Biggest rip offs/ridiculously overpriced things you’ve ever actually spent money on

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Either because you had no alternative or you didn’t realise at the time. Just been to to Co-op and spent £3 on a pack of 4 kids yogurts. Wtf? Probably not the most overpriced thing I’ve ever bought but just feel annoyed.

I was in Dubai and saw a doll for 150AED. I lived in China at the time, and Chinese RMB are about 10:1 to GBP, so my brain automatically did the currency conversion as £15, which seemed fair as the doll was so lovely, I thought I'd buy two as gifts. With the exchange rate at the time, it turned out to be about £70 for the two dolls. 😳

Lurpack, now I’m having Lidl bitter for half the price of lurpack

Stamps

Stamp Duty (LBTT). Falls under the “no alternative” category. I can’t believe it cost me nearly £40k just to swap my house for a different one!

Branded 7+ calpol when DS had covid in 2020. Mad amount of money!

Train tickets in the UK.

Build a bear. £60 for a teddy and outfit

CenterParcs during Summer holidays. Don’t think I’ll ever recover financially.

Ink cartridges for my printer. I only buy them when they're on promotion because they are so expensive. 🖨

A snow cone at Disney on Ice. Ten years ago now and I'm still bitter I paid so much for coloured half frozen water

at the time it seemed cheap for a roll of flooring but a few later and its full of holes .I need to buy need flooring my 6 month old has learnt to traverse the living room by rolling =p

Try kerrigold 😋

£65K for a showjumping pony that quite regularly refuses to jump 🤦‍♀️

Creme de la Mer
Wedding dress my ex stole / maybe destroyed
Recently, a parking ticket after I failed to make it through the final bloody payment page (of many, many confirmations that you have to click)

Ink cartridges - yes, too right! But the printer fucks up any time I use dupes.

I was going to say car insurance: over £2k to add an 18 year old new driver to my existing policy.

I think, if we have to have stamp duty, it should only be charged on the additional value of the house that you 'trade up' to.

It's horribly unfair that you have to pay to move to an identical-value house in another town, when you haven't actually improved your situation at all.

As for when people downsize, it seems criminal to have to pay a tax for moving to a more modest home; and a huge kick in the teeth if your financial circumstances leave you with no alternative but to move somewhere smaller and cheaper to keep yourself afloat, but the government believe that you should pay them thousands of pounds for the 'privilege'.

It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever in encouraging older people whose children have grown up and left, who want to move down from a large family house to somewhere smaller and more manageable.

It definitely falls into the category of 'we pay it because we do', as there's no actual justification that anybody could give for it in these circumstances.

250ml bottle of water in Ibiza. €9.50

Light up star wand thing for child at any attraction. Robbery!

I also got caught out when I had a holiday in Israel 30 years ago and bought an armful of a few tacky quality souvenirs.

The prices were all shown on tickets with an S (no lines through it) before the amount. I naturally assumed it meant Shekels - why wouldn't you assume that prices were in the country's own currency? - but no, they were US Dollars, that worked out at something like 4 times as much (iirc).

Of course, I could have walked away, but I felt awkward - and like it was somehow my error for not realising.

Probably about 8 or 10 years ago DD badgered me for this manicure device aimed at kids that I anticipated would be shit (it was advertised on kids tv) Spent about £30 on it for her as a Xmas present (against my better judgement - and money was pretty tight) and it was as rubbish as expected. I took it back to the shop but they wouldnt/couldn't refund because it was just a bit crap rather than actually broken. Ended up giving it away on fb.

I mentioned this on another thread but a Loewe puzzle bag. It’s amazing and was 3k.

I then fell down a Reddit rabbit hole of replica bags, scoffing away as I did so - I mean, I’d never in a million years buy a bag from china from some random on WhatsApp and have some temu special plastic thing turn up

long story short - I did. Had a Loewe puzzle bag made in tan for less than £200. It turned up and it is identical in every single way to my authentic one. And when I say identical, I mean it. A mirror image.

So yeah. For me it was spending 3k on a bag

Everyone is going to want to know who you got to make the copy!!

A Dubai chocolate bar on sale from 19.99 to 9.99. It was a joke, tasted like hersheys kisses with sort of a pistachio taste Thant was crunchy. Mostly like chunky peanut butter more crumbled and bit salty. Cheap crap chocolate.

75p each for a yogurt hardly breaks the bank. Misses point of thread and wonders how much you really wanted them for.

@LadyJaneGrey18 ha. My advice is to go to Reddit. The replicahandbags sub Reddit. And read up! It took me a while to pinpoint a rep and then you just WhatsApp him or her and they’re bloody brilliant! It’s a whole new world.

it’s also a scammers paradise so you gotta be careful. I used ‘Mia.’ Just google her name plus Reddit and replica handbags and that’ll bring up reviews of her.

I’ve got no skin in the game by the way! Hence why it’s crucial to read for ages first

but honestly, I opened up this parcel when it arrived and it’s in official Loewe packaging and they’ve used official Loewe hardware and it’s identical calfskin leather and well … it’s just so bloody cheeky of them but goes to show that the luxury goods market is a total rip off