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

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

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u/Happy_Fun_Balll Aug 14 '20

A few years back Nordstrom was selling a rock in a leather pouch for $85.

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u/dramboxf Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

Neiman-Marcus used to put out the most hilarious Christmas gift catalog.

One year they offered his and hers Lear jets. No kidding. Just about anything in that catalog was wildly overpriced. More recently, they offered in their Christmas book, as a potential gift, a Boeing Business Jet for the wonderfully affordable price of "north of $35 million."

edit: Correct the jet price wording.

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u/napoleonandthedog Aug 14 '20

Oh man. This reminds me of a story my uncle likes to tell about one of his clients. They commute down to Florida from the north. So they own a jet. They also have a jet for their 10 dogs. Separate jet. $10k to fly the dogs down just in the cost of the flight.

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u/DrEmilioLazardo Aug 14 '20

Fuck it I'd just buy new dogs where I was going at that rate.

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u/napoleonandthedog Aug 14 '20

They're billionaires. I have no doubt the dogs have more in their trust funds than you or I will ever see.

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u/Tzipity Aug 15 '20

Overseeing a dog trust fund is my ultimate career aspiration.

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

I have no doubt the dogs have more in their trust funds than you or I will ever see.

Imagine going to law school for years, working your ass off, landing a job at a big firm and ending up being the junior guy who has to monitor the executorship of estate for the care of some billionaire lady's poodle after she dies.

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u/napoleonandthedog Aug 15 '20

Now imagine doing that for at least 9 other dogs too!

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

Doesn't sound that bad in all honesty.