The 'Dearest' thread... (post your items here)

whiskeyman

A mate had lunch at a certain deli / sandwich cafe in Dundrum last week, and decided to eat in.
Places like this usually add an extra few cents for this privalage, but he was astounted at the cost of one item.
One bag (not even opened and stacked nicely on his plate) of cheese and onion Hunky Dorys set him back €1.55!! :eek:

Thought this might be an interesting thread for people to post locations charging obscene amounts for normal products, or if people know where the dearest mars bar / bag of crisps etc... in the country is to be found!

311

I was charged almost €7 for a sandwich in an esso 911 cafe:eek:
I felt sorry for the person who served me ,I made a scene.:(

faceman

im pretty sure o'briens add a minimum of an extra €1 to toast a sandwich.

Nightwish

€5 for a plain hotdog (20c sausage in a 10c bun) in Croke Park today

mikemac

€2.20 for a 500ml bottle of water in Cineworld, Parnell St.
Most shop charge about €1.40.

It's to be expected, most cinemas as a ripoff for stuff like this.

mathie

faceman wrote:

im pretty sure o'briens add a minimum of an extra €1 to toast a sandwich.

Isn't that because of some laws/taxes about hot food?
M

Zagorkagirl

Whiskeyman,

What's the point of starting this thread if you don't tell us the name of the shop/restaurant where this occurred. Surely, the point is to warn the rest of us about these rip off merchants so that we can avoid/boycott them in the future.

Come on...Name and Shame!

Zzz

whiskeyman

Zagorkagirl wrote:

Come on...Name and Shame!

T'was Brambles in Dundrum.

Nightwish wrote:

€5 for a plain hotdog (20c sausage in a 10c bun) in Croke Park today

I'm pretty sure one of those hotdog vendors before a match in Landsdown Rd last summer was charging 7 Euro!

micmclo wrote:

€2.20 for a 500ml bottle of water in Cineworld, Parnell St.

Jaysus!! :eek:
And I thought after 'that festival in Kildare' they were creaming in profit for charging 2 Euro a bottle!

Colonel Sanders

€2.80 for a bottle of coke from a vending machine in the cineworld in parnell street, what a joke.

BeansMeansHynes

8 Euro for a toasted cheese and mayo sandwich in Douglas Court Shopping Centre in Douglas, cant remember the name of the place and def wont be going back there.

Those Costa Coffee Places are pretty expensive also. 9.40 for 2 large coffees.No thanks.

dudara

mathie wrote:

Isn't that because of some laws/taxes about hot food?
M

Indeed, there is a higher rate of VAT on hot food than on cold food

Guy:Incognito

In the interest of evening out the usual "omg, ireland is such a rip of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!eleven!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I was charged €3.50 for a bottle of coke (500ml) in the airport in Crete on my way back from the Champion sleague final. It was the shop after you go through security so no other option for drinks.

wyndham

dudara wrote:

Indeed, there is a higher rate of VAT on hot food than on cold food

http://www.revenue.ie/leaflets/vat_food_drink.pdf

This is an interesting booklet regarding the VAT situation that confirms this to be the case.

Funnily enough, SuperValue never charge extra for having a sandwich/wrap toasted, nor do Dunnes for the same items or for cooking pizzas. Nor any other deli like 911, centras, spars, etc. O'Briens are the only place where this seems to be applied.

faceman

wyndham wrote:

http://www.revenue.ie/leaflets/vat_food_drink.pdf

This is an interesting booklet regarding the VAT situation that confirms this to be the case.

Funnily enough, SuperValue never charge extra for having a sandwich/wrap toasted, nor do Dunnes for the same items or for cooking pizzas. Nor any other deli like 911, centras, spars, etc. O'Briens are the only place where this seems to be applied.

interesting, i never knew that! i think munchies charge extra too, but im not 100% sure

kmick

20 euros for 2 street hotdogs outside Lansdowne road last year. When i questioned it your man told me to get lost. It was disgusting as well.

wyndham

kmick wrote:

20 euros for 2 street hotdogs outside Lansdowne road last year. When i questioned it your man told me to get lost. It was disgusting as well.

Did you pay it?

baztard

I paid €4.80 for a pint of piss smithwickes in Pravda in Dublin. I know its not the worst priced pint in Dublin, but still expensive for an ale by any standards. I can get a savage pint of the same for €3.60 at home.

mcaul

faceman wrote:

im pretty sure o'briens add a minimum of an extra €1 to toast a sandwich.

The problem with this is it changes from "cold Food" @0% VAT to hot food at 13.5% VAT + a sit in fee of approx. 50c.

Standard bag of tayto crisps

Esso - 48c
Tesco - 52c
Mace - 55c
Spar - 59c
ALL Centras - 69c

Hunky Dorys

Most shops 59c - 69c
Centras - 89c

BeansMeansHynes

I think we have become a nation of put up with it and shut up. I have paid over the odds for a few things but I am not going to do it anymore. I just hand back the item and tell them why. I am certainly not mean but I think €1.60 for a bottle of Volvic water is a bit much when it is normally €1.19-€1.29 I have come across a good few shops with no prices displayed and they seem to be the most expensive when you go to pay for the item. I know by law the price has to be displayed and the shop can be reported. I have noticed all these Centra and Spar shops seem to be the most expensive.

Colonel Sanders

mcaul wrote:

The problem with this is it changes from "cold Food" @0% VAT to hot food at 13.5% VAT + a sit in fee of approx. 50c.

Standard bag of tayto crisps

Esso - 48c
Tesco - 52c
Mace - 55c
Spar - 59c
ALL Centras - 69c

Hunky Dorys

Most shops 59c - 69c
Centras - 89c

There's a newsagents on Mount st in dublin (across from oil can harry's, not sure of the name) where they charge 90c for a bag of rancheeros. Needless to say I have never gone back since.

Nightwish

I saw sausage rolls in a shop in Kilkenny yesterday at €1.45 each. They were the same size as the 30c one you'd get in a petrol station deli.

dudara

The coffee shop just under the Luas station in Ranelagh charges 2.50 for a single espresso. I was just about to order when I saw the price.

philcsl

The Merrion Hotel bar, €17.80 for 2 black coffees and a plain scone (no jam )... I think it was around €5.20 per coffee and €7.40 for the scone!

judas101

10.40 for two straight pour guinnesses, in the wrong type of glasses on Eamon Dorans a few months ago. were scummy too.

robbie1876

A newsagent in Blanch Shopping Centre, I think it was called 'Bon Espresso' or something, tried to charge me 90c for an Animal bar that said on the wrapper "Still only 20c"...!! Yer one was having none of it, saying that was the price in the till and she could do nothing about it.

legs11

lads!

these are mad prices, do ye actually pay this much, 5e for hot dogs, 7 euro or whatever for scones....
fcuk that

costa coffee shops are a rip off and should be avoided like the plague, also eddie rockets, o briens and loads more.

Colonel Sanders

Must admit I used to get ripped off and then walk out the door mumbling that its a rip off etc but not any more. I'm fed up with this sorta sh!te. I only buy newspapers in spars etc now as they have the price printed on them and you can't get ripped off.

mikemac

All newspapers have the price printed on them and I've never seen a shop try to charge over that.

Do you mean magazines Colonel?

Colonel Sanders

thats what I said, you CAN'T get ripped off with them

Grawns

€4.50 for a portion of garlic bread in Lisa's tratorria ( tiny basic restaurant- nothing fancy) in terenure. We ordered 2 potions and what we got was one of those demi baguettes you buy in tesco. So €9 for a frozen demi baguette. I would have gone mad but I wasn't paying. Oh and it was €18.50 for meatballs and you had to pay extra for the pasta. Am getting angry thinking about it.

dsane1

2euro for a standard bottle of water at the virginia show after paying 10 euro to get in . 1.99 for 6 in lidl .shame on them

faceman

€2.50 for a 500ml bottle of water in dundrum cinema.

Sonnenblumen

Grawns wrote:

€4.50 for a portion of garlic bread in Lisa's tratorria ( tiny basic restaurant- nothing fancy) in terenure. We ordered 2 potions and what we got was one of those demi baguettes you buy in tesco. So €9 for a frozen demi baguette. I would have gone mad but I wasn't paying. Oh and it was €18.50 for meatballs and you had to pay extra for the pasta. Am getting angry thinking about it.

Agree, a rip-off second rated joint!

ciano1

At Bodrum airport in turkey they were charging E12 for a plain hotdog....E5 for a cup of tea

ejmaztec

My daughter got charged €2.90 for two litres of Dawn Milk in Lawlee's shop in Listowel. I know that it was last Christmas but I'm still suffering Post Traumatic Stress.

Listowel, the place that Tesco has just been refused permission by An Bord Pleanála to build a store. We're just destined to be robbed for eternity!

Laugh or cry?

Jesus Wept

My brother paid the eqivilent of €9 for a can of coke in Charle De Gaulle Airport, circa 1994. (damn cheese eating surrender monkeys :eek:)

Access

DONT GET ME STARTED ON CAR WASH PRICES!!! :mad:

fecking €8.50 for a normal car wash in statoil on the old Ashbourne road at the back of the airport... and the place is always full!

I asked him was it nude or topless?... and just walked out!

Colonel Sanders

CDG airport is a rip off, went in to a shop to buy a sandwich over the summer. No prices displayed. Asked how much the sandwich was, told it was E7.10. Walked out without buying said sandwich!!

jahalpin

Griffins Londis shops charge 1.45 for a cheap bottle of imported Coke, I wouldn't mind paying this for a normal bottle of Coke but the imported stuff is far cheaper to buy wholesale than the domestic stuff and it tasts terrible

Certain Spar shops around town were also charging full price for 750ml bottles of Pepsi \ CLub Orange when they were 500ml bottles with 50% free and were clearly marked as such.

LegacyUser

My wife and her pal went to the Take That concert last year in the RDS...but before they went in they went for a drink in that pub facing the RDS in Ballsbridge...they were charged €5 for a beer in a plastic cup...so they said sod this...went to the Spar right next door when they finished thier drink...and bought cans of Bud for €1.99 each and just re-filled thier cups and rejoined the crowd who just kept paying the €5 a drink!!!

rubadub

The-Rigger wrote:

Charle De Gaulle Airport,

That place is shocking, bizarre pricing, dunno how they sell anything- if they put stuff at a reasonable price they would probably make a higher profit since they would sell more.

I passed through on a business trip and refused to buy anything even though it would have been on company expenses.

Funnily enough, SuperValue never charge extra for having a sandwich/wrap toasted, nor do Dunnes for the same items or for cooking pizzas. Nor any other deli like 911, centras, spars, etc. O'Briens are the only place where this seems to be applied.

Perhaps all the others are breaking the law, or perhaps they are already charging the extra bit on it cold or hot- so really you could say obriens give you a discount for getting it cold. The law is a bit vague too, just says hot with no temperatures given, e.g. could I order a burger in mcdonalds, come back in 20mins when it is cold and ask for a discount since they dont have to collect VAT on it.

MOH

jahalpin wrote:

Griffins Londis shops charge 1.45 for a cheap bottle of imported Coke, I wouldn't mind paying this for a normal bottle of Coke but the imported stuff is far cheaper to buy wholesale than the domestic stuff and it tasts terrible

Certain Spar shops around town were also charging full price for 750ml bottles of Pepsi \ CLub Orange when they were 500ml bottles with 50% free and were clearly marked as such.

Loads of places around town selling that imported (often German) Coke.
Definitely tastes different, like a cross between Coke and Pepsi.

There's at least two on O'Connell St where I've been caught before, Carroll's and one down near abbey St.

Colonel Sanders

Why is there not some form of price regulation in Airports? Whenever I complain to people about prices in Dublin airport thei only reply is usually 'Its an airport, what do you expect?'. Thats not a reason!!! If its a case that people are charged ludicrous amounts by DAA to set up Kiosks then DAA are indirectly ripping off people who pass through.

EDIT: Same applies to concerts, sporting events etc.

wyndham

Grawns wrote:

€4.50 for a portion of garlic bread in Lisa's tratorria ( tiny basic restaurant- nothing fancy) in terenure. We ordered 2 potions and what we got was one of those demi baguettes you buy in tesco. So €9 for a frozen demi baguette. I would have gone mad but I wasn't paying. Oh and it was €18.50 for meatballs and you had to pay extra for the pasta. Am getting angry thinking about it.

That place is a joke. The Terenure Take Away, which is attached to it and works from the side of the same kitchen, is a major rip-off also. A portion of lasagne is around €12. From a chipper!!
In comparison, a portion of lasagne from Silvios in Templeogue Village is €5.90 and comes with a free garlic bread- Actually like the Garlic bread you described, a demi-baguette cut in half and buttered with garlic butter, given away for nothing.

blah

£9.25 for the cinema in London (€13.65)!!!:mad:

ejmaztec

Colonel Sanders wrote:

Why is there not some form of price regulation in Airports? Whenever I complain to people about prices in Dublin airport thei only reply is usually 'Its an airport, what do you expect?'. Thats not a reason!!! If its a case that people are charged ludicrous amounts by DAA to set up Kiosks then DAA are indirectly ripping off people who pass through.

EDIT: Same applies to concerts, sporting events etc.

It also seems that the prices after you've checked in to the departure lounge are more than they were in the main entrance. A captive customer being taken advantage of.

It's the same as the mobile phone companies. They've been ripping people off for so long, we're all supposed to think that they must have a good reason!

run_Forrest_run

faceman wrote:

im pretty sure o'briens add a minimum of an extra €1 to toast a sandwich.

Don't get me started with O'Brien's!! One of the most over-priced place for the crappiest sambo ever...needless to say I do not go there any more.

blah

blah wrote:

£9.25 for the cinema in London (€13.65)!!!:mad:

And this is what I got charged for The Simpsons Movie. Worst Episode ever! :mad:

5500

Im not sure if its everywhere but magazines seem to be a stinger for prices at times.

Tutills in clondalkin would have a car magazine for sale with a dearer price on it even though the euro price (€5) is printed onto the mag.I've had it out with the manager before who insists that there price is correct even though its 2.50 extra.

Another big stinger is the food in mondello park.A breakfast roll and 250mil bottle of 7up will set you back €11

jahalpin

eireal wrote:

Im not sure if its everywhere but magazines seem to be a stinger for prices at times.

Tutills in clondalkin would have a car magazine for sale with a dearer price on it even though the euro price (€5) is printed onto the mag.I've had it out with the manager before who insists that there price is correct even though its 2.50 extra.

Another big stinger is the food in mondello park.A breakfast roll and 250mil bottle of 7up will set you back €11

What magazine is it? Most shops charge what is recomended on the ready reakoner, so it would be unusual for them t get the price wrong

MOH

Had lunch with gf in a restaurant in Piazza Navona in Rome last Friday.
Checked the prices on the menu before we ordered, seemed reasonable.

Pasta dish, toasted ham and cheese sandwich, side order of chips as an afterthought.
One small bottle of mineral water, one large (1 litre) beer
I then had a second large beer while the gf went shopping.

Knew the beers were 12 each (dear anyway), figured the total would be 40ish.

Bill came to 63 euro. :eek:
For a main course, a sandwich, and 3.5 pints.

Stared at it for about five minutes. They'd put the beers down as 13 each, small plate of chips was 6 quid, and then they added an 8.5% service charge to everything which I definitely hadn't seen anywhere, and I always check menus for things like that.

Had to leg it for a flight home, so didn't have time to argue with them, still feel a bit sick about it.