Which industry has the biggest laugh at their customers' expense?

Quags

Ticketmaster and their service charge fee. Robbing people openly

maninasia

TV channels especially RTE. TV license and a boat load of ads all the time. At least the BBC has no ads.

Irish cafes and restaurants offering ’breakfast’ but no drink included , fairly standard in Ireland but unusual overseas.

Pubs increasing prices after a certain time when the punters are pissed.

Children's entertainment activities in Ireland. Very expensive compared to overseas, and kids and adult tickets often the same price. For instance you pay into a 'community festival ’ and then you pay AGAIN to use the bouncing castle . Of course Irish people pay up.

Car park companies that insist on using their app that is difficult to download. But then they offer you a more expensive QR code way to scan and pay quickly.

Car parking that makes you prepay in advance even though you don't know how long you will be , a handy earner in Ireland indeed. Cheeky.

The Irish government for talking about giving folks energy rebates but taking 49% of the cost of every litre of fuel in taxes.

The folks that own the national lottery now. Spoofing on about how much goes back to ’the community'.

B&B's and hotels in Ireland and their horrendously greedy pricing on weekends.

maninasia

Irish people. Very rarely complain or haggle or talk about prices for fear of looking cheap.

Not an industry as such but....

I agree with the comment about social welfare.

In Ireland you pay up to 50% of your taxes for somebody else to enjoy free housing and benefits that may have never worked or arrived In the country the week before or decided to have a kid and live on the state's largesse.

Meanwhile the people that pay the high taxes get basically nothing back for it. Try telling people in mostof the world about that ’deal' and their eyes would pop out of their heads

Ticketmaster.

Like that local douchbag who was the sole source of that widget you used bag in the day only global.

Go Ahead Dublin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119713527#Comment_119713527

Ticket master and Platinum ticket... FFS!

Riddle101

Airlines that overbook flights. They book with the idea that people will no-show for flights but when the people do show up someone gets bumped. But what if you have a holiday planned for months and those plans are ruined because of an overbooked flight?

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119713590#Comment_119713590

How much do you actually pay in taxes on your income because it is unlikely you are paying 50% on it unless you get paid very well?

Irish media is really bad, it often allows people they are interviewing make false comments like above into articles reinforcing ignorance.

Sgt Hartman

Insurance companies, they're nothing but a shower of gougers. Getting into the insurance business has to the easiest way in the world to make money. A friend of mine in work summed it up when he told me "banks are cnuts, but insurance companies are the cnuts of cnuts!!" With the Hell I had to go through during the house buying process he was proven 100% right.

(Oh...and he went on to say that It's 4 Women.ie insurance were "the cnuts of cnuts of cnuts!!" after the experience his wife had with them)

maninasia

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119713720#Comment_119713720

Add it all up. Income Tax and USC and PRSI. Don't forget VAT because that's a tax on everything you will buy aswell. Getting up to 50% for somebody over 120k/year.

So what if somebody is well paid? Didn't they get up and WORK FOR IT EVERY DAY?

Does it mean they have to fork over 50 % of it to others while getting almost nothing back?

Even if it's 40% its horrendously high given the expensive and **** public services. Somebody paying up to 50% tax still cant get a medical card ffs, they still have to buy private health insurance and pay for doc visits and drugs.

That's the worst deal of all....paying for somebody else's medical card!

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119713745#Comment_119713745

It is a lot higher than €120k and the point is you aren't paying that much tax as you claimed. Either a lie or inaccurate which means not true either way. Somebody not getting a social service because they earn enough not to need it is fine with me. It is called a progressive tax system. The foundation of our country is based on equality and you want to live in a country that doesn't want that so should move.

Our population still hasn't returned to that before the famine. That puts out population way behind what it should be about 3 times what we have due to multiplication of populations.

You made a a common false claim which you probably have repeated a ton of times and probably even now still beleive

Swaine

Dublin Airport. Parking, drop offs, food prices, drink prices. Rip off at every turn. Sad that this is the first impression people get of our country.

Shower of greedy ****.

bucketybuck

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119713890#Comment_119713890

His point was very clear, your anal nitpicking does nothing but make you look like a clown.

cnocbui

The purveyors of bottled water.

Back Home

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119712824#Comment_119712824

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229

veryangryman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119713926#Comment_119713926

While yes, they are a ripoff and there really is no excuse but greed for the drop-off prices, it is incorrect to say this is the first thing you see in the country.

If arriving at the airport from abroad you are not being dropped off by anyone. Chances are you won't eat there. Arrivals is generally an "out ye go" kind of business. Not many bars in arrivals either

Probably better to describe the gripes (genuine as they are) as the last impression.

Mr. teddywinkles

I'd say any industry that participates in the big ponzi scheme called capitalism. Did I get it right?

Andrea B.

Health service, with respect to going private (with or without health insurance).

My last consultant was €20 / minute, inclusive of time they spent reading my file.

Not including the GP referral of €50.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119713990#Comment_119713990

Hmm the alternatives work out so, so well.

Swaine

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119714034#Comment_119714034

Have an ear consultant visit booked for next week. Got the letter the other day, in huge bold letters was "Fee: €250". Fortunately my company's HI will pay for 75% of this.

This is why we have such massive waiting lists, charging huge fees so no need to get through patients with any sort of speed.

Greedy fcuks.

Stand-up comedians.

AndrewJRenko

Fashion industry- persuading mostly women for decades that they’ll finally be happy if they buy just one more thing.

AndrewJRenko

Car industry, with decades of misleading advertising showing happy families on wide open roads.

weemcd

Has anyone here said Landlords yet?????!!!??????

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119714106#Comment_119714106

Tommy the mechanic passes off most complex faults to do with the timing belt.

The Producers of the ring of power series

https://youtu.be/416vFlu595Q

Ubbquittious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119714106#Comment_119714106

Where the car industry has really pulled the wool over people's eyes is with the enforced upgrade cycle. They'll make a car for a certain few years, discontinue, come out with slightly different incompatible model. They gatekeep the maintenance through proprietary software, planned obsolescence, poor design and witholding/discontinuing replacement parts.

You could buy a 1960's cessna or a 1980s boat and use it away grand but you'd have to be a fairly dedicated hobbyist to keep a car from the same era going.

McGrath5

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119714141#Comment_119714141

Actually yeah the motor industry is another one that pulls the wool over both government's and consumer eyes. Cars are insanely expensive to run from a personal and societal view. Here is a good video that explains it in depth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztHZj6QNlkM&list=WL&index=13&t=483s

Mr. teddywinkles

Energy providers anyone

Andrea B.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119714067#Comment_119714067

My experience with speed is to the contrary. €200 for 10 mins. No equipment required.