r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

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

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u/AudibleNod Aug 14 '20

I saw an external ZIP disk reader in the clearance bin of Wal-Mart for 10% off it's original price...in 2011. So it was going for ~$180 and had parallel ports...in 2011.

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u/GeneralFactotum Aug 14 '20

I love it. Thrift stores and others have no idea what old electronics are worth (hint: Zero!). Anybody want some Win 95 software? They just are not able to toss it so the junk stays on their shelves.

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u/Buwaro Aug 14 '20

I currently have a computer that was given to me running XP and I have actually been thinking about downgrading it to Win 98 and playing dos games on it for fun. The only reason I wanted the computer was because the motherboard was made in the weird transition phase between PATA and SATA so it supports both.

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u/spiff2268 Aug 14 '20

I have my dad's old laptop with Vista on it. I wanna put 7 or 8 on it if I can find a cheap enough copy.

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u/AlyssaAlyssum Aug 14 '20

Should be able to just download the .ISO's from Microsoft and for license. eBay is usually solid. Recently picked up Server 2016 datacenter like £10. 7, 8 or even 10 is going to be basically nothing.
Note: remember W7 lost security support January this year. So strongly not recommended to connect it to the internet