The PriceMaster (full version)

"Everything is for sale." "Make me an offer!" . . . the wonderful mantras of the prophet of Captive Market Capitalism (i.e. American Style Corporate Capitalism) echo pertinently on a crisp winter day in Denton, TX in the newborn hours of the great decisive 21st Century. Members of the hallowed Fast House look on and document the unfolding.
Fast House (on the day of The PriceMaster):
Dog Big
Eva Kasson
Nathan Austin
Nova Martin
Rick Perry
Ronnie Bass
Video edited by Horacio Jones.
A special thanks to Yulia Kantor for the video equipment!
And a very special thanks to Brett Johnson, David Ponder, Dr. Morgan Rutherford, Richie Budd, and Troy Jarnagin for all the inspiration over the years!!!

[@gentlemanvaultboy8671]

This is 50% of the way to being an episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog.

[@ShutupMokuba-gt9ve]

The slaaaaaaab

[@emersonsnyder369]

It's got the music and everything

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

Holy sht, I can totally see Muriel and Eustace bringing Courage along yardsale-ing in the middle of Nowhere and the PriceMaster actually being some kind of demon or spirit entity. Lmfao

[@springboard1803]

"What's your offer?!"

[@aarronkavelish2108]

​@StrangeScaryNewEngland Eustace does the "I'm giving you $5 and taking this!" and the rest of the episode is Courage trying to make it right after some supernatural repercussions.

[@someguyoutthere110]

Imagine having one of your formative experiences as a child be negotiating with the PriceMaster

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

To truly understand fractional reserve lending at such a tender age.... imagine the possibilities...

[@haveagreatday6952]

I’d believe all those kids are either now lawyers or ass-out on the streets, no in-between.

[@mrbarrett2002]

this is the funnest comment ever god bless u

[@bootyjenkins1265]

Truly the best thing to come of that entire year

[@jedahn]

He single handedly ushered in late stage capitalism.

[@joshuaallgood7030]

RIP Nathan Austin (The PriceMaster) You were a legend.

[@lifes2short4aname]

He died?

[@EMAHGERD]

​@@lifes2short4aname yeah in 2022

[@ricobanksgaming]

So sad, someone must carry his legacy on!

[@Gheston]

Damn RIP, this is great performance art

[@imjonathan6745]

RIP Seth Dickney (The PriceMaster) You were a legend

[@AS-uy8qi]

The price master is a relic from a forgotten time, he ran the first official bargain store in Sumeria thousands of years ago, living in the shadows, waiting, to bring again to the world otherworldly bargains!. $9000 dollars in sumner money was actually only a few dollars in todays currency.

[@AS-uy8qi]

The mystic instrument he played would lure and confuse shoppers to pay astronomically high prices for junk he found in dumpsters.

[@kropotkinnie]

you know you're doing something right when youtube tells you to watch this

[@mcnichoj18]

Eight years after the fact?

[@suprememuffinmix]

For the past month every single time I have opened up KZbin this video is near the top of the recommended I don't know what the algorithm is trying to tell me but I like it.

[@andrewcabrera505]

The silent interaction at 13:10 killed me

[@necromech_]

a masterclass in the kuleshov effect

[@sandrarubin9278]

Just like the exotic items, this film is priceless. What a treasure! Thank you, Price Master! 😂

[@Frillar]

You know how when you smoke weed you come up with amazing wild ideas but, forget what they were once you're sober? Well, this is what happens when you remember what the idea was.

[@SuperChunk3]

Happy 20th Anniversary PriceMaster!

[@PricemasterOfDenton]

Thank you Evan! The PriceMaster management team hopes you had a wonderful 20th Anniversary PriceMaster Day!

[@kessakumusic5258]

The pricemaster is generous to offer a lasergun to a mere mortal for only nine- thousand dollars.

[@bangs8560]

RIP Pricemaster. Long live Pricemaster

[@michaelchapman2312]

The fact that pricemaster kept his composure is insane

[@blakelankford883]

My life will never be the same after this eight year old video

[@blueguy5978]

When economists talk about the so called "invisible hand of the market", they are actually referring to the pricemaster. This rare video footage shows the entity in it's physical form. It has always been there since the dawn of time, controlling the prices from the shadows. Inflation is not the result of complex socio-economic-political matters, it is merely the will of the pricemaster. For the pricemaster has spoken.

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

People are finally waking up.

[@nkenchington6575]

its physical form

[@nocturnGER]

It is by the mercy of the Pricemaster that I can effort to eat, drink and live.

[@MauriceOfInfiniteAtrocities]

@@nocturnGER carefully, the pricemaster can be fickle. Don’t get too comfortable, lest your next visit to the grocery store is punctuated by a booming “FIVE… HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS” when you try to buy a head of lettuce.

[@knightscroftsquire-muldoon]

Heil The Pricemaster!

[@averagegamingplayer]

I love how much is kept in. the awkwardness of the pricemaster being there and people trying to ignore him until they actually need to make an offer.

[@jamestherockwilson3931]

He is the representation of the invisible hand of the market

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

​@@jamestherockwilson3931I'd say he's the representation of Central Banking and fractional Reserve Lending

[@tristangeizer4422]

the pricemaster holds unprecedented power. it's best not to interact until absolutely necessary.

[@culture4519]

@@tristangeizer4422I just want the goddamn foam nunchucks please for the love of god

[@456475646754657475]

exactly my feelings, well put

[@JoshFloor]

What gets me the most is people coming back and expecting a normal price after hearing "FOUR... HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS" as an initial asking price

[@Leto_0]

How 'bout five bucks?

[@tehrybite]

these people just don’t understand the impact of inflation smh

[@JoshFloor]

@@tehrybite fr, they've gotta get with the times and accept that nunchuck prices have been through the roof these days

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

Go big or go home!

[@Raumance]

@@endrankluvsda4loko172 Definitely going home 😂

[@zachkiss8870]

That guy has no idea the deal that he passed up when Pricemaster offered $17.43 on “the protector”. Best deal all day by far!

[@oh_finks]

real

[@graceggale]

An even better deal than the dollar bill they sold for $0.50!

[@endrankluvsda4loko172]

I love how as soon as the Pricemaster said seventeen dollars, the guy looked up like that was just an insanely high amount. At least it wasn't in the 9 figures like he priced some of the other stuff for other shoppers.

[@nvrndingsmmr]

The music is absolutely unbelievable in this. It makes the entire experience feel mystical and truly other-worldly. As if the Pricemaster really is from another world. The booming voice is so powerful. I love how the supporting cast just shrugs and acts like there's nothing they can possibly do once the Pricemaster has spoken. Brilliant.

[@god4346]

is the music edited in? or was it playing a live recording at the time

[@nvrndingsmmr]

@god4346 I'm wondering the same thing, there's a moment where one of the guys starts fiddling with what looks like some sound equipment, but that must be the volume/ effects on Pricemaster's voice

[@god4346]

@@nvrndingsmmr kzbin.info/www/bejne/laOznKqKmMZ4ars actually i found the music from the video its literally a loop being played backwards of a traditional Korean flute made of bamboo, it makes the music even more eerie knowing that

[@CantTellYou]

"as if"???? What is wrong with you never disrespect the PriceMaster like this ever again.

[@jamokerson]

Gary vee has met his match at this garage sale

[@seccommasada]

Pricemaster is a local legend in Denton and there is a mural of him in one of the music venues.

[@johnnyssik]

That's priceless 😂

[@jacobishii6121]

Had no idea.....what venue?I want to check it out when I visit my uncle in Denton next time

[@seccommasada]

@@jacobishii6121 Rubber Gloves

[@CDailey90]

I would be very interested in seeing this mural.

[@nklin6]

I would buy pricemaster merchandise in an instant

[@PricemasterOfDenton]

Here at the Institute of Captive Economics our bots cannot clearly deduce why The PriceMaster has seen a recent surge in attention, but we hope it is for good and prophetable purposes… EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE

[@HEDGE1011]

ThePriceMaster You can thank Theo Bochanis, Nick Prueher, and Joe Pickett for their service! The fee for their pecuniary prophecy is SEVENTEEN BILLION DOLLARS.

[@DustinBKerensky97]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pV7adYunjp50bNE I want that glorious mask. I'm clearing out my home when I'm moving soon and need to do a yard sale.

[@3xPin]

Dustin B I’m sure you can buy the mask for....One hundred, thirty-two, MILLION DOLLARS!!!

[@stoneeh]

How much for this comment?

[@bingerz237]

@@stoneeh 2 HUNDRED and 37 THOUSAND DOLLARS

[@D4V3.0H]

I love how the one dude was honestly considering the chainsaw for $9000 the pricemaster makes no mistakes on prices everything is meticulously calculated

[@WeakJoke]

A man walks past a giant GARAGE SALE sign. "Looks like some kind of garage sale," he notes expertly.

[@Goozeeeee]

This is like a line plucked from a Terry Pratchett book. Art.

[@cosmicturban2797]

Most garage sale thing I've ever heard

[@CLOWNAIDS]

Glad to see YT bringing someone else back to this

[@Nosedruul]

Thank you for explaining the jokes for us.

[@thegreatsiberianitch]

Like an explorer encountering an obelisk in a barren alien landscape.

[@leonprowse5806]

‘OK now he’s going up in price, I think he’s getting annoyed” Priceless.

[@N9WF]

Its not priceless , its five.... thousand billion dollars

[@MadamFoogie]

@@N9WFHe said what we were all thinking!

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

I see what you did there

[@laughingstock7638]

everything is for sale

[@TheOrientalNightFish]

@@N9WF 🤣🤣🤣 OH MY GOD

[@orye09]

Pricemaster is now in charge of the American healthcare system

[@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598]

😂😂😂😂

[@tomasviane3844]

😂😂😂

[@Kehwanna]

Apparently, real estate and education too.

[@droolpuddle]

The amount of people not questioning everything about this situation is baffling

[@Tsugimoto1]

Well it is Denton Texas.

[@RoxorTehCoxor]

Go Screaming Eagles!

[@Skeletons_Riding_Ostriches]

I would absolutely play it straight if something like this happened to me. Actually I'd try asking 'how many souls?'

[@ThoraxtheDarkk]

Modern day consumers doing their jobs

[@asmallphd9648]

@@ThoraxtheDarkk Are you criticizing people at a garage sale? This is literally the most peaceful, harmless way to trade used goods.

[@seccommasada]

If you're wondering why nobody is fazed by this, it's because this is a fine arts college town and avant garde stuff is pretty normal, though this event in particular has gone down in local legend. This is also the same town that houses the Goatman's Bridge.

[@notme5844]

I grew up there and it was quite a culture shock to leave. I still love going back.

[@marcap9757]

Really?! I need to visit there

[@deadmeatjb]

Denton is a neat place, I wouldnt pretend its not a city outside of Dallas but its done a way better job establishing a culture vs arlington or duh sports capituhl

[@jedwalker4543]

People think Austin is the weird town but ever since it became rich hipster central the real weirdos moved to Denton

[@danopticon]

@seccommasada - What is the Goatman’s Bridge? A music venue, a festival, an art happening…?

[@Meepmoop23]

The dance at 16:44 makes it seem like the prices just flow through him. It’s like he’s a conduit, a clairvoyant.

[@gaypirate]

LMAO

[@kurbfeeler]

That's exactly what he is. The prices are real.

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

The prices are a universal constant. Only a true and pure pricemaster can channel them into human language.

[@muovikallo]

The flow of the COMMERCE

[@RSpracticalshooting]

​@muovikallo the price must flow! He who controls the price, controls the universe.

[@Number_6ix]

This needs it’s own Criterion release. On a Blu-Ray that none of us will be able to afford. And will be forced to put back.

[@christianvaneeden7460]

NINE THOUSAND DOLLARS

[@Number_6ix]

@@christianvaneeden7460 It’s partly my own fault for not making him an offer first.

[@Number_6ix]

@@sudobeerme1785 It wasn’t meant to be, but then yeah, it kinda came out as one.

[@tStevester83]

SEVENTEEN T H O U S A N D D O L L A R S

[@CSGraves]

Who do you think comes up with Criterion's prices?

[@isellcrack3537]

The dissonance between the eerie and unsettling mood set by The Price Master and his minions and the jolly and friendly demeanor of all the folks browsing through their inventory is just mmmm *chef`s kiss*

[@parrot4444]

Twin Peaks, TX

[@harrytaylor2479]

9:20 you are five years old. Your parents take you to a garage sale. There is apparition with a sonorous voice. With it, the strange dread of something abnormal, you don't have the words to communicate how this unsettles you. A decade passes. You can still recall that strange voice, and the monstrous mask. As an adult with other experience to compare it to, the surreal garage sale seems more like a fever dream that got mixed in with real memories. It could not have been real.

[@brianminsk8]

hahahahhahah facts

[@walkingriver6104]

😂😂😂

[@haydenlinder]

And then you stumble on this video

[@brutusvonmanhammer]

Shut up

[@disqorddoge1101]

@@haydenlinder And then the flashbacks

[@johnjordan6032]

It’s mind boggling how they just keep on shopping thinking he will give them a reasonable offer on the next item.

[@joshhickson7551]

I think that was the point, to see if they'd keep shopping. I window shop online for things I can't afford all the time

[@DashRetro]

The camera man stopping to point out and film the black Firebird is the most 90s thing I've ever seen.

[@chickenbiscuitbabyyewww9580]

“I’ve been waiting all morning for this” haha

[@twizz420]

This was filmed in 2000

[@null9162]

​@@twizz420same thing, only uglier

[@4n74r4y]

@@twizz4202000-2002 are practically a brief extension of the 90s

[@gxlorp]

Yeah dude. 2023 is still essentially the 2010s, culturally .🙄 way too addicted circle jerking the calander and base 10 stuff.

[@T134D]

It was so nice of pricemaster to lower the robot fist price from 78 thousand dollars to 3 thousand for the kids. So thoughtful

[@grifterdie1852]

I was pursuing a masters degree in sales until I watched this. I know have all of the knowledge I need. Thank you PriceMaster

[@Greenlink01]

Nobody, not actor nor comedian, has ever commanded such perfectly timed comedy so consistently. You know exactly what is coming, yet even as that initial digit rings out in echo, we hang to the edge of our seats, tickled by the inevitable "thousand dollars" we've appreciated for the 31 minutes prior.

[@Mugen2024]

I thought it was horror and not comedy

[@HeatIIEXTEND]

Yup they hit it lol.

[@gemmacadd2252]

My favorite one is "five... point seven BILLION DOLLARS"

[@sonquatsch8585]

it was so foreign as well. no one would ever think of making a live skit from a garage sale

[@sonquatsch8585]

so rad

[@Medic3000]

this is the greatest piece of art I've ever encountered on this website. Few people can point to the very moment America peaked

[@Willowtree82]

Lol the public broadcast system which was available to all Americans before the digital TV, was our KZbin

[@FermentedGrumpyGrapeSqueezit]

I tried to explain this to my gf who is in her 20's and grew up in the social media age. I explained the humorous nature life had and that everything wasn't taken so literally back in the day. I pointed out how even the old lady was cracking up about the signs cuz she got it. My gf just shrugged her shoulders and said it was stupid lol

[@FSVR54]

maybe get a new gf. I could never seriously date someone who thought this is stupid. I act just like this guy @@FermentedGrumpyGrapeSqueezit

[@FermentedGrumpyGrapeSqueezit]

@@FSVR54 your sister would be heartbroken if I didn’t dicker her down anymore

[@eelnai2503]

Can we appreciate the dedication from whomever is filming too? He's just like "nope it's up to Pricemaster, sorry."

[@melonpoodle2728]

As flawed as KZbin is sometimes, the fact that it randomly shone light on this absolute masterpiece of cinema that might've been forgotten to time otherwise reminds me why I keep coming here

[@stanleykeal2452]

Lol yo same just kept being requested to me and then I said ok let’s see what this thumbnails about lol and now I watched the whole thing

[@traceycolbert3635]

I too fell down this hole and was compelled to finish.

[@passenger175]

Same, it is magical!

[@notanotherselfproclaimedrchgrl]

THIS IS crap you paid bot

[@Mugen2024]

WTF is this, I have no context

[@Swell_Vibrations]

This has only become more relevant as time has gone on. Every time I shop for anything now, I feel like the prices are being dictated by the Price Master.

[@realericanderson]

So true

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

Pretty sure this is unironically how fractional Reserve lending within our Central banking system works.

[@steviechampagne]

@@thomasprislacjr.4063oy vey enough about the federal reserve. let’s talk about something else

[@sungazer454]

Look at the pricemaster‘s nose

[@opalfishsparklequasar8663]

Best comment! 🙂💖🏆💎🎯💐

[@TomAznable]

This is basically one joke repeated for half an hour but I howl with laughter every time it happens.

[@iwouldprefernotto4381]

Indeed but it’s a REALLY good joke.

[@SpingotGoomer]

Idk, the appearance of The Black Firebird and the old lady riding away on her tricycle were also pretty hilarious

[@mendelovitch]

@@SpingotGoomer I am disappointed. After reading your comment I was expecting a real type of bird named firebird, but then I seeked around the video and found it was just some stupid car.

[@na-vn5qy]

@@mendelovitch damn, not seeing a bird when you thought you were going to see a bird, that sounds rough, man

[@mendelovitch]

@@na-vn5qy Worst bird ever.

[@awartskibenor]

I cant believe i just watched that whole thing. It really reminds me of the old days of the internet. This was art. Thank you.

[@T-Dogg121]

The way he pauses for a single beat just after the initial reasonable digit ["Five..."] before booming out the absurd qualifier ["THOUSAND BILLION"], just as his unsuspecting victim is starting to engage in a mental tally, is such perfect comedic timing. This is great art.

[@ciarono1093]

Great comment T Dogg

[@ShadeRaven222]

500th like and i have no idea what the fks going on here but I know I'll see you little piggies in Hell.

[@julienlalonde2877]

incredible comment T-Dogg

[@amirafif3465]

Amazing comment T Dogg

[@BeverageOfSorts]

Intricately put T Dogg

[@mooselordflanz3392]

The mask he's wearing is Pantalone, a character from 16th century Italian theater called commedia dell arte. This character falls under the "master" category and is a rich and greedy venetian merchant

[@bite-marx]

Thank you .I was wondering about that

[@grimble4564]

The fact this video is vastly more thought out than I thought it was makes it even better

[@vancock-a-roach6306]

Its Tartuffe, the spry wonderpriceman

[@vancock-a-roach6306]

Pantalone [pantaˈloːne], spelled Pantaloon in English,[1] is one of the most important principal characters found in commedia dell'arte. With his exceptional greed and status at the top of the social order, Pantalone is "money" in the commedia world. His full name, including family name, is Pantalon de' Bisognosi, Italian for "Pantalone of the Needy".[2]

[@hellgeist_]

He just needs to be rubbing his hands together :)

[@AlexAnder-ky2ce]

This must be the forbidden 30 minutes that they cut out of Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut

[@birdmusic1206]

inflation hit those guys hard it seems

[@michaeljaye8776]

How much, Pricemaster? ……….”Fidelio”

[@MZ-mu6om]

Shopper : " is this for sale ? " Price Master : " EVERYTHING IS FOR SALE " and with that said I realized that one of the important messages Price Master reminded me of is that everything IS for sale and, everyone has a price. Brilliant absolutely Brilliant.

[@RSpracticalshooting]

Honestly that's where it transcended into art.

[@d.m.barnish6981]

“But I need this” says the woman holding up the nunchucks. She is a breathtaking example of the modern consumer. She is all of us.

[@livefastdiequick]

I understand that but are you into fitness??

[@zachkiss8870]

@@livefastdiequick is she?

[@crusade6918]

@@livefastdiequick What you tried to do here was a poor attempt at crude humour, something a Neanderthal might find funny, however they died out long ago, such must of happened to your humour, maybe its caused by a lack of attention from your parents as a kid or maybe its just your egotistical rampages you go on as an adult that have caused you to become lacking in connection to your fellow man.

[@livefastdiequick]

@@crusade6918 I didn’t read that

[@crusade6918]

@@livefastdiequick and? lol.

[@HKLives]

I will be thinking about The Pricemaster for the rest of my life.

[@Alkatross]

I want to see this irl

[@mattymclaughlin5900]

@@Alkatross we definitely missed out

[@jc31_poog74]

Me: “how much?” PM: “5” Me: “that’s not ba” PM: “hundred…. THOUSAND”

[@theearthisntflatpleasestop9899]

The girl at 16:15 is gorgeous, it's ruining me.

[@roofb1612]

@@theearthisntflatpleasestop9899 omg i swearrrr bruh she bad as hell !!!!

[@Dubious_George]

I wanna live in that space between the "hundred" and the "THOUSAND"

[@numarkaz]

😂😂

[@reallyharsh]

@@theearthisntflatpleasestop9899 i wasn't the only one who noticed 😅

[@Mitchellgonzalezofficial]

This is the Eyes Wide Shut/ garage sale crossover we never knew we needed.

[@thomasprislacjr.4063]

Could you imagine Stanley Kubrick being there making the Pricemaster perform 30 to 40 takes each scene?

[@buzztree9123]

@@thomasprislacjr.4063 40 MILLION TAKES

[@necromech_]

*vaguely undulates, thrusts and does an arm wave*

[@deathmetalmaniac9647]

I love how he adds cents to some of his already outrageous prices

[@DeltaTerraform94]

Pricemaster is a cosmic force. It trades only in absolute true value as determined by the singular being. Pricemaster speaks only truth.

[@terryreknaw6152]

😂😂👍👍

[@thetonemob]

I cannot believe we get to experience this masterpiece all for no out-of-pocket cost. Thank you Pricemaster.

[@bporter5082]

You owe five... thousand... sixty-seven dollars and 24 cents for watching this

[@raisinbran4989]

Expect a bill in 13 thousand business days

[@Antibong]

We will pay in more than money

[@salmon7318]

priceless master, amirirte

[@PuckFepsi]

There is always a cost.

[@Munkychef420]

The Price Master manages to disturb me and entertain me simultaneously, truly a modern masterpiece. (His prices truly are reasonable)

[@smeagolmazurenko5238]

28:25 the guy doesnt like the price of the chainsaw then threatens nunchuck suicide. Price Master is unmoved.

[@necromech_]

lmao love the way you spun his meaning on that

[@l.ronhoyabembe5532]

Every once in a while, you stumble upon something truly amazing.

[@thickhazepromo]

This is like being on acid

[@Syllogyzym]

TURN THAT POOP INTO WINE

[@johnbrooks4965]

And then there's this garbage.

[@Azazelcobb]

Sadly this is not one of those moments 🤣😂

[@craigyoung9321]

And then other times you stumble upon this😅

[@razorhog8]

I don't understand how I never heard of this I'm crying with laughter. It is perfection. The volume, the tone, the distortion, the psychotic music, the outfit...

[@Americansikkunt]

I want to know is the music is live or what

[@lastsonofktn]

Don't forget the dancing 😂

[@eightcoins4401]

@@Americansikkunt its being played over a stereo unit from a cd of south korean traditional flute music.

[@YourFriendTomFromMyspace]

The one thing PriceMaster can't put a price on, is himself. He's priceless. Thank you, PriceMaster.

[@ronoxengineering]

everything was for sale, but no one was brave enough to make an offer on him.

[@FRESHNESSSSSS]

Myspace Tom! How I've missed you.

[@YourFriendTomFromMyspace]

@@FRESHNESSSSSS I missed you too.

[@FRESHNESSSSSS]

@@YourFriendTomFromMyspace You dirty bastard.

[@bigfest6498]

@@YourFriendTomFromMyspace 😂😂😂😂

[@brothel_exe]

I like how anti-consumerism the Pricemaster is, especially at 21:24 when he says "N O O N E N E E D S T H A T M U C H D R. P E P P E R" and I think that's why he comes up with these prices.

[@PenskePC17]

Jesus...

[@iSaidNo666]

It's not that deep

[@catharsis9789]

film that starts out with a psychology quote "its not that deep"

[@gbeach85]

Yikes

[@nickblack7910]

​@@catharsis9789It ain't

[@Pneubeteube]

I wish we lived in a culture where every garage sale was officiated by The PriceMaster

[@deefman123]

Really? No one would buy anything

[@Pneubeteube]

@@deefman123is this your first time on the internet? It's called a joke

[@markpfeffer7487]

I asked the verbmaster. He confirmed that officiate is the correct verb to use here.

[@0ldar]

we techinically do with the amount of corporate price gouging going on

[@ChristopherPayne-yx9bs]

If there is no one, you be the one.

[@adamfitzgerald911]

For those interested in the very fine, flute music playing in the background to which PriceMaster is speaking. The artist is Won Jang-hyun, a renowned "daegum" flutist from South Korea. The daegum is a traditional Korean wooden flute,made from bamboo, widely used in folk music. The name of this particular piece is called "Daegeum Sanjo" which is from the album, The Sound Of Won Jang-hyun's Daegeum, "The Wings"" and was publicly released in 1998..

[@disappt]

thank you

[@VelvetMetrolink]

@Luna McLean We know you are, but we're talking about the flute here Luna.

[@jangeertbruggink7040]

I get the damn flute music. What i dont get is the total fuckery of this? Wtf is this?

[@rickysantos1142]

@@sweetsunnyvibes Luna, how dare you criticize the PriceMaster's choice of music.

[@7thHead_]

How much for the wooden flute?

[@fauxrowsdower7610]

obsessed with the woman who was like "look can someone else talk to the pricemaster for me"

[@LaneVermilion]

0% drugs 💊 0% violence ⚔️💪 0% sex 🍑🌭🥵 100 (THOUSAND👺)% reasonable prices on quality, lightly used goods Thank you PriceMaster💯🙏😻

[@unclesham5507]

Maybe zero percent drugs for you, but I prefer my pricemaster with 100% drugs.

[@imjonathan6745]

10% The Appearance of the "Black FireBird

[@eightcoins4401]

Yea idk about that first one being *0%*

[@somyung1991]

Dearest Pricemaster, as a Korean person I am curious how you come to use a Salpuri song. Sounds like a funeral to Koreans, but maybe it makes it even funnier 😅

[@necromech_]

its most likely been added for the comedic effect of making pricemaster seem even more otherworldy. it could also just be a relic of an early 2000s art student trying too hard to make the video seem more deep than it is. up to interpretation

[@speven123]

The guy's reaction a little after 9:32 is so good. He had no idea The PriceMaster could set a price so low... but not low enough!

[@RileyMikles]

That was my favorite moment honestly

[@s.teamspark3858]

it was the extra forty two cents probably

[@roachy72]

lol he was like *Tim Allen noise*

[@ryanl5460]

@@roachy72 gay actor michael douglas

[@passenger175]

I put the 499th like for this comment. Who is going to be the five hundred ....... thousand'th dollllllarsss

[@CopiousDoinksLLC]

This is probably the greatest advert for living in Denton, TX you could ever come up with: everyone seems so polite and friendly. Even the people who don't like the Pricemaster's prices don't get angry at him, they just cordially shrug it off and leave without further confrontation.

[@elk4262]

to be fair, I think that may have as much to do with this being both pre-9/11 and more than 20 years ago than anything else. Not for nothing, the world really is different now

[@GopherpilledTunneler]

@@elk4262 Yeah sometimes I just think about Osama bin Laden's evil face and it makes me wanna be a complete asshole to everyone else at the garage sale.

[@rannnoch]

@@elk4262 It isn't entirely logical that 9/11 made stuff like this much more looked on with scrutiny but it does somehow make sense. It is very unfortunate, and we really gotta stop savaging eachother some time soon. Preferably within the next ten....... HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS

[@dionysius4353]

Denton is full of mean liberals now

[@deadmeatjb]

​@@dionysius4353 all cities are

[@Triniwn]

"Cmon i need this stuff" holds up nunchucks

[@Luschan]

The performer's full commitment and embodiment of the PriceMaster character is incredible.

[@wokeness420]

He isn't performing. He really is the price master.

[@necromech_]

fantastic character design

[@orhu1544]

The Price Master is my personal hero. I hope to one day be able to declare prices with even a fraction the authority he does.

[@emilysorensen722]

I love the stew of people in these comments. People in here bonding over this work of absolute art. We're all sad that the price master has passed. People bonding over side topics loosely related. People talking about our current economic situation. Some even inspired. This is it, Price Master. You did it. 💖

[@graceggale]

I couldn't agree more! I'm back for the third time and the conversations are new and equally tangential OR completely related. And I'm laying in bed giggling to myself and kicking my feet at how silly everything in and around this video is. I'll be back again for another pick-me-up!

[@nickblack7910]

He has passed?

[@natebruno33]

no one needs that much dr pepper

[@Unmarketable]

This era of home video / early internet video making was so insane

[@mattymclaughlin5900]

The fact that these people had the SIGHT to understand

[@banderson207133]

@@mattymclaughlin5900 right? These guys where like, hey it would be crazy if we had a fake garage sale and made crazy prices with this character called the Price Master. Then WE could sit around and laugh at it together after. No stretching videos for ad revenue, not doing trends, no sponsors, just pure creativity.

[@danopticon]

Pre-2011/2012, a great deal of the Internet was like this, too. Remember a site called “Crying While Eating?” We COULD get back to something like that, to an era like what we had from the late ‘50s through to the late ‘70s, and again from the late ‘80s through to the early ‘10s, when people were exploding with creativity, willing to get along with one another, and questioning capitalism and patriarchy while having a big party. I don’t know HOW we resuscitate that spirit, except I will say: during those periods, conservatism had been knocked back on its heels, whereas today it’s well-financed and on the rampage and consequently everyone is miserable … including the conservatives!!

[@XXCaptainXFalconXX]

@@danopticonyes we totally live in the most conservative America has ever been. It’s so conservative that I can’t even say I’m a conservative in public without being threatened or harrased. My brother in Christ you need to either smoke less or more weed and find a better boogeyman to blame the mundane lameness of modern era on. Your not getting drafted and all conservatives give a shit about now is keeping there own freedoms of belief and rights just like you. Worse they can do to you is stop you from stabbing a baby that you may or may not believe is alive, not let you teach their kids what you want them to learn, or shoot you if you commit crime in their home. This is dumber then a conservative blaming the war in veitnam on hippies.

[@dickdiamonds3410]

​@@danopticonoh god. You ARE the people who ruined it

[@BigDevax]

This video is the second most important thing to happen in 2001

[@jameslivanski2914]

the first being

[@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise]

@@jameslivanski2914 The debut of How It’s Made

[@VinylUnboxings]

@@It-Will-All-Be-Okay-I-Promise 😂

[@kyley69woyote]

Of course, right after the space odyssey

[@manoflego123]

Absolutely, the US release of Bionicle is something that cannot be topped, but this is close.

[@ghostbusterz]

The music is so relentlessly grating.

[@necromech_]

it does add to the mystique of price master, but it also gives off "amateur art student trying too hard to seem deep." honestly at this point its a time capsule of that era of the internet being creative, so its funny either way. i can look past it

[@eightcoins4401]

@@necromech_ I feel like constant loop of cliche "mystical" south east asian music is part of the joke. It feels too much like a commentary on exoticism in consumerism to be unintentional. Someone wouldnt go for something that cliche if they intend to be pretentious.

[@helphounds]

This is the kind of video that you need to watch when you have to have the entire family over for St. Patrick's Day.

[@danwiberg3778]

Lmaooooooo

[@user-ellievator]

I was a pricer at a thrift store for a couple of years, and I would occasionally put $700 on random things just to mess with people.

[@bassetts1899]

The pricemaster has spoken!

[@sdovas]

Another disciple of The Price Master!!!

[@mattterway6487]

SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARSSSS

[@aldousorwell3807]

Is that what brought about your downfall as the Thrift Store Pricemaster?

[@user-ellievator]

@@aldousorwell3807 No, it was brought upon me purely by my sheer hubris, according to management. But they were wrong. I was the greatest pricer that ever lived.

[@thomasdupont7186]

28:40 I love the fact that guy looks at the chainsaw, then looks at the nunchucks... A man of taste AnD a warrior right there.

[@lukekline9513]

If anyone has watched Dimension 20, Rick Perry (the guy who makes the minis) was involved in this!! He's the dude with the beard!

[@codexnecrogeddon]

I lost it at "NO ONE NEEDS THAT MUCH DR. PEPPER"

[@Goozeeeee]

THE ENEMA BOX

[@codexnecrogeddon]

@FITNESSOVER45Looks like you were able to find it just fine, bud, and 272 other people. Don't tell people what to do 👍

[@CONEYZZ]

God bless you Pricemaster

[@jaochss]

god bless you for putting this on the timeline 🙏🙏

[@beowulfsword237]

BRO WHAT WHY ARE YOU HERE

[@StealthKey]

thank you coney for showing me this amazing movie

[@whiteydiamond]

You got bits of shit in your grin bruv

[@erikwhite8]

"No one needs that much Dr. Pepper". Virtuous words and maybe the best advice of all time, especially for Texas! When I lived there everyone had 64-ounce cups filled with either Big Red, Big Blue, Bill Miller Sweet Tea, or Waco's own, Dr. Pepper.

[@Everfalling]

"i need this stuff" *holds pair of red num-chuks*

[@EchoLimaIndiaAlphaS]

Today is my first clinical shift as a paramedic. I didn't know I needed this to center myself. Thank you PriceMaster.

[@traceycolbert3635]

Have a good quiet day 😊

[@fourBangYT]

I’m in medic school rn, also using this to not explode

[@MasteringSilence]

Thank you for helping people

[@neogauntlet1008]

Hope everything goes well for you❤

[@jessicahanley5080]

Thanks for saving lives

[@bigbeefscorcho]

I have never in my life laughed so hard at so little taking place- this is stylistically, artistically, and comedically a complete and utter masterpiece, as cinema, comedy and performance art.

[@bigbeefscorcho]

Something about his removed, slightly elevated position on the curtained stage, combined with his manner of speech and his motions, reminds me almost of those old Zoltar fortune telling machines. I wonder what they used to get that screechy sound? It sometimes sounds like a flute or woodwind sound, but other times just sounds like mic/amplifier static, it’s hard to tell.

[@lesleyegbert4807]

Easily the best thing I've watched on KZbin. These people were 20 years ahead of their time.

[@KM-bl3vy]

@@bigbeefscorcho Looks like an old tascam 4 track recorder was used. It sounds like they could have recorded something on both sides of the tape and had all tracks playing on play back, giving that backwards effect. Whatever it was, it was great.

[@davidchaparro2517]

@@lesleyegbert4807 I'd argue that this kind of performance art/comedy was more likely to happen 20 years ago than now. Minimalist, random, filmed on a handheld/no autofilter handheld camera. If it's to be analyzed as having any kind of counter cultural feelings in it, this kind of things was unusual, but something like this happening on a random street in Denton today seems less likely. Which is funny because Denton is a lot more progressive than it used to be.

[@Hoodinator17]

@@davidchaparro2517 it’s no t that funny chull

[@PowerThrusts29]

in 20 years we're going to come back to this and say "i can't believe you could buy stuff that cheap"

[@HEWHOTAWNS]

As someone who goes op shopping, thrifting, garage saleing often this is, with no exaggeration, a slightly skewed but realistic depiction of said business practices. People who sell their goods constantly take the place of a benevolent, all knowing god with unfathomable wisdom and unwavering prices, going as far as to increase said price when provoked. This piece, while initially made for comedic effect is actually a surprisingly complex critique on the practices of garage saleing and the likes. However were price master and the common thrift shop owner differentiate is the fact price master really is an all knowing benevolent god and the customers on display for this video were fools for not purchasing the price masters gracious deals.

[@ivanmoll9536]

I would honestly extend it and say this video is a great and hilarious critique of our whole economic system truly. One where goods that customers want, and sometimes need are left to priced by arbitrary systems and a “price master” per say. Hence how these outrageous practices are a products of a systematic failure.

[@FreakMeat74]

@@ivanmoll9536 Insulin

[@JanoyCresva]

I hate haggling. Im just paying whatever is on the tag.

[@muddbear6410]

@@JanoyCresva that's right! I'll either pay what's on the tag or I won't. Either way I'm taking it

[@King_Leem]

nerd

[@rickysantos1142]

At 2023's infllation rates, PriceMaster is really putting out some great deals.

[@MoeNinjaCat]

I only found out about this video like 3 days ago but I can't stop thinking about it, I see random things lying around and I can't help but ask myself what would Pricemaster say about this item, how much is it worth in the eyes of the arbiter of price.

[@bjh42]

This truly is the definition of something being ahead of it’s time.

[@whiteydiamond]

Pretty sure people selling shit has been a thing since time STARTED son.

[@HermesHeals]

@@whiteydiamond you missed the point. Besides people have not been selling “shit” since the beginning of time because money as we know it wasn’t even invented as a medium of exchange untill ancient Persia

[@whiteydiamond]

@@HermesHeals lmao YOU missed the point. Of a joke. But please continue with your passive aggressive history lesson cringeboy

[@REALdavidmiscarriage]

what are you talking about a lot of 2000s stuff was like this

[@dhaltonmiller1215]

wait do you mean with inflation? lol

[@theokid2000]

My head canon is that the pricemaster is a small town cryptid that appears every few years, and all the locals are just used to it but come to check the wares just in case they get lucky.

[@Shrieqer]

Your head cannon is worth…FIVE… HUNDRED LAWSUITS

[@Skornish]

@@modtrashfire5518 Are you in a retirement home?

[@davidjones8043]

@@modtrashfire5518 stay inside

[@VinelandVinny]

@@modtrashfire5518 don’t bother with these web dwellers it’s a waste of time

[@Skornish]

@@modtrashfire5518 It means you're acting like a crotchety old man.

[@GunnarMcGriff]

I love that his voice is like, the voice of a God Computer that Captain Kirk would argue to death in a 60s Star Trek episode.

[@uppishcub1617]

He even looks like a ToS villain

[@theobochanis]

THE ENEMA BOX

[@DisinformationAgent]

Honestly one of the greatest Death in June concerts I've seen.

[@aesthetic8289]

Douglas Pearce new career after the flop of NADA

[@OviTexhnolyze]

I actually originally clicked this thinking the PriceMaster was some kind of Neo-Folk musician.

[@aesthetic8289]

@@OviTexhnolyze that would be hilarious

[@goldalien2016]

*[Song for Douglas starts playing as David Tibet appears in the distance]*

[@fungi42o0]

​@@OviTexhnolyzethat's what I thought

[@Nemo0utis]

Not a cell phone in sight. Just people living in the moment, haggling with the Pricemaster.

[@flooorwalker]

🥲

[@flooorwalker]

😔

[@ricrebelo]

This may have started as a joke but it is now a dead accurate representation of the Gig-resale market where we are all trying to sell junk to make ends meat

[@dayoutubeer]

Ends meat

[@TheInevercomment]

What's your recipe for ends meat?

[@ricrebelo]

@@TheInevercomment I go to Market Basket and get a package of Roast Beef ends for about 2$ chop them up and fry them and make a sandwich

[@ElCrab]

To make ends FROZEN MEAT.

[@multishit6664]

@@dayoutubeer Thank you. Almost had a stroke laughing.

[@ronoxengineering]

Everything was for sale, but nobody was brave enough to put an offer on the pricemaster himself

[@FoolsJest]

Only years later we come to realize the true meaning of the prizemaster phenomenon

[@saintsaltine3909]

The first guy did, and was immediately disintegrated

[@lavamatstudios]

they should have. it is said that the price of the pricemaster has the power to ward off ancient sumerian demons and bad deals

[@traceycolbert3635]

Nice 👍

[@laurenshepherd3458]

I miss a pre-9/11 America

[@dw4270]

9/11 was my first week of kindergarten

[@jaygrain2512]

Stolen comment

[@clickityclak6111]

I want the Price Master to be an NPC in a future RPG. His shop will be full of average trinkets sold for exorbitant prices, but if you actually save up enough to buy any of his wares you find that they are the most powerful items in the game.

[@xerotonin6776]

Good idea, but if you get the money and try buying, the price master raises the price by the next decimal and so on every time.

[@wilburdemitel8468]

spameton

[@DestroyYouAlot]

I mean he's 100% gonna show up in my D&D campaign selling magic items LOL

[@stardusty]

Sounds like some dark souls shit.

[@kyledavidson8712]

Great idea but they are just regular items that perform as expected. Can you say you bested the pricemaster?

[@my_name_is_chef4856]

My favorite character is the old guy drinking a beer first thing in the morning and saying it’s not just for breakfast

[@cedalege]

Been waiting all morning for this. The appearance of the black firebird

[@hescher2981]

Im from Fort Worth. How in gods name have I never known about this beautiful experience. I need that rusty sword.