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.

I used a vending machine at Orlando airport (didn’t have prices listed on it) wrongly assumed it wouldn’t be astronomical….it was £7.50 for a 500ml of smart water!

The poor food aside, I think it's great at the right age.

I was in Hi last year. €14 now for tiny bottle.

Something similar in Amsterdam. Long hotdog in a bun with a big pile of toppings turned out to be two tiny ends of hotdog stuck in each end of the topping. Scandalous!

Having to pay an extra £20 to take a dog in a travelodge, can’t believe they do any extra cleaning than the standard.

A food walking tour in Japan. Paid £80 per person. Told it was an 8 course experience with a knowledgeable Japanese food guide. Scrawny Spanish student turned up to lead us. Clearly didn't know the area. Bought a bag of mini donuts to share around. Took us to a filthy fast food place, then to a sushi bar where he ordered vast quantities of shellfish sushi I couldn't eat as I'm allergic to it, which I had mentioned when we booked. I had boiled rice at the sushi bar. Then his amazing highlight was to take us for smoothies, as if they were unique toJapan. £80 per person for a micro donut, a smoothie and boiled rice.

Everywhere else we went in Japan we ate fantastic food, usually for about £10 a head. Once a really stunning traditional 7 course dinner for £35 each. I complained and they offered us a free tour if we came back to Japan within a year. Yeah, right.

£52 for two big pumpkins and a few tiny ones at a pick-your-own pumpkin patch. I nearly died. We now get them for 50p-£3 from Sainsbury's.

£200 for a smartphone screen repair. I thought it was pricey but the shop was top rated on Google reviews so accepted it was the going rate. Not only was I massively overcharged, but I strongly suspect it was them who cloned my card and went on a spending spree a few days later. Robbing bastards.

£240 for 45 minutes "gardening" by two blokes, one of whom mowed my lawn while the other jet washed my path. I could have done that myself for free! They'd priced the job up at 2 people for 2 hours so I queried the price when they finished so early with seemingly so little done but he insisted. Never again.

Specifically on feeling ripped off - at a farmer's market in Brittany paying 2 Euro for a cucumber in about 2008 - it's just the smug look of the vendor...!
Plenty on the stupidity tax - forgetting toothbrush on holiday and having to pay £5 in a chemist... running out of paracetamol/ibuprofen and paying over the odds.
DH - epitomy of stupid - not paying tax on time (£19) and getting £1000 fine; speeding fine for being late for an appointment.

I took my empty box of washing powder (huge box, cost me £7.50 in the super market) to a local refill place trying to be more environmentally friendly. Filled the box with their own washing powder. £37! Never again.

Went for dinner abroad with a friend. We shared a starter and dessert, had a main each (not extravagant, I had spaghetti, she had ravioli if I remember rightly) and a glass of wine each. £150! Learned a lesson about restaurants which don't show prices on the menu.

£90k to pay off my ex husband who had contributed fuck all during our marriage.

well, I felt ripped off at the time, but realise now it was probably the best investment I’ve ever made 😂

@BerylsI think I was at the same cafe in York a few weeks ago. The supposedly home made vegetable soup was definitely Heinz Big Soup. It was more than you paid, and I told my husband we were being ripped off.

604€ for my cat’s dental cleaning.

Anything I’ve ever stupidly bought at any Farmers market.
Carried away by the whole ‘oooh doesn’t that look good’. Can’t remember the exact price but spent £££ on some fancy Red Leicester once, was not a large chunk either!

£180 for a glycolic peel “add-on” to a facial.

The facial was normally £200 and I used to go every six months as a treat. Had been going for literally years. Facialist said she thought I’d benefit from the glycolic peel. Ok. She said “it’s a bit extra”. My fault for not asking but I nearly fell over when I went to pay. Never went back again.

£9 for a cheesecake dessert at a restaurant that was no bigger than a Mr Kipplin snack size lemon slice!!!
2 very conservatively sized mouthfuls and it was gone!

December 1986. School Christmas fair. There was a stall where you had to roll 3 dice and there were various prizes depending on what you rolled. I rolled 3 sixes and the published prize was a bottle of whiskey. I was so chuffed I'd won a Christmas present for my dad. Bastards wouldn't let me have it, what with me only being 10. Worst 20p I've ever spent

Another country fair food stall one - actually, 2. Cheese being sold as 200g pieces, worked out cost per kg, decided it was only twice the supermarket cost, bought some. Weighed it at home, it was 150g.
Fudge stall - price per 100g shown, I went wrong somewhere between asking how many pieces made 100g & doing the price maths, my bag was going to cost £16 so I handed it back.
Rip-off merchants rely on people being embarrassed to ask the price (eg daily specials as mentioned up thread) or walk away.

Oh and a bottomless brunch at £45 a head for a 2hr time slot. They were so busy and so under staffed that they only took 3 drinks orders from us in the whole flipping time despite us keep calling them over, going to the bar etc only to be told to wait our turn 🙄

£200 for a Red Letter Day voucher I didn’t use due to Covid. I emailed them but the bastards never replied.

£50 for a One For All gift card. The card didn’t work and the bastards never supplied a new one.

Vegas is out pricing itself. People will end up finding somewhere else to go!

Not the government job to look after your kids.

I think that is the norm

Some of us are very happy to pay out to have everything at our fingertips!

Well, they fund 97% of children’s childcare - so the government has in fact taken it upon itself to support early years education.

Do you apply this to just preschool education, or do you feel the same about primary and secondary schools too?

Today at a bog standard, slightly tatty bar in Spain.
DH ordered a portion of mussels.
There were 9. For €11.
DH asked where the rest were. Waiter suggested ordering a Tapa and he'd get another 5.
For the bargain price of an extra €7.