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u/Ashnyel 1d ago
So, buy the Dutch one, and resell it as French…. Profit
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u/JSteigs 1d ago
I believe that’s called arbitrage.
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u/Omnamashivaaya 1d ago
This would be the perfect photo in an economics textbook for arbitrage.
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u/pm_me_flaccid_cocks 19h ago
It'd go great next to my economics textbook's photo of bondage. Yeah. That's how you pronounce it, you dirty whore. Safeword is fromage.
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u/Kunphenix 19h ago
what?
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u/Mysticedge 4h ago
Fromage means cheese.
Edit: also see the user name. Don't expect excellent coherence.
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u/Kunphenix 4h ago
im aware that fromage means cheese yet i remain bewildered by the sheer lack of sense that that sentence displays
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u/rationalhippy 1d ago
That’s what the Dutch have been doing for about four hundred years.
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u/ManWithNoCrame 23h ago
Started with the tulips innit msieur?
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u/touchmeinbadplaces 23h ago
Nah it started with the swamps, it was free real estate. . Then we moved on to the water..
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u/CardiologistMobile54 1d ago
That's how Vitaly got the idea in Lord of war
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u/CaiserZero 20h ago
They say that I am the Lord of War, but perhaps it is you.
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u/rowrin 20h ago
I think you mean war lord.
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u/BiBoFieTo 1d ago
Reminds me of the diamond Shreddies cereal ads in Canada.
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u/-Paski- 1d ago
Also similar to burger king's lefthanded whopper https://hoaxes.org/af_database/permalink/the_left-handed_whopper/
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u/Highlord-Frikandel 1d ago
No one remembered the left and right Twix?
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u/lordargent 1d ago
Don't forget the up Twix, down Twix, and the Twix Boson
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u/SJClawhammer 14h ago
Leave it in a sunny window for a few months and you'll have a Luxembourgish pillow!
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u/moog_master 13h ago
Give enough time, red becomes orange, blue becomes green... India!
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u/Ghastly-Jack 1d ago
Now do Ireland and Côte d'Ivoire.
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u/wurnthebitch 1d ago
Poland and Indonesia
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u/Gr8fulFox 22h ago
Now I'm imagining a bad review left by a purchaser that thought they were buying a pillow with the flag of county X, but then complained that it was actually the flag of county Y, and the confusion is just because the customer had the pillow flipped-around.
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u/Pellaeonthewingedleo 1d ago
The dutch discount is most likely because the colours are off. The dutch flag has a lighter blue and red than the french flag
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u/borntobewildish 1d ago
Don't be so sensible. Just call us cheapskates who will not pay €15.99 for a pillow.
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u/Trips-Over-Tail 1d ago
Could the zipper be in a different place?
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u/edijsn 22h ago
They are not squares, they are rectangles, with longer horizontal side and shorter vertical side. Orientation matters, those are in fact two different products. Can't explain the price difference though.
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u/Trips-Over-Tail 8h ago
It might cost more to bridge the zipper across multiple colours rather than one. More complex stitching.
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u/abbys_alibi 20h ago
Reminds me of when HR handed out branded coffee travel mugs to staff. When I went in for mine she asked, "Do you want a left handed or right handed one?" I stared at her waiting for the punchline. She just raised an eyebrow and waved a mug in each hand. I said, "I'd like the ambidextrous mug, please." She chuckled, handed me a mug and told me everyone else, so far, had picked a left or a right.
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u/wollphilie 15h ago
To be fair, as a lefty I've been handed some porcelain cups that were actively hostile to me (especially the ones with the twisted hanks), but fortunate y I've yet to encounter that in travel mugs.
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u/abbys_alibi 15h ago
One could also argue that if the mug was branded only on one side, the handle placement could determine whether it was for a lefty or righty. If the intent was for the logo to always face outward.
This travel mug was branded on both sides. It didn't matter at all which hand you used to hold it.
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u/semisociallyawkward 11h ago
Friend of mine has very fancy cups, with a twisting ribbon-shaped handle that feels phenomenal in your right hand. It is unusable with your left hand.
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u/VehaMeursault 3h ago
There are left and right handed mugs, to be fair. Some handles aren’t symmetrical, and depending on where the text or image is printed one could argue sides.
But yeah, odds are that’s not what you were dealing with. Good on you.
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u/lucky_ducker 1d ago
The French pillow costs more because the cover is reversible with the all-white liner.
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u/vincenzodelavegas 1d ago
The blue is different… French is dark navy blue and Dutch is cobalt blue, so slightly lighter
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u/Rope_antidepressant 1d ago
Lol i really hope if i ordered both they'd actually be different. Zipper/tag placement or something that tells me they're made separately and the design people at the company are actually stupid
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u/xgbsss 1d ago
The Dutch are known to be frugal
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u/splitcroof92 13h ago
But the dutch are also way richer and everything is much more expensive in the Netherlands than in france
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u/MassageWithABottle 1d ago
they wish but pretty sure most stuff is more expensive in the netherlands thats why they more frugal
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u/CastrateMeASAP 1d ago
Take a gander at the Mexican flag… AKA the Italian flag with a little spice…
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u/captainthomas 20h ago edited 20h ago
I once worked on a production of La Bohème where we ordered a bunch of French flags for the chorus to wave around at the end of Act II (IYKYK). What we got sent were a bunch of Dutch flags. I joked that we ought to just move the setting from Paris to Amsterdam, but wardrobe ended up cutting all the Dutch flags off their poles and sewing them back on at a 90º angle to the original.
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u/Tufflaw 20h ago
Ha, reminds me of this great scene in Lord of War - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwpytWlJTxQ
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u/angeluzp 11h ago
just buy the dutch one for 9,99 eur and turn it sideways on your couch to save six bucks
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u/still_not_deleted 3h ago
Maybe the real reasom is that 10$ is overpriced so they need to create a hook for smarty-pants to buy it
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u/ReasonableExplorer 16h ago
This goes beyond discrimination based on where you live, it also discriminates against you orientation.
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