Things That Seem Way More Expensive Than They Need To Be

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Eric Lund
Oct 12, 2021 3:00 PM EDT

It's important to realize that for some stuff, the price isn't based on what that thing is worth, but what people are willing to pay for it. Sure, something made from a sought-after resource or requires immense precision, yeah, that makes sense. But paying a thousand dollars to get your car back? Now it's starting to sound like one of those everyday scams people accept as legit.

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    Font - FrankDrakman - 17h Mattresses. I did some work for a company, and saw their cost. That big California King that costs you over $3,00O? His cost was less than $300.
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    Font - bookwing812 - 20h · edited 17h 2 3 4 E 3 Graphing calculators. They've been using the same model for 20+ years (17 if we're talking a TI-84), and the prices are ridiculous 25.8k Reply Share Report Save FlukeRoads · 18h yeha that is beacuse TI have the monopoly of being approved for exams at many schools. Very clever marketing strategy, and also complete assshattry to keep doing.
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    Rectangle - Actuaryba - 21h 2 3 Any food or beverage sold at a sporting event or concert. And the parking as well.
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    Font - whorebxtch - 20h 2 Funerals 4 12.8k Reply Share Report Save ihahp - 15h - edited 14h Costo sells coffins btw (online), and they're much cheaper than what the funeral home is selling them for.
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    Font - ultravioletblueberry · 16h S I'm shocked I haven't seen college textbooks. That s' 't is incredibly overpriced here in the US 8.1k Reply Share Report Save jarredshere · 15h I haven't thought of those in a few years but I remember every semester jumping through hoops trying to weasel my way out of paying full price for textbooks. And the people who have replied must not have been in school when ONLINE ACCESS CODES hit the scene. Now every single class has some reason to charge you 120 doll
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    Font - lockerpunch · 21h Anything that adds on an administrative fee or convenience fee. Why is it an extra $20 to push a button, Susan?
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    Smile - heyomeatballs · 20h 3 2 Going to the damn dentist. Why is dental insurance different than health insurance? My teeth are not luxury bones I should pay to keep healthy and in my mouth.
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    Font - intashu · 18h Vending machines on the secure side of airports. You can't bring the $2 coke you bought within line of sight of the checkpoint through because it could be a bomb. You can buy another one once you get past security however! But now it's $6.. The machines are literally within sight of eachother.
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    Font - theniwokesoftly · 19h S Chemotherapy. My infusions are $18k apiece. I'm lucky that it's not for cancer and I only get it twice a year and I have insurance but like... wtf.
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    Facial expression - Aggravating-Buy-591 · 22h Curtains 5.0k Reply Share Report Save SaveBandit91 · 20h Curtains ARE expensive! And rugs!
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    Font - Boy11jb - 17h Ticketmaster's service fees
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    Font - bishpa - 14h - edited 14h The diamond market is such a racket that for a period of years during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Debeers executives were unable to set foot on US soil because they would have been arrested by the DOJ for price fixing. The crooked company eventually agreed to plead guilty and paid over $300 million in fines and settlements. The cost of doing "business".
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    Font - Upbeat_Astronaut8432 · 22h Giving birth and adopting (US.) 1.4k Reply Share Report Save Pokabrows · 18h And then they wonder why people are waiting longer or simply not having kids at all.
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    Font - PeruvianMarchPowder 21h Towing fees. Why the f. ~k are those so expensive? What's the breakdown? I live in a small city where a regular towing fee can be over $500+. Then, I go to bigger cities and hear towing fees can get up to $1000+. How is this even legal for such a minor offense like parking in the wrong spot or parking somewhere too long. Not saying you shouldn't be towed if you're committing that offense, however, bankrupting people just to get THEIR personal property back seems so
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    Font - Blixnstraten · 18h e I'm sure it's due to higher construction quality but. outdoor furniture.You either buy cheap that will disintegrate as light breeze blows through your yard as if it was on the wrong end of a Thanos snap or you sell you house and live on a diamond plated Mars graded 3 piece lounge suite.
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    Font - poopsock_boner - 18h Beef Jerky I'm gettin real tired of paying 8 dollars for like 3 pieces of jerky and some little scraps.
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    Handwriting - Intrepid_Diamond3218 - 19h Squeaky toys for dogs. Freaking $8 for a taco with ONE squeaker
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    Font - Nexusgaming3 - 19h Even slightly old Pokémon games. Found my old DS and wanted to relive the old memories, but realized I gave away all my games long ago so I started searching up copies of Pokémon emerald is Diamond, and found that an authentic copy of every Pokémon game from X and Y and earlier is worth 80+ at least usually sitting at about 110. That damned company defies everything I know about economics and depreciating value in goods.
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    Font - ihatenuts69 · 21h bottled water 216 Reply Share Report Save yakinabe - 19h - edited 19h It's not unnecessarily expensive. It's just unnecessary. (For most uses. Obviously it's necessary or highly convenient for some situations like disaster relief.)
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    Font - politicalpug007 · 16h Train rides (in America). Gonna cost me nearly twice as much to take a train across the country and way longer than a flight?! I love trains but they are just not practicable in most of America (some exceptions around DC area and east coast) That is what limited investment looks like
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    Font - novato1995 - 22h Most "exams" that take less than 1 minute to perform. I was charged about $250 for a jaw and bite check-up that took less than a minute. The dentist told me to clench my jaw, open it as wide as possible, move my jaw from side to side, smile, then inserted his fingers to see if it was misaligned. There you go, $250 for that crap exam that I could do for free with Google and WebMD in the background.
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    Font - Dudebutdrugs - 13h Emergency medi-flight. I understand the cost of fuel, wear and tear on the helicopter, as well as the pilot and medical staff. But $5,000 a mile? My ambulance ride to the heliport and ensuing helicopter ride ended up about $250,000.
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    Font - BoozeIsTherapyRight · 17h Eyeglass frames. They are all made by the same company from the same materials, even the designer ones. It's all luxottica, all the way down. Glasses cost about $20 total to make but they sell them to you for $200. Markup is often 1000%.
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    Font - j9r6f - 17h Anything to do with boats. I'm one of the relatively few non-wealthy people who I involved in the sport of sailing and the mark- ups are absurd. Take gloves for example. You can get a 6-pack of gardening gloves for $12. But if you want garden-style "sailing gloves" (literally the same thing) it'll cost you $15 for one pair, and other styles are even more expensive. Needless to say I just use gardening gloves.
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    Font - Feministtiktok · 20h Wedding materials. I understand that extra time and effort goes into a product when it's for a wedding, but the same product (like a cake) when marketed for a party vs for a wedding is like 10 times the price despite it being the same item.
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    Font - ArchDukeNemesis · 16h CGI. There was a story that it was cheaper to buy a real 747, crash it and then clean up the wreckage then it was to render the entire thing on a computer.
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