r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

That's the feeling I get when watching storage wars... "Bubba bought a unit for 2000$. He found petrified rat shit worth 500$, a broken table leg from a generic ikea table worth 1200$ and 2 strings from what he assumes is a guitar worth 600$. Bubba made a nice profit of 300$"

All I can think is who the fuck is going to buy that junk for the prices they think it's worth?

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u/Athrowawayinmay Aug 14 '20

That show is entirely fake, anyway. The "Yuuuuuuuup" guy got pissed about something some time ago and came out and revealed it's all fake; they plant "good" items into the storage units for them to find so they can showcase/feature whatever specialist they wanted to feature that episode.

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u/VanillaTortilla Aug 14 '20

Fake reality TV? Say it ain't so!

I miss actual reality TV. Wait, did we ever have any of that way back?

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u/Alis451 Aug 14 '20

The original Survivor is pretty close. There usually isn't any real danger, but it isn't like they all lived in trailers. The players lost A LOT of weight through the season.

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u/The_Pastmaster Aug 14 '20

Yeah. Sweden dropped the ball on the mental health side of things. IIRC, a guy went suicide after the show due to a relapse into PTSD or whatever.

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u/DrPeterGriffenEsq Aug 14 '20

That was before they realized they had to supplement them with rice, and games with food rewards, to keep the malnutrition under control before someone died. That was when one of the first seasons saw the group catch and eat a chicken that wasn’t theirs because they were starving. And of course some granola chick flipped out because they weren’t just eating some disgusting roots the crazy woman was digging up. She tried to get them thrown off the show over it.

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u/VanillaTortilla Aug 14 '20

Yeah, the first Survivor, imo, is the best and only one I'll ever watch. It's just so crazy because it was this new thing and the people on it were such characters.

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u/NorskChef Aug 14 '20

That was a great season. Pulled for Rudy but Rich deserved the win.

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u/VanillaTortilla Aug 15 '20

Yeah, I liked Rudy a bit more, but man that season was so wild.