There is no accounting for what people find interesting, valuable or desirable. For instance, people have put on sale things like a ziplock back containing air from an Adele concert. Then someone put on sale a ‘haunted’ doll, an imaginary friend and other truly absurd, sometimes disgusting things. And people have also bought said bizarre/absurd/disgusting items. So, a Rs. 25,999 bucket shouldn’t amaze us… not too much anyway:
It looks quite ordinary but the price is inexplicably high. When I looked on amazon.in, the most expensive one I could find was one priced ₹9,555. Most were priced between ₹ 170 and 500. Those priced in the thousands were usually bucket sets – several matching pieces including a tub, stool, broom, dustbin etc.
There had to be one.
That means someone actually bought that object?
It has one single star review that facetiously says this price is too low, it should be priced at Rs. 99,999 at least.
When I checked, the one review left by someone called Lincy Merlin had 231 ‘helpful’ votes.
…A more detailed and an even more sarcastic one.
Who?
This can happen – it happened to me once that a jewellery store billed me by mistake for a ring, with a decimal point where there should have been a comma. I went back the next day and corrected them (damn that conscience of mine).
Bought by someone with money to burn?
Maybe this is a magic bucket that helps wash off human sins?
Maybe this is some nefarious way to sell something illegal and the bucket is just code for some contraband?
Or maybe they are selling an entire bathroom and this bucket is just a freebie along with it....or the other way around.
But still in excess of 20K – after a 38% discount.
At a near 100% discount – available for Rs. 290. Nice of them.
A bucket that costs 26K? No thanks.
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