What's the most ''ripped off'' you've ever felt?

Angry_Mammarys

Easons! I went in to purchase a book, it was 12.85 or something like that, decided to go to Tesco, and bought the same book for half the price.

razorblunt

Angry_Mammarys wrote: »

Easons! I went in to purchase a book, it was 12.85 or something like that, decided to go to Tesco, and bought the same book for half the price.

That's not really a rip off though is it?
Tesco are just using economies of scale with their pricing strategy.

mickydoomsux

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

And even worse - half your fellow passengers probably availed of a free travel pass.

Statistically, it's probably more than half.

mickydoomsux

razorblunt wrote: »

That's not really a rip off though is it?
Tesco are just using economies of scale with their pricing strategy.

Irrelevant to the consumer.

Barely There

mickydoomsux wrote: »

Irrelevant to the consumer.

It is pretty relevant what the likes of Tesco's do wrt loss-leaders like this.
They can afford to sell the latest blockbuster at a knock-down price because they make their profit elsewhere.

While it may be advantageous to the customer in the short term to be able to buy a certain book cheaper at Tesco's, if wouldn't be very advantageous in the long term if all bookshops went out of business and you had to depend on Tesco's for your book buying needs.

Pumpkinseeds

mathie wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that's the definition of racism.

No, it's not, it's me posting about what I've experienced with some Nigerian taxi drivers in Galway. It's you making it about skin colour and not greed:p

falan

The most ripped off ive ever felt was before Aldi and Lidl opened in this country.

Seriously.... Stayed in the burlington hotel in around 2000 for a concert in Dublin. Paid Ir£28 for a toasted ham and cheese sandwich (room service).

Hotblack Desiato

Barely There wrote: »

While it may be advantageous to the customer in the short term to be able to buy a certain book cheaper at Tesco's, if wouldn't be very advantageous in the long term if all bookshops went out of business and you had to depend on Tesco's for your book buying needs.

Couldn't give a toss, there'll still be Amazon.

JustAddWater

jester77 wrote: »

My mandatory health insurance. It costs me €500 a month and I ever were to go to the doctors I have to pay the first €600 of medical costs in a calendar year before I can even use the bloody thing.

500 a month? ... You mean per year surely!?

BetterThanThou

When I payed for an 8ball of coke but only got a 16th.

shruikan2553

I have to agree with Easons being overpriced. Poor selection and what it does have is quite a bit more expensive. Its the gamestop for books.

20 euro for a pizza is also a bad one, the fact that most places sell either a pizza for 20 or a same size pizza with extras just show how over priced they are.

Any time Ive gone to a pub or nightclub I feel like they should provide me with dinner first for the ****ing they give.

chrissb8

15eu in to a nightclub in Monaghan. It just intensified my hatred for Irish nightclubs.

jester77

JustAddWater wrote: »

500 a month? ... You mean per year surely!?

It's €500 a month and that is one of the cheapest there is.

psychoniamh

I'm still recovering from the fact that I had to pay €63 for a one-way train trip from Cork to Dublin earlier this year.

Arthur Beesley

jester77 wrote: »

It's €500 a month and that is one of the cheapest there is.

What country? How many people on your policy?

Recondite49

Umaro wrote: »

Walking through the souks in Marrakech with my girlfriend, when we decided to buy some counterfeit soccer jerseys.

My girlfriend is a ball-busting contract lawyer in financial services so she goes to "negotiate" the price. The street trader opens with 500 dirham for the 2 jerseys, aka about 10 times what their worth. My girlfriend counters with 250 dirham and strikes a deal. I'm the one who ends up paying of course.. roughly €50 for 2 fake jerseys.. disgusted.

Hi chief,

Well done to your girlfriend on her haggling, at least it brought the price down marginally!

I had a very similar experience to you while trying to purchase a fake Omega Seamaster (like James Bond wears!)

The value of a real one can run to thousands of pounds so no doubt the trader thought he was offering a good deal by selling them for 300.

What he didn't know was that I was working at the time for a law firm which specialised in Intellectual Property and had seen watches like these available on Chinese websites for just under 100 dollars apiece.

I did my best to explain this to the gap toothed vendor who fortunately had a smattering of French who attempted firstly to claim the watches were in fact the real deal, then that they were 'high quality replicas'.

When I offered the equivalent of around £80 for one, he then said if I paid the asking price then he'd throw in a women's watch (believe it was a Rolex) too.

I was younger and vain at the time so ended up settling for around £120, needless to say the watch failed within days of being purchased. I put it on a table by a swimming pool where it was splashed.

The law firm used my story as a cautionary tale to credulous tourists! :-D

Recondite49

psychoniamh wrote: »

I'm still recovering from the fact that I had to pay €63 for a one-way train trip from Cork to Dublin earlier this year.

Amen to that! I always use the GoBe coach service. Trains are far too expensive!

Jawgap

jester77 wrote: »

It's €500 a month and that is one of the cheapest there is.

€6k per year for health insurance? Are you paying on behalf of all your co-workers?

I can't believe that's in Ireland.

Recondite49

mathie wrote: »

I'm pretty sure that's the definition of racism.

Agreed. You also wonder how the poster knows the drivers are specifically Nigerian - it's not like every conversation begins with someone saying where they're from.

That said I did get into a conversation with a very friendly Nigerian cab driver last Summer who'd met an Irish girl and fallen in love, so was living here in Cork. He drove me to my work place and the cab fare was actually marginally less than usual.

jester77

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

What country? How many people on your policy?

Germany and just me. Here's the package if you want to read it.

Jawgap

jester77 wrote: »

Germany and just me. Here's the package if you want to read it.

Holy .....!!

Any kind of tax rebate / allowance with it?

......you're making me feel bad for complaining about my health insurance premium.

ohohseven

mariaalice wrote: »

Went In to a coffee shop on the way in to Portlaoise its situated in a shopping centre with half the units closed, anyway it was 3.40 for a large coffee I had it ordered before I realised now this is recently not celtic tiger Ireland, what intrigued me was they are situated in a shopping centre that is clearly not thriving the place had few customers yet they never though to cut prices or do a special to generate business.

Is it in the Kyle centre or portlaoise shopping centre? I paid the same for a horrible coffee in portlaoise shopping centre.

jester77

Jawgap wrote: »

Holy .....!!

Any kind of tax rebate / allowance with it?

......you're making me feel bad for complaining about my health insurance premium.

There is a no claims bonus, if I don't make a claim in a calendar year I get 75% of 1 month insurance back, 75% of 2 months in the 2nd year and so on up to max 5 years. Once I make a claim it starts again.

ohohseven

Recondite49 wrote: »

Agreed. You also wonder how the poster knows the drivers are specifically Nigerian - it's not like every conversation begins with someone saying where they're from.

That said I did get into a conversation with a very friendly Nigerian cab driver last Summer who'd met an Irish girl and fallen in love, so was living here in Cork. He drove me to my work place and the cab fare was actually marginally less than usual.

Back when I lived in Dublin I was in a taxi with a nigeraian man( he told me he was nigerian). Anyway we where talking the whole way to ringsend he told me about his whole life nice guy. When I got to ringsend I was meeting a friend there he said if the friend doesnt show I'll drive u back for nothing. Then I moved to Laois and got a taxi from market square to elm lawn ( I realise a lot of people won't know those places) it's a five minute journey that cost me 15 euro.

UCDVet

Leaving the doctor's office in Dublin. Every time I feel like I'm being scammed.

'Doc look, I'm having a problem with X. If I take medication Y it seems fine but as soon as I stop, X returns. I stopped taking Y and, sure enough, X came back. '

"Okay - well, it looks fine now"

'Yeah - because I'm taking Y. But once I stop taking Y, X comes back.'

"Okay - well, sometimes it takes a few tries; but looking at ye now, you're grand. Nothing wrong at all"

'Yeah - but once I *stop* taking Y, X comes back. In three days, I'll have X again, which is why I came in. I think Y helps, but it's not getting rid of X since it comes back. So I was hoping to get something else'

"You don't need anything - you're fine. Trust me. Look, just stop taking Y, and you'll be fine. X is gone. "

'Umm, I suppose. But what do I do if X comes back as soon as I stop taking Y?'

"Well, just take Y some more"

'Seriously? Because I've been doing that. And as soon as I stop, X comes back'

"If it keeps coming back, just come back in"

'That's WHY I'm in now. It keeps coming back'

"Nah - you're fine"

'Ummm, okay....'

Pissed away 60 euro. Sure enough, four days later, X had returned. I'd rather have my wallet stolen than deal with these doctors.

Muppet Man

10 euro for one cup of cappuccino in st marks square in Venice (although it was really good).

Being two hours late with a car rental return cost me 100 euro, when the daily rate for the car was only 50 euro.... Man that one really hurt me....

Muppet man