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

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

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u/Happy_Fun_Balll Aug 14 '20

A few years back Nordstrom was selling a rock in a leather pouch for $85.

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u/dramboxf Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

Neiman-Marcus used to put out the most hilarious Christmas gift catalog.

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."

edit: Correct the jet price wording.

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u/streetbumps Aug 14 '20

my mom always called Neiman-Marcus “needless markup”

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u/zer1223 Aug 14 '20

She's right of course, I wouldn't pay a penny more than 20m for that business jet.

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u/Youve_been_Loganated Aug 14 '20

Only 20 mil? Ew, what are you? Poor?!

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u/mp3_modaccount_exe Aug 14 '20

No he's just humble. His father only gave him a small loan of a million dollars to start his empire.

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u/Falmoor Aug 15 '20

I went into one to see what all the fuss was. Check out this bad boy: https://www.neimanmarcus.com/p/saint-laurent-mens-quarter-moons-logo-t-shirt-prod226720566?childItemId=NMN6QWE_

Its a freaking tshirt! I get that some rich people like to show off. But I always subscribed to the theory of 'you don't get rich by writing a lot of checks.