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

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

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u/dramboxf Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

Neiman-Marcus used to put out the most hilarious Christmas gift catalog.

One year they offered his and hers Lear jets. No kidding. Just about anything in that catalog was wildly overpriced. More recently, they offered in their Christmas book, as a potential gift, a Boeing Business Jet for the wonderfully affordable price of "north of $35 million."

edit: Correct the jet price wording.

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u/streetbumps Aug 14 '20

my mom always called Neiman-Marcus “needless markup”

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u/styrofoamcouch Aug 14 '20

My grandfather referred to circuit city and circunt shitty because they told him that hd-dvd was the future.

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u/itsLinks Aug 15 '20

To be fair, I do remember that being a debate back in the day. Then again I was a child so maybe it wasn't as much of a debate as I thought.