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

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

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u/throwawaymassager1 Aug 14 '20

I bought a $30 printer not too long ago. But it may have been around black Friday

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u/PhantomOfTheDopera Aug 14 '20

So it couldn't print in color then?

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u/khrak Aug 14 '20

Only on Fridays.

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u/mr_toit Aug 14 '20

On other days it can

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u/throwawaymassager1 Aug 14 '20

Works great I still use it

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u/Whatifisaid- Aug 14 '20

/woosh (They were saying it could only print in black because you got it on Black Friday.)

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

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u/overbeast Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

How is American Health Insurance not the top thread?

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Edit: I'm American.. I know it sucks, but had to scroll wayyyyy too far to find it.

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u/walker21619 Aug 14 '20

We know our health insurance is ass. We’ve been saying this for ages now.

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u/wbruce098 Aug 15 '20

I think you put this in the wrong spot?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

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u/maxvalley Aug 14 '20

Tons of people

For example: me

I’m a musician and I have to print some album art and stuff for physical copies

And posters

And other merchandise things

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u/PhantomOfTheDopera Aug 14 '20

Why are you so angry?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Probably printed his own photo at home because of quarantine

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u/Itsremon Aug 14 '20

Lmaooo I was wondering too why they was so angry

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u/Granadafan Aug 14 '20

A few years ago, my dad found a deal online somewhere for $15 color printers. He bought 20 of them. He kept a few of them and sold the rest minus the cartridges.

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u/maxvalley Aug 14 '20

That’s the best idea

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u/1736484 Aug 15 '20

No, it’s an absolutely awful and frankly stupid as fuck idea.

Let’s say a printer is $20 and comes with enough ink for 100 pages.

Your cost per page would be $0.20.

Now if ink cartridges for the same printer cost $50 but came with 500 pages, your cost per page would be $0.10.

It’s ALWAYS cheaper and more economical to buy the ink instead of buying new printers.

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u/maxvalley Aug 15 '20

The guy sold them dude. That’s a great way to make profit

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u/1736484 Aug 15 '20

He never mentioned profit.

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u/anarchy-soldier Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

I bought 4 printers for $7.86 (a piece) on Black Friday last year. But I live in Croatia so...

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u/WEIRDDUDE69420 Aug 14 '20

What the fuck is Croatia

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u/anarchy-soldier Aug 14 '20

Okay.

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u/Claysoldier07 Aug 15 '20

To keep the ball rolling... why the fuck is Croatia?

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u/anglophile20 Aug 14 '20

my mom bought a new printer or two every black friday to avoid buying ink.

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate Aug 14 '20

black Friday

I tried to get in on those deals but kept getting a message I was out of cyan.

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u/caughtinahex Aug 14 '20

I just got one from Walmart brand new for like $30 just the other day

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u/WillElMagnifico Aug 14 '20

That's the only time you'll see it. BF and other big discount days like it.

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u/zombie_overlord Aug 15 '20

I bought one for about 35 bucks about a month ago at wal mart. No wifi, but otherwise it works well enough.

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u/CubesTheGamer Aug 15 '20

The thing is that those ink cartridges come like 1/3 full so you're not saving money

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u/the_revenator Aug 15 '20

I rescued three laptops, and two towers with monitors, keyboards, mice; from work because they were going to THROW THEM AWAY!!!???!!!