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.

This! We just went on a fortnight trip around Europe (road) and stopping every couple of hours for a wee was quite annoying as I'd say about 75% of the stops you had to pay for the loo! Paying to go to the toilet is a joke.

The M&M shop in London! Can’t remember the exact amount but about £30 for both kids to have a bag of the pick n mix ones each.

Similar, I've just been to one of those events at a Stately/Posh Estate, where you have to pay an entrance fee just to shop. DH refuses to come with me as he cannot understand why anyone would pay to be allowed to shop. The entrance fee is £14.50 this year which in itself is plenty. It was busy full of middle class Home Counties pensioners.

Anyway my point, coffee, small paper cup, from a machine (not Nescafe and hot water), £5 or £9 for a speciallity coffee such as a cappucino.

Egg & Cress sandwich £7.50, Burger in a bap or a Pulled Pork bap were over £15. The baps looked like they were Costco, the burgers were alledgely 'posh' but looked small and dry. A single cookie £4.50.

I spent time looking at (and buying from) the speciallity craft stalls, which was the point of my visit, then left and picked up lunch from the local bakers along with fresh bread which was less than the £7.50 for the sandwich, baked in the county and fresh today.

We do a lot of city break type trips and do like to sit and have a coffee, but I need to see the price before I order. My drink of choice is a flat white and my target price is £5, I will pay more but over £8 and I am having second thoughts

2 cocktails for £22 after a bottlomless brunch time slot had finished. We’d had 10 cocktails each for the £35 just a few minutes before 😭

£5 for a guidebook my son hasn’t even looked at.

I don't know, I avoid them like the plague because it annoys me so much! You've made my day if they are!

I hate that with village fetes and festivals which are just a series of stalls/rides to part you with your money. £10 pp to get in? Fuck off!

All free in London now. They used to be 20p/30p a pop.

A few years ago i went on a caravan holiday at a haven park. It cost me ££20 for a burger at the restaurant on site. I spent £17 at the fish shop and the food was disgusting.

That place is scandalous, but my kids love it!

Free in Glasgow and Edinburgh now too. Used to be 20p to get in.

Or 30p a poop, perhaps I should say.

£300 for a hair trim in Blackheath Village, c 2007. To be fair, I didn't ask.

Best try-on ever was £12000 for a new front door from a VERY famous company. I didn't bite. Got one locally for a fraction of that.

It’s also the tallest cinema in the world.(Though it isn’t currently being used as one but will hopefully open again soon) I’ve never had nachos and occasionally I consider ordering them at a cinema but your experience is exactly why I force myself to resist and I don’t blame you for refusing to return. Cinemas have to be one of the biggest ripoffs for snacks.

£15 for candy floss and another £15 for popcorn🍿 at Disney on Ice! Fuming

In a stitch bucket?

Earwax removal (suction) in a high street optician. £60 and I was in and out in under 10 mins - which included time to sign the consent and pay at the end. Felt like I’d been mugged!

I paid something like £4.50 for a black coffee on a train and the cup was tiny, the size of the old style vending machine cups. I only bothered because I'd been up since 5am and needed something to perk me up 😆

House prices right now, when everything is clearly over priced by about 20%! Honestly, nothing is selling because of sellers thinking it’s 2022 and we haven’t got yet another war

£500 per night for my cat to stay in the vet hospital. She stayed 2 nights, in a cage and didn’t eat anything.

Anything Ive bought in tiktok shop.

In Dublin with my uni friend when we were both 22, so over 20 years ago now and I was absolutely scandalised when I went to pay for our two drinks (vodka and coke, rum and coke) and it was 22euro?!!? Honestly ridiculous. And this was in 2004! God knows what it is like now...

Taxi in Singapore

We got well and truely swizzed in Rome. Ordered something from the specials In just a normal mid range restaurant and didn’t ask the price. (Very foolish I know) and they charged us 100 euro each! Saw us coming but lesson learned.

I feel ripped off every time I look at my council tax bill and consider the extent to which I as a single childfree person and therefore belonging to the least selfish group in society am overtly subsidising familes who have a dual income and are paying NOTHING extra for the children they have brought into the world. Everyone knows that to be fair the discount should be 50%.

This one reminded me of something that happened on a trip to Jerusalem (this was 1991, pilgrimage with our church, wouldn't dare travel there now). We had stopped at a street market and a guy was selling all different flavours of Turkish delight. Showed us the "large bag" size and quoted a price which wasn't cheap but not rip-off price either. My friend's mum agreed to buy a bag and after we'd wandered down the road a bit she found only the very top of the contents was Turkish delight. Underneath was a big lump of bread filling out the bag.

She's quite a formidable lady and went storming back even though our rather anxious tour guide was trying to persuade her not to. The stallholder pretended to be astonished and tried to tell her it was "manna from heaven" that must have been put there by the holy spirit but she just grabbed a big lump of TD from the stall and walked off with it triumphantly.