That's Such a Rip Off!

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Have you ever been offered a service or something for sale that has led to you exclaiming the above (either out loud or not)?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link

We have a (supposedly subsidised) dry cleaning and clothing repairs service here at work. I left my jacket with them to be dry cleaned. The dry cleaning ppl ring me up and tell me that the zip on my jacket is damaged and do I want it replaced. "How much will it cost to replace it?" I ask.

"£24" they reply.

WTF?????????????????

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:21 (seventeen years ago) link

contributing for the previous new server of ilx.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought I was going to have to pay £200 to get my domain name redeemed (after missing the deadline to renew it), but seem to have got it back without paying luckily.

― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Hotel room service - it costs a bomb AND you have to t*p the person who brings it to you.

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"have to"

I just let them hate me!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:26 (seventeen years ago) link

MarkH you must be setting some kind of record here.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link

he's been bottling up all these threads for 18 months

― resumo impetus (blueski), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i got ripped off when i bought a first class rail ticket thinking it would be a useless mechanical object of some kind.

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I could buy a new jacket for £24 I'm sure (I have a Matalan locally).

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

dude you have an oxfam, you could buy 10 jackets for £24.

― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Getting a parcel sent to me from overseas.
Tax is £11.
ParcelForce "clearance fee" is £13! "Pay or we'll send it back, sir"
TOTAL SCAM. If they have costs involved in delivering a parcel, they should charge them to the fucking people posting it! Nobody else gets to extort customers like that Grrr.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

that's true Emsk but it wouldn't strictly speaking be a new jacket would it?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think you can get 10 jackets from Oxfam for £2, you'd be lucky to get just one. I always think that Oxfam is quite expensive - which is probably very churlish of me, because they need to raise serious amounts of money for their very worthy work. But they're definitely on the pricey side.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Hotel room service - it costs a bomb AND you have to t*p the person who brings it to you.

Anything hotel service oriented.

― PPlains (PPlains), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

With hotel stuff, it depends. If you've got no clothes on and it's snowing outside, I consider £1 an acceptable price for a Snickers.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:17 (seventeen years ago) link

*DELETE SELF*

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

what a sybaritic lifestlye you must lead, madchen!

― temporary enrique (temporary enrique), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Post of the month that, Madders.

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a nice image there, isn't it.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

If you have no clothes on, where is yr change?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

~~up her...~~

― nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think you can get 10 jackets from Oxfam for £2, you'd be lucky to get just one.

no not for £2, for £24. the oxfam near us does everything for £2.29 so you can totally get 10 jackets for £2.29. the ones that are too expensive

― emsk ( emsk ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:44 (seventeen years ago) link

It doesn't snow in the corridor! (xxxpost)

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I've just realised that Madchen means paying that much on her bill for a Snickers from the hotel room fridge. I thought at first she meant she had no clothes on and might need to wander through the hotel lobby looking for a chocolate vending machine!

I once ran down a hotel corridor while dressed only in my underwear in search of an ice dispensing machine.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Nine 1/2 Weeks?

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Ceej you have such a saucy, exotic past life!

― It's Teatime in Buttercup Land (Maaarghk C), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Like the time I discovered (too late) that there was a security camera in the lift of my apartment block in hong kong, beaming a live stream of a me and a drunken rugby player down to the caretaker's office. I have much to be embarrassed about.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I have much to ~~be embarrassed~~ crow about.

Fixed.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"rugger buggers"

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh dear, and it was your own house, so you had to see the caretaker all the time? I got changed in a basement laundry room once and was only told afterward about the cameras, but at least I didn't have to go back anytime soon.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

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