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How much ???!!!!!!

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CatWoman12345 · 16/04/2022 22:32

Last year I went to a food festival and brought a few things in one of those olives and cheese stalls. I never picked up on the cost when I swiped and worried about it until I got home and it was £4 (just double checked my bank online) - gutted I never purchased more tbh !

The same festival today and the same stall - I got 3 scoops of different olives and they’re all weighed together - £36 !!!

Even with the cost of living increase - how on earth can 3 scoops of olives cost £36 ??

I feel quite faint to be honest Sad

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MyCommentWasDeleted · 04/05/2022 14:06

I’ve been conned at an olive stall before - one big pick and pix pot with no obvious prices and I was charged £25. They were delicious but it’s was a valuable lesson to learn!

Ifitdoesntmakesense · 04/05/2022 14:11

Buying anything from stalls at festivals/fayres is a rip off, they think if they include the words organic or artisan they can add an extra 0 to the price

Fedupsotired · 04/05/2022 16:51

@MissusMaisel I don't consider olives out of big cash and carry boxes artisan 🤷🏼‍♀️.

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MissusMaisel · 04/05/2022 18:22

Fedupsotired · 04/05/2022 16:51

@MissusMaisel I don't consider olives out of big cash and carry boxes artisan 🤷🏼‍♀️.

Who said they were out of cash and carry boxes?

Knittingchamp · 04/05/2022 18:23

NoSquirrels · 16/04/2022 22:45

I never ever buy olives at food festivals. It’s always a rip-off, and I love a posh olive as much as the next foodie but I’m not made of money.

Still. £10kg of olives?

This thread makes me feel like we'd all fail GCSE maths, we're at £10kg of olives now 😂

Silversprinkles · 04/05/2022 21:21

Gensola · 04/05/2022 12:24

This happened to me recently with cheese at a posh deli - tiny piece of goat cheese was £9 and I was too embarrassed to say no so just paid it. That was an expensive goat cheese salad!

I just don't understand this "embarrassment". You ask the price, they tell you the price, you say no thank you not today smile and walk away. 🤷🏻‍♀️ it's really not that hard!

DockOTheBay · 04/05/2022 22:57

But they don't advertise their price and they give you the impression they are cheap
I've never got the impression they were cheap. Stalls at food festivals are usually very expensive - not like the grocers stall at the Saturday Market charging "pound a bowl".
Unless the stall was called "Bargain Olives"?

DockOTheBay · 04/05/2022 22:57

Also if a place doesn't advertise prices i would automatically assume the prices are really high and ask, or just avoid.

LoveSpringDaffs · 04/05/2022 23:06

MissusMaisel · 03/05/2022 11:07

Bought, not brought.

You bought something without checking the price. Never a good idea.

Pedants corner 👉🏽

BarbaraofSeville · 05/05/2022 07:12

Olives don't have to be expensive, all supermarkets sell jars of them for under a pound.

These food stall ones are probably very similar, but with a drizzle of oil, a squeeze of lemon and some herbs sprinkled on them. They're certainly not ten times nicer or whatever the price difference is.

Summersdreaming · 05/05/2022 07:45

I did this with hummus.. two tubs and £14 later.. and it wasn't even that nice.

RichardMarxisinnocent · 05/05/2022 07:56

Earlsmum · 04/05/2022 11:57

It is a scam when the stall holder says your card was charged £40 then £48.88 is taken from my account. Even after the stall holder put back seem olives and gave me cash back there is no way I came home with £20 of olives.

So the card reader said £40 but £48.88 came out of your bank account? That's got me a bit worried about contactless.

fairylightsandwaxmelts · 05/05/2022 08:04

But they don't advertise their price and they give you the impression they are cheap.

Anywhere that doesn't advertise their prices is generally the complete opposite of cheap.

h0tXberns · 05/05/2022 08:07

Happens to me and DP at a market in France. A fairly small tub of pick and mix nice olives from a stall ended up €20. We were really embarrassed and also feeling awkward anyway about our crap French, we just paid and scuttled off feeling shocked! Nice olives though.

MissusMaisel · 05/05/2022 20:24

BarbaraofSeville · 05/05/2022 07:12

Olives don't have to be expensive, all supermarkets sell jars of them for under a pound.

These food stall ones are probably very similar, but with a drizzle of oil, a squeeze of lemon and some herbs sprinkled on them. They're certainly not ten times nicer or whatever the price difference is.

They aren't even slightly the same thing....the ones in the jar for pennies are complete shit.

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