Never realized how expensive UK livin' is...
In my neck of the woods, gas is $2.25/gal for unleaded. For you Brits, that'd be... cheap. ::hates t3h math3matics::
I can't imagine getting shafted every time I bought something.
Life where I live (God's Blind Spot, USA) is pretty cheap (with the exception of school lunches, lawl) because we're out in the middle of nowhere, so there's not tremendous inflation like there is in NYC, LA, etc.
I thought I was paying through the nose when I ordered a grande Caramel Frap from Starbucks and paid $4.51.
Maybe life in God's Blind Spot isn't so bad, after all. In some respects.
(Mademoiselle Dustman picked a bouquet of oopsie daisies for you on, Sun 18 Feb 2007, 2:03, Reply)

Train Ticket Ripoff - The Drivers point of view...
So I get up at 3am to drive in a -3 degree winter snowstorm down a major South East motorway which the lazy highways agency hasn't bothered to grit, dispite 3 days warning of snow.

Did I mention it was 3am?

So I get to work, on time, park in a poorly secured staff car park, walk half a mile to my workplace to present myself for work, signing a legal document that absolves the company of any liabiliy should I make a mistake and find out where my train is.

Sadly, the train is still not ready for service, as the night before, several people decided to vomit all over the carriages because they'd had too much to drink. Also, the cleaning staff were still trying to unblock the toilets, remove syringes and remove 3 tons of old newspapers, mc-wrappers and empty cans of stella from every concievable location on board the train.

Once my train is ready for service, I sit in a tiny cab, using techology that is 20 years old (and up until 2 years ago, the train was 40 years old) and attempt to keep to a timetable drawn up by people who have no clue what real life actual is (i.e. civil servants).

And all this to ensure that 1,500 people get to work on time. That's 1.5k people on one train, all the sole responsibility of me, the driver (so stick that where the sun don't shine, Mr 474 pilot).

But wait... I have deranged people trying to kill themselves (messy) and pikey scum trying to kill everyone else by stealing copper cables that run signals and other things that tend to stop death and mayhem. I have drunken idiots (at 10am) pulling emergency cords at 100mph because they wanted to get off three stations ago. I have managers dreaming up ever more efficient ways of ensuring we '110% perform' and 'deliver customer synergy while enforcing customer satisfaction to a quantifiable level'.

And the next time I get spat upon by some commuter because the train is 10 minutes late, due to some children have decided to throw a paving slab off a bridge at an oncoming train for a *laugh*...

I'd like to apologise for the length, but I can't be bothered. If you've voted New Labour since 1997, ask why the railways haven't been re-nationalised (like they promised). The sole reason train fares are aparently so high is that the majority of people voted in idiots who while proclaiming to be 'with the people' are actually shareholders in the private companies who now monopolise the railway franchises.

(So don't have a go at the staff on the ground... we're only trying to do our jobs...)

END OF RANT
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Sun 18 Feb 2007, 1:38, Reply)

Oh for fucks sake!!!!!!
Rail tickets eh!! Clearly I am the scapegoat, and on that basis why don't you all fucking walk.

*fume*

Length? From Newcastle to London? About 300 miles. Now Fuck off!
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Sun 18 Feb 2007, 0:11, Reply)

I may get fired now
I happen to work for a certain high street company that is always found next door to Woolworths, not mentioning any names. They've been a bit financially unstable of late which seems to have been passed on to their paying customers and hardworking staff.

For example:

Staff discount is a measly 12.5%. And we're not allowed it on purchases over £50.

They kept me on trainee wage (£4.20/hr) for a YEAR.

When I worked the midnight shift selling Harry Potter, they paid a measly time and a third, because they were too stingy for time and a half.

Our Christmas party one year was a can of red bull each.

Everything is overpriced. Chocolate is about 50p a bar, drinks are all over £1 and don't even talk about the cigarette prices.

It will cost you between £15 and £25 to buy five greetings cards.

The other week when the snow somehow stopped most of the papers and/or supplements being delivered we were charging full weekend prices for what was effectively a weekday paper.

I could go on, but... /length blog.
(Marmite Omelette ...but I feel better having screamed, don't you?, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 23:49, Reply)

Since it's been mentioned recently, let me stick my oar in against rail prices.
Went from A to B with a couple of other b3tans. Total distance: 44 miles (which will probably give you an idea of the exact journey). I was charged sixteen quid - far in excess of the eco-guzzling charge I'd have incurred had I taken my car.

My companions were somewhat less honest, and decided to buy a ticket on the train - IF the guard turned up. Sure enough, he did.

Price for the pair of 'em, on the exact same ticket, without any railcard or discount shenanigans - fifteen quid.

Guess who'll be chancing it on the next excursion?
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 23:44, Reply)

top tip
Never EVER try to ride hom drunk on your bike while needing a pis.

If you happen to be advenurous type, there's a really big big chance that you'll try to pee while riding.

couple this with a passing police car and a strange will to appera normal, and you're going to effectively piss in your trousers, down your leg, and fill your shoes with wee.

Now... for mose ptopel this is just a good laugh, and a story to tell the grand-kids (assuming you're not going to get killed ina silly weekend drinking accident).. but here it's minus 10 degrees C.

"Funny" now means cracking your piss-covered and frozen trousers off your shin before you can get out of them.

never before have i actually taken jeans off, and heard them make creaking noises as the frozen wee cracks.

as my laces were undone, i needed to rip them off the top of te shoes.. that made me think of posting here. rip-vans-tinkle. marvellous.

FYI... frozen piss-shoes don't smell. They only smell when you thaw them. My shoes are now in the freezer :D
( Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Sat 17 Feb 2007, 23:35, Reply)

LOLerskates
seems to be causing a bit of a storm.. anyway thought I'd add the prices we have to pay at college... (By the way I think the exchange rate is roughly £1 = $2)

"Coffee" (Really a lukewarm concoction that tastes vaguely like marmite) - 50p - to be fair this is the cheapest cup of coffee I've ever had outside Blackpool at midnight in the rain, but even that one was better.
I once got quoted £3.50 for a tiny serving of chips, sausage and gravy that wouldn't have filled up a child.
The we either have rank sandwiches which cost about £1.50 each and taste like poo or posh Ginsters's's's's sandwiches which we're charged about £3 for.
Chips on their own are in stupidly small portions and are more grease than fake potato anyway, and a portion os £1, even though you can go to the chip shop five minutes away and get a bigger portion for 70p, and on their student menu you can get a sausage too for £1.10 altogether.
(Marmite Omelette ...but I feel better having screamed, don't you?, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 23:31, Reply)

I ripped off a load of chavs once
My mate told them I was a big time weed dealer, they came up to me asking me to get them all tunths, a couple of days later, I came in with some Moss in a bag, they paid me well for it, I asked them how it was the next day, they all said they got completely fucked off it, good £20 for scraping up the moss in my garden.
(Maccy Divided by 0 on, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 23:08, Reply)

Games Workshop
I worked 2 evenings a week at GW Merry Hill a few years back - good crowd, and the stuff is pretty competetively priced when comapared with similar scale figures etc.
The rip off ? Staff Discount - Tau Battlesuits - to you ? £10, me? 50P baby ! Still, most of it's gone on ebay now.
(kitescreech still here, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 22:21, Reply)

If it so happened
that a lady of the night, who'd been paid the full whack, suddenly complained of an unspecified 'problem', and offered you, as an alternative slash compensation, some mild ball manipulation while you jacked yourself off, while insisting against a refund, would this count as being ripped off?

My mate needs to know....


PS Never buy a can of coke in the middle of Rome
(cs1ca, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 22:06, Reply)

I've probably ripped off a lot of people here
Nearly 2 years ago I needed a second job to pay off a massive credit card bill. Hooked up with a high street bank call centre, thinking it was a bog standard customer service type thing. Turned out that the voluntary sales targets were in fact enforced brutally by the line managers. So, to all those people I arranged callbacks for 'customer reviews' 'a little chat to see if we can help with your overdraft' and 'a quick check to see if we can save you some money on your banking' I offer my heartfelt apologies. Needless to say you got sweet talked into parting with money that would be better spent on beer. As my way of apology here's what not to do:
Don't ever, ever, ever let anyone talk you into arranging a customer review unless you're actually on the lookout for a loan/savings account/credit card.

If your overdraft is less than £2k then don't get a consoladation loan. Do what I did and earn more money to pay it off at your leisure. A loan will cost you more.

Beware of accounts that charge a monthly fee. You will probably never need to use the extras.

If you have direct debits then make sure there is enough money to cover it at least 1 working day BEFORE it is paid out. This does NOT include Saturdays, even if the banks are open. So if the direct debit is due on Monday then make sure there are enough funds on Friday if you don't want a charge.

Speaking of direct debits, DON'T set them up unless you are a complete dozy twat who cannot remember to pay bills, or unless you are not given any choice. Direct debits are the biggest pain in the arse, and even if you cancel it the company can set it up again without telling you. And they can debit your account any time they like, so if you have a dispute with them they can empty your account and rack up charges for other unpaid bills. It's not easy getting the money back via the bank, and those charges have to be reclaimed from the company.

Use internet banking or push-button telephone banking and avoid speaking to anyone. That way they can't do the friendly chatty thing that suddenly ends up with them putting you through to sales because of your new baby or forthcoming house move.

For fucks sake don't ever rely on one form of payment when you go abroad (or even out on Friday night to tell the truth). Have both your cashcard and your credit card, or cash and something else. Unless you're paying for a premium banking service (£50k and above paid in per year) then there's fuck all anyone can do to help you when the cash machine swallows your card.
(bonjelafiend, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 21:50, Reply)

Tim Bisley's post reminds me
Years ago (90's) I came second in the NFL competition on Channel 4. Prize was a years subscription to "Touchdown" magazine (it had just been re-launched) and an NFL Coaching Jacket in my team colours. So I phone the number and the lady asks what team I want
K "Tampa Bay please"
Woman "Who ?"
K "Tampa Bay Buccaneers"
Woman "We can do Dallas, Washington, Miami, Philadelphia and Green Bay"
K "But it says MY team - Im a proper fan" (trust me, you had to be hard core to be a Buccs fan in the early 90's)
Woman "Yeah, thats all we offer".

So I had Dallas. And the Magazine went tits up after 1 issue - woo and indeed yay.
(kitescreech still here, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 21:42, Reply)

Olembe me old mucker
Like I say, don't want to stir up trouble about train prices, and I'm not saying that rail retail staff are the most patient lot, but the point is I will give them what they ask for and if they want the cheapest then that is what I will give them. If they ask for a that, they only need to say it once. Imagine the conversation about something else....

Retard: I'd like to buy a CD. One called Abbey Road by The Beatles.

Me: Certainly sir, here it is, that will be £x

R: Is it by the Beatles. I want Abbey Road by the Beatles.

M: Yes sir, Abbey Road by the Beatles.

R: And is it called Abbey Road: I want Abbey Road by the Beatles.

M: Yes sir, this is Abbey Road by the Beatles.

R: And is it performed by the Beatles. I want Abbey Road by the Beatles.


M: Yes sir, Abbey Road by the Beatles.

R: The band known as the Beatles, all of them. I want Abbey Road by the Beatles.

M: Yes, this is Abbey road by the Beatles.

R: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, do they play on this Abbey Road album. I want Abbey Road by the Beatles.

M: Olembe is that you??!?

I'm sure you appreciate the problem

Edit: Clivicus you Shitting Shitty Shit!
I couldn't instill anything in the customer seeing as they weren't listening to a blind word I was saying. They just add "I want the cheapest ticket" on the end of every sentence. If they wanted a ticket from one place to another at the lowest price that is exactly what I would book for them. The point is that if they want the cheapest ticket, for instance, from Birmingham to Southampton for 2 passengers in standard class with a young persons railcard discount (if applicable) travelling out on March 13th at about 10am and back on March 17th at approximately 11am then I will not sell them 12 First class Open returns from Leeds to Canterbury with reservations on the 07.12 from Leeds to Kings Cross on Good Friday and Back on the 23.30 on Easter Monday. They only need to say "I want the cheapest ticket" once. That generally indicates to me that they probably want the cheapest ticket. The one that is the cheapest. The one that cost least, ie is the cheapest. The one that means the lowest financial outlay to themselves, namely the cheapest. The one causing the minimal fiscal disadvantage to themselves, that would be the cheapest one of course. The one which in pecuniary terms results in the lowest fund transfer from Party A (the transport service provider) to Party B (the person or persons utilising train transfer from one location to another).

If it was my train I'd take you all wherever you wanted and charge you nowt, now fuck off and stop picking on me you twats, I don't set the prices.
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Sat 17 Feb 2007, 20:13, Reply)

Curry
When baby turb0t was christened last year, we wanted to invite all friends and family back from the church afterwards for a meal, however my house shed is not really big enough for that many people. A local indian restaurant regularly does buffet lunches, and this seemed ideal, as it would only be £5 per person. After asking them if they were doing the buffet on the day of the chistening, to which they said "yes" we booked a table for 20 people. On the morning of the Christening I phoned the indian restaurant and asked them if they would have any mild dishes in the buffet as we had 2 young children in the group who would not be able to eat a spicy dish. To which the response was "yes we will make sure we have a very mild curry in the buffet for you today". When we got to the restaurant, there was no buffet. The stupid cunts claimed we never requested a buffet, and the tosspot that I spoke only in the morning claimed that I never asked if there was a mild curry in the buffet. It was now too late to arrange anything else so we were stuck with it. In stead of paying £100+drinks for the 20 people in our party, we now had a bill for £370. Cunts. However, they may have fucked us over this time, but of the party of 20 people, 15 of them regularly ate there. Not any more they fucking dont. Personally I used to spend £80 a month there on takeaways, now another restaurant only 150 yards along the road has my £80 month. And the same with my friends.
Greedy fucking cunts they get an extra £270 out of me that day, but lost out long term, even now only 3 months later.
Appologies for length.
( turb0t, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 19:43, Reply)

I was once ripped off
by OnDigital. Remember them? They kept charging me for their service long after I cancelled it. The reason they gave is that the collection guy came to pick up the box but the set was incomplete. Problem is, no-one actually came. Anyway, after much toiling, my credit card company got my money back. As a rule of thumb I always do my online purchases with a credit card as these are the only type of card that allows you to do a chargeback!


Tinypod. No wonder you got pissed off repeating yourself. You instilled no confidence in the customer. You did not acknowledge that he wanted the cheapest ticket. Also, you were being pedantic when they asked if a single was cheaper than a return. Yes, we all know that a single is cheaper than a return, but, that person wanted to know if two singles were cheaper than a return. Its attitudes like that that make dealing with some call centres increasingly difficult
(Clivicus, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 19:08, Reply)

Tinypod
Saying nothing about you, but some of the staff in my local station would need to hear the phrase "cheapest ticket" far more often than that to realise I didn't want the most expensive ticket they can find.
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 18:31, Reply)

A Hobo
Yes, a hobo ripped me off.
Having heard previous tales of millionaires dressing up as the homeless and giving big fat cash rewards to whoever helps them, I am ever on the look out for rich bums.

Come last Friday, out for a stroll in Cirencester, I come across a particularly well groomed hobo (the beard alone could make a grown man weep).

"Oho!" I says to myself (with some disdainful looks from passers-by) "we may have a grubby Richard Branson here!"

As I pass, I drop Three of her majesties finest pounds in his hobo cap (also high quality), he says "Thank-yaw".... Nothing, just "Thank-yaw".
I walk back past him five minutes later and drop another £2 in his collection head gear... still nothing.

A loop around the shops, I return ten minutes later...
He's gone! Nobody saw him leave. No message saying "follow me to a pot of well deserved hobo gold", nothing!

And that is the story of how I was conned by a Hobo with the vanishing skills of a Ninja.
(Good Looking Deity Grew a magnificent beard on, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 17:55, Reply)

I own a hotel in Australia,
and one of our biggest sellers, is the famous Bundaberg Rum. We have a drive through bottlo, but with heaps of thieving black fella's around, any displays we have, eg:Bundy Rum, has to be dummy bottles full of tea.
Anyway, I put on this new barmaid, sexy as hell, brunette with massive.. err.. eyes.....
she was quite bright, and a hit with the locals obviously. A real top chick behind a bar even if she was just moonlighting from her dayjob.

We had a really busy Friday night, with almost every bloke in the place falling in love with this chesty barmaid.

One group of punters, were stuck into the Bundy, and with an empty bottle at the bar, Big Eyes, ducked out to the bottlo to gab another bottle of rum.. as innocently as one would.

So the mentioned group, kept up with downing rum like no tomorrow! And loving it!

After a couple of hours, I had to pull them up, and put them on the water, they were just getting a bit too rowdy.

Anyway, we closed up, and during cleaning up that night, I found the empty bottle Big Eyes had been serving these gentleman with, empty on the bar. These were marked of course (barcode taken off) So after several questions of how this bottle had gotten there, and empty, found out the truth!

Awesome, I'd made about $200 off these blokes, drinking tea!
It just amazed me how they actually continued to get drunk off drinking a placebo!!!

They've been in since, and I've certainly more than made up for the mistake, gave them a tab for an evening, and being good blokes, they were quite understanding..

Big, um, Eyes though you ask??

Of COURSE she still has her job!
Nicer to look at than the missus!!
(mr sausage. where the bloody hell are ya?, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 15:12, Reply)

£40?
The going rate is about a tenner for a bikini wax, suggest you shop around a bit!

Used to be a beautician before the boredom got to me...
(Mogg Questioned her own sanity on, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 14:20, Reply)

Waxing
Gentlemen, if you want to know about being ripped off I suggest you go to a beauticians and have some excess hair removed.


Legs?

Not a problem…I don’t have very hairy legs to begin with (check my blog if you don’t believe me, there is a picture of my very shapely and hairless thigh….*snigger*)

Bikini line?

Ah…well now….before Christmas I went to have my very first Brazilian….

So there you are lying in a very compromising position and having lovely warm wax applied to your skin, fine so far.

Then the lovely beautician lady starts chatting to you, “Done all your Christmas shopping?” etc. etc. All very pleasant.

She then presses a rectangle of cotton onto the warm wax….ok, that’s fine,

“No, still got some shopping to do, have you?”

Then she turns into an evil bitch with pain on her mind, and with a firm swipe she rips off any hair you may have growing between your legs….

OH MY GOD! GET OFF ME! I say in my head, however what comes out is….

“Oh, that smarts a bit doesn’t it?” in a very calm but slightly squeaky voice.

Repeat until red and sore.

Go through that and then tell me about being ripped off.


Oh, and they charged nearly £40 for the experience…..
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 14:07, Reply)

curry house
being from manchester and living near the curry mile i am used to curry houses having a very very competitive priceing scheme and deals for large(anything over 5 is large) groups. so on an axcursion to edinburgh imagine our disgust at being charged for our popudoms.
£1 per popudom, a few quid for the chutney/onions/mint yoghurt. not to mention the actual curry was expensive aswell. all in all it came to just under £20 a head which was silly money to us at the time. needles to say we didnt tip but payed in exact change right down to the last 3p.
i know people from bradford that go through the same thing when they go to other citys in search of a curry.
could have been worse, could have been in london.

plus they served me tiger beer in a cobra glass.
(suboftheday, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 13:07, Reply)

In December 2006
I ordered a domain from another.com. I waited a couple of days, and tried to log into my another.com account. Wouldn't work. Submitted a "support ticket":

Dear Valued Customer

We do aplogise for the delay in replies. We are currently experienceing some major problems with Modernbill and Hardware issues. Our Technical Department is currently in the process of restoring these issues and hoping to have it it rectified before the end of the week. Once again we do aplogise for any inconvenience caused.

Please take note that Another.com was purchased by UK-2 Limited, one of the UK's biggest Web Hosting Companies. As part of the UK2 group Another.com will receive significant investment and benefit from an improved network and new systems. However, these enhancements may take several months. UK2 apologise for any disruption in service or technical problems that may arise during this period.

As a result all Another.com clients are invited to move to the established UK2 platform and benefit from FREE Web Hosting for 6 months whilst these changes are being made.

Please contact [email protected] to move your services to UK2. (Only contact UK2 if you wish to have your domain transfered to us).

So I submitted a ticket on uk2.net's site, and got this back...:

Dear sir,

Please can you submit a ticket via the another.com website in the billings queue.

This ticket system is only for UK2 customers.

Another.com will deal with your ticket quickly and sort a refund.

But this is not the correct queue.
Thank you

So I tried another.com again several times and eventually recieved this reply:

Dear sir,

I've checked through our system and the transaction and domain name are not showing up at all, they do not exist and i'm therefore not able to refund you as no money appears to have been collected.


Regards,
Technical Support Team.
Another.com

Now at this point I am considering reporting the incident as a matter of fraud, because my bank account HAD been charged £12.00, and another.com HAD NOT registered the domain for me. They claimed I wasn't even a customer. I decided to email WorldPay, the company that were managing another.com's payments, in what I expected to be a feeble attempt at recovering my funds. All this wasn't really their fault, but this is the response I recieved:


Thank you for your query.

The online store is responsible at all times for any queries relating to the payment and fulfilment of your order. Unfortunately, if you have been unable to contact the online store you have purchased from, we can only recommend that you contact your card issuer to raise a dispute and/or approach the relevant consumer rights organisation for your region for further advice.

As a Payment Service Provider we only provide online stores with the ability to accept card payments securely over the internet. We do not hold information about the goods/services you have ordered or their delivery status, and are not able to cancel your order or to provide you with a refund.

Once again I would like to thank you for taking the time to contact us regarding this matter. I can assure you that your concerns are taken seriously and as a result of your feedback, we may withdraw our services from the online store if we find it does not comply with our terms and conditions, any legal requirements for online trading and/or persistently fails to act with integrity.

Not the best result, but at least they weren't total twunts about the whole thing, and they did give me some advice.

Bottom line is:

Do not use another.com OR uk2.net. they clearly have a shite computer system are are likely to cock up your order.

Since this is already ridiculously long, I'd like to add that after searching the internet, there are other people who have had similar problems, and some have been duped for a lot more than £12...

Many Apologies for Length.
( FreudianSlap, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 12:49, Reply)

Tight-arsed monkeys, the lot of you!!
On the other side of the coin, and without wanting to open up the can of worms that is rail travel prices, I regularly have a conversation with customers along these lines...

Me (Rail ticket selling phone monkey): Good evening, how can I help?

Customer: I'd like to buy a train ticket please, I want the cheapest.

M: Certainly. Can I ask where you're travelling from and to?

C: Yes I want the cheapest ticket, I'm going from A to B. But I do want to buy the cheapest ticket.

M: No problem. Is it a single or a return?

C: Is a single cheaper than a return? I do want the cheapest ticket.

M: A single will be less than a return.

C: A single then. I want the cheapest ticket.

M: So you don't need to travel back from B to A by train?

C: Yes I do but I want the cheapest ticket.

M: Probably best to look at it as a return journey then.

C: But do it as 2 singles though, because that will be cheaper. I want the cheapest ticket.

M: *sigh* I know they are sir, but I can look at the journey for you as a whole.

C: As long as it's the cheapest ticket. I want to buy the cheapest ticket.

M: No problem. What dates and times would you prefer to travel?

C: The cheapest date. I want to buy the cheapest ticket.


M: I appreciate that sir, but it is a half hourly service between A and B for about 18 hours a day and we can book tickets up to about 3 months in advance.

C: When is it usually cheapest. I want to buy the cheapest ticket.


M: The further in advance you book, generally speaking it will cost less.

C: OK then I need to travel out (this date) and back on (that one), but I do want the cheapest ticket.

M: And what time on each day would you like to travel?

C: What's the cheapest time? It's the cheapest ticket I'm looking for.

M: The middle of the day will, as a rule generally cost less.

C: That's no good, I need to go out at (busiest time of day) and come back at (slap bang fucking sod in the middle of peak time). What is the cheapest ticket on those trains, because I want the cheapest ticket.

M: On those trains it would be £blah, however if you can travel at (slightly different time each way) then it would cost you £lowest-possible-price-that-money-can-buy.

C: And is that the cheapest.

M: Yes sir that is the cheapest.

C: You don't have anything cheaper? I want the cheapest ticket.

M: No sir, that is the cheapest.

C: Would it cost less if I travelled at a different time? I want to buy the cheapest ticket.


M: No sir. That is the lowest possible cost for a ticket for that journey.

C: Are any of the trains discounted? I am looking for the cheapest ticket.

M: No sir, that is the cheapest.

C: Could I save money on any of these tickets in any way. I want to buy the cheapest ticket.

M: *sigh again* No sir, that is the cheapest ticket.

C: I think I'll leave it, that's quite expensive.

M: Thank you sir, do call again.
(tinypod will never learn. Ever., Sat 17 Feb 2007, 12:41, Reply)

Construction firm rips someone off shocker
They built a new bus station near me, but it was badly designed, so they had to build another bus shelter down the road to accommodate half the buses.

It's a 20ft glass box with some steel benches.

It cost £250,000 (Enough for a 5 bedroom detached luxury house round here).

There isn't even a fucking clock in it.
(Udidin is chuffed to have made the newsletter, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 12:39, Reply)

Fizz
surely pumping stella out of a carling pump is making a loss.

do you mean you connect the carling barrels to the stella pump?


i had a plaster on my leg the other day. i have really hairy legs. it bloody hurt when it was ripped off
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 12:33, Reply)

The peril of a student
I am a first year student at university and I was recently looking for a place to live with three of my friends.
We eventually found a house we liked and we decided that we were going to go for it. This was before we woked out the costs.

Because we were going through an agent and not the landlord directly, we were required to pay, within the week, a £400 "administration fee" each. This would be non refundable at any stage, and if one of our group didn't pay for something in the future we ALL lost this money.
Also, before the 1st of June, three months before we moved in they wanted a full month's rent and two half month's rent. This came to around £650. There was also a £100 holding fee and somewhere there was a damage deposit.
Basically they wanted over £1000 off us before we had even moved in which is, to me it seemed, a huge amount for a student to pay ending up with the agency having £4000.
Needless to say we didn't go ahead..
(kirstylyn, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 12:02, Reply)

subway
the more you think about it subway is a total rip off. worse than motorway services. firstly
you get conned into buying this sandwhich that you are told is healthy. then you get a
footlong because you arnt sure whether 6" will
fill you. and lastly you get led to believe
that you are getting a good deal when you only have to pay 10p more for a cookie.
but who can say no to a bmt, toasted with all
your favourite toppings.
(suboftheday, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 10:54, Reply)

in case no one has mentioned VAT ...
just because it's a regressive, flat-rate pile of poo that is sneakily insidious and no one even notices they're paying *Sales Tax* anymore ...

posh dins for two with decent wine &c &c ... £100 guv? except the bill is £117.50 because you pay the govt £17.50 for the privilege of spending your money ... grrr
( writerblock ... embedding disabled by request on, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 10:26, Reply)

Mobile phone bill
Me: "Hello? I'm VERY angry. I've been charged literally DOUBLE. Its lucky I add up my calls".

O2: *sounds bored* "Your statement has two sides, Sir. Have you turned it over?"

"Of COURSE I've turned it over. Do you think I'm STUPID?"

*turn over statement*

"Um... look I haevn't got time for this right now, good day".
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 10:16, Reply)

LOLerskates
SODA: 75 cents a cup
CROISSANT SANDWICH: $1.50 each
FRENCH FRIES: 75 cents a bag
NACHOS: $1.25 (cheese is an extra 25 cents, if you can believe that)

So, pop for maybe 40p a cup, a posh sandwich for about 80p, chips at 40p, nachos at about 70p with added cheese for 13p.

You're right, I can't believe that. I buy manky garage sandwiches for £2.19
( Kroney, Sat 17 Feb 2007, 10:10, Reply)