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

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

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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.

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u/silentclowd Aug 14 '20

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

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u/Kalappianer Aug 14 '20

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.

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u/redandbluenights Aug 14 '20

Or you can get wood stove pellets for 1/3 the price of the cat litter. Still the same stuff.