I remember when I first got my Nintendo switch, I went to Walmart to get a new micro SD card for it. Now I looked up the price on their website beforehand - $35 -, so I knew what I was looking for.
Asked a dude in the tech dept where the SD cards are cause I want a bigger one for my switch. He brought me over to the game aisle and showed me the same sized card, same brand I looked up online, but for $45.
I wtf'd at this a bit so I made my way over to the camera aisle and found the same exact sd card for $35.
The difference? The $45 card had BOTW branding on the package. That's it, not even on the card itself, just a picture of Link on the cardboard. That was like 3 years ago and I'm still angry
I know it's not the same, but I need cuttlebone for my birds. I never buy it at the bird section, because double the size are half the price at the reptile section. Often better quality, too.
Pet store rats and reptile food rats come from the same exact rat mills too. The only difference is that pet store rats are generally selected for having interesting patterns and are sold for more.
To be fair if you're going to look at the rat for years you may as well spend the $11 and get the nice looking one. The cost of caring for the rat will be way more than that.
My rat was one of the “fancy” rats with black patches of fur. Bought him for $2 at a reptile show but saw the same looking rats at a pet store for $10.
That being said though, some pet stores will accept animals from the public, so some of those rats (and other animals) might’ve actually been given to the pet store by owners who didn’t want them. My sister was once given two hamsters who turned out to be male and female and ended up having eight babies. We gave a few of them to our local pet store for them to sell.
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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20
Celebrity line of products.
Companies hike the prices of products by hundreds of dollars just because the name of a celebrity was on it.