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‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2025
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I don't understand this. With $1300 can't they just buy the thing they are hoping to get? Is a big part of this paying for the thrill of winning, but never experiencing that?
As they say in the article, it's gambling. Gambling is inherently irrational.
Same way people won't pay 5$ to take a 50% chance to earn 6$, but some will consider a 0.00005% chance to earn 6,000,000$. If the extreme's are worth enough, some people just focus on that instead of considering the odds.
Yeah I think some people just can't help spending money on little dopamine hits. I don't think there's anything you can really do about it. Even if you ban blind boxes/loot boxes entirely they'll just find something else, or pick some random product like water bottles or beanie babies and decide they're 'rare' or whatever that was about.