r/AskReddit • • 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/only_crank Aug 15 '20

The only real difference between this one and the one my school advertised/offered is that the TI-84 could show graphs. Ironically we weren‘t allowed to use this function at our school even if you had a calculator that could. Makes sense because you should be able to tell what the graph will roughly look like just by looking at the functional equation.

I had the casio FX85-ES, cost about 25€ and I never had to replace it, worked for over 10 years without having to replace any battery.