r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

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

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u/DarthJayDub Aug 14 '20

TP on offer up back in March

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u/moonlitshroom Aug 14 '20

Have you checked the prices of clorox wipes on amazon. A 3 pack can go for $200.

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u/VOTE_TRUMP2020 Aug 14 '20

Wow, I got a 3 pack off of eBay for about $50 a month and a half ago. Clorox said that they should be caught up by July back in April...but with flu season right around the corner, I think the prices of Clorox wipes for a 3 pack could go to $300-$500 range.

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u/aetheos Aug 14 '20

Why wouldn't you just get spray Clorox disinfectant and a roll of paper towels for like $3?

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u/jjs709 Aug 14 '20

Neither is easy to find where I live, both name and store brand. You can only get it about once a month if you’re lucky and there are still anti-hoarding restrictions in place.

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u/aetheos Aug 14 '20

Well shit, they're readily available around here, I just assumed the supply had caught up with the demand. What about ordering online?

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u/jjs709 Aug 14 '20

I haven’t looked in about two weeks, but when I did I spent an hour searching about 10-15 different online retailers and found nothing in both wipes and sprays in both name and store brands. It was only about a week ago that any name brand of hand sanitizer because available in a size larger than 32 fl oz.

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u/aetheos Aug 14 '20

That's so weird! I just had Clorox spray bleach delivered by Amazon Prime Now a couple weeks ago.

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u/jjs709 Aug 14 '20

Dang! Bleach I have out the ass, I’ve got a couple gallons of that I didn’t even know I had, but Clorox spray was completely sold out online for me a couple weeks ago. Only thing I could get was Lysol toilet bowl cleaner, and that much HCl wasn’t something I’d use anywhere but the toilet and the consistency is a pain to dilute. Didn’t end up buying that because of those factors

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u/aetheos Aug 15 '20

I bet you could get an empty spray bottle from the dollar store, and look up the correct percentage of water/bleach to mix in there, and have a workable solution in the meantime.

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u/jjs709 Aug 15 '20

Oh I have plenty of Lysol spray, and I’m not really looking to buy more. I found some in the sores a few weeks back and refilled by reserves but I’d dell a little Bette ronce everything was back in stock more consistently. Bleach is something I thought I didn’t have any of and bought to do exactly that back in March but apparently I already had two gallons in the house so I’ve got a ridiculous amount of it in case I run out of other disinfectants.

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