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tmiku | 10 months ago

I feel like this shows up in any news article about resale markups of trendy merch - the highest-price listing gets the headline, regardless of if it ever sells. I get that these soft-news articles are more about driving traffic to the site than quality reporting, but I'm still surprised (and annoyed!) that these easily disprovable eye-grabbers are omnipresent in this class of story.

Edit: further example - come on, man https://www.delish.com/food-news/a64457108/trader-joes-mini-...

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HPsquared|10 months ago

One person working on the campaign puts up the listing, and another "buys" it on eBay etc.

Then it's technically somewhat true-ish that "one sold at that price".