Have you ever been offered a service or something for sale that has led to you exclaiming the above (either out loud or not)?
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?????????????????
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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.
Hotel room service—it costs a bomb AND you have to t*p the person who brings it to you.
“have to”
I just let them hate me!
MarkH you must be setting some kind of record here.
he’s been bottling up all these threads for 18 months
i got ripped off when i bought a first class rail ticket thinking it would be a useless mechanical object of some kind.
I could buy a new jacket for £24 I’m sure (I have a Matalan locally).
dude you have an oxfam, you could buy 10 jackets for £24.
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.
that’s true Emsk but it wouldn’t strictly speaking be a new jacket would it?
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.
Hotel room service—it costs a bomb AND you have to t*p the person who brings it to you.
Anything hotel service oriented.
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.
*DELETE SELF*
what a sybaritic lifestlye you must lead, madchen!
Post of the month that, Madders.
That’s a nice image there, isn’t it.
If you have no clothes on, where is yr change?
up her...
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
It doesn’t snow in the corridor! (xxxpost)
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.
Nine 1/2 Weeks?
Ceej you have such a saucy, exotic past life!
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.
I have much to be embarrassed crow about.
Fixed.
“rugger buggers”
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.