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rob666

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So I limp off to the Tavern for a pint and a good strong curse to take the pain away...

Local suburban chemist, small pack of low dose ibuprofen, two days supply for the wankle...£3.99
Aldi and Lidl, about 40p, co op, about 60p.
So roughly 1000% overcharging, not bad.
Proud to say I took them back, and asked for a refund, on price alone...not within my rights!
Pleased to say she blushed brightly, and handed over my refund without argument.

So, apart from the rollover hot dogs, do you have a champion favourite rip off of the year?
 
Butter. Specifically Anchor.

£6.50 for a tub now in the uk leading supermarket. Taking this ****.
Churned milk doesn’t cost that much.

What grinds my gears even more. Current loyalty offer has the tub at £5. So the wife buys two as it’s a bargain.

Robbing.
 
Edinburgh Tramlink, specifically going to Edinburgh Airport. A single jouney between any two stations on the Edinburgh tram network is only £2, yet if you travel in to the "Edinburgh Airport Zone", which in reality is just the one final stop right outside the airport, it costs an eye watering £7.50. I absolutely refuse to pay this, I always just pay the £2 to travel from Princes Street in the centre of town to one stop before the airport (Ingliston Park & Ride) and just walk the 10 minutes down the road to the airport rather than giving them an extra £5.50.
 
Selling a leasehold house at the moment. It's now illegal to sell leasehold houses new, so it's pretty much a freehold but in name only for all intents and purposes. I can pretty much do what I like with it, I can buy the freehold at any time for a pittance and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it.

But boy, do I wish I could turn back the clock and buy that freehold.

Conveyors charged £400 extra to sell because there's an extra form to fill out. Might I add that I actually have to the fill the form out myself.

The management company has a similar form to fill out. The charge? £420 for a lady to tick a few boxes and stuff in the post.

£820 for two forms, one of which I fill out myself. The Freehold itself could have been bought at any time in the last 8 years for around £500.

Lived there for 2 years? Buy your Freeholds people, but your Freeholds.
 
Shaggy_Dog_ said:
Edinburgh Tramlink, specifically going to Edinburgh Airport. A single jouney between any two stations on the Edinburgh tram network is only £2, yet if you travel in to the "Edinburgh Airport Zone", which in reality is just the one final stop right outside the airport, it costs an eye watering £7.50. I absolutely refuse to pay this, I always just pay the £2 to travel from Princes Street in the centre of town to one stop before the airport (Ingliston Park & Ride) and just walk the 10 minutes down the road to the airport rather than giving them an extra £5.50.
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I think the Madrid Metro was similar when I went earlier in the year. I also got off at the non airport stop and walked.
 
Same as Brussels-Zaventem airport. Get off in Zaventem and walk or pay a €6.70 supplement.

Even Heathrow charges a supplement for Elizabeth Line to the airport, and a peak hour fare at all times for Piccadilly Line (you can get around that though by tapping out and back in again at Hatton Cross).
 
Matt.GC said:
Selling a leasehold house at the moment. It's now illegal to sell leasehold houses new, so it's pretty much a freehold but in name only for all intents and purposes. I can pretty much do what I like with it, I can buy the freehold at any time for a pittance and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it.

But boy, do I wish I could turn back the clock and buy that freehold.

Conveyors charged £400 extra to sell because there's an extra form to fill out. Might I add that I actually have to the fill the form out myself.

The management company has a similar form to fill out. The charge? £420 for a lady to tick a few boxes and stuff in the post.

£820 for two forms, one of which I fill out myself. The Freehold itself could have been bought at any time in the last 8 years for around £500.

Lived there for 2 years? Buy your Freeholds people, but your Freeholds.
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There's a reason why I made a conscious decision to go nowhere near leasehold properties when finding somewhere to buy - ******* nightmare to deal with. Same goes for shared ownership properties.
 
The biggest rip off in this country. The supermarket loyalty scheme.

Listen, the supermarkets. If I can save that much on lurpak just by having a loyalty scheme, it obviously doesn't need to be that price in the first.

While we are at it. Surely prices can actually come down a bit. As a procurement manager, I can see trade prices are falling, so why are we still footing the bill, whilst seeing you earn hundreds of millions in profits
 
Slugjc said:
Listen, the supermarkets. If I can save that much on lurpak just by having a loyalty scheme, it obviously doesn't need to be that price in the first.
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Except they make £100s of millions out of selling the data gleaned from loyalty cards, so any ‘saving’ customers get out of using a loyalty card is then made up (and more besides) by selling the data.

Without the loyalty scheme there is an argument that prices would be higher - as they would need to make up for they lost revenue from selling the data somehow.

I’m not defending them btw, just explaining why it’s perhaps not as simple as it first seems.
 
I love aldi, especially because they do not have a loyalty card.
Proud to say I do not have a single one of the damn things.
Scrapped Tesco on value, service and standards for aldi a decade ago.
 
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rob666 said:
I love aldi, especially because they don no have a loyalty card.
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But they are introducing dynamic pricing with their e-tickets, which will eventually create an element of price uncertainty. You've probably got another year or two there.

I will be very sad, if the day ever comes, that Waitrose introduces dual-pricing.

My stance has always been that I'm fine with loyalty reward programmes, based on the opting in of sharing your spending habits with the retailer. I'm not negatively impacted by not wanting to sell my life away. I'm not ok with blanket dual pricing where the casual customer is actively penalised and disincentivised, by not having a loyalty / member's card.

If Waitrose want to give me a 20p off milk voucher, in order to tempt me to buy it, or to go into their shop; fine. If I have to have a Waitrose card in order to secure it at a cheaper price consistently, that's not ok.

It also puts children, tourists and those without an address, at a permanent disadvantage.
 
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