why is ireland such a rip off

tel9 · 24-08-2009 02:47AM #1

@ 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 · 24-08-2009 02:50AM

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

Take your pick.

AlmightyCushion · 24-08-2009 02:51AM

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

Biggins · 24-08-2009 02:56AM

...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 · 24-08-2009 02:58AM

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 · 24-08-2009 02:59AM

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 · 24-08-2009 02:59AM

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 · 24-08-2009 03:01AM

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 · 24-08-2009 03:02AM

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 · 24-08-2009 03:04AM

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 · 24-08-2009 03:05AM

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 · 24-08-2009 03:05AM

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 · 24-08-2009 03:06AM

Supply and demand, tbh.

Kalashnikov_Kid · 24-08-2009 03:10AM

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 · 24-08-2009 03:10AM

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 · 24-08-2009 03:12AM

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 · 24-08-2009 04:06AM

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 · 24-08-2009 04:17AM

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 · 24-08-2009 05:21AM

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 · 24-08-2009 06:38AM

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

Jesus Wept · 24-08-2009 06:42AM

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 · 24-08-2009 06:48AM

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 · 24-08-2009 07:17AM

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 · 24-08-2009 07:24AM

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 · 24-08-2009 07:24AM

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 · 24-08-2009 07:30AM

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 · 24-08-2009 07:36AM

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 · 24-08-2009 07:43AM

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 · 24-08-2009 10:24AM

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 · 24-08-2009 10:29AM

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Ahh so that's ok then.

Can't be arsed.

Biggins · 24-08-2009 10:32AM

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!

why is ireland such a rip off

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