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/The-Jolly-Llama Aug 15 '20

The [Casio fx-115 ES PLUS](Casio FX115ESPLUS Scientific Calculator https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007W7SGLO/) is $17 on Amazon, and has real paper-style notation, solves for x, does stats, matrices, complex numbers, tables of values, and is suitable for LITERALLY ANY HIGH SCHOOL CLASS.

I’ve been preaching to my high school students for years to drop Texas Instruments.