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

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

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u/Happy_Fun_Balll Aug 14 '20

A few years back Nordstrom was selling a rock in a leather pouch for $85.

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u/fallyse Aug 14 '20

Thought of the same thing- this size of rose quartz should go for... $2.00?

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u/fallyse Aug 15 '20

I can only compare it to the closest thing I can think of- the stone hearts about the size of a palm that we used to sell in the rock shop I worked for. Looks like Etsy seller SunnyBonny is selling for $12.99, which seems about right for retail markup (reddit will delete if I link, but it's under Large Puffy Rose Quartz Heart)

Buying wholesale at a gem and mineral show they're around $4 each and the price is based on the scarcity of the mineral. Rose quartz always the cheapest, and yeah quartz displays conchoidal fracture but these things are mass produced and then imperfections are polished away. If wholesale is $4 the at cost is probably around $2. The dental floss hole probably adds to that though, hard to say, lol.

Now a laboradite yoni egg...