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List of Absurd Prices for Items - Fun thread for obviously enthusiastic expectations

Yodathedog said:
Someone had the audacity to customize it.
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i know exactly how much work is required to do a paint job like this. i know how much the paint costs as well.

i can not see a body shop owner or a painter being dumb enough to sink this kind of money into this vehicle if they owned it. PLUS...the powdercoating on the rims, the interior. the lambo door conversion...that all costs money out of pocket. it's not like a mixing bank where you could just mix up small amounts of colors and bury the cost..that stuff costs money and labor.

i do not understand why someone would actually pay for this paint job on this vehicle.

it boggles my mind.
 
Not exactly about crazy unrealistic prices, but I saw recently ad on FB marketplace for "Harmon Kandinsky TD102 Tape Deck". I guess after that asking price didn't even matter...
 
That's a money laundering deal. Here's how it works: Somebody, let's call him a bad guy, has come into some money that he wants to clean up for tax purposes (as Master P has told us in "Ghetto D", clean money lasts longer than drug money). He lists a piece of junk (or "art", or real estate, or a car) on ebay or CL at a ridiculous price, and gives the cash to someone who is less concerned about the tax man. The second party then uses most of the cash to buy the object from the bad guy at a stoopid price, keeping a % of the cash for his troubles. The bad guy now has a legitimate pile of cash he is free to invest, and if the tax man inquires and to the source of his recent cash infusion, he points to the ad. This is the main reason for the existence of e coins, and why they remain unregulated.

Wired magazine had an article a few years back on how criminal gangs in Puerto Rico were using the country's lottery to launder money. The bad guy tells his army of drug dealers on the street to make sure they tell all their customers that he will pay cash for winning lottery tickets- the ticket value plus 10%, for example. Someone gets a $1M winning ticket, the bad guy gives them $1.1M cash and takes his winning ticket to the lottery office and collects his $1M in now legitimate cash. IRIC, one gangster won the lottery multiple times in the space of a couple years doing this.
 
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mrehorst said:
The second party then uses most of the cash to buy the object from the bad guy at a stoopid price
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interesting.

i would think for this to work, it would get sold rather quickly and it's still listed. i'm going to keep a watch on it and see if it ever sells. if it does, we know it had to be a scam but if it sits there then this guy really thinks he has a pile of gold.
 
mrehorst said:
That's a money laundering deal. Here's how it works: Somebody, let's call him a bad guy, has come into some money that he wants to clean up for tax purposes (as Master P has told us in "Ghetto D", clean money lasts longer than drug money). He lists a piece of junk (or "art", or real estate, or a car) on ebay or CL at a ridiculous price, and gives the cash to someone who is less concerned about the tax man. The second party then uses most of the cash to buy the object from the bad guy at a stoopid price, keeping a % of the cash for his troubles. The bad guy now has a legitimate pile of cash he is free to invest, and if the tax man inquires and to the source of his recent cash infusion, he points to the ad. This is the main reason for the existence of e coins, and why they remain unregulated.

Wired magazine had an article a few years back on how criminal gangs in Puerto Rico were using the country's lottery to launder money. The bad guy tells his army of drug dealers on the street to make sure they tell all their customers that he will pay cash for winning lottery tickets- the ticket value plus 10%, for example. Someone gets a $1M winning ticket, the bad guy gives them $1.1M cash and takes his winning ticket to the lottery office and collects his $1M in now legitimate cash. IRIC, one gangster won the lottery multiple times in the space of a couple years doing this.
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I use my ultrasonic cleaner to launder money, except for the money I leave in pants pockets when washing clothes. Then I get a twofer.
 
SaturationPt said:
The Pontiac Aztec remained at the top of the Ugliest Car list for so long in one particular car magazine that after enough years they decided it was no longer eligible, just so that they could pick a new Ugliest Car.

Yet, there had to be someone out there who felt that he could make one uglier.
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The Nissan Juke took over the top spot from the Aztek.
 
satellite65 said:
The Nissan Juke took over the top spot from the Aztek.
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Bought a 2011 Juke for my wife in 2012. Got it for the AWD. Great car that is excellent driving through deep snow.

Never a major problem with it. I do the maintenance myself.

I'm still driving it with over 140K miles.

It is an odd looking thing though. I've grown to like it.
 
How about absurdly low prices?

There used to be an eclectic flee market every Saturday on the small, padded, fenced-in playground of an elementary school in my Brooklyn neighborhood. (Might still happen. I just haven’t bothered to check it out recently.)

Competing with permanent jungle gyms and swing sets, it was very tight for vendors’ space. Over the years, I got some nice pieces of Mission furniture, a newborn kitten, vintage dresses (for my then-gf), artworks, and some vintage 1940s toys (which I used to collect) there.

So, one morning (1990s), my good friend goes to it just after the gate opens. Turns out, on that day, unusually, the actual kids are selling their drawings to benefit the school.

Two little girls, probably seven-year-olds, are sitting at the folding table with their and their classmates’ drawings spread out for display next to a large stack of drawings and their money box. My friend starts looking at the artworks.

“These are great drawings,” she says to the girls. “How much are they?”

“Thanks,” one of the girls says. “Twenty-five cents a piece.”

“Really?” my friend says. “That’s a good price.” And then she picks up the pile (maybe 50-100 drawings), and quickly looks through all of them. “I’ll take them all,” she says, as she pulls out some cash.

Well, the two girls are completely dumbfounded. They don’t know what to do. They look at each other. One of them gets upset and explains to my friend, “No. No. You can’t buy them all. That’s not fair. Then, we won’t have anything to sell. We have other kids coming all day to sell them. You have to leave some here for other people to buy.”

My friend asks how many will they let her buy? The two girls get up and leave the table to discuss the matter quietly. They decide that she can buy only ten, which she happily did.

Capitalism through the eyes of second-graders.
 
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Work done was the 458 transistors were changed and it was lubricated. Says he changed the heads as well.

Seems a bit optimistic as you can buy them in working condition for a couple hundred bucks at best, under a hundy if it needs a little servicing.....
 
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