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 agree, the money-for-nothing ticket booking charges are inexcusable. If there are no circumstances in which you can buy a ticket for the advertised price (e.g. by going into the venue and paying in person), then the charges ought to be illegal.

I feel you. But we had an out of hours appt for the cat with a urine infection (also 5 minutes) and the bill started with a 4!

I’ve just thought of another. Not a huge monetary rip off in the grand scheme of things but still a charge which shouldn’t be there.

The main car park in town has now changed so that you can only pay via an app, all ticket machines have been removed, but there’s a ‘Convenience Fee’ of 25p on top of the parking charge for using the app which, should you choose to park there, you have no choice but to use.

Cats vets bills are a nightmare. With my old cat I forget the amount of times I was there with him for antibiotics as he ate poisonous flowers, got infected abscesses from fighting, you name it he had it. Plus Noel Fitzpatrick practice. Almost cleared out my savings at the time! Thank god my current cat is sensible and boring!

£32 for 2 vodka and cokes in a hotel in London a couple of months ago - one last drink before going to bed! Can’t bring myself to tell my dad, he’d keel off his perch! 🫣

This should also be illegal. (Bangs gavel)

Car Hire abroad. They seem to make the price up on the spot and then add a huge amount on for insurance or pay €700 deposit.

Similar price but our Vodka cokes were in Ibiza.

On my 1st trip to Vegas many years ago, the first thing I noticed in our hotel room was a small bottle of water at $4, the tap water was perfectly drinkable🙄😬

$90 dollars for 2 double Jack Daniels and coke and a tub of popcorn last month watching a show on Broadway.

That's is a bloody nerve. It's more convenient to pay at the machine

£220 Harvester. 4 x adults. 4 children. 3 glasses of wine. Last week. My DH is still fuming.

Tell me about it. Avis cancelled my 1st contract for car hire in Italy and asked me to take out another one on arrival, which I did. They never refunded the 1st one, never answered emails, never answered the phone So I paid twice . I had to go via my credit card and finally got it back after I proved I’d exhausted all avenues to contact Avis.

No change from a £20 note for two dissarano and cokes and a tin of crisps at the royal opera house

$90 for 2 double Jack Daniels and coke and a tub of popcorn watching a show on Broadway last month

🤣🤣

£38 for a rum and coke and a beer at the Shard in London. 🤬

$50 for a rum and coke and a vodka and tonic in Vegas.

$10 for a shite cup of coffee in Vegas

We all also got a healthy dose of food poisoning last time I went 10 years ago. Food & service was shit and the prices totally not worth it, even without the d&v

£16 for a tiny cup of strawberries drizzled with chocolate from a xmas stall in Trafalgar square london in 2024. My fault really no prices displayed and i ordered before checking price, still DD enjoyed them! Still havent recovered from the shock, god knows how much they will be this year!

With the new rules, vets have to be transparent with their pricing. I'm not saying it's ever going to be cheap but when my cat needed medicine, they have to tell you if you can get it cheaper elsewhere, like online. They directed me to petdrugsonline which were cheaper. Of course, once the vet charges £27 to write a prescription for a different company there wasn't much in it but for repeat prescriptions you would only pay it once. Apparently

Following on from Disney in USA, really annoys me

did LL always charge?

some hotels do this as well

£3 for 2 lettuce leaves with which to feed the giraffes at Longleat. Of course you're paying for the experience but I reckon the lettuce was about the same price as gold, pound for pound 🤣

Ever had a constipated cat turn into an obstipated cat , and do you know the difference?

Went to a spring fair recently run by church for charity

it was so nice to have a burger for £3.50 and had a great time

no I don't but I think after 2 full days in the vet they should have identified that it was constipated and provided treatment that we could have done some at home instead of keeping her in for another 5 days and charging huge day rate for it.
my cat was very well.looked after and survived a healthy life untill she passed last year at 18 years of age