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.

Every time l pay a single room supplement on a hotel room on a package holiday.

I feel really fleeced and ripped off

Was quoted £60 a night single supplement on a hotel room n Italy last year whose reviews were nose diving week by week.

Baah.
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£12 for two coffees late at night in Florence in 1987. I was so astonished that I still remember.

£180 a month for a “fitness coach”. I approached a self employed personal trainer at my gym who told me that she no longer does PT but fitness coaching is amazing and would be perfect for me. In my late 50s I was keen to progress at the gym so I signed up.
For my £180 a month (on top of my normal membership) I got:

• 1 fitness program on an app with generic internet videos telling me how to do them. After 3 months (!) this was slightly tweaked by her.
• 2 feedbacks a month - I filled in a form, and she sent me a 3 min video gushing about how proud she was.
• access to a WhatsApp group with others, where she posted motivational stuff.
• a nasty rotator cuff injury and various other injuries as I did things wrong with no face to face supervision.

I carried on for 4 months. The only person this was great for was the lazy PT who I think I paid £180 a month for less than an hour of time a month. It dawned on me that she didn’t give a stuff about her clients as she knew full well people were getting it wrong. I now have a great PT at same gym who actually does 1:1. I do feel like I was an idiot but she had a great sales pitch.

Thought we might visit the newly refurbished castle in the centre of Inverness a couple of weeks ago. £40 for two adults, if you want visitors charge a reasonable price.

Temple bar I assume? Tourist trap unfortunately. Though yes, Dublin prices are currently extortionate, but still not that bad outside of Temple bar.

Charged £2.75 for a half pint of soda water in the local pub - not sparking water, the one from the fizzy drink pump. No lime, just the soda water. Beer and wine was pricy but hey-ho. When I queried and asked if I could at least have a pint for that price, I was told that would be double the price - so, £5.50 for SODA WATER! When I questioned again if that was correct, I was told “well, you get a glass too”!

Paying £170 return for a 90 minute train journey in England. Absolute joke

When we lived in Copenhagen that was this kind of price too as they didn’t allow uber- we took to going to nearest metro and walking!!

Pic n mix from Hamleys when I was a young teenager.... accidently cleared out my bank account and I didn't even have that much.... oh and at 14 was fined £100 cash for fare-dodging on the train, but I wasn't fate dodging at all, my connecting train was late and I jumped on just as the doors were closing so expected to buy my ticket on the train. Still stings.

This isa pretty individual one- I did an event with a musician artist in New York - venue insisted on not only a hire fee but $4000 bar spend ( this was only for 100 people) in the end I charged people $100 each ( was quite an exclusive event) and gave everyone 2 free drinks vouchers to cover off the$4000 — outrageous in my opinion as there’s no way you can guarantee not having an audience of people driving or teetotal!

In Italy 10 years ago. Stumbled in a restaurant starving but skint, ordered cheap pasta, they bring out a ball of mozzarella and a cut up tomato to start. We say oh no thanks, they insist and say enjoy! So we barely touch it as I hate tomatoes and I like mozzarella as much as the next person but I don’t want to eat it straight. We ask for the bill and we’ve been charged €35 for it. Which was half our budget for the day. But we’d heard that the area we were in were known to have restaurants affiliated with the mafia so we just paid and left but felt very ripped off

I didn't actually have it, but I remember a restaurant in Romanshorn (Swiss port on the Bodensee) that charged (in 2018) CHF32 for a pork schnitzel - at least it came with sides....oh, no it didn't, a handful of chips were an additional CHF5 (Over €40 in total). A plain margherita pizza in Zuerich was CHF25 in a fairly run down area.

Switzerland in 2009.
£17 for a thin and very mean basic margarita. Greedy and charmless hotel owners who charged us a ‘discount’ price for a half built room but it was still around £70.

A painter and decorator charging me £900 5 years ago for 2 days (very straightforward) work, and he didn’t even do a great job.

When I was at Uni, you used to be charged if you forgot your safety goggles/lab coat (icr exactly how much, but it was only a few quid)

I forgot my goggles one day... Charged the full cost. Not half - only forgetting the one item counted for nothing.

Edit: Come to think of it, probably last year. Relatively expensive fridge freezer stopped working after only a couple of years. Fucking ridiculous, that.

A "salad" for £45, back in the early 2000s.

Cheapest thing on the menu at some fancy place. It was a tiny bit of salad in a tiny bowl, just types of lettuce and filled with massive amounts of chilli.

£250 for a vet to visit my horse, look at her for all of 45 seconds, diagnose her with the problem I had already told them on the phone i knew it was, and give me a tub of antibiotic cream. I despair.

Like a PP said I got charged £4.50 for a lime and soda at a wedding venue. The bottle of soda was already open, no idea how long it had been there, it was flat

a non alcoholic bottle of cider cost me £4.45

$120 for an Aperol spritz, a single vodka and orange juice and 2 bottles of water at a pool bar in Las Vegas. It was 44 degrees and we literally only stayed long enough to drink our drinks because it was too hot to stay out in it. I knew it was going to be pricey but really put a downer on a special birthday.

1. Taskmaster live experience - £100 a ticket to stand in a warehouse, awkwardly partake in 3 (poor imitations of TM) games with random strangers and then not be able to have a drink (included in the ticket price) because the bar had run out of beer. And the merch shop wanted £25 for a pair of socks.

1. Meal at Tom Kerridge's Hand & Flowers - just not worth the money, thankfully the company at the table (besties) made up for it. The maitre de was awful
2. £8 for a vodka lime and soda approx 12 years ago in London. A lot for a water based drink 🙂

My friend spent £2.5k in a week on trying to keep her rabbit alive. Then it died.

A lot of these are making me wince for people and angry at the companies ripping people off.

Is anyone else a bit grateful that they are a bit tight and don’t pay for these things?

£38 for half a leg of lamb from my butcher at Easter. I paid about £18 for the same amount a few years ago.

NC, a special holiday in the Maldives, fed up of paying silly money in the restaurants so decided one night to order a pizza with room service and sit and look out at the ocean and make the most of it.

Pizza was expensive as you could imagine, but there was a $25 delivery charge to the room then a 10% service charge plus Tax, talk about taking people's eyes out. And it was rubbish...but they have a captive audience

Did you not want to go to an All Inclusive island? I loved the food in the AI.