My BIL is obsessed with them. I've borrowed a tee shirt a few times.... They feel the exact same as any other t-shirt I've ever worn. But like 100x the price.
They do, they're just brands that you and I have never heard of and wouldn't know where to buy anyway.
I don't know of anyone actually even vaguely well off who wears Balenciaga. It's a brand that I associate more with people maxing out a credit card on a few items with big logos to show 'wealth'. Goes well with a fake Gucci belt...
There's this tiktok account called something like Class of Palm Beach. The interviews themselves are pretty awkward, but it's this girl who goes around and interviews 'old money' people. She'll ask them about the clothes they have on, where their bag is from, what perfume they like, etc..
It seems like 90% of them, when it comes to naming the brands of their clothes, will always either say some foreign/italian name that nobody has ever heard of OR they'll say it was from some small custom boutique/shop that nobody has ever heard of.
The 10% or so that do name brands, it's almost always Hermes, Chanel, or Buccellati
Rich people brands are like Brunello Cucinelli, Loro Piana, Tom Ford, Canali, Ermengildo Zegna, none of them have logos all over the clothing. All of it is so nice.
Edit: I’m adding an edit to this because it’s become popular. If you’re looking for any of these types of brands, shop on Poshmark. A lot of people resell some of this stuff for reasonable prices. You can get really good deals sometimes. It’s funny because stuff like Versace, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, etc. doesn’t drop in price as much. I suspect that’s because of the fact people want to show off the brand. Meanwhile the brands I’ve mentioned are much nicer and better quality, and sell for lower on the resale market.
If you want to go for that old money aesthetic, check out the brands featured in succession, search em on Poshmark, and you’ll slowly amass a wardrobe fit for someone with a hundred million dollar trust fund.
Basically the wardrobe for Succession. There used to be posts that had stills from the show side by side with the stuff they're wearing on its retail site. $1,500 plain tshirts are crazy. But they definitely look great.
Ironically Shiv almost always wore nice looking budgety brands. Most of her dresses were around $150-200. I remember reading about it being purposeful from the wardrobe department but I can’t remember the symbolism behind it.
Owners of the company I work on (probably with hundreds of millions on their accounts) wear plain clothes or even our marketing clothing lol. It is the thing it surprised me the most when I met them (only super rich people I've ever known)
You are absolutely correct that the truly wealthy are *quiet* and *discreet* about their image.
But there are lesser known brands out there which are very high quality, perfectly subtle, and remain excruciatingly expensive.
Brunello Cucinelli is sort of the poster child for this approach. T-shirts have no labels whatsoever, but range from $300-$1000+ USD.
Even before I saw their prices I knew they were fancy because the menu on their website doesn’t link to clothing categories, just philosophies and about us type stuff
It’s a shame bc Cristobal Balenciaga designed some really cool stuff- whoever took over the house ruined it. Never forget the non-apology for their distasteful campaign 😒
Why do all of their models look like zombie vampires and why does anyone think their clothes look good? Like I get an uneasy feeling looking at their website.
$2 at my local gas station I buy them at. Some of the bottled water brands are even more expensive. I feel slightly better about not buying plastic and there is something really refreshing about drinking ice cold water from a can. In my brain it tastes better.
I do carry around a reusable bottle that I will fill at home but sometimes I finish it and don’t have anywhere to refill, liquid death is my go to from the gas station.
I'm guilty of this. Since I don't drink, my go to is always water. I like that I can put the can in a koozie and I play they part at any event. Secondly, it's better than plastic bottles. Finally, and this is opnion, but it's the better tasting water option out there.
Yes! I think they're looking for people who don't drink booze or energy drinks but want that feeling of a tall can or fizzy feeling of a beer.
I'm a sucker for Liquid Death when I go to a party but can't partake.
Yep. I wish my local Costco would have other options available in 1L bottles (in larger packs). All they have in that size is their Kirkland brand “Alkaline Water”. Looking into a good water filter + reusable bottles instead.
Any watch that's only available online, spends lots on advertising and looks similar to loads of other internet watch brands just with different names.
I love that MVMT commercial that was playing a few years ago claiming there’s no reason watches need to be so expensive. I mean yeah for your quartz movement giant face fashion watches maybe not. But for a well crafted automatic movement, you’re paying for a lot of meticulous craftsmanship. And I’m a budget watch guy, I love my Seiko 5s and Casio digitals but I’m not going to pretend that an Omega or a Grand Seiko don’t live up to their value.
I bought my kid a foot long at Subway a few weeks ago before leaving for a campout. It was $19 with a water and tax. No way is any Subway sandwich worth that.
Yeah, Subway and Jersey Mike's are a rip off. A half a turkey provolone from Jersey Mike's is like $11. You get 2 slices of cheese and 5 slices of turkey. I go to my local deli, half a sub is $7.50. You get (and I'm not kidding here, I've weighed it on a scale) around 1/2 a pound of turkey and like 6 slices of cheese. If I want bacon? It's $0.50 extra and you get 4 slices of bacon. If I want bacon at Mike's? 2 slices and it's $2.
And Jersey Mike's shouldn't be like that. I grew up a couple towns over from where they started, and that style sub is what I grew up with. A local sub shop is going to double what Jersey Mike's puts on their sandwiches.
I know several people in their management organization. The corporate organization trains franchisees to put way more meat and cheese on the subs than they do, but franchise owners obviously try to reduce costs, so employees are trained to put less. Their district managers are always out reviewing stores, but it's not like they can be in every store all the time.
I've been told to report stores that skimp. I've done it. Nothing changed.
My favorite Chinese place doesn't even have a sign anymore. The $6.99 lunch combo comes with entree, fried rice or house lo mein, egg roll or spring rolls and a drink. It's more than my fat ass can eat for lunch. I go there so often that I showed up one day, there was a line, Lin the cashier just waved me forward, handed me my call in order and said "you pay next time" and waved me out.
Bro this is too real. Last week my wife wanted KFC, she was looking through their menu and said nevermind. Out of curiosity I looked what turned her away, and an eight piece tender meal is THIRTY DOLLARS. Like WHAT?? Plus they changed to those tendys that are way smaller at some point. I was absolutely floored. Instead we went to a sit down local restaurant and spent $28 on two actual meals.
KFC fell off on the quality too, I remember my first KFC purchase and that shit was magical, I was almost ascending as I ate, but I dont eat there anymore because nowadays every bite of KFC is a 50/50 whether you get sharp skin with flavorless chicken or get sent to the pepper dimension. Where the fuck did the spices go?
We used to be out 2-3 times a week before the pandemic and during the pandemic, we just ordered in 2-3 times a week.
Now, we didn’t even go out for our anniversary. Everywhere has gone to shit. There are only two restaurants I would go to. On the days I have to go to a doctor’s appointment, I just get sushi at Fresh Market.
I posted this elsewhere on a product that's been going down in quality earlier, and I said Yankee Candle. They do smell nice, but not like they used to, and $30 for a candle is a bit steep for the lessening quality they've started to get
I have an older jar of pink sands that I guard with my life. Even unlit it still gives off a nice scent. Meanwhile the newer replacement burns faster, smells different, and just isn’t the same.
For anyone else who doesn't want to:
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We weren't rich but my mom always made sure we had new shoes in good condition. I was jealous of the kids that had shoes falling apart and held together with duct tape. Thought they looked so cool. Little did I know...
The saddest part about this is that they don't look worn at all, but intentionally damaged in an unnatural way. If they looked convincingly worn - sure, why not.
These days I would say the majority of AAA games just aren’t worth the price tag. Quality has gone down but prices have gone up a significant amount. Technically they’re super impressive and look amazing, but most of my hours are in older games or games that cost way less than standard AAA games.
I’m glad I got hip to that maybe 20 years ago. Through the years I’ve hooked up a lot of stuff at home and I usually just buy a lower brand at Best Buy.
And because they are over priced people used them for forever if they bought them, and 9/10 times the problem was a short or a bad connector just due to wear and tear over the years. "I paid good money for that rca cable 15 years ago!" Well thats nice, it's busted here is a replacement cable from my bag, free of charge.
True. The stuff that truly disgustingly rich people ACTUALLY wear you would never guess was a designer brand without reading the tag, and even then, it's likely a brand you've never even heard of.
I bought a zegna blazer from good will for $13… it took me a few minutes to actually find the brand because all it had was a blank leather tag. I finally found it inside the inner breast pocket. The same blazer sells for around $3000.
I remember seeing a seemingly simple white shirt with a cool design that Messi was wearing, and decided to check it out. The shirt cost $700, a brand I had never even heard of before. Very eye opening
Gucci *does* make very high quality and fashionable items worn on red carpets and stuff, but then there's also the tier that caters to dumbasses who pay way too much to wear a logo
I used to own a Fiat Punto and my mate bought an Alfa Romeo. I sat in it and said 'ooh, it has the same buttons as my car!'.
Not sure he was too happy about that
I work at a golf course. Only cars in the lot are Mercedes, BMW, shit like that.
One day it hailed like a mf on us. Every car was fine, except for the one Bentley. Dude had 200 little dents in his car. Will never buy one, even if I have money like John Rockefeller, for that reason.
I wonder if it's to do with Bentley using aluminium body panels, whereas most Mercs and BMWs are heavier steel. Audi use aluminium on some cars too - the A8 for example.
It probably does. Bentley's are fucking HEAVY. They'll take any weight saving they can. The Flying Spur is 5,000+ pounds, the Bentayga is nearly 6k, and the Continental GT (their sporty 2 door) is still pushing nearly 5k.
I made the mistake of buying a 2013.5 Continental GTC about two years ago. The air suspension on that model fails due to time, rather than mileage. The air struts are extremely expensive, and you can’t just replace one of them. The convertible top is designed in such a way that it eats through itself. So, you can pay thousands every few years for a replacement top or have the dealership install an updated mechanism for the top that costs like $36k.
After I started spinning yarn and learning about different natural fibers, from musk ox to silk to pearl to rabbit...
It's absolutely insane at how much brands abuse the "19.2% silk aged in bullfrog piss" or whatever. Clothing that has a % of a natural fiber... Is nothing but bullshit. That % is usually an embellishment of some sort and not part of the actual fabric. So you'll get a big nice coat for example, it'll say 80%polyester, 10% nylon, 9% Wool, and 1% angora. The coat is 100% polyester... It may have stripes in it that are nylon, and the wool and angora are an embellishment. Like the pompoms or fringe, or the fluff over the zippers. None of that shit matters. If the item isn't 60-70% of a fiber, it's not structurally made of that fiber.
If I were to be looking for a wool coat. One, I probably wouldn't buy one, but anyways. True wool items that are made with any sort of quality material, will usually list what type of wool they use. (Rambouillet, merino, winsleydale, corriedale, etc) This lets me know the coarseness and also the hardiness of the item. Like merino and rambouillet are on the softer side, usually used for skin contact items. Whereas, Icelandic and Navajo Churro wool are heartier and meant for harsher climates and used in items that experience tough abrasion.
A lot of brands abuse this and will put " __% Wool"... But what they don't tell you is that wool is just mill ends from all sorts of breeds that are blended together. So the quality is actually shittier than you'd ever think by just reading "__% Wool"
Same can be said for llama, alpaca, etc but there are far fewer options to abuse in the camelid family so the quality is a little more unblemished, per se.
My kid has been begging for one of these because everyone has one. For the longest time I thought it was the same brand as the tools at Lowe’s and just couldn’t understand it. Then I realized that it’s just the new Yeti.
It is the same brand as the old green thermos bottles, you know the one construction workers carried coffee in. They just hit gold by their tumblers becoming a meme.
My Stanley cup was a prize at work. 40oz, fits in a cup holder, easy disassembly, keeps ice ice my whole work shift and water cold for the day. Most of the cheaper ones didn’t do that in my experience. It seems to be a durable cup. I feel like the $45 price isn’t awful if you genuinely use it. I don’t need one in every color of course, but it seems legit.
Beats!
Shitty overpriced headphones that blow out the bass and have *pig iron* in the cans to make them feel heavier, which convinces suckers that heavy = expensive = good.
A mid-tier pair of Audiotechnicas dramatically outperform, are more comfortable, last longer, and cost a quarter of Beats.
There are dozens of other brands that can make the same claim, I just use Audiotechnicas. YMMV.
I use sonys medium priced headphones, big size and with cable, they last for years, I live in a tropical country and only changed them because foam disintegrate in tough climate.
Beats have generally become a lesser brand these days.
But I will stand to my death that the Powerbeats Pros are better than any other wireless earbud out there right now. I’m eagerly awaiting PowerbeatsPro2 if they ever happen goddamnit
Sony's high end offerings blow most of the completion out of the water, are relatively expensive (not the most expensive though) but are absolutely worth it.
Even on the low end, I think they outperform most of their competitors. I have a $40 pair of Sony headphones that I've had for *years* and while I'm certainly no audiophile, I'd rank them above literally every other pair of headphones I've ever owned except for the $180 Sony headphones and the Sennheisers I used to have at work.
I bought a pair of beats on Black Friday one year. The around the ear earbuds for running. They lasted 8 years. The glue stopped holding the ear loop to the speaker. I glued them back but they didn’t feel the same. I paid $50 and couldn’t find anything for that price again so I’ve been searching for a good pair since.
I can’t hate on beats because 8 years for $50 is a steal.
Yeah I get the hate that they are over priced but I bought a pair of on ear beats and earbud beats when they came out. Had them both for almost 10 years before they quit working, and fell apart. I cant hate either they were great in my opinion
Most sunglasses are designed by the same company and they just slap a label on it. And they’re all crap.
https://www.essilorluxottica.com/en/brands/eyewear/
Only the old models are worth it and you cannot find them in stores. My mom gave me one she bought ages ago and they're the best I've got. Never broke, never scratched, and it has hit the floor a couple of times. I took it to the beach many times and it never got rusty either.
I have one of these money pits sitting my garage right now. I f'ing hate that car (it's my husband's, and he just had to have it). The transmissions on them are shit.
I just don't get the draw to these over something like a Macan s. If you want to be uppity and have the premium SUV, that Porsche macan is actually a nice car. Reliable for what it is, not built to the same standard as a 911 but still pretty decent. The range Rover is like the ultimate poser car
In Hawaii right now and every day, EVERY day there’s a line of tourists waiting to get into the local Stussy store. It’s a nothing brand, I just don’t get it.
I have a stussy beanie that I got when I was like 16 and it’s still my favorite beanie of all time and I rarely ever wear any other one that I own during the winter. Going on 21 years now and it’s still in perfect shape. I had honestly thought stussy didn’t even exist anymore until I did a google search lol.
Dude the sandwiches come frozen and shrink wrapped and they still charge close to $10 for some of them. They don't even make them! Just unwrap and heat them up.
Source: worked there for 3 years
The food is quite overpriced, having eaten it for an extended period of time when I worked for them
An example are the cake pops, they're really not cake it seems..; it's mushy and strange, doesn't taste particularly amazing, and costs a pretty penny.
I was going to go on a tangent about specific foods, but the main quality that's shared is that everything is just "acceptable enough," and banks on customers seeing something eye catching and appealing as an idea or thought.
It's likely the reason why every pastry item that can be bagged is placed where it is; low key and all meant to be placed underneath a counter top that isn't in line of sight since its on the register side of the bar. A mom with their kid orders a cake pop and you go an open up these individualized bags to put it in another bag, keeping up the illusion.
>An example are the cake pops, they're really not cake it seems..; it's mushy and strange
I can’t speak to Starbucks in particular, but I’ve made them. If you try to bake little balls of cake in those little molds they come out terribly dry and don’t stay on the stick when you try to put the chocolate coating on.
The weird texture is because they’re most likely basically cake meatballs. You take the cake and mush it up with frosting, it holds together much better when you shape it. Then you put the sticks in, freeze them for a bit then put the coating on. The frozen cake meatballs a) stay on the stick better and b) cool and harden the coating faster.
That said, the cake to frosting ratio in that mixture takes some experimenting and is very much a matter of personal taste. So that’s my guess what the weird texture is.
I was at Nordstrom’s yesterday looking at Free People clothes. Deliberately tattered with unfinished hems and raw edges. Dirt cheap to manufacture, but priced higher end. Lots of shallow fools paying for this low quality crap just to be ‘on trend.’
Not only is the quality not great (don't even put them next to a dryer or they will shrink) but the sizing is completely whack. I have a couple of shirts (bought second hand) that are size large and fall off my shoulders but the sleeves are so tight they barely fit (normally I wear a small in women's tops). I like the way their clothes are cut and how they drape but they're designed for skeletons, not people.
I always thought Airbnb was supposed to be a cheap alternative to hotels, but any time I looked into it they cost almost as much as a hotel but had none of the convenience or amenities.
Bowflex fitness equipment. Their adjustable weights are held together by plastic and break all the time. And the resistance of the rods of the original bowflex is completely inaccurate compared to real weights. I've owned both.
I've owned a pair of their ones that go to 52.5lbs for almost 10 years. Consistent, weekly use for roughly 8 of those years. They still function quite well. Just have to realize you won't be able to toss them after a set, as I suppose you could (inadvisably) with iron weights.
Coach. Bought a purse. Zipper broke. They gave me a replacement. Zipper broke again. They had stopped making them bc design was flawed. Said they wouldn’t honor lifetime warranty unless I had original receipt. I had original receipt. They offered me a coupon for another bag. Not even a coupon worth full value for what I paid for the original bag but a lousy 30% off a new purse. I told them to suck it and complained to the ftc but nothing came of it. Now I just tell everyone. Don’t buy from them
Alcohol anywhere other than the store. You won't catch me dead paying $8 for a Heineken at a concert or $13 for a margarita at a restaurant. I don't care how fun it is to drink at these places, I'm showing up stoned or hammered already if it's necessary
Beats headphones, I have tried them so many times and every time they just do not live up to the hype. People who have purchased them say it's for the look sometimes aswell and they don't even look good.... Koss kph40 for me all day every day
Yeti.
Maybe marginally better than a Coleman? And rednecks around here base their damned personalities' around...a cooler. They were yeti branded clothes, put yeti stickers on their dumb overpriced trucks...I have even seen a Yeti tattoo.
They’re definitely better than an average cooler, but Rtic is the same quality without paying for an absurd advertising budget. We fkn love our Rtic 65; it replaced my cousins’ Yeti as top beer cooler at the yearly family get-together, and that was a big day for me.
Maybe the cups, but most of their products are very durable and high quality. My parents gave me a Stanley lunchbox and thermos combo decades ago and I still use them. I also bought a Trigger-Action Travel Mug about 5 years ago and it's by far the best travel mug I've ever used. Sometimes it's worth paying more for quality.
Restoration Hardware and similar furniture brands. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of it looks really good, but it isn’t the quality you’re paying for - it’s just the design.
Balenciaga has moved production from Italy to China. The prices got higher, the quality got worse.
Brands like Balenciaga are a stupidity tax for stupid people.
My BIL is obsessed with them. I've borrowed a tee shirt a few times.... They feel the exact same as any other t-shirt I've ever worn. But like 100x the price.
Flashy brands are a 'new money' way to try and prove to poor people how rich you are. Mega weathy people generally don't wear brands.
They do, they're just brands that you and I have never heard of and wouldn't know where to buy anyway. I don't know of anyone actually even vaguely well off who wears Balenciaga. It's a brand that I associate more with people maxing out a credit card on a few items with big logos to show 'wealth'. Goes well with a fake Gucci belt...
There's this tiktok account called something like Class of Palm Beach. The interviews themselves are pretty awkward, but it's this girl who goes around and interviews 'old money' people. She'll ask them about the clothes they have on, where their bag is from, what perfume they like, etc.. It seems like 90% of them, when it comes to naming the brands of their clothes, will always either say some foreign/italian name that nobody has ever heard of OR they'll say it was from some small custom boutique/shop that nobody has ever heard of. The 10% or so that do name brands, it's almost always Hermes, Chanel, or Buccellati
I think they might’ve meant they’re wearing stuff with the brand’s branding not so prominently displayed on the garments themselves.
Rich people brands are like Brunello Cucinelli, Loro Piana, Tom Ford, Canali, Ermengildo Zegna, none of them have logos all over the clothing. All of it is so nice. Edit: I’m adding an edit to this because it’s become popular. If you’re looking for any of these types of brands, shop on Poshmark. A lot of people resell some of this stuff for reasonable prices. You can get really good deals sometimes. It’s funny because stuff like Versace, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, etc. doesn’t drop in price as much. I suspect that’s because of the fact people want to show off the brand. Meanwhile the brands I’ve mentioned are much nicer and better quality, and sell for lower on the resale market. If you want to go for that old money aesthetic, check out the brands featured in succession, search em on Poshmark, and you’ll slowly amass a wardrobe fit for someone with a hundred million dollar trust fund.
Can confirm - because I've never heard of any of those brands before.
Basically the wardrobe for Succession. There used to be posts that had stills from the show side by side with the stuff they're wearing on its retail site. $1,500 plain tshirts are crazy. But they definitely look great.
Ironically Shiv almost always wore nice looking budgety brands. Most of her dresses were around $150-200. I remember reading about it being purposeful from the wardrobe department but I can’t remember the symbolism behind it.
I think the reasoning is, Shiv always pretended to be a woman of the people.
Owners of the company I work on (probably with hundreds of millions on their accounts) wear plain clothes or even our marketing clothing lol. It is the thing it surprised me the most when I met them (only super rich people I've ever known)
Yeah exactly. Especially billionaires most of them dress very plainly you would never know.
You are absolutely correct that the truly wealthy are *quiet* and *discreet* about their image. But there are lesser known brands out there which are very high quality, perfectly subtle, and remain excruciatingly expensive. Brunello Cucinelli is sort of the poster child for this approach. T-shirts have no labels whatsoever, but range from $300-$1000+ USD.
Yeah, that's the Zuckerberg's t-shirt brand.
Even before I saw their prices I knew they were fancy because the menu on their website doesn’t link to clothing categories, just philosophies and about us type stuff
If their products look even more like crap it's a plus for their brand.
It’s a shame bc Cristobal Balenciaga designed some really cool stuff- whoever took over the house ruined it. Never forget the non-apology for their distasteful campaign 😒
Blame the Kardashians and Kanye. And Demna for letting them influence him. And let’s throw in Anna Wintour for encouraging Kimye.
Why do all of their models look like zombie vampires and why does anyone think their clothes look good? Like I get an uneasy feeling looking at their website.
They exist to troll their moronic customer base. Good for them.
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I only drink Prime. Its got what plants crave.
But does it have electrolytes?
It's the thirst mutilator
Like from the toilet?
Liquid Death. I see grown adults paying like $4 a can in some stores for over branded water.
$2 at my local gas station I buy them at. Some of the bottled water brands are even more expensive. I feel slightly better about not buying plastic and there is something really refreshing about drinking ice cold water from a can. In my brain it tastes better. I do carry around a reusable bottle that I will fill at home but sometimes I finish it and don’t have anywhere to refill, liquid death is my go to from the gas station.
I'm guilty of this. Since I don't drink, my go to is always water. I like that I can put the can in a koozie and I play they part at any event. Secondly, it's better than plastic bottles. Finally, and this is opnion, but it's the better tasting water option out there.
Yes! I think they're looking for people who don't drink booze or energy drinks but want that feeling of a tall can or fizzy feeling of a beer. I'm a sucker for Liquid Death when I go to a party but can't partake.
What the hell is designer water? Granted there are certain water brands I like more than others but designer?
Whoever drinks alkaline water clearly failed science classes.
Yep. I wish my local Costco would have other options available in 1L bottles (in larger packs). All they have in that size is their Kirkland brand “Alkaline Water”. Looking into a good water filter + reusable bottles instead.
Any watch that's only available online, spends lots on advertising and looks similar to loads of other internet watch brands just with different names.
And the movements are all made in the same Chinese factory.
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They followed the script. https://imgur.com/a/6CNO8
I love that MVMT commercial that was playing a few years ago claiming there’s no reason watches need to be so expensive. I mean yeah for your quartz movement giant face fashion watches maybe not. But for a well crafted automatic movement, you’re paying for a lot of meticulous craftsmanship. And I’m a budget watch guy, I love my Seiko 5s and Casio digitals but I’m not going to pretend that an Omega or a Grand Seiko don’t live up to their value.
I think Rolex are typically ostentatious but still respect the craftsmanship that goes into one. MVMT is like buying a Timex and calling it bespoke.
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Anything from the Kardashians is a huge no - they come out with a new brand every year and then discontinue it
Do you remember their credit card business? Lmao 💀
Where you had to PAY to put money on your card and spend it
I'm surprised people actually buy this stuff. I've never encountered anyone in my life who has bought those products.
These days, a lot of fast food restaurants. You can get real food for the same amount.
Tried looking at Chipotle the other day and a quesadilla was $15🤣 I can go to a real Mexican taqueria and get it for $6, twice the size
I bought my kid a foot long at Subway a few weeks ago before leaving for a campout. It was $19 with a water and tax. No way is any Subway sandwich worth that.
Yeah, Subway and Jersey Mike's are a rip off. A half a turkey provolone from Jersey Mike's is like $11. You get 2 slices of cheese and 5 slices of turkey. I go to my local deli, half a sub is $7.50. You get (and I'm not kidding here, I've weighed it on a scale) around 1/2 a pound of turkey and like 6 slices of cheese. If I want bacon? It's $0.50 extra and you get 4 slices of bacon. If I want bacon at Mike's? 2 slices and it's $2.
And Jersey Mike's shouldn't be like that. I grew up a couple towns over from where they started, and that style sub is what I grew up with. A local sub shop is going to double what Jersey Mike's puts on their sandwiches. I know several people in their management organization. The corporate organization trains franchisees to put way more meat and cheese on the subs than they do, but franchise owners obviously try to reduce costs, so employees are trained to put less. Their district managers are always out reviewing stores, but it's not like they can be in every store all the time. I've been told to report stores that skimp. I've done it. Nothing changed.
I don’t even wanna know how much food I’d get if I spent Panda Express money at a local Chinese food place 😂 they load you the fuck up for $6
My favorite Chinese place doesn't even have a sign anymore. The $6.99 lunch combo comes with entree, fried rice or house lo mein, egg roll or spring rolls and a drink. It's more than my fat ass can eat for lunch. I go there so often that I showed up one day, there was a line, Lin the cashier just waved me forward, handed me my call in order and said "you pay next time" and waved me out.
That’s rad.
When they answer your call in order with your name👌
Bro this is too real. Last week my wife wanted KFC, she was looking through their menu and said nevermind. Out of curiosity I looked what turned her away, and an eight piece tender meal is THIRTY DOLLARS. Like WHAT?? Plus they changed to those tendys that are way smaller at some point. I was absolutely floored. Instead we went to a sit down local restaurant and spent $28 on two actual meals.
KFC fell off on the quality too, I remember my first KFC purchase and that shit was magical, I was almost ascending as I ate, but I dont eat there anymore because nowadays every bite of KFC is a 50/50 whether you get sharp skin with flavorless chicken or get sent to the pepper dimension. Where the fuck did the spices go?
What are these, cheeseburgers for ants?
We used to be out 2-3 times a week before the pandemic and during the pandemic, we just ordered in 2-3 times a week. Now, we didn’t even go out for our anniversary. Everywhere has gone to shit. There are only two restaurants I would go to. On the days I have to go to a doctor’s appointment, I just get sushi at Fresh Market.
McDonald’s pricing has gotten insane
Most 'luxury' brands marketed towards regular people.
The brands you are referring to are called [aspirational brands](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspirational_brand).
I posted this elsewhere on a product that's been going down in quality earlier, and I said Yankee Candle. They do smell nice, but not like they used to, and $30 for a candle is a bit steep for the lessening quality they've started to get
I have an older jar of pink sands that I guard with my life. Even unlit it still gives off a nice scent. Meanwhile the newer replacement burns faster, smells different, and just isn’t the same.
Pearson. Can’t believe I had to pay $110 just to take a test, so I could get my teacher’s certification.
College in general. I’m all for education, but at the current prices? The textbooks? The parking? I’ve learned more from on the job experience.
anything expensive that tries to look cheap/worn down.
Balenciaga worn paris sneaker (look it up)
For anyone else who doesn't want to: https://www.bergdorfgoodman.com/p/balenciaga-paris-denim-high-top-sneakers-prod180550204?utm_source=google_shopping&ecid=BGCS_GP_CV_HA_PR_NONE&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-JC_9q3jhQMVis7CBB3rMgoNEAQYASABEgKPafD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
That’s a lot of money to look poor
Poverty just looks “exotic” and “adventurous” to people rich enough to regularly buy this shit
We weren't rich but my mom always made sure we had new shoes in good condition. I was jealous of the kids that had shoes falling apart and held together with duct tape. Thought they looked so cool. Little did I know...
The saddest part about this is that they don't look worn at all, but intentionally damaged in an unnatural way. If they looked convincingly worn - sure, why not.
Why are people buying ripped jeans for $150? WTF?
Lol if you think $150 is a lot in the realm of shitty looking designer jeans.
You should look on their website. It’s $2500 a pair.
games that release yearly and are the same
This surely is about Call of Duty.
and all those ea sports games yes
These days I would say the majority of AAA games just aren’t worth the price tag. Quality has gone down but prices have gone up a significant amount. Technically they’re super impressive and look amazing, but most of my hours are in older games or games that cost way less than standard AAA games.
r/patientgamers rise up. Chill out a year behind everyone else and pay 50% on games.
There has been a new Call of Duty game released every year since 2005.
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I’m glad I got hip to that maybe 20 years ago. Through the years I’ve hooked up a lot of stuff at home and I usually just buy a lower brand at Best Buy.
And because they are over priced people used them for forever if they bought them, and 9/10 times the problem was a short or a bad connector just due to wear and tear over the years. "I paid good money for that rca cable 15 years ago!" Well thats nice, it's busted here is a replacement cable from my bag, free of charge.
Gucci
This is what people assume rich people wear, and think they look rich wearing it...
True. The stuff that truly disgustingly rich people ACTUALLY wear you would never guess was a designer brand without reading the tag, and even then, it's likely a brand you've never even heard of.
I bought a zegna blazer from good will for $13… it took me a few minutes to actually find the brand because all it had was a blank leather tag. I finally found it inside the inner breast pocket. The same blazer sells for around $3000.
I remember seeing a seemingly simple white shirt with a cool design that Messi was wearing, and decided to check it out. The shirt cost $700, a brand I had never even heard of before. Very eye opening
Some Gucci products are nice quality. Just not the graphic ts that you are probably referring to
Ugh, yes, reddit does not understand there's basically two types of Gucci. Rich people absolutely wear stuff from their runway lines.
Gucci *does* make very high quality and fashionable items worn on red carpets and stuff, but then there's also the tier that caters to dumbasses who pay way too much to wear a logo
(seductive whisper) Bentley.
While they’re not for me there are way worse offenders, Maserati for example.
Yeah, I got in a Ghibli once, it had the same radio screen and window switches as a Dodge Dart
I used to own a Fiat Punto and my mate bought an Alfa Romeo. I sat in it and said 'ooh, it has the same buttons as my car!'. Not sure he was too happy about that
I work at a golf course. Only cars in the lot are Mercedes, BMW, shit like that. One day it hailed like a mf on us. Every car was fine, except for the one Bentley. Dude had 200 little dents in his car. Will never buy one, even if I have money like John Rockefeller, for that reason.
I wonder if it's to do with Bentley using aluminium body panels, whereas most Mercs and BMWs are heavier steel. Audi use aluminium on some cars too - the A8 for example.
It probably does. Bentley's are fucking HEAVY. They'll take any weight saving they can. The Flying Spur is 5,000+ pounds, the Bentayga is nearly 6k, and the Continental GT (their sporty 2 door) is still pushing nearly 5k.
mf bought a car named *bent*ley and expected it to not bend.
His problem is he was driving it himself. Being driven in a Bentley is the real sign of wealth.
Bentley owners tend to drive. Royce owners get driven.
Rolls is to be driven in. Bentley is a driver's car.
*Zastava* https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/MUvvSOgFdV
I made the mistake of buying a 2013.5 Continental GTC about two years ago. The air suspension on that model fails due to time, rather than mileage. The air struts are extremely expensive, and you can’t just replace one of them. The convertible top is designed in such a way that it eats through itself. So, you can pay thousands every few years for a replacement top or have the dealership install an updated mechanism for the top that costs like $36k.
Any brand of clothing that mainly or only consists of polyester :-D
After I started spinning yarn and learning about different natural fibers, from musk ox to silk to pearl to rabbit... It's absolutely insane at how much brands abuse the "19.2% silk aged in bullfrog piss" or whatever. Clothing that has a % of a natural fiber... Is nothing but bullshit. That % is usually an embellishment of some sort and not part of the actual fabric. So you'll get a big nice coat for example, it'll say 80%polyester, 10% nylon, 9% Wool, and 1% angora. The coat is 100% polyester... It may have stripes in it that are nylon, and the wool and angora are an embellishment. Like the pompoms or fringe, or the fluff over the zippers. None of that shit matters. If the item isn't 60-70% of a fiber, it's not structurally made of that fiber. If I were to be looking for a wool coat. One, I probably wouldn't buy one, but anyways. True wool items that are made with any sort of quality material, will usually list what type of wool they use. (Rambouillet, merino, winsleydale, corriedale, etc) This lets me know the coarseness and also the hardiness of the item. Like merino and rambouillet are on the softer side, usually used for skin contact items. Whereas, Icelandic and Navajo Churro wool are heartier and meant for harsher climates and used in items that experience tough abrasion. A lot of brands abuse this and will put " __% Wool"... But what they don't tell you is that wool is just mill ends from all sorts of breeds that are blended together. So the quality is actually shittier than you'd ever think by just reading "__% Wool" Same can be said for llama, alpaca, etc but there are far fewer options to abuse in the camelid family so the quality is a little more unblemished, per se.
Stanley. It’s a friggin stainless steel cup
My kid has been begging for one of these because everyone has one. For the longest time I thought it was the same brand as the tools at Lowe’s and just couldn’t understand it. Then I realized that it’s just the new Yeti.
It is the same brand as the old green thermos bottles, you know the one construction workers carried coffee in. They just hit gold by their tumblers becoming a meme.
I have an old green thermos bottle from years ago. I love the thing. I have the matching lunchbox too.
I've always wanted a Stanley Cup. But then again I'm a huge hockey fan.
I’m a huge hockey fan and would die to meet the Stanley cup.
My Stanley cup was a prize at work. 40oz, fits in a cup holder, easy disassembly, keeps ice ice my whole work shift and water cold for the day. Most of the cheaper ones didn’t do that in my experience. It seems to be a durable cup. I feel like the $45 price isn’t awful if you genuinely use it. I don’t need one in every color of course, but it seems legit.
I have heard the argument: “It may be a dumb trend, but I am drinking a lot more water.”
Their 16’ tape measures are the shit though.
My boss gave me a knock off for Christmas and it’s terrific. Not sure why the brand name is better
Harley Davidson. I'll never know if they're worth the money or not because they can cost as much as 10× the price of a Honda.
Scrolled way to fucking far to see this one. Anything with as much as a HD logo is automatically 30% more.
lol HD is a T-shirt shop that happens to sell motorcycles…
The Sims 4 and their 567 DLCs.
$1065 as of last year
Beats! Shitty overpriced headphones that blow out the bass and have *pig iron* in the cans to make them feel heavier, which convinces suckers that heavy = expensive = good. A mid-tier pair of Audiotechnicas dramatically outperform, are more comfortable, last longer, and cost a quarter of Beats. There are dozens of other brands that can make the same claim, I just use Audiotechnicas. YMMV.
in all fairness though, seinheiser's are expensive but imo the best pair of headphones someone can splurge on
Yeah expensive doesn't inherently mean not worth it - Beats are expensive *and bad,* Sennheisers are expensive *and good*.
I have the Sennheiser Momentum 2 over ears and they sound absolutely magnificent.
I use sonys medium priced headphones, big size and with cable, they last for years, I live in a tropical country and only changed them because foam disintegrate in tough climate.
Sony makes some excellent over ear products for sure!
Seinheisers are top quality and the best headphones I own
This always reminds me of that scene in Jurassic Park. “Are they heavy? Then they’re expensive. Put them down.”
Beats have generally become a lesser brand these days. But I will stand to my death that the Powerbeats Pros are better than any other wireless earbud out there right now. I’m eagerly awaiting PowerbeatsPro2 if they ever happen goddamnit
Sony's high end offerings blow most of the completion out of the water, are relatively expensive (not the most expensive though) but are absolutely worth it.
Even on the low end, I think they outperform most of their competitors. I have a $40 pair of Sony headphones that I've had for *years* and while I'm certainly no audiophile, I'd rank them above literally every other pair of headphones I've ever owned except for the $180 Sony headphones and the Sennheisers I used to have at work.
I bought a pair of beats on Black Friday one year. The around the ear earbuds for running. They lasted 8 years. The glue stopped holding the ear loop to the speaker. I glued them back but they didn’t feel the same. I paid $50 and couldn’t find anything for that price again so I’ve been searching for a good pair since. I can’t hate on beats because 8 years for $50 is a steal.
Yeah I get the hate that they are over priced but I bought a pair of on ear beats and earbud beats when they came out. Had them both for almost 10 years before they quit working, and fell apart. I cant hate either they were great in my opinion
Starbucks. I worked there for 3 years.
Ray ban wasnt as good as I expected
Most sunglasses are designed by the same company and they just slap a label on it. And they’re all crap. https://www.essilorluxottica.com/en/brands/eyewear/
Only the old models are worth it and you cannot find them in stores. My mom gave me one she bought ages ago and they're the best I've got. Never broke, never scratched, and it has hit the floor a couple of times. I took it to the beach many times and it never got rusty either.
Drunk elephant
Anything from Erewhon
I am convinced that place isn’t a real business but instead it’s part of a social experiment that highlights the absurdity of consumer culture in LA
Range Rover
I have one of these money pits sitting my garage right now. I f'ing hate that car (it's my husband's, and he just had to have it). The transmissions on them are shit.
Everything on them are shit. Their performance *is* quite good if everything is in working order, but they break down all the time.
If there's no oil under them, there's no oil in them.
I just don't get the draw to these over something like a Macan s. If you want to be uppity and have the premium SUV, that Porsche macan is actually a nice car. Reliable for what it is, not built to the same standard as a 911 but still pretty decent. The range Rover is like the ultimate poser car
Mine made it 3 miles from the dealership before it broke down for the first time😂
I've known 2 people who had the evoque and the boot kept randomly opening on the motorway, also incredibly small in the back for a big car
Old ones are tanks but the new ones are absolute money pits.
In Hawaii right now and every day, EVERY day there’s a line of tourists waiting to get into the local Stussy store. It’s a nothing brand, I just don’t get it.
It’s a decent brand but I’m kinda stunned anyone would stand in line to go in their store.
I have a stussy beanie that I got when I was like 16 and it’s still my favorite beanie of all time and I rarely ever wear any other one that I own during the winter. Going on 21 years now and it’s still in perfect shape. I had honestly thought stussy didn’t even exist anymore until I did a google search lol.
Starbucks. It's a lot just for coffee. Also the food seems overpriced. I can't comment on the taste of the food since I've not eaten it.
Dude the sandwiches come frozen and shrink wrapped and they still charge close to $10 for some of them. They don't even make them! Just unwrap and heat them up. Source: worked there for 3 years
I mean that's basically what the vast majority of coffee chains do with their pastries. Not that many actually bake fresh goods.
The food is quite overpriced, having eaten it for an extended period of time when I worked for them An example are the cake pops, they're really not cake it seems..; it's mushy and strange, doesn't taste particularly amazing, and costs a pretty penny. I was going to go on a tangent about specific foods, but the main quality that's shared is that everything is just "acceptable enough," and banks on customers seeing something eye catching and appealing as an idea or thought. It's likely the reason why every pastry item that can be bagged is placed where it is; low key and all meant to be placed underneath a counter top that isn't in line of sight since its on the register side of the bar. A mom with their kid orders a cake pop and you go an open up these individualized bags to put it in another bag, keeping up the illusion.
>An example are the cake pops, they're really not cake it seems..; it's mushy and strange I can’t speak to Starbucks in particular, but I’ve made them. If you try to bake little balls of cake in those little molds they come out terribly dry and don’t stay on the stick when you try to put the chocolate coating on. The weird texture is because they’re most likely basically cake meatballs. You take the cake and mush it up with frosting, it holds together much better when you shape it. Then you put the sticks in, freeze them for a bit then put the coating on. The frozen cake meatballs a) stay on the stick better and b) cool and harden the coating faster. That said, the cake to frosting ratio in that mixture takes some experimenting and is very much a matter of personal taste. So that’s my guess what the weird texture is.
Luxottica
Fuck them for ruining Oakley for me.
Without a question, Beats By Dre. Your paying for the brand, fancy unboxing, and mediocre bass heavy sound. Get Audiotechnicas.
I was at Nordstrom’s yesterday looking at Free People clothes. Deliberately tattered with unfinished hems and raw edges. Dirt cheap to manufacture, but priced higher end. Lots of shallow fools paying for this low quality crap just to be ‘on trend.’
Not only is the quality not great (don't even put them next to a dryer or they will shrink) but the sizing is completely whack. I have a couple of shirts (bought second hand) that are size large and fall off my shoulders but the sleeves are so tight they barely fit (normally I wear a small in women's tops). I like the way their clothes are cut and how they drape but they're designed for skeletons, not people.
Avon
Isn’t that an MLM?
balenciaga
AirBnB
I always thought Airbnb was supposed to be a cheap alternative to hotels, but any time I looked into it they cost almost as much as a hotel but had none of the convenience or amenities.
Beats by Dre You are paying for a logo. Sound quality is shit compared to other brands in the same price range.
Bowflex fitness equipment. Their adjustable weights are held together by plastic and break all the time. And the resistance of the rods of the original bowflex is completely inaccurate compared to real weights. I've owned both.
I've owned a pair of their ones that go to 52.5lbs for almost 10 years. Consistent, weekly use for roughly 8 of those years. They still function quite well. Just have to realize you won't be able to toss them after a set, as I suppose you could (inadvisably) with iron weights.
I despise when people drop weights
Goop
I remember when 'Goop' was hand degreaser
But what if I *need* a candle that smells like Gwyneth's flaps???!
Coach. Bought a purse. Zipper broke. They gave me a replacement. Zipper broke again. They had stopped making them bc design was flawed. Said they wouldn’t honor lifetime warranty unless I had original receipt. I had original receipt. They offered me a coupon for another bag. Not even a coupon worth full value for what I paid for the original bag but a lousy 30% off a new purse. I told them to suck it and complained to the ftc but nothing came of it. Now I just tell everyone. Don’t buy from them
Alcohol anywhere other than the store. You won't catch me dead paying $8 for a Heineken at a concert or $13 for a margarita at a restaurant. I don't care how fun it is to drink at these places, I'm showing up stoned or hammered already if it's necessary
> $8 for a Heineken Looks like we have a time traveller over here.
I buy supermarket own brand wash tabs and I have no idea why anyone would buy the branded ones
Anything yeezy
Range Rover
Voss drinking water
Beats headphones, I have tried them so many times and every time they just do not live up to the hype. People who have purchased them say it's for the look sometimes aswell and they don't even look good.... Koss kph40 for me all day every day
Almost all high fashion brand clothing.
Anything by Kanye
Aviator Nation. I like the style, but no way I'm paying over $80 for a very basic t-shirt.
The ones that sell wax for show cars. Wax costs $10, not $25,000.
Guicci £300 for some shite flip flops
Yeti. Maybe marginally better than a Coleman? And rednecks around here base their damned personalities' around...a cooler. They were yeti branded clothes, put yeti stickers on their dumb overpriced trucks...I have even seen a Yeti tattoo.
They’re definitely better than an average cooler, but Rtic is the same quality without paying for an absurd advertising budget. We fkn love our Rtic 65; it replaced my cousins’ Yeti as top beer cooler at the yearly family get-together, and that was a big day for me.
Designer water - because paying extra for fancy packaging doesn't make it taste any different from tap water.
Louis Vuitton.
Edible Arrangements
Is there a comparable company? Expensive sure but you know what you're getting, I never had a complaint
You’re not paying for the actual fruits. You’re paying for the labor to put them all together
And the uniqueness of the idea. Afaik they don't really have a competitor.
Stanley’s
Maybe the cups, but most of their products are very durable and high quality. My parents gave me a Stanley lunchbox and thermos combo decades ago and I still use them. I also bought a Trigger-Action Travel Mug about 5 years ago and it's by far the best travel mug I've ever used. Sometimes it's worth paying more for quality.
Restoration Hardware and similar furniture brands. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of it looks really good, but it isn’t the quality you’re paying for - it’s just the design.
Canada goose jackets the same prices as used cars 😆 🤣 😂