Is there a bigger ripoff than the college gown?

Cyber Ghost

Just been quoted €42 to rent those rags for an hour or two for my DCU graduation.

There's no way those things would come close to costing €42 let alone rent them for an hour.

I just bought a brilliant pair of jeans in Penney's for €6.

Why am I been asked to pay €42 to rent what are essentially rags?

Holsten

So you'll have lovely pictures with the family.

GLaDOS

You get them for more than an hour, to be pedantic.

Eutow

Cyber Ghost wrote: »

Just been quoted €42 to rent those rags for an hour or two for my DCU graduation.

There's no way those things would come close to costing €42 let alone rent them for an hour.

I just bought a brilliant pair of jeans in Penney's for €6.

Why am I been asked to pay €42 to rent what are essentially rags?

Because Penney's don't sell graduation gowns.

Frynge

I'm fairly certain that the jeans wouldn't withstand being rented out to a couple hundred people.

--LOS--

Because they know you've no choice so they just name their price. Only option is to not go which is what I actually did coz the whole thing cost so much

Augmerson

That's a bit steep.

Henlars67

Don't bother going to the graduation. They're a load of bol0cks.

It's not like you have to turn up in order to get your degree.

I'm not going to mine.

Why anyone would want to pay to sit through a long drawn-out ceremonial type affair is beyond me

The Backwards Man

Is there not a clasp at the back of them?

KeithM89

Don't go and use the money on a piss-up to celebrate. I never went to my masters graduation, sitting in an over-crowded room for hours just to get handed a rolled up piece of paper isn't exactly a trip to disneyland.

kneemos

Bin liner.

Glock Lesnar

Your DCU degree.

ba-dum-ch

Chance The Fapper

Water charges

shruikan2553

--LOS-- wrote: »

Because they know you've no choice so they just name their price. Only option is to not go which is what I actually did coz the whole thing cost so much

This is pretty much it. What else will you do?

I cant wait to deal with this after this year.

K4t

Don't wear the gown. Problem solved.

They are ridiculous looking anyway.

zetalambda

Cyber Ghost wrote: »

Just been quoted €42 to rent those rags for an hour or two for my DCU graduation.

There's no way those things would come close to costing €42 let alone rent them for an hour.

I just bought a brilliant pair of jeans in Penney's for €6.

Why am I been asked to pay €42 to rent what are essentially rags?

Get your moneys worth. Use them as a napkin/serviette, to dry the dishes with, clean the worktops down and finally, wipe your arse with before you return them.

mackg

Graduation is a rip off but with mine I knew it meant a lot to my parents so I went along with it. Having to dress up to listen to people pointlessly droning on will be good preparation for employment anyway.

Lapin

They have gowns in DCU?

I didn't think that place was a real university.

DEFTLEFTHAND

It's a racket for sure but you'll probably be glad you did wear them when it's all over. Nice pics to look back on.

Buy a black sheet in Harry Corry for under a tenner. Use cardboard from the packaging to make your hat.

Rent out after

kwestfan08

Steep alright. Chances are you're only going to graduate once though so it's a one and done cost at least.

Tails!

42?? I've to pay 77 for mine :O Jeez

--LOS--

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's a racket for sure but you'll probably be glad you did wear them when it's all over. Nice pics to look back on.

I dunno you could also throw on a superhero cape and take a selfie with your degree, might be better than some carbon copy photo memory

cunnifferous

€80 for mine. Complete rip off.

Uriel.

Tails! wrote: »

42?? I've to pay 77 for mine :O Jeez

85 for mine. Ridiculous

endacl

Rip off. Gown.

G'wan. I dare ya!

WoollyRedHat

Just buy some Gryffindor robes, they're kind of like graduation robes but cooler. Plus when your name is called out, you can go up and shout out " I've finally graduated from Hogwarts, hurrah!" while waving your degree manically. It'll be one to remember, that's for sure.

rawn

It pays to transport the gowns, file them, sort them, store them, and dry clean them. It also pays for the lovely patient people like myself that have to fit them on you's while you dilly-dally around talking on the phone/to your friends/to yourselves while the queue grows longer with impatient students wanting to get it over and done with, as well as pinning, fixing, pinning, refixing, pinning and refixing the hoods on ya's as ya's pull and drag out of them in the time it takes you from putting them on to getting to the photo studio. Believe me, €42 is a flippin' bargain.

colmufc

Just wear a suit the gowns look ridiculous

blindside88

In fairness it's only 42 quid. In comparison to the cost of the degree its a bargain. I graduated 3 years ago and the cost of the gown was the least of my worries you could skip the graduation but as had been said you'll probably only do it once and it's nice to have the pictures

Uriel.

Do a Robin Williams in Patch Adams and Wear nothing underneath the gown, presenting your ass to the congregation as you collect your parchment

PizzamanIRL

Supply & Demand, young fella. Supply & Demand.

anncoates

Because you'll have to cringe looking at a picture of yourself on your parent's wall smugly posing in pennys jeans at your graduation with a big righteous student head on you for the rest of your life.

Capt'n Midnight

JAPAN !!

You don't need to wear gowns to the Kanazawa College of Art graduation.

https://imgur.com/a/6znwh

eternal

Mine was 45 euro. It is really expensive and it's worse for women cos we have to look decent in dresses and so on. It's killing me having to pay for the whole thing. It is worth it though cos I know when I look back I'll be glad I participated. And what another poster said, like what a degree costs anyway, you may as well finish it off properly. And laugh at the idea that there just so happened to be a gown fitter person on this thread. Oh the irony!!!!

rawn

eternal wrote: »

Mine was 45 euro. It is really expensive and it's worse for women cos we have to look decent in dresses and so on. It's killing me having to pay for the whole thing. It is worth it though cos I know when I look back I'll be glad I participated. And what another poster said, like what a degree costs anyway, you may as well finish it off properly. And laugh at the idea that there just so happened to be a gown fitter person on this thread. Oh the irony!!!!

I worked for them for 2 years Not a fun job! So many college students that could not figure out that the hoods are pinned TO the gown, so to straighten the hood you pull the GOWN forward not the hood. If more students could figure that out I might have been out of a job :P

Laois6556

Who says you have to wear a gown? Just wear your pennies clothes and they have some nice hats on sale for a fiver. You can throw that in the air when the other losers are throwing the stupid looking things. If any of the fellas say anything to you say 'I like the dress tranny' and if any of the girls say anything tell them that they look fat.

eternal

rawn wrote: »

I worked for them for 2 years Not a fun job! So many college students that could not figure out that the hoods are pinned TO the gown, so to straighten the hood you pull the GOWN forward not the hood. If more students could figure that out I might have been out of a job :P

I'll keep that in mind. What's the story with the hats, are they very hard to keep on?

eternal

Laois6556 wrote: »

Who says you have to wear a gown? Just wear your pennies clothes and they have some nice hats on sale for a fiver. You can throw that in the air when the other losers are throwing the stupid looking things. If any of the fellas say anything to you say 'I like the dress tranny' and if any of the girls say anything tell them that they look fat.

Very intelligent statement and I also worry as to the wanna be jokes on this thread cos there's nothing funny about working your ass off for something and then being rewarded rightfully.

Laois6556

eternal wrote: »

Very intelligent statement and I also worry as to the wanna be jokes on this thread cos there's nothing funny about working your ass off for something and then being rewarded rightfully.

I didn't mean to offend you. It's ok to look like a tranny or I'm sure you're just big boned.

eternal

Laois6556 wrote: »

I didn't mean to offend you. It's ok to look like a tranny or I'm sure you're just big boned.

nah, I'm just all boobs, it's cool

Laois6556

eternal wrote: »

nah, I'm just all boobs, it's cool

I hope you're a woman, a man that's all boobs isn't a pleasant image.

hfallada

I was at a graduation in UCD and one of the graduates was wearing a pink gown and hat. The whole fall was laughing when she went up. OP try and find something like that online and lift the mood at the dry graduation

rawn

eternal wrote: »

I'll keep that in mind. What's the story with the hats, are they very hard to keep on?

Nah they're grand, we pin them down if they're to loose.

eternal

Laois6556 wrote: »

I hope you're a woman, a man that's all boobs isn't a pleasant image.

Last time I checked yeah and if you even read the posts on here, I mentioned dresses and hats.

OneArt

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It's a racket for sure but you'll probably be glad you did wear them when it's all over. Nice pics to look back on.

Definitely a comfort when you're unemployed, sitting in your one-room shack eating mouldy crackers and drinking horrible juice.

*weeps over degree*

eternal

rawn wrote: »

Nah they're grand, we pin them down if they're to loose.

Do I need to bring the pins with me? Thanks for your reply too btw.

Laois6556

eternal wrote: »

Last time I checked yeah and if you even read the posts on here, I mentioned dresses and hats.

Barely know what I do be posting, nevermind anyone else. I'm sure you have a nice pair of boobs though.

eternal

OneArt wrote: »

Definitely a comfort when you're unemployed, sitting in your one-room shack eating mouldy crackers and drinking horrible juice.

*weeps over degree*

I did that for the whole of my degree ffs, only thing is-I don't like crackers.

Ciderswigger

Uriel. wrote: »

85 for mine. Ridiculous

:eek: What college is that??! That's madness.

OneArt

eternal wrote: »

I did that for the whole of my degree ffs, only thing is-I don't like crackers.

It's all one can afford though. Except once a month when you can go down the butcher's and get a soggy kidney pie as a treat.