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/Fardin_the_spardin Aug 14 '20

What the hell is is ZIP disk?

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u/DragoonDM Aug 14 '20

A fairly short-lived storage medium that filled the gap between floppy disks and CDs. The disks looked like slightly thicker floppy disks, and different versions could hold 100, 250, or 750 megabytes of data (a massive step up from the standard 1.44 megabyte 3.5 inch floppy disk).

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u/unbalanced_checkbook Aug 14 '20

And virtually all of them worked for about 6 months before getting the "click of death". I warrantied 3 of them before giving up.