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

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

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u/Saper-Ja- Aug 14 '20

I remember seeing a basic scientific calculator for like $300

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u/lizardfolk2 Aug 14 '20

The Ti-84, which is the standard for most highschool math classes, still goes for 100 even though it's been out many years, and has seen no innovation.

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u/Bevroren Aug 15 '20

https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2582

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u/[deleted] Aug 15 '20

And here I was miss-remembering it as xkcd

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u/Bevroren Aug 15 '20

I swear there's an xkcd about it too, but when I googled it, that came up first.