Let’s list our jaw-dropping rip-off moments. I’ll make a start:
A can of WD40 - £7.49 - Shell Garage. (I’m still in shock).
Doesn’t surprise me, I get mine from £1 shop.
I think my rip off price would be fuel…
For example, in central London prices will be 144 a liter
Outside London 134 a litre
But it’s the same company!
I know why they do it but it just pisses me off…
3.50 Euro for a 330 ml bottle of water (Hamburg Airport)…
Obviously, insurance.
Parking fines.
Last minute flights and trains.
The price of my pint, its gone up by 15p when I thought it was supposed to go down!
Have to agree with Conrad, insurance is by far the biggest
This guys seems to have been cheated.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=427234184029440&set=vb.100002285874100&type=2&theater
I was in Tesco earlier looking at the sweets thinking what happened? wham bars are 40p!!!
Main dealer service charges!!!
Pint of ale in Dulwich - 3.20
Pint of wanky Italian Peroni lager beer with no flavour - 4.90
Citrus Cooler Mocktail (Pineapple, orange juice and lemonade topped with ginger ale) for my 10 year old son in local Indian restaurant yesterday £3.50
Bottle of Budweiser for me in same Indian restaurant yesterday £3.20
I told my son as I would buy him a Bud next time, as he is not even offering to drive back home !! :hehe:
bottled water prices always do my head in. especially on a plane.
i dont understand how can you even deny someone a glass of water. besides, its a basic human right. :crazy:
A 750 ml bottle of still water from pret a manger at stansted airport £1.85
- bottled water
- petrol (this is taxes rip off of the millennium)
- insurance premiums
Majorca airport 2 bottles of coke 0.33 two sandwiches 23 Euro.
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ps. silverR6 - as long as there will be someone who will be buying it there will be someone who will sell it, the human right bit makes mi giggle
yes because people think bottled water is ‘pure’ and better for you. phucking rubbish.
if you ask to have a glass of water they cant deny it to you. obviously nobody knows this anymore. 
Confirmed!
I had a bit too much to drink at a gig last year and started asking for tap water. They legally can’t charge you for it and MUST give it to you.
Possibly because it’s not true?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2008/aug/30/consumeraffairs.activists
The truth is that in Britain there is no legal requirement on restaurants to provide free tap water to customers. Some pubs and other premises permitted to sell alcohol may have a clause in their licence that does require them to offer free tap water, but it’s on a localised basis only.Sue Penniston, spokeswoman for the Drinking Water Inspectorate, part of Defra, says: "There are a lot of misconceptions, some of which arose out of the Leah Betts case. In the wake of her death, a lot of large premises had clauses put into their licensing agreements which obliged them to offer tap water free of charge.
“But apart from that restriction, restaurants do not have to give you water and do not have to supply it for free.”
don’t you just love ‘free markets’… when even the most basic of human needs can be sold at an excessive price to fund others’ pockets…
Jagermeister in Gatwick “duty Free”: £28
Jagermeister in Tesco: £21
Duty free is the biggest rip off…people just assume they are getting a good deal…they throw in a couple items cheap and then rip you off with the rest
Litre of petrol in Trinidad 45 pence
litre of water in a bar £1.20
how the hell is petrol cheaper than water!
even in the UK it’s cheaper than petrol…
And can you image how cheap petrol would be without the ridiculous amounts of duty?
Yeh, paying for air at the fuel stations…especially when they deflate your tyre!!
Considering we breathe it for free, livid every time!