Top Rip Offs 2024...

[Benzin]

What were school photos ever for?

Exists for same reason it always has. Just now the photographers charge far more than is worth.


Can't be helped Diogo that cameras didn't exist in your time can it?

 

[BSwiss]

School photos. Chimp’s latest lot were taken straight after PE so she’s looking a little flustered and harassed and yet they want £46 for 3 digital images!

For that sort of money I’d want her to be allowed to brush her hair and recover to her usual skin colour at the very least. You can buy 5 prints for £22 but I don’t need that many. I can’t order just one photo. Grrr. ORP are better value.

The most correct answer so far.

They are the worst yet most expensive pictures of my children - this includes the picture I managed to snap of my reddening 1yo gurning a difficult poo into her nappy and inflating a bubble of snot from her nose.

 

[rob666]

We made a huge "mount" frame and did our own in the sixth form, as an "art project" in protest at the cost of the official ones...they had gone up to fifty pence each...minimum of three.
Foolishly, they were done in friday afternoon "free study time", so we all looked rather drunk in them.
All of us,

 

[rob666]

Just been on Trustpilot to check out a local firm, then strayed on the site to Merlin Entertainments...
1.5 stars out of five, the vast majority being one star reviews, with a very few five star reviews from complete fanboys, who admit there are issues, but give five stars regardless.
Absolutely appalling reviews, be it disability issues, food and drink, operations...all the usual, all well known.
Alton Towers itself manages a 1.8 star review, again 60% of those reviews have been one star.

You reap what you sow.
What Merlin are doing currently is not sustainable business practice.

 

[John_P]

If anything Alton Towers has become too cheap. You don't see Disney and Universal plastering 2 for 1s on every item they can in the super market. Or partnering with down market newspapers to give away free tickets.

Even the big European parks like Europa Park and Efteling you rarely see any sort of discounts.

 

[rob666]

Could not agree more...discounts on entry and season passes have ruined the experience.
Too many people, paying too little money, compounded by ****** soaraway Sun freebie neanderthals, with the whole issue multiplied with dodgy operations, rap rumblings, and overloaded fasttrack making queues worse.
All there in the trustpilot reports, nothing new!