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.

Fortunately we used points for accommodation splurged on a overwater villa with pool etc. And it had all just been refurbished. We kept thinking that we did not pay cold hard cash, but did in other ways as we spent money in hotels to accrue the points to pay for the Maldives.

Plenty people at breakfast making sandwiches and taking fruit, then very discreetly going into beach bags.

I don't mind paying for things but hate getting ripped off, you could not find out about many of the costs untill you arrived ( by plane another fiddle in my mind as its operated by one company).

If you want to travel between london and manchester before 9:30am, and don't have 4 weeks notice its over £300 for the 2 hour journey.

On a lot of the southbound trains from Leeds, even if you do have 4 weeks notice, the advance fares sell out so quickly you have to pay full fare (and don't even get a reserved seat). I recently paid over £200 to stand in the aisle with my suitcase for nearly 3 hours because there were no seats and the luggage rack was full, despite booking well in advance🙁Even people who'd been able to get a reservation couldn't reach their reserved seats because the aisles were jammed.

@LivingDeadGirlUK that's shocking, £300.

Tell I don't use trains.

I got lost trying to find the pick up spot at Bristol airport. Pulled over to look at map, and got fined £200

OH is in London & has just posted a pic of a stall selling a small pot of strawberries with a chocolate drizzle for £9.50. Hopefully he'll pass on that as he doesn't like chocolate 🤣

£3 hospital parking for quick 5 min chat that could have been done by phone.
Receiving 2 identical appointment letters a week after the event as it was arranged by phone - waste of postage X how often this happens and the cost to taxpayer's & the NHS budget.

Yes

Wedding recently in northern city.
Went to bar, can i have your wine menu, we don’t have one, its the table wine only. OK says I, a bottle of red please ( we had a big sharing group going on)
that will be £35 please 😳😟, it was a£5 wine at best.

100$ for three drinks and a bowl of nuts outside the Rockefeller centre in 2008. To add more hurt to injury and waiter asked us to move a little while later as he wanted our seats.

£4.50 for a bacon roll in Carisbrooke Castle. The roll was cold. No butter. Bacon looked anaemic. Kids meals consisted of half of a half of a triangle sandwich, tiny piece of fruit and a very small fresh orange juice drink £5. This was in 2017.

I was in Spain recently and had a slightly sore throat so bought some Strepsils from a chemist. Twenty euros! But two huge glasses of wine, that came with a free plate of cheese, salami, breadsticks, nuts and olives was only four euros, so it balanced out.

Daughter looking at venues to have very small wedding . Meal was a little bit on the expensive side but that was OK but the corkage fee per bottle was £35 per bottle.

Last year on a cruise stop in Kusadasi ice cream stall made a show of doing something fancy (without being asked!) to amuse my young daughter then proceeded to demand 12 Euros in payment from me!

Grrr I'm usually the one warning everyone else about tourist traps....!

You need to live somewhere and you have the same options as everyone else on where to live.

not the worst, but the most recent is returned 3 unworn, too small for size advertised, items to ASOS and for some reason the bastards refunded only 2, won't tell me why the 3rd is not being refunded and refuse to log as a complaint. Bizarre.

And?? It doesn’t mean they’re not all being ripped off!

If you’ve lived your entire life without being ripped off, then are you really living on the same planet as the rest of us?!

Staying in a hotel, check in after 3pm out you go before 11am. And bloody extra if you want a breakfast.

A chicken dish in a fancy hotel in Budapest which was basically a roast chicken leg. No accompaniments, nothing with it. Made a big show of carving half a roast chicken in front of me on a wheely table and took the breast away. £35

I’ve shared my experiences of being ripped off upthread…

One euro ten to use the toilets at Brussles Midi station, they were filthy and the attendant and his dodgy mates hung around the entrance all the time, which was nice at 8pm as a solo traveller.

I only used it as I was changing trains and was too desperate to wait til I got through border control and security to the free toilets in the Eurostar terminal.

I hate Brussels Midi, it is such an armpit.

I had been going to post about my experience of paying extra for butter which had shocked me. This was also in the early 1990s. It was at a service station on the M62. Seeing your post makes me realise that my 28p for a pat of butter was actually cheap!

Every week when I go to the gluten free isle. Yes I know I can bake but I don’t always have time or the energy

Ah, on the M62 they know that northerners have limited tolerance for being ripped off 😆