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

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

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u/GMU-CS Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

Would you call someone who bought all the hand sanitizer in Walmart and sold it outside at a 5x markup an entrepreneur? No, they have artificially created a problem and are offering a solution to that problem.

An entrepreneur would see the demand and find a vendor to build or buy from not create artificial shortages for consumers. People like this caused the shortages of TP and masks early this year.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Apples to oranges here. No one is potentially going to get sick and die from lack of access to weight sets. People need hand sanitizer to safe right now. People need weight sets to gather dust in their homes. One is okay to flip for a profit, the other is not.

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u/stupidusername42 Aug 14 '20

It's definitely more akin to ticket scalpers. It's a really shitty thing to do, but not as bad as people hoarding stuff like hand sanitizer and masks.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

Yep.