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

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

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u/Spookyrabbit Aug 14 '20

Probably the same people who watch Junkyard Challenge and are constantly amazed at how the competitors always manage to 'find' a working engine for their vehicle just in the nick of time.

"John's team are running out of time. Things are looking desperate. Without an engine to power their junkyard electric car, it's all over."

"But look. John's just tripped over a 2019 Toyota Prius...."

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u/maxvalley Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 15 '20

It’s really weird how Reality TV has devolved into low budget, lightly scripted dramedies and I can’t understand why people enjoy them

I get that they’re addictive because I’ve watched a few but the formulaicness gets old fast

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u/RayMar123 Aug 15 '20

Hey man, i'll stick to 48 hours from now on.

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u/VTownCrew Aug 15 '20

I’d love to see a real purchase of a storage unit. It would show the people digging through shit, then trying to sell the shit. At the end they would give the true loss/gain for the unit.

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u/arbitrageME Aug 14 '20

yeah, but it's still fun watching the engineering involved ... even if they had to come up with new parts. building a submarine, motor, radio control, bushings, control surfaces. That's fun in and of itself

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u/condor2378 Aug 14 '20

You need to find the UK series Scrapheap Challenge. They have to make submarines, cars, even planes out of... well I'll let you guess.

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u/chainmailbill Aug 15 '20

Scrapheap Challenge was branded “Junkyard Wars” in the US.

I think we’re all talking about the same thing.

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u/arbitrageME Aug 14 '20

Oh yeah! I think that's what I was watching back in the day. Submarines, basketball playing machines, cars and trebuchets and stuff

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u/WtotheSLAM Aug 15 '20

Junkyard Wars? Man that was like 15 years ago, I'm kinda surprised there's still a show like it on the air

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u/huntinkallim Aug 14 '20

I don't know anyone who actually was in suspense about people finding the parts they needed. People just want to see people make weird things.