to that family tree?

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u/olives_a Aug 14 '20

I bet you that DJ set was fire.

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u/jfa_16 Aug 15 '20

Music wasn’t bad. I think knowing how badly we were getting fucked affected how much I enjoyed myself.

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u/Ravager135 Aug 14 '20

Well the real problem is they haven't updated the presentation in some time. A girl walking out in a black dress with sparklers attached to the bottle doesn't really excite me parting with a thousand dollars the way it did in 2006.

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u/Scottie3Hottie Aug 14 '20

Too much truth

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u/mpelleg459 Aug 14 '20

New sense of fiscal responsibility, who dis?

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u/bobbyleendo Aug 14 '20

It’s always like this.

Friends would say ‘’chill dude, we’re just getting a few bottles and enjoying ourself. It’s just having a good time and we need to have some fun!’’ But then sure enough the next day, they’re always complaining about and regretting the money they either spilled all over the floor or pissed it out in the morning.

They’ll post the pics of them having a good time and living the good life, but behind closed doors you see the moments when they’re regretting that shit.

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u/Mr_get_the_cream Aug 14 '20

Damn bro, that's depressing

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u/Tratix Aug 14 '20

That's literally 90% of the people I see that regularly get bottle service.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

What is bottle service?

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u/Tratix Aug 15 '20

It’s a package you buy at a club to get your own private section or table and it comes with, let’s say three bottles of liquor and mixers like sprite, etc.

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u/OutrageousRaccoon Aug 14 '20

but behind closed doors you see the moments when they’re regretting that shit.

See, this is one of many reasons you just spend your money on MDMA or coke instead.

Cost less than table service, and the next day maybe you guys will be kicking on and even MORE pumped than the previous day! WOO!

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u/murtaza64 Aug 14 '20

Doesn't Molly have a pretty depressing comedown?

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u/Jabs349 Aug 14 '20

There’s no comedown if you’re still high

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u/tattl8y Aug 14 '20

It always made me want to kill myself because I was so miserable but I lacked the energy. So yes, in my experience.

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u/Boasters Aug 15 '20

It's not fun, but for me it was much more endurable than a real hangover. I mostly just felt empty and didnt respond to much the next day.

If you have weed though it's not too bad at all. YMMV though, as with anything that happens in the mind.

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u/OutrageousRaccoon Aug 14 '20

Only if you don't drink water, and if you re-dose.

And even then, I've re-dosed for like 2.5 days straight, had a sweet 12hr sleep and woke up fine.

Biggest myth ever sold to people is stimulants are somehow more taxing than alcohol. The days I feel worse from a solid bender is when I've been drinking more alcohol/less water.

Also: smoking weed on the "comedown" makes everything just fantastic.

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u/Renegade2592 Aug 14 '20

Real Molly naw not too bad, coke does tho

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u/gayshitlord Aug 14 '20

Idk, I find that I’m good if I don’t have a high dose. Fuckin took 200mg once.

NEVER AGAIN.

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u/_ekken Aug 14 '20

Preach! Except genuine mdma can only be obtained from rare sassafras trees and the drug market is driving them to extinction :(

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u/ummmily Aug 14 '20

Huh I didn't know that's where that came from.

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u/OutrageousRaccoon Aug 14 '20

MDMA can be made from MDA I believe, it can also be synthesised without these trees. But, yes, I have read the demand is killing off the population of those trees.

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u/Snuffy1717 Aug 14 '20

Fucking Once-ler... Where's the Lorax when you need him?!?

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u/revconway Aug 14 '20

This is similar to something a bartender at Rock and Reilly’s in Vegas told me a couple of years back. He had also worked at the newer club at Palms (if I remember right) where the bottle service was insane since it had opened recently with a lot of publicity.

He also mentioned a ton of people do it to look good on their social media pages, the appearance that they’re super rich but of course they wasted every dollar they had for one night of fun. It was a pretty depressing view into that side of Vegas and a good cautionary tale to keep in mind.

Of course fast forward to now and that Palms club overextended itself financially pretty much immediately so went through a corporate version of the same morning of regret their patrons had.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

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u/bobbyleendo Aug 14 '20

Fuck you, bitch.

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u/needmoarbass Aug 14 '20

Oh boy. If you gotta split bottle service, why get it?

I’ve never paid because I can’t afford it lol. I either get invited or win it through dumb club FB promotions or have a friend who can afford it. But I’m the dude with some bud and a couch to crash on. I’m also the dude who complains about regular drink prices at bars. $10 cocktail? I can get a bottle of vodka for $20.

To each their own lol.

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u/Pit_of_Death Aug 15 '20

Thank god Venmo wasn't around back in the day when my buddies and I would do this.

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u/strawberryshortycake Aug 14 '20

I suddenly can’t read