Example of Rip Off Republic

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On Thursday 4th Sept Aldi in the republic have a 32in LCD Television for sale at 480 Euro. On the same day in NI Aldi are selling the same television for 299 sterling.
According to XE today 299 sterling equates to 367 euro. Thats 113 euro difference.
Just thought I would let you all know
 
Dry Cleaners not displaying price lists is one of my moans.

Other examples are shops charging surcharges for mobile phone top ups.

Grocery shopping - rip off big time.

Clothes Shopping eg. Ireland vs US.
 
cork said:
Clothes Shopping eg. Ireland vs US.
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Pointless comparison. Americans pay less taxes on consumption (eg VAT, sales tax) than we do but in return have to pay local and state taxes, often at crippling rates.
 
godthe said:
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According to XE today 299 sterling equates to 367 euro. Thats 113 euro difference.
Just thought I would let you all know
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Allowing for different VAT rates, there's an 85 euro difference. Still a big difference, just not not quite as much.
 
I was recently in a well known bar in Dublin, and as I was driving ordered a sparkling mineral water and dash of lime... that dash of lime cost the same as the bloody water!
I was at an 'invite only' shopping night at a well known dept store and was buying some household products, already marked half price, the invite allowed me another 20% discount (I assumed), the snotty sales assistant wouldn't scan the card, as she said I shouldn't expect another discount. I very nicely suggested that I had assumed that as the T&Cs didn't mention anything about sales items not being covered we could have a manager come and decide! She looked me up and down and said, 'who gives discounts on discounts?', to which I replied any store in a sale. I got the discount, but the attitude p-ed me off!
 
I was in a well known Dublin City Centre restaurant for lunch yesterday. We sat down and the waitress asked us the usual question of 'still or sparkling'. We both answered still. She came over with two glasses of water with pieces of lemon in them. There was no sign of a bottle so presumed it was just tap water which was fine so didn't give it a second thought. Had the meal (awful by the way) and asked for the bill. I looked at it and noticed that I was being charged €5 for the water. I asked the waitress if it wasn't tap water, why wasn't the water served to us in a bottle and she said they don't do that but that she wouldn't charge us for it. When she said that I got even more suspicious so asked to speak to the manager. I asked him how do I know I am getting what I paid for if they don't serve the bottle and that what they gave me wasn't just tap water. I had never seen it in any restaurant that I have been in. The snotty little git went over and brought back the bottle where he says the water came from. It was a 1ltr bottle of Tipperary water. They don't serve small bottles but still had the cheek to charge €2.50 a glass. I reckon they fill the bottle out of the tap as well! I haven't been that annoyed in a long time and he still insisted on charging me so I paid after making a scene.
 
mell61 said:
I was at an 'invite only' shopping night at a well known dept store and was buying some household products, already marked half price, the invite allowed me another 20% discount (I assumed), the snotty sales assistant wouldn't scan the card, as she said I shouldn't expect another discount. I very nicely suggested that I had assumed that as the T&Cs didn't mention anything about sales items not being covered we could have a manager come and decide! She looked me up and down and said, 'who gives discounts on discounts?', to which I replied any store in a sale. I got the discount, but the attitude p-ed me off!
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This is not just an Irish thing. Macy's in New York operate a similar policy.
 
Macys honoured the discount on final sales stuff for me (ie 75-85% off), and i also got the additional 11% one on top of that, that was both in Florida and NY macys.
 
mell61 said:
Macys honoured the discount on final sales stuff for me (ie 75-85% off), and i also got the additional 11% one on top of that, that was both in Florida and NY macys.
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They told me I couldn't get the 11% discount on an already discounted jacket. Rip Off USA, I think ;)
 
Sunny said:
I was in a well known Dublin City Centre restaurant for lunch yesterday. We sat down and the waitress asked us the usual question of 'still or sparkling'. We both answered still.
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I would have assumed that unless you answered "tap" you would automatically get bottled.
 
ClubMan said:
I would have assumed that unless you answered "tap" you would automatically get bottled.
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I know but I would also have assumed that if I am being served bottled water, I get the bottle brought to my table. I have never seen a restaurant do otherwise. But there was no bottle to bring to the table bacause they poured two glasses out from a 1 litre bottle of water. And yet they still charged me €2.50 per glass for it. They were small glasses as well.
 
Sunny said:
I was in a well known Dublin City Centre restaurant for lunch yesterday. We sat down and the waitress asked us the usual question of 'still or sparkling'. We both answered still. She came over with two glasses of water with pieces of lemon in them. There was no sign of a bottle so presumed it was just tap water which was fine so didn't give it a second thought. Had the meal (awful by the way) and asked for the bill. I looked at it and noticed that I was being charged €5 for the water. I asked the waitress if it wasn't tap water, why wasn't the water served to us in a bottle and she said they don't do that but that she wouldn't charge us for it. When she said that I got even more suspicious so asked to speak to the manager. I asked him how do I know I am getting what I paid for if they don't serve the bottle and that what they gave me wasn't just tap water. I had never seen it in any restaurant that I have been in. The snotty little git went over and brought back the bottle where he says the water came from. It was a 1ltr bottle of Tipperary water. They don't serve small bottles but still had the cheek to charge €2.50 a glass. I reckon they fill the bottle out of the tap as well! I haven't been that annoyed in a long time and he still insisted on charging me so I paid after making a scene.
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was in a well know chain of juice bars recently and despite their menu clearly stating 'fresh orange juice' the girl behind the counter poured Tropicana into a container for me and tried to charge 4.25 for the pleasure!!!!
 
Sunny said:
I know but I would also have assumed that if I am being served bottled water, I get the bottle brought to my table. I have never seen a restaurant do otherwise. But there was no bottle to bring to the table bacause they poured two glasses out from a 1 litre bottle of water. And yet they still charged me €2.50 per glass for it. They were small glasses as well.
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If you knew that you were getting still bottled water then why didn't you check the price list before ordering it?

bamboozle said:
was in a well know chain of juice bars recently and despite their menu clearly stating 'fresh orange juice' the girl behind the counter poured Tropicana into a container for me and tried to charge 4.25 for the pleasure!!!!
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I thought that terms like "fresh" and "pure" etc. were meaningless when it comes to labelling food products?
 
ClubMan said:
I thought that terms like "fresh" and "pure" etc. were meaningless when it comes to labelling food products?
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Perhaps for something purchased in a supermarket/newsagents etc - but the example above was in a 'juice bar', so it should have been safe to assume that the 'fresh orange juice' had been squeezed from real oranges on site earlier that day at the very least, if not just squeezed specifically for this customer.
 
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