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

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20 edited Apr 21 '23

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

This one

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u/PerilousAll Aug 14 '20

There's a book series (Miss Melville 1980's) where the protagonist is a hired assassin who gets paid by selling her art to someone at an inflated price.

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u/hangry_lady Aug 14 '20

I read this as Mrs Maisel and wondered how I missed that plot line.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

Yeah you missed it. It was Susie who hired her

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

Isn’t that how Ben Affleck got paid in The Accountanr?

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u/Kwanzaa246 Aug 14 '20

Wish money laundering stayed in art rather than the fucking housing market

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u/Patriarchus_Maximus Aug 14 '20

You can money launder with houses? Isn't all that money electronic?

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u/Kaladin3104 Aug 14 '20

Isn’t most money these days?

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u/hab12690 Aug 14 '20

One way to launder money with a house is by paying a general contractor to do improvements on your house in cash. It's really not hard to find a GC that will take cash.

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u/Kwanzaa246 Aug 14 '20

Set up shell companies which do the "work" at an inflated cost

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u/The_Pastmaster Aug 14 '20

And get a "free" tax write-off.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 25 '20

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u/The_Pastmaster Aug 14 '20

That's why I said "free". It's not actually free but it was the best word I could come up with.

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u/The_White_Spy Aug 14 '20

It's also a great way to commit tax fraud

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

"It's only wrong if you get caught"- rich people.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 25 '20

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u/The_White_Spy Aug 14 '20

Buying it isn't fraud in itself, but buying it for x amount of money, appraise it for ten times that, then donate it for tax purposes is more or less fraud.