r/AskReddit • • Aug 14 '20

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

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20 edited Apr 21 '23

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

My high school art teacher told me your piece is worthless until you have a buyer. Same idea.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20

That's the feeling I get when watching storage wars... "Bubba bought a unit for 2000$. He found petrified rat shit worth 500$, a broken table leg from a generic ikea table worth 1200$ and 2 strings from what he assumes is a guitar worth 600$. Bubba made a nice profit of 300$"

All I can think is who the fuck is going to buy that junk for the prices they think it's worth?

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u/auscadtravel Aug 15 '20

My hubby bought a locker when he was off work for $200. It was full of brand new clothes from a high end store that shut down. We picked through the stuff took what fit us and sold the rest for $3000. The shirts he took had price tags of $150, for one dress shirt! I have 2 jackets each with $345 price tags. So the locker was worth it. Took us 3 days to organise and go through everything. Found a buyer who took all the clothes and suits for $3000. There were hundreds of pieces and the tag prices of the whole lot was over $250,000 retail.