£99 on sweets

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AIBU to be annoyed with dh?

He has taken dc to captain candy in Dubrovnik Croatia which is essentially a pick n mix place. He bought three bags of sweets and it came to £99.

The price is unclear and it is a tourist trap.

If anyone goes to captain candy please avoid.

I can't believe it still.

Ridiculous!

So if I'm looking at this correctly, some sweets are about £10 for 100g??

awwlookatmybabyspider: I see I need to raise my expectations!!

Sorry - didn't mean to post twice.

OMG diddl that’s the place I walked out of with a sad face! Thought it was in Prague

"OMG diddl that’s the place I walked out of with a sad face! Thought it was in Prague "

I think that there is one or more there also.

Oh come on. It's not that Bigga deal. Yes a bit ott. But really? You can spend £80 or €80 on a couple of burger kings. It's not the end of the world!

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The flamming hot cheetos they sell are from the US, they are only £2 cheaper on Amazon. They are sometimes on Ebay.

My DD buys them occasionally.

It's no different than buying a more expensive bottle of alcohol.

The sweets look like pure shite, I have to say

I was annoyed in the M&M shop in London where my daughter had pick and mix m&ms. Bag half full and came to £16!

Those sweets look like crap and the kind you get at those seasonal markets,something like £3 for 100g,I just used to snort in disbelief everytime I walked past when Wilkos is only a five minute walk from where the stall was.
Can't believe your DH paid that.
I'd be tempted to cancel the payment in some way, as he was scammed tbh.
What you got was probably really worth about £5 really.
Ooh 99 bags of Swizzle lollies and chew bags I could get for that and better quality.
I think that shop just relies on the stupidity of tourists and reading the confusion over the currency I don't think I'd ever go to Croatia. Save the money and Google search the images lol.
I went in that American Candy store once and I like Arizona Green Tea but at £2 a bottle? I promptly walked back out again.
Not to mention that US sweets are full of all kinds of dodgy stuff not permitted here.
Just makes me wonder what exactly was in those sweets you bought.
A PP did mention about making some sort of complaint officially and yes I agree with that.
Oh and talking of tourist traps, if anyone ever goes to The Vatican, avoid Cafe Vatican. A friend got seriously stung there.
But that has to be the worst tourist scam I've ever heard of.

You can spend £80 or €80 on a couple of burger kings. It's not the end of the world

Can you?

If I was paying £80 for a meal out, I'd want nicer food than bloody Burger King.

it's 22 kn/100g as I recall, just about adequately displayed. DC spent ages in one of their branches this week (there at at least 2 outlets in the old Grad ).

22kn = almost 3 quid/100grams.
DC brought £25 of own money & spent about £10 in Captain Candy.
I spent £4.50 for a small punnet of mixed fruit (150g?) for DC to eat, so yes, a rather expensive place. There is a bakery near the main entrance with queues out the door that is rather more sensibly priced (got enough snacks to satisfy 1 adult, 2 teens & a kid for about £10). The cling-to-cliffs cafes just out the seaside Grad wall are not bad prices, too.

OP hasn't mentioned they now charge you £22 per adult to walk on city walls. And then there's antihistamines for the mozzie bites. Not A Cheap Place.

As a country, Croatia is quite cheap so this must have been completely over the top expensive!

I work in a sweet shop (UK). £1.10 for 100g for pic n mix
The sweets come in 3kg bags which if someone wanted a whole bag we would give a discount.

I paid 20 Euros for a slice of pineapple in Alcudia! Still fuming!! It was 5 years ago!

I think that shop just relies on the stupidity of tourists and reading the confusion over the currency I don't think I'd ever go to Croatia

Really? You won’t visit an entire country because of one shop.

Why would you do that, Livelaugh?

It's the weight that counts, not the quality or type of sweet you get. At €3 per 100g it's expensive but tbh getting a KILO of sweets each is a bit over the top too, no?

Google reviews and tripadvisor are pointless for this sort of shop. They are designed to lure in passing tourists. Nobody would ever say “Now hang on, kiddies, just let me check the reviews before you walk into that sweet shop”. Just doesn’t happen.

Ho hum.. not sure about cheap in Dubrovnik. The 32 degree heat was very free, true.
£7 for water shoes in a Pemo.
£10ish for snorkel set in a Konzum.
£25 for beach towels (yes really, Sunset beach, & £2.50/Magnum icecream), but we got better towel for 10€ in Montenegro.

I just paid £6.57 for 4 sweet potatoes in the local organic shop and I nearly died at that - but £99 on sweets makes me feel a lot better.

Seriously though OP I feel your pain.

How many people are eating at Burger King when it costs £80? 10 people perhaps? Usually costs us £12 or so for 3. I would be very annoyed at £99 worth of sweets. Possibly even more annoyed if the bag had been ginormous.

OP hasn't mentioned they now charge you £22 per adult to walk on city walls.

Whuh? I loved Dubrovnik - the city walls walk was amazing. But perhaps wouldn't have bothered at close to £50 for 2 people!

OP, my DH would TOTALLY have paid the £99 and then got roasted by me later. I'm not sure if I'd have paid - I'd like to say not, but then when under pressure at the till in a different currency it is possible I'd have been flustered.

I would go and complain to the local police if I were you, as a PP advised with your receipt.

200 kuna to enter city walls. For a 2km walk. It's actually more like £25 right now.

Reminds me of the time my DC saved up £10.00's with his pocket money and went shopping on his own for the first time, he was probably about 8 years old. He chose pick 'n' mix - went to get it weighed - it cost him most of his saved money. He came home and cried, he hadn't been confident enough to say he didn't want them and that he hadn't realised how much they would weigh.

I was so gutted by his little teary face, that I bought half of them from him (half because I thought it was a valuable lesson in spending! ). I lived on 'cherry lips' for weeks.