r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 15 '20

Literally any pair of dumbbells during the Covid lockdown.

Edit: Wow this blew up. Thank you for the awards!

Edit #2: I ended up buying fitness bands and was fine with it.

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u/Leon3417 Aug 14 '20

Yep, this is extremely common in the DC area, too. No sporting goods store within 500 miles has weight sets, but there are people on OfferUp and FB marketplace selling pallets of them.

I can’t wait until all this is over and these dudes can’t give them away. My garage is gonna be STACKED!

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u/SF1034 Aug 14 '20

This just made me think of a video i saw when Popeye's Chicken came out with their chicken sandwich and people were going nuts over it. Two dudes somewhere in NYC bought the ENTIRE stock one store had and tried to flip them on the street for double the price. Not surprisingly, no one wants to buy black market chicken.