why is ireland such a rip off

tel9

@ who squeeze every penny out of every person in ireland, its a shame, after i was told the price the poor fecker on the other side of the counter shat himself after i called him a robbing B, not his fault i know! but after a 4.00am start, ryanair ripping me off , and trying to sell me a cheese/burgar at 6.00am, and then smokeless fags at 6.10 , i was a little peed off already, anyone else feel my peeded off feeling?:mad:

why cant the dodgy government just go to the airport or any other shop and spend 20 euro and see what they get :mad:

then fly to england cause its close by, buy the same items and see how much fecking change u get in sterling to what u get in euro:mad:

and see how much ur fecking up the county :mad:

TPD

High minimum wage, high tax, high welfare, lots of imported goods, bad infrastructure...

Take your pick.

AlmightyCushion

Eating at the airport is where you went wrong. You're just asking to have you wallet raped by eating there.

Biggins

...that and the fact that some people are either too lazy to go shop elsewhere or just daft enough to say "ok, I'll pay that expensive price!"
If someone willingly pays nine Euro for a cup of something and a bun without orally questioning it, they deserve to be robbed!
Come on... Its not brain surgery! Look at the price list beforehand for crying out loud - and if there isn't one, ask why the hell not and stand up for yourself!
At least the OP responded. Sadly the owners of the shop probably won't hear of their objections to the price of the bill.
Not unless the OP actually complains to higher up the ladder.

Jesus Wept

tel9 wrote: »

its a shame, after i was told the price the poor fecker on the other side of the counter shat himself after i called him a robbing B

I imagine he didn't 'shat' himself, I bet he just though you were a grade A plonker and hocked in your coffee.

tel9 wrote: »

not his fault i know!

Do you Rly though?

Borneo Fnctn

I usually try to buy stuff online from overseas. I like to think this gives Irish retailers an incentive to get their ****ing prices right.

Overheal

Mostly because the average person just doesnt give a ****. There aren't enough people in the country that are willing to stand up and say "Thats ****ing it."

waitinforatrain

tel9 wrote: »

@ who squeeze every penny out of every person in ireland, its a shame, after i was told the price the poor fecker on the other side of the counter shat himself after i called him a robbing B, not his fault i know! but after a 4.00am start, ryanair ripping me off , and trying to sell me a cheese/burgar at 6.00am, and then smokeless fags at 6.10 , i was a little peed off already, anyone else feel my peeded off feeling?:mad:

why cant the dodgy government just go to the airport or any other shop and spend 20 euro and see what they get :mad:

then fly to england cause its close by, buy the same items and see how much fecking change u get in sterling to what u get in euro:mad:

and see how much ur fecking up the county :mad:

I was stuck in brussels airport on a hot night for 12 hours paying €3.30 for 500ml of water. AFAIK all airports try to rip people off.

Overheal

waitinforatrain wrote: »

I was stuck in brussels airport on a hot night for 12 hours paying €3.30 for 500ml of water. AFAIK all airports try to rip people off.

ok but, re-read the rant, and replace airport with "O'Briens Crapwhiches"

tel9

The-Rigger wrote: »

I imagine he didn't 'shat' himself, I bet he just though you were a grade A plonker and hocked in your coffee.



Do you Rly though?

the-rigger ur probably great at calling names, but was generally asking if other people are getting ripped off just as much

AlmightyCushion

Overheal wrote: »

ok but, re-read the rant, and replace airport with "O'Briens Crapwhiches"

If you think O briens food is crap and overpriced than just don't buy food there. There are plenty of places that do good food for a decent price.

Biggins

To be honest, especially at places like the airports, when your stuck in a confined area for a time, they know they have you over a barrel.

bUILDERtHEbOB

Supply and demand, tbh.

Kalashnikov_Kid

Bad form on giving personal abuse to the till worker.

Have you ever worked in retail yourself? Who do you think makes up the prices?

How about next time instead of hurling abuse at people just trying to earn their keep like you me, do us and your country a favour and just dont buy anythin there if you think its so ****ing expensive.

tel9

im sure people get ripped of in their home towns, even buying a pint, everyone in ireland is gettin screwwed one way or another, not just in airports

Jesus Wept

tel9 wrote: »

the-rigger ur probably great at calling names, but was generally asking if other people are getting ripped off just as much

I wasn't calling you it.

Anyhow, on the subject of rip offs:

Got a taxi home on Friday night, fare came to €7.85, I hand the guy a tenner, guy says 'close enough' and puts some change in my hand, I'm out of the taxi when I realise he has given me €1.10 in change, close enough my cúnt.
For a second (long enough that I was out of the taxi) I presumed he meant close enough in my favour, like handing me 2.50 because he didn't have change.

What a fúcking cheeky robbing cúnt.

tel9

Kalashnikov_Kid wrote: »

Bad form on giving personal abuse to the till worker.

Have you ever worked in retail yourself? Who do you think makes up the prices?

How about next time instead of hurling abuse at people just trying to earn their keep like you me, do us and your country a favour and just dont buy anythin there if you think its so ****ing expensive.

yes ive worked in retail and yes i got abuse , so it was my turn to give it, he did agree with me in the end,after i vented my frustration

but if i didnt buy , people in retail wouldnt have a job , since you say you work in retail that narrows it down to your job, its swings and roundabouts , if u get crap in ur job and u cant take it, get a new job or a different career , my point in ireland is the biggest rip off , and hopefully there will come a point when people just refuse to buy anything but the basics, then the country will be really f@@ked , but might be a good thing int he long term

Pride Fighter

I was in a German airport. Weeze airport (called Dusseldorf Weeze even though its 40 miles from it).

There I bough a good latte for 2 euro, great quality. Then I got scnitzel and chips for 3.50. The airport has a casino with electronic poker, roulette and other games. I won 15 euro in 15 minutes. I left that airport full, feeling good and in profit.

Dublin airport is a rip off, I never buy anything there, I'd rather starve than pay rip off prices.

Tony Danza

It cost me almost 9 euro (44 pesos) to buy a sandwich in the airport in Buenos Aires. That's more than the price I'd pay in Dublin airport. Airports are a rip off, as is a lot of stuff in Ireland, but not everything is a rip off.

magick

if ppl in Ireland actually complained then their actually would be a change on how things are run and priced

Jesus Wept

We love complaining! Doesn't do us any good as we do it in the wrong way.
We buy it, grumble, log on and complain.

If enough people complained at source and then voted with their feet and didn't buy, then we would see results.

Jarren

tel9 wrote: »

@ who squeeze every penny out of every person in ireland, its a shame, after i was told the price the poor fecker on the other side of the counter shat himself after i called him a robbing B, not his fault i know! but after a 4.00am start, ryanair ripping me off , and trying to sell me a cheese/burgar at 6.00am, and then smokeless fags at 6.10 , i was a little peed off already, anyone else feel my peeded off feeling?:mad:

why cant the dodgy government just go to the airport or any other shop and spend 20 euro and see what they get :mad:

then fly to england cause its close by, buy the same items and see how much fecking change u get in sterling to what u get in euro:mad:

and see how much ur fecking up the county :mad:

You should have gone to IKEA:D

Rybka

Guy leaves school - zero qualifications but can carry bricks - 1000 euro a week - he buys a house.

Girl goes to Uni on an Art Degree - Half way through realises she will be qualified to do feck all in the real world - becomes a teacher - her only possible solution. In a couple of years earning 50k+ Job for life.

Guy does Engineering - Graduates - Gets offered a job on 25k a year, is then made redundant as the economic prospective is not good.

That is our Ireland.

jahalpin

I was in CDG airport in Paris and a 500ml bottle of Coke was around 6euro, so Dublin Airport isn't actually too bad.

If you bought the coffee and muffin in Starbucks, it's around the same price in all Starbucks anyway. If it was too expensive for you, you can get a "meal deal" in Boots for 3.99 (sandwich, drink and snack)

Noffles

Ireland only seems to change prices etc when forced to... look at Dunnes, it only dropped it's prices because Tesco did.. It's all this buy Irish crap that doesn't help either, buy the competitors rather than the irish version, who cares where it comes from the Irish one will be of less quality and more expensive!

mickoneill30

Noffles wrote: »

who cares where it comes from the Irish one will be of less quality and more expensive!

And an example of that would be?

Rybka

I hate it. I want to buy Irish but refuse to.

My last big prchase was when the VAT increase came in. I was thinking about paying 150 euro extra for a flat screen but it would have been from an Irish supplier. The government then announced their VAT increase and I bought from England. Since the VAT increase I have spent $0 on goods from Ireland and a couple of thousand on foreign (mostly English) goods. The only thing I buy from Irish stores now is food.

This government is not only corrupt but incompetent. I am not Irish before I am accused of being political.

Noffles

mickoneill30 wrote: »

And an example of that would be?

I don't have one, I'm generalizing and I'm not the only one to do this.

Kintarō Hattori

Noffles wrote: »

I don't have one, I'm generalizing and I'm not the only one to do this.

Ahh so that's ok then.

Noffles

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Ahh so that's ok then.

Can't be arsed.

Biggins

My recent purchase of a Hig-Def TV cost me €1,200 (Samsung Series 6).
I'm such a pain in the ass not to be ripped off that I shopped around exactly for what I wanted at the right lowest price)

Harvey Normans who state (lyingly) in big writing above the doorway of their shops "Our Prices Can't Be Beaten" wanted to charge me a whopping €1,600 + delivery for the same item.

I know for a fact that some people have paid this price. They were either too lazy to shop around or just couldn't be bothered.
The same people then on previous/subsequent occasions continually moan to me about how there are being ripped off - yet they still won't shop around!

I don't get it!

If you feel your being ripped off - please don't pay the price!
In some situations they might have you "over a barrel" but in others, for gawds sake, keep your money in your pocket/wallet/bag.

If we all did this a lot more, the rip-off buggers will soon be having more and more closing down sales instead!

BraziliaNZ

this thread is bullsh*t. I always get a coffee in the airport and it's pretty much the same price you'll pay anywhere else in Dublin. At most around €2.70. There's no way he paid €9 for a coffee and muffin. This is a stupid thread.

Long Onion

Ireland is a rip off because for many years we were happy paying the prices that were being asked, and we were happy re-electing the same government.

Now that we are feeling the effects of a global downturn we have all realised that the whole ripp-off mentality has become to ingrained and institutionalised to change easily.

Anyone who pays €9 for a coffe and muffin is as much to blame as the person who cahrges it and the authorities who are happy for it to be charged in their airport.

If it's too expensive, don't pay. If you pay, don't complain.

BraziliaNZ

Long Onion wrote: »

Anyone who pays €9 for a coffe and muffin is as much to blame as the person who cahrges it and the authorities who are happy for it to be charged in their airport.

he didn't, it's a lie

tarbuck

I see the country itself as a very large version of a typical League of Ireland soccer club.
ie Totally deluded, always chasing a payday that will never come, alwalys thinking short-term, living on past glories, generally doesn't know what it's doing, thinks it has a great product but in reality is bottom of the barrel quality, overcharges for that product, unsound infrastructure and economically unviable. Fortunately for these clubs there are just enough fools who'll hang around and 'believe the dream' to keep the shambolic state of affairs perpetuating .... much like this country itself come to think of it.

DamoDLK

tarbuck wrote: »

I see the country itself as a very large version of a typical League of Ireland soccer club.
ie Totally deluded, always chasing a payday that will never come, alwalys thinking short-term, living on past glories, generally doesn't know what it's doing, thinks it has a great product but in reality is bottom of the barrel quality, overcharges for that product, unsound infrastructure and economically unviable. Fortunately for these clubs there are just enough fools who'll hang around and 'believe the dream' to keep the shambolic state of affairs perpetuating .... much like this country itself come to think of it.

Wha? Drogheda Utd?!

Kintarō Hattori

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

he didn't, it's a lie

This is twice you've outright accused the OP of lying. While I agree that anyone who pays that much for a coffee and muffin is silly accusing them of lying when you don't have proof and haven't given them a chance to repsond is not on.

Wait for the OP to respond.

BraziliaNZ

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

This is twice you've outright accused the OP of lying. While I agree that anyone who pays that much for a coffee and muffin is silly accusing them of lying when you don't have proof and haven't given them a chance to repsond is not on.

Wait for the OP to respond.

proof being that i'm there quite often and there's no way he's paying 5 or 6 euro for a muffin. I'll be there on Friday and i'll bump this thread with real-world prices.

Kintarō Hattori

BraziliaNZ wrote: »

proof being that i'm there quite often and there's no way he's paying 5 or 6 euro for a muffin. I'll be there on Friday and i'll bump this thread with real-world prices.

I'm not attempting to be smart but are you going to visit every coffee & muffin vendor.

BraziliaNZ

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

I'm not attempting to be smart but are you going to visit every coffee & muffin vendor.

2 or 3 maybe, i always have too much time on my hands in airports

partyatmygaff

Dublin airport is cheap compared to some other airports like Charles-De-Gaulle which is the biggest rip off ever.
A bottle of coke (400ml over there) costed €3.80 and a demi-baguette chicken sandwhich costed €5.20(But it was pretty nice though )

That was the cheapest in all of CDG

mikemac

I don't think the guy behind the counter deserves abuse.

If you won't pay the price, leave it on the counter and walk.
Or better still tell the manager why you won't pay.

Do you think the guy on minimum wage is pocketing the huge margins and collecting from the till every day?

Have working as a hotel barman I've come across people like you OP :mad:
Feeling ripped off? Complain to management, not the lowly sucker serving you

ejmaztec

mikemac wrote: »

I don't think the guy behind the counter deserves abuse.

If you won't pay the price, leave it on the counter and walk.
Or better still tell the manager why you won't pay.

Do you think the guy on minimum wage is pocketing the huge margins and collecting from the till every day?

Have working as a hotel barman I've come across people like you OP :mad:
Feeling ripped off? Complain to management, not the lowly sucker serving you

Only in a drive-through fast-food place that was mentioned in another thread yeserday.:D


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055659781

Mike...

tel9 wrote: »

why cant the dodgy government just go to the airport or any other shop and spend 20 euro and see what they get :mad:

then fly to england cause its close by, buy the same items and see how much fecking change u get in sterling to what u get in euro:mad:

and see how much ur fecking up the county :mad:

They did....

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The taxpayer picked up the tab for Venetian water taxis costing €250, hotels that cost more than €900 a night, hair appointments and hat rentals. "Airport pick-ups" during a two-day trip to Lon*don cost €7,591.

John O'Donoghue is hoping to pick up the No Frontiers gig..

ScumLord

If you pay €9 for a drink and a bun that's your fault. Dublin airport has loads of food places and I'm pretty sure I bought a pint of Heineken in there at a quiet reasonable price, I'm pretty sure it was probably one of the cheapest pints in Dublin.

Not only that there's at least two fast food including mcdonalds and they do a fairly reasonably priced breakfast too.

irish_bob

heres my opinion

retailers gouge because they know irish people are very slow to complain , we see complaining as an all out attack on someones entire being , i have on several occasions complained in different outlets and on two occasions , another customer who was behind me in the quee actually turned on me and started to back up the gouging retailer , as i said , irish people take criticism very badly and therefore dont like to complain either as they see it as a sign of being an unpleasant person , its an immature attitude but i think its pretty widespread

Red Sleeping Beauty

Overheal wrote: »

Mostly because the average person just doesnt give a ****. There aren't enough people in the country that are willing to stand up and say "Thats ****ing it."

Come back to Ireland and stand up for us. For truth, honesty and freedom, the Irish way :cool:

magick wrote: »

if ppl in Ireland actually complained then their actually would be a change on how things are run and priced

This is a myth about consumer power. Who are you going to complain to ? The teenager working the till at the newsagents ? What the feck do they care ? Does the guy stacking the shelves in Dunnes have any control over prices ?

Long Onion wrote: »

Ireland is a rip off because for many years we were happy paying the prices that were being asked, and we were happy re-electing the same government.

Now that we are feeling the effects of a global downturn we have all realised that the whole ripp-off mentality has become to ingrained and institutionalised to change easily.

Anyone who pays €9 for a coffe and muffin is as much to blame as the person who cahrges it and the authorities who are happy for it to be charged in their airport.

If it's too expensive, don't pay. If you pay, don't complain.

There's a forum on this site for Rip-off Ireland that's been up for about 6years. Ever since the Euro came in we've been getting ripped off pretty bad. Overnight the pound shop became the €2 shop

Overheal

Alan Rouge wrote: »

Come back to Ireland and stand up for us. For truth, honesty and freedom, the Irish way :cool:

Ah shove off I cant be arsed.

/Irish

ttm

Alan Rouge wrote: »

Ever since the Euro came in we've been getting ripped off pretty bad. Overnight the pound shop became the €2 shop

The local one became "Eurold Pound Shop" then they went upmarket and rebranded with a new name but everyone still refers to them as the Pound Shop just not in the shop:P

But main rip off Ireland problem is choice, if your are in a UK high street you might be able to shop around and find the same item in a few stores but often in Ireland if you are looking for a specific item then your stuck with one shop and whatever they are charging, unless of course you want to spend your money online in another country which is so easy I rarley buy expensive items in Bricks and Mortar Irish stores.

G_R

jus go to the mc donalds in the airport, they have the same prices there as they do everywhere else

Fulton Crown

Look...when will people wise up...retailers will charge whatever they think the market will bear...can't really blame them for that.

The only thing..I say the only thing..that will bring down prices is be discriminating ...shop around.

See what happened when the public started flocking over the border.....prices came down...substantially.

The flood of price reductions in Southern Supermarkets is a direct result of people voting with their feet and the arrival and expansion of shops like Lidle and Aldi..

I will not buy bottled water

I will not buy anything in O'Briens

I shop around for best petrol prices

I know the prices in Lidle and Aldi and JC'S

I will not pay more that €2 for a cup of coffee.

I will not drink in rip off pubs.

Do this my friends an we might just beat those basterd gougers.