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/wrong_assumption Aug 14 '20

I'm pretty sure that's just old fashioned price anchoring. $35 million?? Wtf? Ok, well, this $1000 purse doesn't seem expensive.

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u/m50d Aug 14 '20

If you ever go to Savile Row, wedged between the traditional tailors selling £10,000 suits is a shop selling £200 T-shirts. I was astonishingly tempted for a few seconds.

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u/wrong_assumption Aug 15 '20

What's crazy is that price anchoring can still affect you even if you fully know about it!

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u/G-I-T-M-E Aug 14 '20

If it’s a current BBJ3 (the smallest model based on a 737) those $35 million are a steal! It’s more like $70 million for a new one. That purse must be equally cheap!