There’s a photo doing the rounds of a Voss water bottle sitting on a Salvos shelf with a $2.50 price tag on it. The comments are split between people laughing at the absurdity and people saying, actually, that’s a pretty decent deal.

I’m in the second camp, and I’ll explain why.

The Voss bottle is, stripped of its branding, a well-made glass bottle with a lid that seals properly. That’s it. That’s the product. Someone at a Salvos, probably a volunteer who’s been on their feet for three hours sorting through other people’s unwanted stuff, looked at it and thought: glass, lid, intact, two-fifty. That’s not a pricing error. That’s someone doing their job with the information available to them.