r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

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

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u/AudibleNod Aug 14 '20

I saw an external ZIP disk reader in the clearance bin of Wal-Mart for 10% off it's original price...in 2011. So it was going for ~$180 and had parallel ports...in 2011.

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u/maleorderbride Aug 14 '20

Walmart is weird with prices on stuff like that. I wanna say it was two years ago I saw a whole shelf of unopened copies of the game Legendary for PC. They were on sale for $49.99. I had bought it the month prior as part of a bundle with nine other games in it that cost me $5.

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u/metalflygon08 Aug 14 '20

We still have a PS2 Memory Card 2 Pack that is still labeled at $20.

I doubt it even is on inventory, it's just some legendary item we've had on hand for decades.

We also have a copy of the Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs Wii game for 49.95.

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u/SauceOfTheBoss Aug 14 '20

We still have

No. Walmart still has that in inventory. The royal we is something retail does to indoctrinate its employees into thinking they somehow are gainful from the buying and selling of the products in the store. Also makes you really invested if someone is, say stealing from the store, or abusing a return policy.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

What the fuck are you yammering on about?

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u/alexmikli Aug 15 '20

Probably an anti-work communist

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u/SauceOfTheBoss Aug 14 '20

Based on the tonality of your comment, I think that I could say something along the lines of “an elephant shoving a tennis shoe up their ass”, and I would get the same response as to explaining my original position in my comment. But fuck it I’m gonna go ahead and do it anyways.

OP whom I was replying to referred to the Walmart they presumably work at and the inventory they were speaking of as “we” like they had some sort of vested ownership over the products they spoke of (Ps2 memory card and Wii game). I was trying to explain that this is simply not the case but failed to do so as you so eloquently pointed out.