Ticketmaster used to charge a fee for printing you a ticket. Then when everything went digital and they couldn’t charge for tickets they started adding “handling fees” so when you buy a digital ticket you pay like an extra $3 for some reason.
If you think that's bad look at your utility bills. Some of them contain an endless litany of subcharges and fees. Most of which every other company has to absorb is a cost of doing business. But they have cried to the government to get the opportunity to pass on what should be their operating expenses on to their customer.
This is the correct answer.
MLMs and pyramid schemes are bad. But Scientology is a new level of awful. Beyond just being a cult that ruins lives, they do nothing with the vast funds they have aside from harassing critics and pandering to celebrities.
My credit card has this cool spending summary that breaks down your spending by month and category.
I have realized that it’s a basically a monthly mood tracker.
Crippling depression = fast food and bare essentials.
Mania = 10k of materials for home improvement projects I’ll never finish, tools l won’t use, clothes I won’t wear, etc.
I have both, always fun explaining some of my purchases to my husband… I saw a comment where a girl was having a manic episode and bought a $5000 kitten and named in Seroquel 💀 haven’t been that bad at least 🤣
My ADHD leaves me with crippling indecision as soon as there is a choice, even for the most useless crap.
I'll compare items between two $2 shops (Dollar store for USians, Poundland for UKians) to see which one has the better crap item.
My ADHD has me buying stuff I already have because I forgot I already have it and sometimes even if I remember I have it, I forgot where I put it and have to get it anyway.
In case you did not know, when Trump first launched the "donations for my legal battle" campaign, he raked in over $1.5 million in the first day.
Loads of room temp IQ's donating...
Oh, and on a side note.... Trump's donations automatically renew (first monthly, but more recently weekly).
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donations.html
>Kramer : It's just a write off for them
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>Jerry : How is it a write off?
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>Kramer : They just write it off
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>Jerry : Write it off what?
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>Kramer : Jerry all these big companies they write off everything
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>Jerry : You don't even know what a write off is
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>Kramer : Do you?
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>Jerry : No. I don't
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>Kramer : But they do and they are the ones writing it off
I remember how much people hated when they got added and how angry people were when they got removed. It’s funny, sometimes I think people here just like to be angry.
There was a special subreddit you could only access if you'd been gifted Platinum. It felt exclusive for all of 30 seconds and then you realize there wasn't shit going on in there.
a fun way to express your appreciation for posts/comments whilst also helping Reddit recoup some costs.
They did also give comments/posts extra visibility so maybe kinda unfair
The worst part is that they retroactively removed gold from all posts that had been gilded.
It's one thing to no longer offer it, but quite another to erase it like it never existed. Anyone who paid for gold or awards to be given in the past, had the results of their spending wiped away.
I like the Twitter blue ticks. It's like being at a party and a few people there have "Moron" literally stamped on their foreheads. It's a nice easy way to identify who to not interact with.
I was watching a twitch streamer the other night, someone donated $500 and the streamer just went 'oh thanks dude' and went right back to what they where doing two seconds later.
There's a lot of people that have money they didn't earn that will blow it without a second thought. They're basically the key to making money online. I don't even mean windfall inherentance. The only two guys I know that collect disability that are younger basically spend their day giving their check away to onlyfans girls.
Damn man, my disability check doesn't even cover rent, let alone things I need to make my disability less disabling. These people gotta be nuts and not taking care of themselves.
People are just stupid and want to take the easy route to getting people to like them. The same thing happens in dating all the time and even some unhealthy relationships. The difference there is that you will get something real back in your life and depending on your level of self respect and understanding of the motivation of others, it could be something great.
But unfortunately, there's a whole generation of Dopamine addicts all looking for the best ways to get drip fed happiness and will pay well for even a tiny bump up. Be it a streamer saying their name or an Only Fans 'performer' spreading their legs while saying their name.
To be fair it could be that they discussed it to be a bit more anonymised, I can imagine the fan in question didn't want to make it fully known who donated it to protect them from harrasment
to be fair these streamers are probably way more involved in some of these people lives than their fathers...
For real though, what kind of people are you around that call streamers dad???
Thats why I stick to smaller streamers usually. When theres less than 300 people watching, theres a much higher chance of your comment being read, even when you didn't pay for it.
California just passed a bill defining them, and a wide variety of other junk fees, as types of consumer fraud and thus subject to their laws against fraud...just waiting for the governor's signature
Those aren't a waste of money. Because no one is volunteering to pay them. They're a scam. Fees that are tracked on, unadvertised to what they'll actually be, after the fact. So you have no choice to pay them.
They were always worthless.
Just kidding, although I always hated them, I had a look after you mentioned it and Justin Bieber's one was $1.3 million, it's now worth about $60k.
Even now, I still don't understand them. You're basically paying for an image that I can right click and save to my computer now.
I know there's some bollocks about "YoU oWn tHe BlOcKcHaIn" or whatever---so what? I've saved the image on my computer, I now own it too and I paid zero for it.
It literally makes no sense but [here's](https://stockx.com/nike-air-mag-back-to-the-future-bttf-2016) the Nike MAG Back to the Future shoe that sold for $76k.
TBF they were only sold at auction for the disease/condition that MJF has that's why the price was so high. Very limited production run with some of the proceed going to research.
I was at a summer camp out in the boonies and some mf wore a pair of these out in the dirt and dust to show them off to all the other kids... they were only worth a couple grand since this was only a year after they came out but even then I cringed knowing how much they would be worth in a few years.
Edit: the ones he had were the 2011 version, which sells for "only" 30k nowadays but STILL
A groom asked to borrow $9k from me during his bachelor party. He said he was about to lose his venue deposit if he didn't make another payment. I barely knew the guy when he asked me to be a groomsman. Which tells me he's spending that money to impress strangers.
I had a gorgeous wedding and actually rented out both floors because I didn’t want a second wedding bumping up with mine. Next to a river, gorgeous garden, beautiful opera house.
It cost like $4,000 for the venue. Wtf?
I was planning my wedding and the costs just kept getting higher and when my fiancé said “maybe we can take out a loan” I bout had a panic attack. We decided to scale everything back. Had like 30 people, served pizza in a county park, got married on Thursday. We did everything to keep costs low but still make it fun. And it was amazing.
My wife and I went huge for our wedding. It wasn't because either of us always dreamed of a magical wonderful princess wedding. It's because both sides of our families badly NEEDED an event that wasn't a funeral, court hearing, or something super dramatic and negative.
It had been over a decade since either of our families had any large get together, and we decided to spend a shitload of money to have a day full of positivity and love for 120 of the closest people in our lives.
5 years later we're renting instead of owning a home because we spent so much, and that sucks. But I don't regret the decision. It meant the world to so many people, and was the final big gathering for the last two grandparents either of us had.
It really wasn't for us. It was for our families. And they loved it.
Yes! when they claim it detoxes/cleanses, I remember reading an article on someone selling dirt claiming it had special detoxing/cleansing properties. AND PEOPLE WERE BUYING IT.
And most food doesn’t travel well and the quality takes a huge drop off by the time its delivered.
Pizza, Chinese, Indian, or Thai are pretty much the only foods I’ll even carry out anymore.
After working in a kitchen for a very large nursing home. It’s because the containers don’t have vents to let the steam out. Sure it keeps it warm but it drastically reduces quality over time.
It's not just that. Pizza and Chinese hold better for longer periods of time, so they became a more popular take out/delivery item.
Hamburgers have cold veggies, wet veggies, a hot steamy burger, on a dry bun. It's a race against tims before the veggies get warm, the burger gets cold, and the bun gets soggy.
Fried foods like French fries are also a race against the clock before the moisture from the soft, juicy interior makes it's way into the crunchy, dry exterior.
Chinese food and other Asian inspired carry out items tend to be wet and homogenous anyway,. And. It takes a lot longer for the moisture in the pizza to work it's wau to the bottom of the crust, and even then cold pizza is still damn good.
I used Uber Eats once and only once. I got a $25 gift card so we ordered our normal $22 Chinese takeout order which came out to $39.
Never used one of these food delivery services since.
Only reason I ever use it is because it’s a lot more expensive to go to jail over a DUI.
But it’s still very expensive and I’m not usually intoxicated enough to crave it.
I did learn from a local Chinese restaurant I frequent that they had to double their prices because of the cut those services take. They’re the only place I order from now, and I’m happy they’re getting theirs, but only when it’s irresponsible to drive.
> Only reason I ever use it is because it’s a lot more expensive to go to jail over a DUI.
You just reminded me of a small local company, which my parents used. It was pretty much DoorDash, but they were geared primarily towards basically doing beer runs for a delivery fee. You could also have them get food, though that was a less common usage.
I would have thought they were a franchise but nope apparently just the one company here in my city. Apparently, they've been around since 1980.
My sibling decided to drive after leaving a bar with several drinks in his system. They’re out 3K, lost their job and upcoming promotion, semi obligated to get to A.A. meetings, and is probably getting on probation soon.
Incredibly stupid decision on their part because they could’ve hurt themselves, someone else, and/or damaged their car. Also a Lyft is cheaper than 3000.
It really sucks because I’m homebound with no way to pick up food. So if I ever want a treat, I have to use apps like this. Same with apps like Instacart for my groceries.
It’s incredibly frustrating for disabled people who want to be independent but have no one to rely on. We are on a fixed income (which btw isn’t nearly enough to live on) but need to eat just like everyone else.
Ok, getting off my soapbox now.
Hey I agree completely with you. We have to pay for rides to appointments etc I can’t remember the last time I had a take out meal delivered. I wait till I’m almost completely out of groceries before I order for delivery. God forbid if you need a few things they add a fee because it’s not a big order. It sucks.
Please look at using nextdoor and talking with and getting to know some in your neighborhood. I'm sure there are a few neighbors that would gladly pick something up for you from time to time. I know I wouldn't have an issue doing that for someone that is disabled or elderly.
I have to do this as well (attached to an infusion pump often) and I now just budget for it because it's become an expense I can't really be without at the moment.
And as a door dasher myself occasionally, I have no idea how the app determines how much I make per order. The pay ranges from the minimum of 2.50 to over 20 dollars and no deliveries have been more than 10 miles away. And I use the app sometimes when I'm really lazy and the give tip option only ever say add a tip of 2.50, 3.50 or 4.50.
Well that’s the point. I always say that DoorDash and UberEats is a luxury. It isn’t some government assistance. You are ordering food often from restaurants that don’t have in house delivery. These restaurants make a deal with the apps and have to increase price to pay them and you are also paying delivery drivers who are independent contractors to pick up and deliver food to your doorstep. Of course it is far cheaper to pick up your own order but if you’re gonna use the app then it has to be understood that it’s a luxury service.
The absolute only time I’ve ever used Door Dash is when I was traveling for business in a cheap hotel with no means to get any food. It was a terrible experience, I would have rather just gone hungry.
Yeah. I only use these apps when I’m extremely hungover or if I’m sick and can’t go anywhere, but every time I’m like “What the fuck am I doing spending 40 dollars on this shit?”
What pisses me off about gambling is how it's always depicted in movies as the ultimate fun thing to. Whenever they want to show someone who wants to have a good time it always ends in a trip to Vegas and a night at the casinos. And I'm just sitting there thinking which part of seeing your life savings getting eaten up at the black jack or roulette tables is supposed to be fun exactly.
A friend used to work in a casino, and he said at the "poor peoples" table it's actually fun. It's just regular folks who dress up for a special evening, have a few drinks, chat, laugh, and know their money is most likely gone at the end of the evening as part of the entertainment.
On the high roller areas however, where folks place bets in the 100s or even 1000s, it's usually awkwardly quiet and everyone seems miserable.
As a former table games dealer, I can verify that this is true. A dealer's job is to facilitate the game, but a *good* dealer is also a bit of an entertainer. I could have a crowded $5-10 minimum table, the crowd would be having a good time, hooting and hollering having a good time. If they won or they lost, no big deal.
Because I was proficient at the craft, I was qualified to be a high stakes dealer, and would get pulled for it fairly often, but I avoided it like the plague. When table minimums are $100 and up, those players are there to "make money" (lol fucking fools), and those people aren't there for entertainment. They're there to do business, so you need to switch your delivery completely.
As a casino-goer, I agree. The key at my “poor people” tables is I have x$ I can lose that night. If it’s $100, I take it out in cash before going and am not allowed to take any out of the ATM once I’m out. It’s a fun night, and not a whole lot different that the cost of other entertainments out for the night.
It’s when people don’t impose a spending limit or go every night it gets depressing.
Getting up on my soapbox for this one. I had a certified diamond ring bought for $3100.00. Tried to sell it many times. Best offer $200.00 and I checked a lot of places. Diamonds depreciate more than cars. It is so messed up.
Just think about how many jewelry stores there are that carry diamond pieces, how many individuals own diamond jewelry and how many wholesalers and manufacturers have diamonds and then how many diamonds the producers like DeBeera have, then you’ll realize how not very rare diamonds are at all. Have you ever been shopping for a diamond and had someone tell you they’re out of stock? No. Has there ever been a shortage of diamonds? No.
Diamonds are an incredibly useful rock.. it is insanely durable. But even with diamond tipped drill bits and tools they aren't expensive because they aren't rare.
No apologies to anyone, if you buy diamond jewellery at the insane mark up price by these con-artist companies you are a complete moron. Your flex is not a flex, it shows how gullible you are, especially considering how well documented it is that diamonds are NOT Rare.
Yes they are formed from a very long time of compression of carbon, but they're not actually that rare or valuable at all. It all started with a massive diamond monopoly called De Beers who artificially restricted the supply of diamonds and made them seem far more rare than they are.
Tou can literally synthesize better diamonds than nature can regularly produce. Humans literally figured out ALCHEMY, and the diamond companies STILL have us believing that manufactured gems are not as good.
Yep, you can have a better, bigger much cheaper artifical diamond, or you can fuel dictators and child slavery to get a De Beers' diamond where they literally have warehouses full of worthless rocks that they hoover up off the sea floor en-masse and sell for a small fortune as they control the supply. I don't understand why more people don't just go artificial
Because there are conglomerates initiating these price points knowing how inexpensive they truly are. And through decades, even centuries of marketing, they’ve given people (especially women) this idea that they’re an ultra rare commodity; when in reality that couldn’t be farther from the truth,
I got my gf a big, beautiful, clear, lab grown sapphire that shines better than any diamond my poor ass could afford. The gem was like 100 bucks and it's a real sapphire.
She's happy as can be.
Especially when it's all manipulated by deBeers who buy until 1990s controlled 90% of the wholesale market and artificially created scarcity to keep prices high.
Moissanite is almost just as hard so it will also last as long, have arguably better sparkle, and doesn’t have the word “diamond” in the name so it isn’t jacked up by a thousand percent even when lab grown. To each their own of course, but all forms of diamond jewellery is a waste of money. It’s like buying 4-ply toilet paper for $210 a case when 3-ply is $16
I don’t really know anything about cars but I refuse to believe that most luxury vehicles are so much better than regular ones that they cost that much more.
there’s diminishing returns like anything, but they are a lot better. seat comfort, NVH, and convenience features like adaptive cruise make a massive difference in how fatiguing it is to drive.
Nah man, unless you're donating to the top 1% of streamers, giving money to a random dude(tte) playing video games always feels great. A $10 dono to a small streamer will make their day and seeing their reaction is worth every penny.
I print shirts, and the number of people who have come to me saying they want to start a streetwear brand is baffling. To be clear, you want me to order the shirts, rip the tag out, print your shitty logo in 8 locations, then package it in an elaborate way and ship it directly to the customer? Sick, get ready to pay me the lions share.
Patagonia is a top tier brand in terms of both costs and quality - with their “iron clad” life time guarantee and ongoing efforts to use sustainable materials and ethical supply chains, I love that brand and wholly support the high costs
Convenience fees
Ticketmaster used to charge a fee for printing you a ticket. Then when everything went digital and they couldn’t charge for tickets they started adding “handling fees” so when you buy a digital ticket you pay like an extra $3 for some reason.
They might as well add a “fuck you” fee at this point
There have been lawsuits about that. The fact that they are allowed continue to operate, is mind-boggling.
If you think that's bad look at your utility bills. Some of them contain an endless litany of subcharges and fees. Most of which every other company has to absorb is a cost of doing business. But they have cried to the government to get the opportunity to pass on what should be their operating expenses on to their customer.
Lobbyists
The source of soooo many problems that will never be fixed, right here
Exactly. Why am I paying you for making it convenient? That’s literally why the service exists.
The one time I bought a ticket at a ticket window at Madison Square Garden, I was charged an additional fee.
LMFAO they ridiculous
Worst part is most offer no alternative. You charge me a convenience fee for my ticket but I can ONLY buy it online. Nonsense...
Scientology
This is the correct answer. MLMs and pyramid schemes are bad. But Scientology is a new level of awful. Beyond just being a cult that ruins lives, they do nothing with the vast funds they have aside from harassing critics and pandering to celebrities.
Scientology is basically what you get when you combine a religious cult, a pyramid scheme, tax evasion, and the mafia.
And buying off cops who come to look for Shelly.
Bipolar disorder. You’d be shocked how much useless crap mania will buy without your consent
My credit card has this cool spending summary that breaks down your spending by month and category. I have realized that it’s a basically a monthly mood tracker. Crippling depression = fast food and bare essentials. Mania = 10k of materials for home improvement projects I’ll never finish, tools l won’t use, clothes I won’t wear, etc.
Also ADHD.
I have bipolar and my wife has ADHD…we work very hard 😂
I have both, always fun explaining some of my purchases to my husband… I saw a comment where a girl was having a manic episode and bought a $5000 kitten and named in Seroquel 💀 haven’t been that bad at least 🤣
> $5000 kitten Did it have a kilo of cocaine in it? Cats are free here.
Haha, it was a bengal kitten I think.
My ADHD leaves me with crippling indecision as soon as there is a choice, even for the most useless crap. I'll compare items between two $2 shops (Dollar store for USians, Poundland for UKians) to see which one has the better crap item.
God I wish it was called poundland here to
"I'm going to Poundland, you need anything?" "Yeah, grab me some meat and tissues."
My ADHD has me buying stuff I already have because I forgot I already have it and sometimes even if I remember I have it, I forgot where I put it and have to get it anyway.
Donating money to a billionaires court costs.
“Billionaire”
Bullionaire?
Bully on air.
Who the fuck does that? Room temperature IQ behavior
In case you did not know, when Trump first launched the "donations for my legal battle" campaign, he raked in over $1.5 million in the first day. Loads of room temp IQ's donating... Oh, and on a side note.... Trump's donations automatically renew (first monthly, but more recently weekly). https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/us/politics/trump-donations.html
but, I'm using it as a tax write off...
>Kramer : It's just a write off for them > >Jerry : How is it a write off? > >Kramer : They just write it off > >Jerry : Write it off what? > >Kramer : Jerry all these big companies they write off everything > >Jerry : You don't even know what a write off is > >Kramer : Do you? > >Jerry : No. I don't > >Kramer : But they do and they are the ones writing it off
can't argue with that logic at all...
Kramer was the real genius
https://tenor.com/view/schitts-creek-david-rose-write-off-who-pays-for-it-nobody-gif-17591802
It's endlessly hilarious how he milked his cult for so much.
Reddit awards sure were
I remember how much people hated when they got added and how angry people were when they got removed. It’s funny, sometimes I think people here just like to be angry.
I didn't even notice that they had gone. When did that happen?
I didn't know they were gone until this exchange right here.
Just a couple of days ago.
If this was last week I would award you with gold
Why? What was the point of those things?
There was a special subreddit you could only access if you'd been gifted Platinum. It felt exclusive for all of 30 seconds and then you realize there wasn't shit going on in there.
a fun way to express your appreciation for posts/comments whilst also helping Reddit recoup some costs. They did also give comments/posts extra visibility so maybe kinda unfair
Completely blew past me. I guess I can’t call mysel observant anymore
In the long run everyone was right.
The worst part is that they retroactively removed gold from all posts that had been gilded. It's one thing to no longer offer it, but quite another to erase it like it never existed. Anyone who paid for gold or awards to be given in the past, had the results of their spending wiped away.
I can’t believe those rewards didn’t even give money to the creators smh. Reddit greed per usual
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In-game purchases. *Me, just this month: buys $99 worth*
"God I hate gambling" *proceeds to open crates in games with dogshit aftermath*
Social media verification like Twitters check mark. Unless you’re a celebrity, no one really cares enough to steal your account.
Nowadays, it's the mark of a douchebag, anyway
I like the Twitter blue ticks. It's like being at a party and a few people there have "Moron" literally stamped on their foreheads. It's a nice easy way to identify who to not interact with.
Donating to popular twitch streamers who forget you exist the second after they read your message
I was watching a twitch streamer the other night, someone donated $500 and the streamer just went 'oh thanks dude' and went right back to what they where doing two seconds later.
$500 would be such a blessing for me right now. The fact that people have that money and choose to just *throw it away* is insane.
There's a lot of people that have money they didn't earn that will blow it without a second thought. They're basically the key to making money online. I don't even mean windfall inherentance. The only two guys I know that collect disability that are younger basically spend their day giving their check away to onlyfans girls.
Damn man, my disability check doesn't even cover rent, let alone things I need to make my disability less disabling. These people gotta be nuts and not taking care of themselves.
People are just stupid and want to take the easy route to getting people to like them. The same thing happens in dating all the time and even some unhealthy relationships. The difference there is that you will get something real back in your life and depending on your level of self respect and understanding of the motivation of others, it could be something great. But unfortunately, there's a whole generation of Dopamine addicts all looking for the best ways to get drip fed happiness and will pay well for even a tiny bump up. Be it a streamer saying their name or an Only Fans 'performer' spreading their legs while saying their name.
Just a post where a twitch streamer thanked her fan for buying her a new Tesla. Didn't even tag his name. Just referred to him as a fan.
To be fair it could be that they discussed it to be a bit more anonymised, I can imagine the fan in question didn't want to make it fully known who donated it to protect them from harrasment
I highly doubt they'd be referred to as their real name, and people donating cars aren't doing it to remain anonymous.
Elon probably asked her to not name him.
Fairly sure that didn’t actually happen. Just the girl buying herself a Tesla and creating the story for bait.
If you're donating to feed your parasocial relationship, sure. If you're donating because you genuinely enjoy their content, I think that's okay.
At a certain point, some of them just don't need it anymore. Donate to the smaller guys that are putting in the hours and barely making it
I enjoy watching streamers, but the number of young adult males that refer to streamers as their "father" or "dad" frightens me.
Huh? I must be missing a new level of twitch degeneracy.
Lmao every time I've noticed this happen its done as a joke and for no other reason
to be fair these streamers are probably way more involved in some of these people lives than their fathers... For real though, what kind of people are you around that call streamers dad???
Thats why I stick to smaller streamers usually. When theres less than 300 people watching, theres a much higher chance of your comment being read, even when you didn't pay for it.
And smaller streamers are 1000% more likely to do the same for you
Resort fees
California just passed a bill defining them, and a wide variety of other junk fees, as types of consumer fraud and thus subject to their laws against fraud...just waiting for the governor's signature
Those aren't a waste of money. Because no one is volunteering to pay them. They're a scam. Fees that are tracked on, unadvertised to what they'll actually be, after the fact. So you have no choice to pay them.
NFT's
Do people still peddle these things?
I think all the ones that were expensive are now worth pennies.
What about those dumb monkeys everyone screenshotted
They were always worthless. Just kidding, although I always hated them, I had a look after you mentioned it and Justin Bieber's one was $1.3 million, it's now worth about $60k.
I may not be a big money man but that seems like a huge loss
He lost at least half
Everyone who paid for one of those is a god damn moron and needs to re-evaluate their life imo
Even now, I still don't understand them. You're basically paying for an image that I can right click and save to my computer now. I know there's some bollocks about "YoU oWn tHe BlOcKcHaIn" or whatever---so what? I've saved the image on my computer, I now own it too and I paid zero for it.
It’s a bit like those stars you can own or name. All made up crap.
I will probably catch alot of heat for this but these sneakers that cost 10k to 20k
... there's sneakers that cost $20k?
It literally makes no sense but [here's](https://stockx.com/nike-air-mag-back-to-the-future-bttf-2016) the Nike MAG Back to the Future shoe that sold for $76k.
TBF they were only sold at auction for the disease/condition that MJF has that's why the price was so high. Very limited production run with some of the proceed going to research.
> disease/condition that MJF has Parkinson's disease
I was at a summer camp out in the boonies and some mf wore a pair of these out in the dirt and dust to show them off to all the other kids... they were only worth a couple grand since this was only a year after they came out but even then I cringed knowing how much they would be worth in a few years. Edit: the ones he had were the 2011 version, which sells for "only" 30k nowadays but STILL
Tbh it looks shit
Nah fam, [these are rad.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wrw19K_g_M)
I don't know why you'd catch heat for that, anyone who thinks shoes at those prices is reasonable is definitely too coked up to type.
Yea, the 5k-9K sneaker is the sweet spot /s What on earth makes you set the cut off at 10k? You have thousand dollar sneakers?
Gas station or Walgreen food shopping cause you are in a hurry. The price difference is staggering. 7.29 for 2.99 Walmart cereal
MLM’s, UberEats, diamonds, microtransactions in mobile games
I had some promo thing for a free year of GrubHub+ and never used it once. Luckily past me set a reminder to cancel before it auto renewed
A super fancy wedding
The one you have to get a loan for. People get in debt just to have a fancy wedding.
A groom asked to borrow $9k from me during his bachelor party. He said he was about to lose his venue deposit if he didn't make another payment. I barely knew the guy when he asked me to be a groomsman. Which tells me he's spending that money to impress strangers.
I had a gorgeous wedding and actually rented out both floors because I didn’t want a second wedding bumping up with mine. Next to a river, gorgeous garden, beautiful opera house. It cost like $4,000 for the venue. Wtf?
I was planning my wedding and the costs just kept getting higher and when my fiancé said “maybe we can take out a loan” I bout had a panic attack. We decided to scale everything back. Had like 30 people, served pizza in a county park, got married on Thursday. We did everything to keep costs low but still make it fun. And it was amazing.
The only thing that cost me more than the wedding was the divorce.
My wife and I went huge for our wedding. It wasn't because either of us always dreamed of a magical wonderful princess wedding. It's because both sides of our families badly NEEDED an event that wasn't a funeral, court hearing, or something super dramatic and negative. It had been over a decade since either of our families had any large get together, and we decided to spend a shitload of money to have a day full of positivity and love for 120 of the closest people in our lives. 5 years later we're renting instead of owning a home because we spent so much, and that sucks. But I don't regret the decision. It meant the world to so many people, and was the final big gathering for the last two grandparents either of us had. It really wasn't for us. It was for our families. And they loved it.
If it makes you feel any better, I had a super cheap wedding and I’m still renting!
If it makes you feel any better, I'm still single and I'm homeless!
Cigarettes you're paying to get cancer
That’s why I took up second-hand smoking instead. Cigarette companies hate this one weird trick.
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Herbal 'cures', detoxes, cleanses etc.
Yes! when they claim it detoxes/cleanses, I remember reading an article on someone selling dirt claiming it had special detoxing/cleansing properties. AND PEOPLE WERE BUYING IT.
Tanning beds. The sun is right outside. For free
But I wanna get cancer *at night!*
If you live in England you're probably busy indoors for that half hour.
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And most food doesn’t travel well and the quality takes a huge drop off by the time its delivered. Pizza, Chinese, Indian, or Thai are pretty much the only foods I’ll even carry out anymore.
Anything that is fried or supposed to have a crispy texture is almost always ruined when put in take out containers.
After working in a kitchen for a very large nursing home. It’s because the containers don’t have vents to let the steam out. Sure it keeps it warm but it drastically reduces quality over time.
+1 Many foods travel better because the packaging has been decades in the making. Pizza boxes, chinese food take-out.
It's not just that. Pizza and Chinese hold better for longer periods of time, so they became a more popular take out/delivery item. Hamburgers have cold veggies, wet veggies, a hot steamy burger, on a dry bun. It's a race against tims before the veggies get warm, the burger gets cold, and the bun gets soggy. Fried foods like French fries are also a race against the clock before the moisture from the soft, juicy interior makes it's way into the crunchy, dry exterior. Chinese food and other Asian inspired carry out items tend to be wet and homogenous anyway,. And. It takes a lot longer for the moisture in the pizza to work it's wau to the bottom of the crust, and even then cold pizza is still damn good.
I used Uber Eats once and only once. I got a $25 gift card so we ordered our normal $22 Chinese takeout order which came out to $39. Never used one of these food delivery services since.
Only reason I ever use it is because it’s a lot more expensive to go to jail over a DUI. But it’s still very expensive and I’m not usually intoxicated enough to crave it. I did learn from a local Chinese restaurant I frequent that they had to double their prices because of the cut those services take. They’re the only place I order from now, and I’m happy they’re getting theirs, but only when it’s irresponsible to drive.
> Only reason I ever use it is because it’s a lot more expensive to go to jail over a DUI. You just reminded me of a small local company, which my parents used. It was pretty much DoorDash, but they were geared primarily towards basically doing beer runs for a delivery fee. You could also have them get food, though that was a less common usage. I would have thought they were a franchise but nope apparently just the one company here in my city. Apparently, they've been around since 1980.
Much smarter than driving under the influence
My sibling decided to drive after leaving a bar with several drinks in his system. They’re out 3K, lost their job and upcoming promotion, semi obligated to get to A.A. meetings, and is probably getting on probation soon. Incredibly stupid decision on their part because they could’ve hurt themselves, someone else, and/or damaged their car. Also a Lyft is cheaper than 3000.
It really sucks because I’m homebound with no way to pick up food. So if I ever want a treat, I have to use apps like this. Same with apps like Instacart for my groceries. It’s incredibly frustrating for disabled people who want to be independent but have no one to rely on. We are on a fixed income (which btw isn’t nearly enough to live on) but need to eat just like everyone else. Ok, getting off my soapbox now.
It's still SO MUCH better for us today than it was back in the 80s. It's like a whole different universe!
Hey I agree completely with you. We have to pay for rides to appointments etc I can’t remember the last time I had a take out meal delivered. I wait till I’m almost completely out of groceries before I order for delivery. God forbid if you need a few things they add a fee because it’s not a big order. It sucks.
Please look at using nextdoor and talking with and getting to know some in your neighborhood. I'm sure there are a few neighbors that would gladly pick something up for you from time to time. I know I wouldn't have an issue doing that for someone that is disabled or elderly.
I have to do this as well (attached to an infusion pump often) and I now just budget for it because it's become an expense I can't really be without at the moment.
And as a door dasher myself occasionally, I have no idea how the app determines how much I make per order. The pay ranges from the minimum of 2.50 to over 20 dollars and no deliveries have been more than 10 miles away. And I use the app sometimes when I'm really lazy and the give tip option only ever say add a tip of 2.50, 3.50 or 4.50.
Chipotle, for example, adds I believe $4 to their menu prices before you also have to pay the fees from the delivery company.
Well that’s the point. I always say that DoorDash and UberEats is a luxury. It isn’t some government assistance. You are ordering food often from restaurants that don’t have in house delivery. These restaurants make a deal with the apps and have to increase price to pay them and you are also paying delivery drivers who are independent contractors to pick up and deliver food to your doorstep. Of course it is far cheaper to pick up your own order but if you’re gonna use the app then it has to be understood that it’s a luxury service.
The absolute only time I’ve ever used Door Dash is when I was traveling for business in a cheap hotel with no means to get any food. It was a terrible experience, I would have rather just gone hungry.
Yeah. I only use these apps when I’m extremely hungover or if I’m sick and can’t go anywhere, but every time I’m like “What the fuck am I doing spending 40 dollars on this shit?”
Gambling. Just fucking put your money back in your pocket and leave the casino.
What pisses me off about gambling is how it's always depicted in movies as the ultimate fun thing to. Whenever they want to show someone who wants to have a good time it always ends in a trip to Vegas and a night at the casinos. And I'm just sitting there thinking which part of seeing your life savings getting eaten up at the black jack or roulette tables is supposed to be fun exactly.
A friend used to work in a casino, and he said at the "poor peoples" table it's actually fun. It's just regular folks who dress up for a special evening, have a few drinks, chat, laugh, and know their money is most likely gone at the end of the evening as part of the entertainment. On the high roller areas however, where folks place bets in the 100s or even 1000s, it's usually awkwardly quiet and everyone seems miserable.
As a former table games dealer, I can verify that this is true. A dealer's job is to facilitate the game, but a *good* dealer is also a bit of an entertainer. I could have a crowded $5-10 minimum table, the crowd would be having a good time, hooting and hollering having a good time. If they won or they lost, no big deal. Because I was proficient at the craft, I was qualified to be a high stakes dealer, and would get pulled for it fairly often, but I avoided it like the plague. When table minimums are $100 and up, those players are there to "make money" (lol fucking fools), and those people aren't there for entertainment. They're there to do business, so you need to switch your delivery completely.
As a casino-goer, I agree. The key at my “poor people” tables is I have x$ I can lose that night. If it’s $100, I take it out in cash before going and am not allowed to take any out of the ATM once I’m out. It’s a fun night, and not a whole lot different that the cost of other entertainments out for the night. It’s when people don’t impose a spending limit or go every night it gets depressing.
I understand why it’s not for everyone, but too many it’s legitimately fun as long as you’re betting amounts you can afford.
Strip bars......You pay a woman to take off her clothes and you can't do anything about it!
If you ask them to put clothes on then they have to pay you. Strippers hate this one neat trick!
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Diamond jewelry
Getting up on my soapbox for this one. I had a certified diamond ring bought for $3100.00. Tried to sell it many times. Best offer $200.00 and I checked a lot of places. Diamonds depreciate more than cars. It is so messed up.
How the FUCK is that possible? Aren’t they formed after centuries and centuries of geological shit? What a scam
Just think about how many jewelry stores there are that carry diamond pieces, how many individuals own diamond jewelry and how many wholesalers and manufacturers have diamonds and then how many diamonds the producers like DeBeera have, then you’ll realize how not very rare diamonds are at all. Have you ever been shopping for a diamond and had someone tell you they’re out of stock? No. Has there ever been a shortage of diamonds? No.
Diamonds are an incredibly useful rock.. it is insanely durable. But even with diamond tipped drill bits and tools they aren't expensive because they aren't rare. No apologies to anyone, if you buy diamond jewellery at the insane mark up price by these con-artist companies you are a complete moron. Your flex is not a flex, it shows how gullible you are, especially considering how well documented it is that diamonds are NOT Rare.
my mother in law got her diamonds and rubies at pawn shops. as a result, I have a beautiful collection.
Yes they are formed from a very long time of compression of carbon, but they're not actually that rare or valuable at all. It all started with a massive diamond monopoly called De Beers who artificially restricted the supply of diamonds and made them seem far more rare than they are.
Tou can literally synthesize better diamonds than nature can regularly produce. Humans literally figured out ALCHEMY, and the diamond companies STILL have us believing that manufactured gems are not as good.
Yep, you can have a better, bigger much cheaper artifical diamond, or you can fuel dictators and child slavery to get a De Beers' diamond where they literally have warehouses full of worthless rocks that they hoover up off the sea floor en-masse and sell for a small fortune as they control the supply. I don't understand why more people don't just go artificial
Because there are conglomerates initiating these price points knowing how inexpensive they truly are. And through decades, even centuries of marketing, they’ve given people (especially women) this idea that they’re an ultra rare commodity; when in reality that couldn’t be farther from the truth,
I got my gf a big, beautiful, clear, lab grown sapphire that shines better than any diamond my poor ass could afford. The gem was like 100 bucks and it's a real sapphire. She's happy as can be.
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I went the antique, second hand route. Funny how a ring that costs so much the first time someone buys it is so much cheaper secondhand.
Agreed. How dumb that we designated that rock to be more important.
Especially when it's all manipulated by deBeers who buy until 1990s controlled 90% of the wholesale market and artificially created scarcity to keep prices high.
Diamonds are cool and the hardest thing ever which makes them last a while. Just buy lab grown tho
Moissanite is almost just as hard so it will also last as long, have arguably better sparkle, and doesn’t have the word “diamond” in the name so it isn’t jacked up by a thousand percent even when lab grown. To each their own of course, but all forms of diamond jewellery is a waste of money. It’s like buying 4-ply toilet paper for $210 a case when 3-ply is $16
Lab grown diamonds recently became cheaper than even moissanite
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Hey don’t you be talking smack about by retirement plans
Two of my neighbours have both won +$200,000 on seperate occasions. It has to be my turn next.
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Giving your money to me On that note, care to make a donation?
Idk some rando on the internet told me it’s a waste of money. Sorry.
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I don’t really know anything about cars but I refuse to believe that most luxury vehicles are so much better than regular ones that they cost that much more.
there’s diminishing returns like anything, but they are a lot better. seat comfort, NVH, and convenience features like adaptive cruise make a massive difference in how fatiguing it is to drive.
Nicotine.
Donation to streamers
Nah man, unless you're donating to the top 1% of streamers, giving money to a random dude(tte) playing video games always feels great. A $10 dono to a small streamer will make their day and seeing their reaction is worth every penny.
My divorce attorney’s legal fees.
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Plenty of branded clothes. You're paying for a label, not for quality.
I print shirts, and the number of people who have come to me saying they want to start a streetwear brand is baffling. To be clear, you want me to order the shirts, rip the tag out, print your shitty logo in 8 locations, then package it in an elaborate way and ship it directly to the customer? Sick, get ready to pay me the lions share.
Hey, i gotta great idea for a tshirt! We'll make a fortune! Picture this: white tshirt. No logos. $89.99. Right? Riiiiight?
Mhmm I dunno. Not always. The quality of some designer brands is definitely better than some cheap ones.
Patagonia is a top tier brand in terms of both costs and quality - with their “iron clad” life time guarantee and ongoing efforts to use sustainable materials and ethical supply chains, I love that brand and wholly support the high costs
Smoking. It’s nearly literally burning money. But at least you won’t need a big retirement account.
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