Biggest Rip Offs

[Rude-boy]

PeanutHead said:

I find those kiosks at bus and train stations a fking rip off...

I don't mind so much about this though as you know what your are getting, you know why it is more expensive and is it really that hard to buy your paper/can/sweets 100-200 metres away (in the vast majority of cases in town) in the newsagents?

Convenience always has a price. If anything you should be cussing yourself for forgetting to buy what you want earlier when you could have done so cheaper (or should that be “more cheaply”?).

[sjc]

My mum having to pay to have the TV on in hospital for 5 weeks, when it's free in Prison.

[Adrian W]

My council tax, it should be the same all over the country

[AJS-]

Printer cartridges deserve to be there.

Anything involving a garage - say an oil change that costs 20GBP for oil and filter, 7GBP for an hour of the apprentices time, and occupies the garage space for half an hour or so - and I bet you wouldn't get much change out of 100 GBP most places?

[Chrisw666]

Council tax

Eurotunnel fares

Train tickets

Car parking charges

Petrol

That's my top 5 (number 2 only appeared this week and will go next week) 4 of those 5 are things that the majority of us have to pay for, most of the ste on that list is stuff people choose to buy.

[oyster]

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.

How is it £2 to make?

There's probably about £2 of ingredients, £2 of labour and a few pence for the box.
Then there's pizza oven, fridges, delivery vans/bikes, delivery fuel, shop energy costs, business insurance, accounting fees, business rates and so on and so on.

[condor]

AJS- said:

Printer cartridges deserve to be there.

Anything involving a garage - say an oil change that costs 20GBP for oil and filter, 7GBP for an hour of the apprentices time, and occupies the garage space for half an hour or so - and I bet you wouldn't get much change out of 100 GBP most places?

I had my car serviced and MoT'd for £99 and that included 2 oil and filter changes (the second as they'd put the wrong oil in).

[Tiggsy]

oyster said:

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.

How is it £2 to make?

There's probably about £2 of ingredients, £2 of labour and a few pence for the box.
Then there's pizza oven, fridges, delivery vans/bikes, delivery fuel, shop energy costs, business insurance, accounting fees, business rates and so on and so on.

One assumes the poster is buying his pizza from a bloke who sets up a stall in the street with no overheads and cooks it with the heat of the sun.

[oyster]

PeanutHead said:

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.

Hang on, you say it's a choice to buy pizza from one place over another, but buying stuff from a kiosk instead of a supermarket is a rip-off?
Odd.

[Chrisw666]

Tiggsy said:

oyster said:

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.

How is it £2 to make?

There's probably about £2 of ingredients, £2 of labour and a few pence for the box.
Then there's pizza oven, fridges, delivery vans/bikes, delivery fuel, shop energy costs, business insurance, accounting fees, business rates and so on and so on.

One assumes the poster is buying his pizza from a bloke who sets up a stall in the street with no overheads and cooks it with the heat of the sun.

I'm not sure how it is a rip off anyway.

You can choose to buy from other sellers, or make your own, or just to not eat Pizza. Surely a rip off is more like being charged £2 for a 40p bottle of water when you're in a closed venue or similar.

[ApexJimi]

Road Tax (or RFL )

At least Dick Turpin wore a mask!

[PeanutHead]

oyster said:

Hang on, you say it's a choice to buy pizza from one place over another, but buying stuff from a kiosk instead of a supermarket is a rip-off?
Odd.

How many people have that extra 5 - 10 mins to source a paper or drinks, cigs etc... in a morning? most people use them as a last resort and many use them because now where else is open or close enough that they can use instead.
Prices are much higher at these kiosks because they know customers have very little choice and option for an alternative choice.
How many of these kiosks have you seen with a newsagent or a supermarket the same distance from a station?

[KrazyIvan]

sjc said:

My mum having to pay to have the TV on in hospital for 5 weeks, when it's free in Prison.

so the thousands a day she was no doubt receiving in medical care and attention(and rightly entitled to do so), was not enough, you think the NHS should also have to pay a 3rd party for her entrainment while she is in hospital as well. 10 years ago people in hospital used to get by with visitor, book and magazine all paid for with out complaint by themselves, funny how times change.

[roogi]

Perfume?

Pence for the liquid, but I guess the packaging and marketing can cost a fair bit.

[Eric Mc]

Isle of Wight Car Ferries

[hollydog]

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 do agree with you a little there. But most prescriptions are far more than the medication you receive. Eg a common pain killer diclofenic. Costs over the counter in Europe less than a pound. Prescribed hear its £7.65. There are lots of prescribed drugs that costs pence. So there is still money to be made in prescriptions.

[UF]

National insurance, it's just tax with a silly name from many, many years ago.

[sjc]

KrazyIvan said:

sjc said:

My mum having to pay to have the TV on in hospital for 5 weeks, when it's free in Prison.

so the thousands a day she was no doubt receiving in medical care and attention(and rightly entitled to do so), was not enough, you think the NHS should also have to pay a 3rd party for her entrainment while she is in hospital as well. 10 years ago people in hospital used to get by with visitor, book and magazine all paid for with out complaint by themselves, funny how times change.

Don't act the typical PH keyboard hero, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't draw conclusions about my mother, who's still in there.

[Lemans Party]

Tiggsy said:

oyster said:

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.

How is it £2 to make?

There's probably about £2 of ingredients, £2 of labour and a few pence for the box.
Then there's pizza oven, fridges, delivery vans/bikes, delivery fuel, shop energy costs, business insurance, accounting fees, business rates and so on and so on.

One assumes the poster is buying his pizza from a bloke who sets up a stall in the street with no overheads and cooks it with the heat of the sun.

It's true, a pizza costs no less than £25 to make so all these places selling them at £15 are making a loss on every one sold. True story.

[Happy82]

KrazyIvan said:

sjc said:

My mum having to pay to have the TV on in hospital for 5 weeks, when it's free in Prison.

so the thousands a day she was no doubt receiving in medical care and attention(and rightly entitled to do so), was not enough, you think the NHS should also have to pay a 3rd party for her entrainment while she is in hospital as well. 10 years ago people in hospital used to get by with visitor, book and magazine all paid for with out complaint by themselves, funny how times change.

And years ago prisoners used to get by with basic food and a cell, funny how times change