£99 on sweets

[Violashift]

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!

Those sweets better be fucking amazing for that price. Fuck me. I'd have refused to pay (tbh I wouldn't have gone in in the first place and even if I had I'd have found out the price before getting the kids excited - pic n mix wherever you go is usually a fucking rip off!). I'd have left and got the kids sweets elsewhere. You could have lured them with the promise of many more sweets from another shop. You must be gutted. I'd be SO cross with DH!

Just had a quick google and while the sweets in the shop look huge the ones you posted don't i really want sweets now

We used to go to Venice free with the Tesco’s Clubcard vouchers when one of their exchange partners was Cosmo City Breaks and the four of us were royally ripped off eating out. Now, retired, we do Venice Air B and Bs and eat in with lovely Italian produce bought from supermarkets. It’s still expensive compared to Tesco’s but a fraction of the price of cafes and restaurants. Being charged £50 for one pizza was our lightbulb moment.

I think it is beyond disgusting to rip off tourists. Shame on those who do it whether at home or abroad.

My dad always drummed in to me how expensive pick and mix were. We were never allowed them to the extent that when I was a 17 yo out with my boyfriend and he suggested a pick and mix my first reaction... they are too expensive for me. He got some it came to £1.50. I have been less cautious ever since. However this post is bringing memories back

OP hasn't been back & I wonder if she got her numbers wrong (embarrassing to admit).
£99 implies 3.5 kg of sweets in the shops in question.
Surely any thinking parent notices that 3.5kg of sweets is excessive, so maybe the currency exchange charges were what inflated it ridiculously, or she's read her credit card bill wrong.
The best thing about the shops is their great aircon, imho.
Unsupervised DC got out of there after 25 minutes after spending only 50kn (£6.50).
Pic of one shop here. It's not a dodgy street market stall.
And you get a receipt for everything you buy in Croatia, so OP can check the receipt, too.

I am trying the MN 'toothpaste' treatment for insect bites right now (!)

Just because Trip Advisor says it's 22 kuna or £3/100g doesn't mean OP's DH got 3 kilo for £99, by the looks of those photos he's got much less than 1 kilo and been charged a tourist tax.

Is there anywhere these days where pick n mix isn't a total rip off?

@PancakeAndKeith

We used to go to France sometimes twice a year,sometimes more and did we ever have confusion over the Euro to pound?
No we didn't. Not even when it was still Francs.

We stepped off the airplane from Dubrovnik yesterday.
tbh, Croatia was one of the lowest crime (feel) places I've been to.
And Bosnia/Montenegro, too.
People are pushy as hell in queues & as for the driving, it got comically aggressive. Plus no hesitation to shout at someone in street or a shop, lots of grumpy moaning by the natives to each other (didn't need to speak the language to understand that).
But nowhere as larcenous as my native compatriots (Americans).
You put something valuable down it will be there an hour later.
People left their valuables on beaches when they went swimming.
Shopkeepers went out of their way to hand me back a bill if I gave them too much.

So I'd be very surprised if he was conned by a shop, especially a chain store in old Grad.
The (too few & too small I agree) signs on the shop walls clearly said 22 kn/100grams. Teen DS understood that to be same price for everything.
Maybe the seller in that specific shop completely fleeced this one tourist, you can't account for individuals.
But I doubt it.

... In Captain Candy, DS's bill came to 51 kn but the seller waived 1 kn (so DS paid only 50kn). They rounded the bill down. Admittedly by only 12p, but point is, Not the signs of a shop out to cheat tourists.

Surely the picture of the pirate would be a clue !!😂😂😂

We used to go to France sometimes twice a year,sometimes more and did we ever have confusion over the Euro to pound?
No we didn't. Not even when it was still Francs.

Ok. But what I mean is that every country has a different currency. Working out the exchange rate roughly in your head is something you need to do in any country you visit.
They don’t make the Croatian currency especially confusing just to rip people off.

Yes the cost of the sweets is a rip off but a customer’s inability to convert isn’t anyone else’s fault.

3kg is a hell of a lot of sweets.

So?

I suppose I meant that it seems a combination of factors. Yes, the sweets are expensive, but they bought a hell of a lot without checking the price. I don’t think the shop is completely at fault here.

At Ikea, I always tell my kids 100g each. They get a small bag and it’s enough. There’s no way I’d just let them fill up bags loads. They’d go crazy and it’ll cost too much.

If each kid filled up a bag with 1kg of sweets, dad must have noticed they had a lot. He could have said 5 things each or something.

So?. 😆. So if they bought 3kg of sweets it was never going to cost tuppence ha’penny, of course.

It’s a truckload of sweets.

Even if it was thee kilos. £99 is still an absolute rip off.can get 3kg on amazon for 15.

Definitely not read it incorrectly.

It’s a truckload of sweets.

The large foamy frogs and strawberries are quite heavy.

But even Ikea pick and mix, which is relatively cheap, 3kg would be about 30 pounds. In a tourist sweet shop, it would be more. I’m not saying it wasn’t a rip-off. It was, but dad should have checked prices and reined the kids in.

I'm guessing Op doesn't have a receipt that shows what weight of sweets were bought?

On the website that I linked to a bit back the sweets seemed to be about £10 for 100g.

The moment I saw the thread title, I knew exactly which shop you'd been to! I managed to get away with a tiny bag of sweets for approx £13. Complete rip off!

Nope bags not sacks, I've seen something like this in Spain and it is disgusting what they charge for shit sweets....

@Beastieboys

Nope bags not sacks, I've seen something like this in Spain and it is disgusting what they charge for shit sweets....

I wondered that it felt like déjà vu! How did you find this thread😂

Pick n mix is always a rip off, given that the average sweet is about a pound I can see how this has happened, however I would have walked away. But be kind to him and enjoy.

@Violashift

I'm here for the photo.

It's really not that exciting!

I beg to differ. It is very exciting. I am waiting too.