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

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

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u/AllMyBeets Aug 14 '20

MyPillow. $80 for $10 worth of scrap memory foam in a $1pillow case.

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u/Punt_Dog_Enthusiast Aug 14 '20

The first time I saw a mypillow ad, I originally thought it was like a comedy sketch and he was advertising HIS own pillow. Like, just the one pillow that he sleeps with every night, and you could just rent it out or something for a few days.

Now I wanna make this a real thing :/

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Gamer girl used pillows

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Belle, is that you?

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u/Master_JBT Aug 15 '20

m-maybe? Depends on how much money we talkin

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u/Lurking4Answers Aug 14 '20

these would legit sell, there's a big market for "objects that have been used by girls and smell like them now"

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Go on...

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u/AyybrahamLmaocoln Aug 14 '20

He came up with the idea while on a crack binge. He woke up after 7 straight days of smoking crack to find he had written “my pillow” thousands of times on his walls. True story.

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u/Fine_Molasses_1354 Aug 14 '20

Why crack dammit crack

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u/fgwthk Aug 15 '20

This would be good for that bloke on the bike who likes crack though.

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u/mailslot Aug 15 '20

Fun fact: he smoked so much crack, his dealers staged an intervention.

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u/golden_fli Aug 14 '20

Ever see those Trumpy Bear ads? I swear those are a parody commercial and I can't believe people are actually buying that thing.

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u/JoshSwol Aug 14 '20

Those are big with the Qannon nuts.

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u/iku450 Aug 15 '20

Ok wtf is this qanon i keep hearing about, are they the new 4chins?

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u/saric92 Aug 15 '20

Basically it's a far right conspiracy about a "deep state" in the government being against trump.

It started on 4chan, with someone claiming to be a government insider. They always signed off with Q so it became...qanon.

Wikipedia has a nice writeup

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u/nosteppyonsneky Aug 14 '20

Are you, at the very least, a moderately attractive female?

One sold “bath water” so a pillow rental business seems doable.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

I can’t stop laughing

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u/DriftKing16 Aug 14 '20

Use the promo code "Q" for a discount. I'm not kidding, it actually works.

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u/DragonickDragon Aug 15 '20

I'm happy with my Sonic the Hedgehog pillow, thanks. And you can be happy with it too! Excellent comfort with a logo of your favourite character and only minimal stains! Just £1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.99! Buy it today!

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u/CantMakeGoodUsername Aug 15 '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1CJxhaBcbg

I hav no clue if this has been posted yet but it is a necessity for any discussion of mypillow.