What Do You Think Are some of Biggest Rip Offs?
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According to a survey the following items are some of the biggest rip offs
- Cinema Popcorn & Snacks
- High Street Coffees
- Bottled Water
- Cash Machine Charges
- Minibars
- Glasses & Contacts
- Text Messaging & Picture Messaging
- Cables (HDMI, USB, ETC)
Do you agree? and do you have any others?
Cinema popcorn/snacks and cash machine charges are the most annoying! Charging you to get your own money out....no thanks.
I wouldn't have put cables on my list. Good cables are expensive. If you've spent a lot of money on tech then you probably want optimum sound, picture, etc and stop external interference - EMI/RFI/ESI (electromagnetic interference, radio frequency interference, electrostatic interference)
I would add the price of train tickets, ticket booking fees and the price of a pint of beer in pubs - I'm often paying around £12 for a couple of pints.
ACR Yeah the price of train tickets are ridiculous and no wonder so many people use cars
How about all the taxes we pay
Income Tax
Capital Gains Tax
National Insurance
VAT
Corporation Tax
Bank payroll Tax
Petroleum Revenue Tax
Fuel Duties
Inheritance Tax
Stamp Duty
Tobacco Duties
Spirits Duties
Beer Duties
Wines Duties
Cider Duties
Betting & Gaming Duties
Air Passenger Duty
Insurance Premium Tax
Landfill Tax
Climate Change Levy
Aggregates Tax
The BBC - let's face it - you can't not pay it, ergo, it's a tax
I'm sure this is not exhaustive so please add more when you think of them.
tumblespots it would be interesting to see how the bbc would cope without tv licensing money
The ice they put drinks in fast food outlets so you only pay for a cup two thirds full
dawarwick ha ha you can pay full price for a either half a cup or half a cup that looks like a full cup
You can actually ask for no ice but to be honest I prefer lots of ice otherwise I find it too strong and fizzy. Very rarely drink any type of pop these days.
dawarwick totally, as long as you can prove you are visiting then you shouldn’t pay
dawarwick yes!!! this absolutely enrages me and there's never anywhere else to park (like a side street) and then walk over to the hospital, it's all double red lines!! £3.80/hr at my local hospital... it's criminal 
SilverSurfer at that time we were focused on our son, when you are going through something like that parking is the last thing you are worried about, but when you are going through something like that you shouldn't be paying for parking
MrsCraig Parking is something you shouldn't have to think about in that situation and should be free as we all pay enough taxes
dawarwick yes I agree. Not only the public, but staff are also charged. It’s a disgrace
Printer Ink - I don't know how it's made, but I'm guessing it's 80% liquid gold judging by the price.
blacklabrador Yep agree. I know a lad who works in a ink factory and the owners are raking it in
Quite often it is cheaper to buy a whole new printer than just the ink. I find that reprehensible when we are meant to be saving the planet!
Lynibis Actually just reminded me that its similar with air freshener refills, you can usually get a better deal with buying the air freshener with refills than just buying the refills
MelissaLee1963 don’t really know much about creams but I can imagine a lot of people will get ripped off with being certain brands
I agree with cash machines that charge you- we have two of those in our local area, I never see anyone using them.
I think the price of postage is a rip off. It costs so much to send things these days and it just keeps going up.
angelik People must be desperate to allow a company to charge you a fee for your own cash
SilverSurfer We've had a couple of bank branches on our high street close down this year, so the remaining bank cash machines always have massive queues and quite often one or more is out of order. But I'd never go and use one that charges. I checked the ones near me out of curiosity a while back and it said they charge you 99p.
angelik I hate queuing but I would rather be queue than spend a fee to get my own money
Certain beauty/toiletry products from boots/superdrugs, which you can buy the exact same product for much cheaper in the discounter stores
In some of the local schools you have to pay for or lessons think it’s a absolute disgrace
They ought to go back to giving us the price per gallon - people would be up in arms!
In fact, most energy providers, e.g. gas / electricity, oil, etc just taking huge annual price hikes. Frustrating when not very many alternatives / options, but to pay it!
FG280 yeah we should able to generate our own power but we can’t be allowing the fat cats to lose money
SilverSurfer exactly! The set up/ start up costs for renewable energy are crazy. It should be so much more appealing and achievable to set up, not huge upfront payments and years to recoup!
Booking fees for tickets - and then you have to pay postage fees too sometimes. One site I used for tickets last year ended up paying two lots of booking fees and two lots of postage fees for two tickets - which came in the same envelope.
Football in general and especially the shirts - around £60/70 for Premier League teams.
If people want to waste money on football shirts it can hardly be called a rip off, it isn't even compulsory to wear one to attend the matches unless you're one of the players.
Amazon (especially Marketplace -"Deals " 
many posted on here ! )
Check them out - Identical items (maybe with a different brand stamp , but the photos are identical ) all with widely optimistic "original prices" and various vouchers /discounts off those totally made up prices .
Muscle massagers , shavers , resistance bands , thermometers , oximeters - to name but a few .
Members check out identical items on Amazon and EBay and save yourself from being ripped off ? Maybe the Latest Deals moderators should do that before allowing such items to be posted ?
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