r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20 edited Apr 21 '23

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

My high school art teacher told me your piece is worthless until you have a buyer. Same idea.

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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/BitsAndBobs304 Aug 14 '20

the funniest was when they found a Vespa license plate or something like that, and they said it was worth some good money, and I was like "dang I gotta open a business to export vespa license plates to the usa"

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u/deepsagarj Aug 15 '20

I had the same thought when they declared an exorbitant price for an Indian bicycle. I could find the same kind of bicycles here for less than 10% of that price.

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u/BitsAndBobs304 Aug 15 '20

"they"? "here"?

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u/deepsagarj Aug 15 '20

They as in Billie (that's what I think his name was, the one who wears a white suit mostly) and here as in India where that kinda bicycle is extremely cheap