Consumer rip offs

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  1. fir

    fired Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    I'll start

    #1 Ink cartridges. Ink costs more than the chuffin' printer, and if you have the audacity to buy a "compatible" cartridge, you have to go through a rigmarole to get the printer to recognise it.
     
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    Easily solved....just refill it with ink......just dunt ask me how.....that's a job for the current mrs wilkojohnson (she's a much steadier hand than me - involves a syringe and a bottle of ink - that's as much as I know - when she gets the syringe out I tend to faint)
     
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    sweetcorn and larger. both are just rented
     
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    Conan Troutman Well-Known Member

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    Ticket booking fees. What's an even bigger rip off is when you have to pay a booking fee when ordering online and printing your own tickets.
     
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    Ah yes, a subject dear to my heart.

    Recently complained about a totally obstructed view at a concert. In doing so I mentioned the £6.50 PER TICKET booking fee, for the privelege of me booking the tickets from home.

    I received this reply:-
    The booking fee on the ticket is to cover the cost of employing staff to sell tickets, maintaining a ticketing website, paying licence fees to the software provider, paying fees for accepting credit and debit cards, ticket stock and envelopes, and postage costs.

    I suggested that in managing the booking at my end, I had to take 20 minutes out of my working day, I needed to own a computer that had to be maintained. I needed a wifi connection and an annual subscription. I suggested I might send an invoice for my part of the transaction. Needless to say they didn't have an answer.

    Money for old rope. Absolutely scandalous.
     
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    Admission fees for UK professional football matches. Beer at Tankersley Manor hotel.
     
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    Beer / food at any venue to be honest
     
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    Single bags of crisps for 80p when 6 pack for £1
     
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    Car seat hire (abroad)

    £10 in Asda to buy a booster seat.
    Rock up in Spain and hire a car.... £30 on loan for a week. And it's against the law not to have it, so take your own in your luggage, or cough up.
     
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    Cost of cigs and pop in petrol stations cost of a pizza at dominoes, bottled water, TV licence to watch match of the day, a hair cut at Russel Eaton, bus fares it was only 5p not that long ago, mortgages

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    Iphones.

    Soz, but just WHY?

    £54 a month. I can't believe anyone is actually daft enough.
     
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    used to be like that, till you get one ,its like a work of art ,best phone ever in history of everness
     
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    £54 a month though?

    I want a house, a butler and vanity fair husband for that price.

    I have a phone for £10 a month. It does everything I want it to, and tons of stuff I know nothing about.

    It's not like I don't spend enough time looking at my phone. What are iphone customers getting for £40 a month more than I'm paying, that I 'm not getting?

    Cos if it's got a hot tub, I might change my mind.
     
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    Next day delivery, never comes the next day. I bought something off he Internet on Sunday night and was offered (albeit free when I spent £40) next day delivery. I got an email last night saying it had been dispatched so today is day 4. When I read the terms and conditions on the website, next day delivery is actually "the day after dispatch". How does that work then? If they don't dispatch it for 4 days, how on earth can you call the 5th day, next day delivery.

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    Archey Well-Known Member

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    Read somewhere the other day that 22%of all iphones have a broken screen.

    Sent from my Samsung Galaxy with cracked screen using Tapatalk.
     
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    Kids having to pay adult price for holidays, then said company wants to treat them as kids.
     
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    Very easy one.....just mobile phone companies and their so called contracts.
    Try to complain about something takes weeks and weeks...then get shafted.......try but something they are all over you.
     
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    My phone (Samsung S5 sim free) costs £8 per month. As Fired says, it does absolutely everything I need. I continually get told off for messing with it in public. It's a video player, music player, camera, texter, clock, alarm, sat nav, map, compass, altimeter, weather forecaster, bank, message centre, social network centre, diary, note taker, flight booker, train planner, Internet browser, torch, magnifier, dictionary, translator, video recorder, TV planner, TV remote, calculator, voice recorder, diet monitor, fitness aid, news reader, book reader, emailer, games centre.

    It also has a great feature where I can key in a unique number belonging to a friend, then talk to them as if they were standing next to me.

    I'm intrigued as to what your extra £46 per month gives you.
     
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    Yes but can you ring someone from it? :)
     
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    Gym membership, why do they insist on a 12 mth contract when they know just by looking at me I'm not going to be arsed after the 1st month of pure dedication
     
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