What's the most ripped off you have ever felt?

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Now I don't mean something that was expensive but you really enjoyed, but where you felt ripped off.

I'll start.

26 euros for two Sprite's in Paris.

And this was circa 2014.

Sad that there are so many from so many people. We deserve better.
Mine are from kitchen fitters ( two lots) to beauty treatments to hair, from oh a service station and their sky high prices for awful grub. One pub dinner. One fish and chip supper. Some jumpers that went bobbly after about one wear but cost about £80 each. The list could run and run….

23$ for a cheese and ham baguette and a bag of crisps at Barbados airport. We had to share as couldn’t afford one each!

Bet you're scintillating company on nights out with that electrifying patter...😆

Oh, ffs, I give up. It was a pint, a bottle of lager, a white wine, and a vodka and Diet Coke in the Drum & Monkey in St. Vincent Street.
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€3 to use public toilet on Burano island 10 years ago. I still cringe at the memory of DH getting the change out of his pocket and shouting to my back “Get your money’s worth” as I was heading to the facility…

Bless.

there you go. That’s not too bad then. You are very wise giving up.

At a friend's wedding a few years ago they were charging £12 for a glass of very average wine. I genuinely think it was something you could have bought for £5 a bottle from Tesco.

A larger what?

Mine was ripped off/scammed. Completely my own fault but I'm still embarrassed.

Went to an "auction" and the auctioneer was purposely being confusing/misleading/slight of hand type stuff. Ended up buying one of the old amstrad phone/email machines. Cost a fortune and absolutely useless.

Felt stupid but I felt even more stupid when I was watching Watchdog a few months later and they showed a video with my face fuzzed out buying it!

DH needed a postage stamp. He got out a pound coin to pay for it and was amazed it wasn’t enough. Shows how long ago he last bought any stamps.

Went into a tourist shop in ibiza where they sold perfumes etc. they had the Clinique one Aromatics. Smelt the sample , fabulous. So happy with my purchase.

Got home and tried it on,stank like cat pee. Was the same bottle , everything. I’m still cross about it 20 years later!

Over £300 to see a dermatologist about my rosacea. Appointment felt very rushed, lasted about 10 minutes if that.

All she did was look at my skin, asked what products I used and then prescribed Soolantra. I was expecting her to ask about lifestyle, triggers etc. Nothing!

Should have gone to an online pharmacy.

Paid a few thousand to a builder. Every single thing that he touched was crap and had to be fixed.

Thingybob. My daughter has very recently paid £6.5k for double glazed windows in a 4 bedroom 1950s house with large windows including two bays . You were definitely robbed !

£11 for a large G&T at the 02 London around 2007 😲

Oh that happened to me with expensive varifocals at an independent opticians. Specsavers told me I didn't need them!

Last night when I got a small chips from the chippy for £3 and it had 23 chips in the box. Twenty three. I was outraged and vowed to never go back.

The thing about people being overcharged horrendous prices for things like double glazing, doors and other large household jobs is that it's no different really from any other kind of branding - especially when it's a big, well-known name.

It's just that, if you buy a branded bottle of ketchup for £3.60 and big brand bread for £1.65 each week - when the pretty much identical (and often actually nicer) supermarket's own brand would have been £1.20 and 55p respectively - it's not nearly as noticeable; but when you're charged £18,000 for something that an honest, independent small company would have charged you £6,000 for, that's when it immediately hits home.

Bought dusters from one of those door to door sellers saying they have just got out of prison but probably haven’t really. Two yellow dusters I didn’t even need for £12. I just felt sorry for him.

I know they face rising costs too; but not all that long ago, most chippies would just shovel as many chips as they could fit into the bag/paper, and even a 'small' portion would be loads. Nowadays, you look at a 'large' portion - that one time would have easily satisfied three people - and it's often a decent amount for one person (MN competitive under-eaters aside), but you'd resent having to share it!

This isn't 'just' a rip-off, though; it's an out and out scam. They're known as Nottingham Knockers (regardless of where you live!) and they're an absolute scourge.

I don’t normally bother commenting on people’s rage bait posts but…just out of interest do you need less police by having no children? What about if you have a fire at home…just the half of a fire engine will be needed right?

Imagine spending your time on mumsnet, when you are child free and feel that not having children is less selfish than having them. You realise that it’s the children that others are having that will mean there are people to wipe your ass when you are too old and frail to do it yourself, or who staff the restaurants you want to eat at, the hospital you go to when you need an operation.

Will your Botox girl be older than you? The staff you work for you so you don’t have to do it all yourself.

Absolutely moronic. And yes, someone did take the bait so you can feel very special now!

Something like £1 for "extra" ham topping on a Margarita pizza in Pizza Hut. The "extra" was literally one tiny square of ham about 1 cm by 1cm!