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.

£32 on two Burger King meals last week

Where? Mainline station toilets in London are now free.

What is it with Foreign airports with McDonalds and Burger King being so expensive - Canaries was 34e for just two of us- we pay 20e for same thing here

£400 at the out of hours vet for a cat I suspected had been poisoned as it was gagging and had a bit of green foam around it's nose. Turns out the drama queen had been eating grass and a blade got wrapped around its soft palate and back of its nose. Idiot (cat for being gutsy, me for panicking). The vet brought out a test tube containing the grass in one hand and a smug, chubby cat under the other arm.

50 euros for a taxi to drive about 500 metres, about 20 years ago.

I bought my ex husband out of the house. He got 100k which was about 43% of the equity. My solicitor said I was very generous and could have offered 80k. But he isn’t a high earner, was paying maintenance reliably, and I wanted him to have enough for a deposit on a house big enough for him to have our kids to stay.

He stopped paying maintenance a month later.

Don't fly from Stansted or Gatwick then - 'kiss & fly' charges have recently gone up to £10 at both of these airports 😡

£26 for 3 hours parking in Brighton, 2024

Was in Spain a few years ago during new years and felt a UTI coming on. Because it was new years and everything shut we had to go to the walk In part of the hospital. €€200!!!! For them to be like “yeah we’ve tested your urine totally a UTI here’s some antibiotics”.
of course the antibiotics cost €2.50

was an expensive way to have not worked out the health card thingy

Hospital vending machine

Last week took my DTs for impromptu trip to the beach after school, left their buckets and spades in the boot 🙈 managed to catch a shop selling some as it was closing - grabbed 2 small buckets and 2 spades and a bottle of pepsi. Went to pay and it was £14.50!!!!! I paid rather than have to deal with 2 crying 5 year olds and retreated to the beach. Opened my Pepsi to recover myself and it tasted weird, looked at the best before date on the bottle and it was Nov 2025! Felt totally robbed!

Roofers doing repairs at another property (quoting Check A Trade credentials).
They spotted some loose tiles. Agreed they could fix for £65.

Once they were up there, they found other issues (of course) had to remove timbers and replace some felt.
I was told to pay the bill to a scaffolding company when they hadn’t even used scaffolding. No receipt provided although promised. No trace they’d even done any work.
I didn’t check with neighbours or check with bloody check a trade. What an idiot.

£900 bill I wasn’t expecting.

£35 for 2 small glasses of wine and a coke - assume the coke was £5 then that’s £15 quid each for the wine - bloomin heck! We were in a lovely hotel though!

In Monaco. 1987.

Mars bar - 6 francs, and a can of coke - 10 francs. (So, around 60 pence, and a pound.) Would have been around 12 pence and 16 pence in the UK at the time. So about 4 to 5 times more in Monaco.

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Caffe Grande yesterday in London. 2 (very average)coffees and a portion of Tiramisu - served in a little plastic bowl, so obviously bought in and not made.

£25

🙄

Its now £7 at Glasgow Airport! Was there for less than 2 mins on Sunday!

Paid £35 for an hour's electric car charging when I first got my car because I didn't realise there was an overstay charge after an hour, so it was fully charged after about 30 mins, meaning I paid £25 for an hour's parking while I sat in a cafe waiting.

When loom bands where the latest craze,dd asked if id pick up a loom band board

She showed me what it was and said I could pick one up for about £2/3 in a certain shop

Went shopping and forgot all about it until I had to go pick up her siblings from school-the shop I needed was in the opposite direction and I didnt have time

As I was going through the 'what do I tell her?I cant admit to forgetting' I spotted one on a market stall just in front of me

£18!

£18 for a cheap plastic board with what looked like spikes on it

Best laugh is,she never used it-she used a fork and then the craze passed and she forgot all about it

Another was a market stall 'pic n mix'

He tried to charge me £56 for an inch of cheap sweets-the type you could pay £2 max at a newsagent

Thankfully my father was with me-he handed the bag back and said we where not paying that

The owner tried to say that as wed picked them,we HAD to pay

My father has the best bitch resting face and the owner backed off

Im sure he would have got nasty if id been on my own

I feel ripped off at some of the airport prices. I expect things to be more expensive there, but still...I can't remember exact prices, but I think at Heathrow I paid around four pounds for a bottle of water.

A few years back, I bought a packed salad for around $16 at a US airport.

Oh yeah, my older DC and I met for a drink in Costa the other week, they had some weird oat milk shite, and I had a large cappuccino, and we had a small cake each (me cherry bakewell, and them some kind of fruit cake.) Cost nearly £22.00 in total!

The next time, we met at McDonalds. A hot drink each and a McFlurry each, Just under £9.00 in total. Batshit.

When I was about 10 or 11 - a bag at a flea market on holiday abroad which I thought I was getting for the equivalent of about 30p but I'd got my conversion rate wrong and it was actually £3. Still not aa hug amount of money but expensive for a flea market in the 90s and a good chunk of my holiday spending money. I was so disappointed with what I'd spent it on that I cried. I think my mum would have weakened and given me the money but my dad said it was aa good lesson in shopping abroad and budgeting!

What I feel most ripped off by and it didn't cost me money to do at the time was being stupid enough to vote for Labour at the last election because I was fed up with The Tory's, I say it didn't cost me money at the time but it certainly has since, like everyone else who works for a living or doesn't boost their socio economic spending level through benefit scams, I guess?

Re the toilets: I once went to a British seaside place (I forget where), where they had the prices for tickets to use the public toilets on the wall, but they also offered season tickets - to use the toilets!!

I presume it was their version of a tourist tax - and for all I know, if somebody asked to buy a season ticket, they could have just handed them a free 'locals' pass with a wink. I can't help wondering how much of the money went on paying the wages of the ticket seller, though. I suppose they were also 'monitoring' the police and their presence might deter antisocial behaviour/vandalism... but even so.

In Israel - 30 years ago - buying tat souvenirs from the roadside stall. The price tickets all had an 'S' as the currency sign - a plain letter S, not crossed through - so I naturally assumed that it was S for shekels, as that was the national currency. The pound was strong against it then as well. Nope, it was dollars - and they did that interesting thing at rip-off tourist hotspots where they speak perfect English all the time whilst selling you stuff, but suddenly don't understand you when it comes to disputes about the actual price at the point of sale.

lol, nice way to sneak some politics into a fun thread.

In the 80s I was in Harrods visiting . Saw a nice headband with a bow with diamante on . Picked it up and saw what I thought was £2 on it . When I got to till it was actually £20 . I was young and dumb and just paid it instead of just saying no thanks . But why I thought anything in Harrods would be £2 I can only put down to youth . Mind you I wore the shit out of that damn thing . Might even be in a drawer somewhere.