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.

You can pay up to ten quid for a side at a lot of restaurants now.

Was in one recently where it was £6.50 for half an avocado.

Last week at the beach.... Parked for less than 1.5 hours.... £14 🤢
(You have to pay the day rate regardless of how long you're there. The beach is lovely and I'm sure I'm probably just being tight but £14?!!!)

Legoland. It was overcrowded to the point of unenjoyable. Plus charging for the car parks (I know it’s a Merlin thing) is a joke, it’s not like you’re dumping your car there to go and piss all your money away anywhere else is it?

Ouch! We have often had to park in a residential street 15 minutes from the beach as the parking is expensive. Not that there are available spaces anyway.

On holiday in Sri Lanka. Stopped for two drinks at a roadside stall in a remote area. The sweet elderly lady said they were 80 rupees each. So gave her four 50rs notes. About £2.40 and said to keep the change. Except they were 5000 notes so £24. She tried to give it back in shock then I just thought sod it why not and left it.
Our guide said it would have made her week. Looks like I paid less for those lovely fresh fruit juice drinks than some of you did for your drinks anyway!

My cousin's DW always signs up for these type of courses, self-development, business development etc etc. Then she posts about it on SM, praising her 'most amazing' coach. She must be heading towards her mid-60s now, but I bet she will still continue doing these courses. Goodness knows how much money she has spent over the years.

Three cans of coke from a van outside Ibrox Stadium last year was £7.50.

Took the kids to a local charity family fun day and they wanted a helium balloon. £9!! I had said yes to the kids before I asked the price (I know) so we had to get one.

First day of holiday, arrived after an 8 hour drive.

£68 for 4 small margarita pizzas and two bags of fries from a takeaway in a village in Cornwall.

No prices displayed and no where else was open. Would have cost me £30 at my local.

About 10USD for 2 fresh orange juices in a market in Phnom Penh 10 years ago. Bearing in mind a beer cost 50c and a water $1!

€8 for a 500ml bottle of water in Zurich airport.

£32 for two vodka cranberry in Mayfair. Was there for a work event, I knew Mayfair would be expensive but not that expensive.

14 euros for 2 bottles of water in Amsterdam 2020

£1.50 for a Twix at a National Trust cafe last week. That’s about £1 profit per pack.

Took my cat to the vets for inoculations. “Do you want me to give her a worm tablet ?” He asked. Yes please I said as we ALL know what it’s like to give a cat a tablet. £8 it cost. She puked it up before we’d gone up the road. Sigh.

Wait, what? Cleaned the insides or outsides?! I just wash mine with the rest of my face, am I supposed to be doing something different l?!

It was $15 for a g&t in Hotel Gaansevorte in the West Village in 2005 when my friends and I went there drinking one night.

Meh. They tasted great. Worth every cent.

Paid £5 for a pretty small pot of lemon, lime and mandarin marmalade at a local market, all nicely presented. The impression was that it was on home made lines. I love marmalade occasionally and thought I'd buy it as a treat.

Opened it to have on some toast for breakfast and it was bloody awful. Thick, very glutinous and really sugary. I had one mouthful and chucked (scraped) it into the bin.

I then remembered I'd bought some blackberry and apple jam from her the previous year and it was so solid, you practically had to slice it to try and spread it.

Lesson learned, it's back to buying it from the local WI market now, they certainly know how to make jams and marmalades.

@Doubledutchbus sorry wrong quote!

£40 for 2 travel sickness pills for the dog! And we didn’t end up needing them

The car park at St Ives in Cornwall.
13 years ago now so can't remember how much just that it was very expensive.
Walked round St Ives in 25 minutes then left. I don't get the hype.

No need to lower the tone! Its a lighthearted thread ffs.
Pretty much all of the examples on here are luxury and unnecessary spends. Its all relative to your own personal financial status and I too would absolutely be seething if I had to hand over that amount of money regardless of how much I was allowed to keep!

I had this weird stomach flattening treatment the day before my wedding that cost £80 for them to rub some gel on my stomach and then use this machine on me and it did absolutely sod all, luckily I had control underwear on which cost a fraction of the price and held it all in. After the second glass of champagne I no longer cared anyway so why I spent £80 on this useless procedure I have no idea.

£6 for a bottle of perrier, doesn’t seem unreasonable?
It was 35 years ago, still smarting
Name and shame The Olive Tree, Rodley

My mind chose to read that as 'a fancy balaclava and Turkish delight shop' and I couldn't for the life of me think what kind of demographic they were targeting!

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