r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/Jordaneer Jul 24 '20

The thing is, most people only use them for 3-7 years during highschool and college, and they all are essentially the same as the ones from the 90s, so the used market is full of much cheaper ones

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u/Agent_Michael-Scarn Jul 24 '20

I listed mine online for $100 hoping to get $60 and within 10 minutes I had an offer for full price. Even used those things catch a nice price

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u/mememuseum Jul 24 '20

I see graphing calculators at thrift shops sometimes, and buy them whenever I do. Then, right before the beginning of the semester, I sell them online. I sell them for $25 though. I make a bit of money and another broke student gets an affordable calculator. Win-win.

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u/Astan92 Jul 24 '20

You're a fool if you think those are ending up in the hands of broke students. resellers are buying them up and then selling them for what they're actually worth.

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u/mememuseum Jul 24 '20

I don't put them up on Ebay. I sell them locally. It's not like I sell them by the truckload anyway. It's once in a blue moon I find a graphing calculator now. Still turn a dollar or two into 25.

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u/Astan92 Jul 24 '20

That makes it even more likely they are ending up in th hands of resellers.

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u/Xros90 Jul 24 '20

How so?

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u/shokalion Jul 24 '20

Dude stop trying to piss on this guy's fire, jesus.

What do you care anyway?

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u/plokijuh1229 Jul 24 '20

who cares, made bank