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.

£170 for two medium pizzas and a bottle of house red in a restaurant in Reykjavik.

They are in London definitely

Paying 40 Euros for an attraction in Belgium in 2003, and having to pay to use their fucking toilets on top of that - AND having to pay AGAIN when my four year old decided five minutes later that she did need the toilet after all. Horrible, money grubbing place.

Isn't all Iceland eye-wateringly expensive?

£16 for a very flimsy paper log book (to record dives) on holiday in the Netherlands. I had already taken it to the till and was too embarrased to stop the transaction even though I'd expected it to be a couple of euros. My friend then picked up a much nicer, hardcover version and asked how much that was and the man said it would be free because it he had been given those ones by a gear rep and didn't feel he could charge for them and so she took it! He was perfectly happy to take £16 off me for a grotty paper one though, my jaw just about hit the floor although I was too British to ask to swap my purchase for one of those!

Used my Tesco clubcard points to pay for a trip to Eureka, turns out it doesn't give you the year pass so it was pretty much the same price but without being able to return. Kids didn't even enjoy it that much and it was packed.

I don't recall the price because I've purposefully blocked it from my mind (the kids call it "the bad lunch incident" and we do not speak of it ) At a Kyoto tourist trap street. Frozen bao buns, packet ramen, at literally 1000x the cost. In retrospect I think it was a money laundering front or something, the sink didn't have running water and was just behind a screen, so was the random guy microwaving this shit, there were no other customers despite the 10,000 people trnaping past outside. It was AWFUL.

£42 for a bag of m&m s in M&M World

8 OMR (about £16) for half a larger in Oman, it was a really hot day and we were by the pool and I just really fancied a larger.

A fiver to drop off at my local airport. Not even there for 30 seconds! It's going up to 6 quid later this month as well.

Oh and about £36 for a tube of pringles, bar of chocolate and two small bottles of water in an airport shop. Horrendous.

Renting. Always advertised as perfect, always absolutely crap under the surface. 3 monthly inspections to check we're behaving according to contract but no support at all when the landlord refuses to fix the broken boiler, leaking roof, rotting window frames, etc. etc. Deposit kept every time for spurious reasons. £120, 000 spent over the last 12 years-different houses, same rip off.

Emergency electrician. Well over £300 to change a plug socket causing shorts. The initial price information was opaque. The final amount given once the chap arrived. I didn’t want to wait to get it sorted and let it happen but shouldn’t’t have.

I was quoted similar for a new door from a big company! Ended up getting a lovely timber door from a local handyman, fitted and painted, for less than a grand.

My DH is still irritated by paying £3 per person to use the toilet in a shopping centre in Stockholm.

TBF, it was very clean.

At my friend's daughter's wedding (we were evening guests we went to order a glass of wine each from the bar. They poured the wine and announced it was £16 but friend (brides mum) came rushing over to tell us that the wine had already been bought/supplied by them AND they had paid corkage charges on it. She'd already told them off for doing it to another guest, so I guess they were trying it every time and getting away with it if she wasn't looking.

At the same wedding, our toddler was with us and he finished the sippy cup of milk we'd brought with us. I went to the bar to see if I could buy a refill (they were serving tea and coffee so there was milk available). I was quite happy to pay something for it though I half expected them to say no charge. £3.75 for half a cup!!! This was 2006 if that's relevant.

£60 for vet consultation followed by £500 for x rays for my lovely departed dog when we first got him to investigate a clicking hip.

Turns out the clicking was his tag hitting his collar when he ran. Nothing wrong with him.

Miss that expensive lump of gorgeousness.

Horrible meal in Trastevere in Rome last month. Made worse by the fact that my Italian cousin had chosen it and I was looking forward to it. “Only” €70 for three but on last day of our holiday I would gladly have paid double that for a good meal.

75 quid for 2 of us to go to the eden project.
Best thing about the run down preachy place was the sausage rolls.

I used to think the ideal home exhibition Was a bit of a rip off you were basically paying to shop,some of the stalls were the same each year. One year the Zoflora stall was the busiest. Then I discovered that it was possible to get free tickets with some googling. Don’t bother about that now as it was still the same.

£200 for a private GP with a list of my health issues only to be told I need to go on antidepressants.

Later discovered I have endometriosis.

10 Euros in 2006 (so over 15 euros at today's value) on a can of diet coke at a flamenco show in Seville. It wasn't even in a glass, literally just the can.

for me, it’s not about the monetary value but the disrespect involved

I went to a hairdresser and had a reasonably expensive service. At the end, she said she had some hairbrushes she developed and has launched her own brand and was saying how unique the features she designed are etc. so I spent like £15 on a hairbrush.

Then a few months later I found the same fucking brush on temu, tiktok shop and the like. Again it’s not about the monetary value (although the brush only costs about £2 via those channels), it’s just the whole spiel and sales pitch where she blatantly lied about the design and how perfect the brush is etc

Me and my mum went to Egypt and didn't have our heads around the currency yet and managed to negotiate upwards for the world's smallest ornament and paid the equivalent of £16 🤣 that said I do still have it because my 's mum died and it is a happy memory so maybe it was worth it.

Taxi from Dubai airport to hotel ( old non beach bit bit of Dubai) in 2011 was £50 - seemed ok till we actually used taxis and realised you could go a pretty long way ( just as far) for £16