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

  • 11-06-2007 11:58am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭


    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 :o
    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)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


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


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,441 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr Magnolia


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭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*


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,112 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


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


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭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!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    Your ma's pocket more like!!!

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,589 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,397 ✭✭✭✭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!? :D

    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,040 ✭✭✭threebeards


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


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭GrumPy


    Name and shame the chipper already!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 463 ✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,107 ✭✭✭✭Stark


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


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,864 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    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?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


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

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,113 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 25 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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,543 ✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,046 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭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 :D ) 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 :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,295 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Did the conversation go a little something like this?!



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,461 Mod ✭✭✭✭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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭Undercoverguy


    basquille wrote:
    Did the conversation go a little something like this?!


    I was wondering when someone would throw that up lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭constitutionus


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

    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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭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 :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 895 ✭✭✭crybaby


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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,443 ✭✭✭✭bonkey


    How the hell in a place like that can thay charge that
    BEcause enough people are willing to pay that it remains profitable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,025 ✭✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,988 ✭✭✭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 :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,107 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    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 :D

    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.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 224 ✭✭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!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭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:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 264 ✭✭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 :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭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 :/


    ninja edit


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,065 ✭✭✭Fighting Irish


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


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,247 ✭✭✭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


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 488 ✭✭watsgone


    Rip- off, rip-off


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Slow Motion


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    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 :D
    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 :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭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 :D 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 :D 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).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭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 :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,107 ✭✭✭✭Stark


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,050 ✭✭✭gazzer


    As one of Catherine Tates characters would say

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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭missmatty


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


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