Am i getting old and cheap?... or Daylight Robbery!

Undercoverguy

Okay guys,

I'm curious what someone else might think of this.
Yesterday on the way home from would i was feeling a bit peckish and wanted something to eat real quick so i pulled into one of those "On the run" shops at an esso garage on the coast road.

Went up the the hot deli counter and because it was 5pm all that remained was a few dryed up pies.... you know the ones i'm talking about. Most SPAR's and Centras sell them and there a little bit smaller than a typical CD Disc.

So i asked the guy for two and went to the till.

Guy: "Anything else?"
Me: "Nope " *dreams of pies*
Guy: €10.00 please
Me: :eek: :eek: :eek:

I honestly thought he was winding me up, i was like "No only the two small pies please" to which he then informed me each pie was €5
I kept telling him the price had to be wrong, but turns out it was correct. In the end i dont something i had NEVER done before.... and left it! No way was i paying €10.00 for two BURNT, 7 Hour Old, Smaller than a CD Pies lol :cool:

Does anyone else agree with me with this being a total and utter rip off, concidering you can buy these exact same pies in spar for around €1.50 - €2.00 (max)

subway

seems like they were winding you up.
emaila complaint to the head office to cement your old codger status

Mr Magnolia

Rip-off alright, I would have said thanks but no thanks too.

petes

I would have left them. €5 for a pie!!!

Duggy747

€5 for a pie? Pffft!! You'd be a moron to even buy one, even if it was freshly made. MMM, all this talk of pie.....................I'm going to Tesco and buying myself a lovely cottage pie pack right now!! *saliva gathers in mouth*

Tar.Aldarion

Your mistake for trying to buy those dodgy overpriced pies in the first place.

Kinetic^

Mmmmmmmmm...............pies!!!

Complaint to head office. The money was clearly going into the guy's pocket.

GrumPy

Kenny 5 wrote:

Mmmmmmmmm...............pies!!!

Complaint to head office. The money was clearly going into the guy's pocket.

Your ma's pocket more like!!!

Kinetic^

Irish GrumPy wrote:

Your ma's pocket more like!!!

*sigh* Go away ya ginger ninja or I'll be forced to lay out the pwnage via PES6!!!

Hail 2 Da Chimp

A fiver a pie... I'd have told him to fook off! I'd have expected both pies for less than a fiver!

azezil

concidering you can buy these exact same pies in spar for around €1.50 - €2.00 (max)

lol, what spar you shopping in, the one from 10 / 20 years ago!?

For what you're getting I agree €5 is outrageous, alas that's what I'd expect to be charged, I eat out of deli's maybe a couple of times a weeks, so that price doesn't surprise me at all.

threebeards

I wouldn't have paid that for them if they were fresh out of the oven. That's a crazy price.

flogen

Wow - I wouldn't pay that for a good pie, let alone a crappy Centra-type one.

Costa café's are a bit of a rip-off too - just today I went to get a mixed fruit bowl thingey for my girlfriend. They were the only place nearby to have one and it was a tiny little thing, with about 1 apple-worth of fruit in it. €3.70. Fúck off.

Degsy

I was ina chipper in drogheda a while back,i'd had a few beers but i wasnt sloshed.For some reason i fancied a batter burger.The usual thing is that they have smallones about the size of a biscuit for abot 1.20 and larger ones for 2 quid odd...anyway they only had smallones so i ordered on of them.The bloke put it in the bag and took my money,he'd charged me 2.60 for the smallest batter burger i'd ever seen!I told him he was a rip off merchant and that i wanted my money back,he started ranting saying i'd bought it so it was my tough ****.I was going mad at this stage telling him the poxy thing had cost him less than 50 cent to buy and if i didnt feel i was getting value i wanted a refund.He eventually conceded and gave me my money back in a rage.Just before i left the place,i noticed him slipping the offending article back in the display window!

GrumPy

Name and shame the chipper already!!!

greenkittie

Was at Garden Party at the weekend, bought two vodka cocktails... cost 14 euro, was feeling sore as i handed over a 20. Then the barman handed me back 18 euro bargin!

Stark

Jasus, last time I got one of those pies, it was €1.50 or something.

5starpool

greenkittie wrote:

Was at Garden Party at the weekend, bought two vodka cocktails... cost 14 euro, was feeling sore as i handed over a 20. Then the barman handed me back 18 euro bargin!

I can't even begin to imagine how this miscalculation happened. Did he think you gave him a €32 note?

mikemac

I once paid £9sterling for a breakfast roll in England.

It was in a hotel and the nicest breakfast roll I ever had.

afatbollix

Stark wrote:

Jasus, last time I got one of those buys, it was €1.50 or something.

is this stelling some people think it is... i dont... i once had a bar man forget i paid him and after 2 mins of trying to give a 20 euro note i just walked off.... yay 6 drinks for free

peadair 11

€5.50 for 2 icecream cones (99ers) out of a dodgy fan at the weekend - Felt like Fooking thr icecream back in the window at him

sioda

OP personally think you were taking your life into your own hands with 7 hour old pies but still what a rip off.

Reminds me of a Irish bar I was in in France wanted €6 for a pint of Fosters (Very Irish) and €11 for a pint of murphys

Kintarō Hattori

A shocking price indeed, even when their fresh they're not worth the price we pay for them. Good for you for handing them back.

Slow Motion

flogen wrote:

Costa café's are a bit of a rip-off too - just today I went to get a mixed fruit bowl thingey for my girlfriend. They were the only place nearby to have one and it was a tiny little thing, with about 1 apple-worth of fruit in it. €3.70. Fúck off.

GF yeah right

OT Airport in Paris (that place that doesn't exist ) 2 pints Hino 2 hang sanguages €29 :eek:

On the other side, in a pub a while ago, got a pint and handed the surly barmnan a fiver and he gave me change of a tenner, thought score ! Went up to get another pint later, handed him the tenner and he gives me change of a twenty ! Double score

Basq

Did the conversation go a little something like this?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT63YT5UQAg

xzanti

On the run is a complete rip off... The rolls are always thrown together and overpriced, the scones are always like rocks.. Horrible food :mad:

Undercoverguy

basquille wrote:

Did the conversation go a little something like this?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT63YT5UQAg

I was wondering when someone would throw that up lol

constitutionus

welcome to celtic tiger ireland, would you like frie's with that? only another tenner

were the most expensive country in western europe. what did you expect. you cant even get a bag of chips for less than 2 euro now. next time do yourself a favor and get a feed in a pub carvery. pretty much the only place you can get value grub anymore

Tony Danza

Those On the Run places are a rip off. Got a roll there once for about €5, normally a roll is about €3.50, €4 max. And the food wasn't even nice to top it off.

chamlis

I was in a Fairplay Statoil shop yesterday, got a few bits and pieces. Handed your one a 50 note, got less than a tenner change! :eek:

There was no way it was that much. So, being Irish and not wanting to make a complaint or bring something back if there was a chance it was right :rolleyes: I went through the purchases again and again. There was no receipt of course....

When I was convinced there was a mistake 100% I went back to her with all the stuff and asked her to check it again. Sure enough, it all came to 20 odd bucks, not the 40 odd she'd charged me

crybaby

theres no way he had the price right unless you were buying some massive pies

demanufactured

How the hell in a place like that can thay charge that , how many times did he scan the pies into the scanner ?

bonkey

demanufactured wrote:

How the hell in a place like that can thay charge that

BEcause enough people are willing to pay that it remains profitable.

mad m

Op,you did the right thing me auld flower. Your not getting old but getting sense instead!

Would have done the same myself!

constitutionus

bonkey wrote:

BEcause enough people are willing to pay that it remains profitable.

yup, just look at the petrol station on ushers quay. 1.59 a litre and he's still in business. as long as muppets pay the money these places will charge what they like. the OP was right to leave it but the fact is enough fools are easy enough to seperate from their money to merit them continuing . hell look at what some people pay for a pint

Stark

constitutionus wrote:

yup, just look at the petrol station on ushers quay. 1.59 a litre and he's still in business. as long as muppets pay the money these places will charge what they like. the OP was right to leave it but the fact is enough fools are easy enough to seperate from their money to merit them continuing . hell look at what some people pay for a pint

Most of the people who use that station use fuel cards, which give you the same price, no matter what Statoil you go to. The Gardaí fill up there quite a bit, as mentioned by the Independent in one of their articles (they conveniently left out the fuel card bit for sensationalist effect of course). The prices are probably deliberately outrageous so that they don't have massive queues of non fuel card customers all the time.

Jotter

stayed in a certain hotel in NI (think Paris) and they were charging 18 pounds sterling for breakfast. Our breakfast was included in our price but I thought this ultra expensive fry up was going to be spectacular so I asked what was in it.

2 bacon, 2 sausage, 1 egg, mushrooms (prob x4 :rolleyes: ) a couple of beans, a few slices of toast and a cupan tae. Biggest ripoff I have ever heard about. 18 pounds whats that 25 euro or something along those lines?? We spend all of breakfast and all the way home and many a nite in the pub afterwards giving out about it :eek:

But yes back to original point, those pies were rip off with extra cheese and I would have walked away from them too, sure they would have choked ya if youd eaten them just thinking about it!

Gazza22

sioda wrote:

OP personally think you were taking your life into your own hands with 7 hour old pies but still what a rip off.

Reminds me of a Irish bar I was in in France wanted €6 for a pint of Fosters (Very Irish) and €11 for a pint of murphys

Where in france? I'm thinking of hitting an irish bar in Paris in around 2 weeks time and i don't fancy going to that place!! :eek:

Sawa

Those pies, are standard bought in from cuisine de france, they have different coloured foil bottoms, red is chicken and mushroom i think and brown is chicken curry, they the ones? those are only meant to be €2.50 at the most, at that is too expensive imo.

For a really nice cheap fry, go to Café Sofia on Wexford St, Dublin. You can get a student breakfast (they don't ask for i.d btw) for €5 and it entails of: 2 rashers, 2 sausages, 2 toast, 1 egg, chips, beans and tea/coffee. Amazing and so cheap. I love that place

Rabies

A pie here is about $4 (E2). Kiwis love pie. Pie shops on street corners. Mosts shops have a poor excuse for a deli counter, but most will have a hot food unit filled with pies


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Fighting Irish

"On The Run" is a total rip off but people keep paying them prices so fair play to them i say

ROCKMAN

Once when I was single , Basket shopping in well known super market ,buy about eight items , When everything was scanned the check out girl turns and said "32.80 please "
Jaw hits the floor , I recover and ask to see recipe, start reading it bread.....milk.....coffee........cheese..... TURKEY 12LB:eek: :eek:
Short verse .manager called, the bar code on can of beans was reading as 12lb TURKEY , human error, all my items were given FREE as way of apologize

RESULT

watsgone

Rip- off, rip-off

Slow Motion

I think the name "On the Run" is a bit of a clue here, they're fcuking criminals !

jester77

That's shocking. I can get myself a quality meal and a few beers and still have change for that price over here. Country is gone crazy since I left :eek:

Sam Vimes

constitutionus wrote:

yup, just look at the petrol station on ushers quay. 1.59 a litre and he's still in business. as long as muppets pay the money these places will charge what they like. the OP was right to leave it but the fact is enough fools are easy enough to seperate from their money to merit them continuing . hell look at what some people pay for a pint

its the only petrol station in town afaik so he can pretty much charge what he wants. i was running on fumes once so i had to get petrol there. i bought just enough to get to the petrol station on the navan road

missmatty

5 yoyos for a pie is unreal. The odd time i get a ham n cheese jambon it is 1.75. No way ppl should pay that :eek:

People are a bit spaced sometimes though, here's an example from each side of the till...........

A. Bought 8 euro worth of food in Nude lately, gave a tenner and got change of a fifty. As someone said earlier...result But i felt too guilty (karma might bring it back on me) so i told her.

B. My Dad went to pay for our dinners lately in a pub and paid 74 euro for 3 dinners, 2 desserts and 2 baby bottles of wine. My mum found the receipt at home and went mental, they had included 2 other dinners on the bill that weren't ours Dad is a bit slow on the uptake sometimes! Luckily she knows the manager so they'll get free dinners the next time, but my dad can't be the only one that doesn't read receipts or pay attention (actually couldn't read it anyway without 'is glasses).

Slow Motion

missmatty wrote:

Bought 8 euro worth of food in Nude lately, gave a tenner and got change of a fifty.

:eek: No wonder the shop assistant was a bit distracted

Stark

It's the name of a snack shop in Dublin.

gazzer

As one of Catherine Tates characters would say

"£5 for a small crusty burnt pie..... The dirty smelly evil pie robbing b*stards"

missmatty

Me in the Nude?! I'd say she'd be distracted and maybe not in a good way