Biggest Rip Offs
Discussion
According to the Daily Mail a £3 birthday card is the biggest rip off in the UK. Interestingly, petrol is down the list...
P-Jay said:
Bottled Water is something that really gets on my nerve. Both from the rip-off price of it, and because it's possibly one of the most enviromentally wasteful products in the world.
Why? I'd have thought there are a huge number of products that are more damaging to extract / refine / produce / manufacture / distribute / dispose of.iphonedyou said:
P-Jay said:
Bottled Water is something that really gets on my nerve. Both from the rip-off price of it, and because it's possibly one of the most environmentally wasteful products in the world.
Why? I'd have thought there are a huge number of products that are more damaging to extract / refine / produce / manufacture / distribute / dispose of.In the western world we're fortunate enough to be surrounded by almost endless supplies of fresh clean drinking water, it's collected, cleaned, and pumped to our homes and pretty much every other place people congregate - and I know we moan about water bills, but in terms of pence to litre it is staggeringly cheap considering the infrastructure in place. I would imagine someone from the 3rd world would be more envious of the taps in our kitchens than they would be by our flat screen TV's and central heating. We've got some much of it in fact when we're asked not to spray it from hose pipes we're up in arms.
But despite this, the bottled water industry is booming, and it's total bulls
t. There are no health benefits to it, it doesn't give you the power of a volcano or make babies rollerblade. It's collected from one place that has lots of fresh water, treated, bottled, marketed to death, transported 100's or 1000's of miles to another place with lots of fresh water and we're asked to pay, what? £2+ in a service station for half a litre of the stuff. I know Environmental Issues are as popular as turds on PH, but no one can argue Oil has become a finite resource, and growing demand means we're all paying fortunes for it. Why would anyone want to be ripped off for water we can get for next to nowt at home, when the end result is increased oil prices because off all the oil that's used treating it for shelf-life, making the plastic bottles and shipping the crap from one source to another?
doogz said:
iphonedyou said:
Takeaway pizza really is a massive rip off.
This. A pizza must cost them a couple of quid to make, yes they'll ask £15 for it.Profit is a hell of a dirty word in this country.
I find those kiosks at bus and train stations a fking rip off, they get enough through traffic as a supermarket gets customers but because they are the closest place to buy what you need they charge at least 10p on every fking item they sell.
fking bandits 
I don't think pizza takeaway are a rip off as such though, if you want a pizza for half price use just eat if you want to pay over the odds use dominos etc... it's a choice that's not compulsory.
king rip off, they get enough through traffic as a supermarket gets customers but because they are the closest place to buy what you need they charge at least 10p on every fking item they sell.f
king bandits I don't think pizza takeaway are a rip off as such though, if you want a pizza for half price use just eat if you want to pay over the odds use dominos etc... it's a choice that's not compulsory.
Happy82 said:
KrazyIvan said:
Daily mail said:
14. Prescription charge - £7.65
If people had to pay the true cost of most prescription medicines they might not feel so ripped off.
I don't mind paying £7.65 for 30p worth of amoxicyllin(sp) every so often. In deed I get the warn fuzzy feeling of helping to pay for the mega bucks cancer drugs and so on when I do. If I had to do this once a week though I would be rather annoyed.
doogz said:
iphonedyou said:
Takeaway pizza really is a massive rip off.
This. A pizza must cost them a couple of quid to make, yes they'll ask £15 for it.P-Jay said:
.... I would imagine someone from the 3rd world would be more envious of the taps in our kitchens than they would be by our flat screen TV's and central heating....
A few years ago I visited someone's apartment who came from Niger and was surprised by how much bottled water there was in the kitchen. Even though I said the tap water was fine to drink and cook with, they just wouldn't believe it. Perhaps a lot of people from the 3rd world think similarly.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff