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.

£22 for a small glass of French 75 cocktail at a bar in Edinburgh. Then 12.5% service charge to give to me as I sat at the bar.
i should have checked everything first.

I had fish pie in my local pub last week. It was the daily fish special and I didn't think to ask the price. 28 quid!

On Lindisfarne Island, paid £25 for two manky ham & cheese sandwiches and two cans of diet coke in the shop/post office. Wasn't even a cafe so we had to take away and sit on a wall! The board showed "home made sandwiches" so we expected something nice, but they were just the same crap similar to cheap supermarkets or garages, i.e. a couple of slices of semi stale white bread, a slice of thin ham (probably from a packet) and a slice of cheese (probably from a packet). Total rip off. The miserable woman behind the counter wouldn't even give us straws for the cans or plastic cups without us paying extra for them.

Bought a car for £3k. Drove it home only for my mechanic brother (who wouldn't come and look at it with me) to tell me it was a right-off and to take it back

Long story short, the garage I'd bought it from was run by con-artists and I lost £2.5k (managed to sell it for £500 for spare parts)

Gutted

Awwww do you feel better pointing out someone's spelling mistake little miss perfect

Years ago I brought dd to the dr because she was sore and itchy down below, thought it might be thrush. Can't remember what he said but he didn't come up with anything. That night I discovered she had worms. Went back to the dr for a prescription (didn't have google then and didn't know you could buy the meds over the counter). So paid the dr twice for absolutely nothing.

Not me but yesterday my sister-in-law had her eyelids cleaned in Boots. It took 10 minutes and cost £150!! Literally eye-watering. (Apparently you can buy the solution and do it yourself). She admitted it was a complete waste of money.
I once paid £30 to have my eyebrows shaped. (Wax and a bit of plucking ). Still wince at the price. They weren't even that overgrown. I would think a werewolf would have paid less. (This is in the North East before anyone tells me that's cheap for London!)

£50 for two chicken Gyros with halloumi and two soft drinks from a food van at a fair. I was flabbergasted. They were advertised at £14 a gyro, and they asked if we wanted halloumi with it and charged us an extra £8 each. Absolute rip off.

My complex dental work which was a bridge and some other stuff around it. Cost £5K. The dentist who was supposed to be doing it had a consultation and I think another appointment with me and then passed the work onto her newly or under qualified colleague. Apparently she was teaching or something so couldn’t do it. Her name was in the quotation though. I was really pissed off, said so and mentioned it in a Google review. Was over Covid. Will never use them again. It also wasn’t the sort of procedure where I could easily find another dentist that could do it, especially over Covid. Same dental practice for same procedure, had me drive in (45 mins away) and then said the dentist I was meant to see wasn’t in due to Covid. They tried to say they’d rang me but this was a lie, no missed calls, voicemails or calls, no email. I complained to the owner who saw me instead.

Your take home is 5k per month if that’s your income tax…you’ll live

That is a total rip off for your sil. I know the solution you can get for your eyelids as my mum gets it, certainly not £150!

£4.80 for prawn crackers with a Chinese takeaway a few months ago

I wish it was £5k month nothing like it, includes student loan, pension and NI

I was in the Cotswolds on a camping trip with friends. First and last time we went camping. We went walking and found a pub that served food. It was avocado and bacon sandwiches for a similar price to yours. We were so hungry we just ate them. They were vile though.

Oh my gosh, they must have seen her coming! Did they not tell her what the price was before it started?

Why the heck does anyone want their eyelids cleaning anyway?

Sorry she was ripped off though.

Awww I actually thought they were being funny not pedantic…because of the way it ended with a just fancied a larger. I think she was just teeing someone up to make a funny comment

A lot of the main line ones are free now. Or they were. I used to hate having to find 20p just to pee.

20 euros for a strawberry slushy for my DD in greece 15 years ago. I stupidly didnt ask the price before hand. She didnt like it!

I should have received a refund from a hotel where I'd had to move rooms at 2am because of a leak in the ceiling. But I'd booked through Booking.com so the refund went to them and, after 6 months of chasing, I gave up. Will always book direct with hotels now.

I absolutely hate having to pay for returns! Normally I’d return to the shop but there’s a place I like to order the kids clothes from but you have to pay for delivery and then again to return, I don’t have a shop local. The problem is the sizes can be so variable you never know what’s going to fit

Sorry but I’m properly laughing here! Damned cats! 🤣

I thought prawn crackers always came free with chinese?

I got caught like that in Egypt.

Oh dear, you'll be on a list now 😬

A trip to a National Trust park. £23 per adult, £11 for each child and £4 for parking!!! To walk around a park (not garden or house), buy ice cream and for the kids to play in a playground just like we could have done for free at home...