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.
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.
BraziliaNZ wrote: » he didn't, it's a lie
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.
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.
Kintarō Hattori wrote: » I'm not attempting to be smart but are you going to visit every coffee & muffin vendor.
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
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:
THE Ceann Comhairle minister John O'Donoghue, his wife Kate Ann, and O'Dono ghue's private secretary ran up travel bills of more than €100,000 on trips overseas during the course of two years. 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.
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."
magick wrote: » if ppl in Ireland actually complained then their actually would be a change on how things are run and priced
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.
Alan Rouge wrote: » Come back to Ireland and stand up for us. For truth, honesty and freedom, the Irish way :cool:
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
Fulton Crown wrote: » 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.
Neamhshuntasach wrote: » True. Most of my mates complain on a daily basis and the only reason i'm sick of it is because they constantly have new stories of how they were ripped off when they could have got a cheaper alternative. I still can't believe it's 1.80 on Dublin Bus. I've taken 4 hour bus journeys in other parts of the world for that price. And who ever has 80 cents in change. It's time to start holding on to the receipts. All those 20's add up.
Fulton Crown wrote: » Sorry pal...don't agree on Dublin Bus...it's very good value for expensive, rip off gouging old Ireland. As for the 1.80 of course you can have it..just toss the 20 cent coins into a jar and fish out as required. But I guess you just can't be arsed....hmmm ?
bmtannam wrote: » You're right....I actually paid 1.75 for a regular small bottle of coke today and had'nt the gumption to reject it and put it back when told. I'm usually grumpy and assertive but I folded today.
Fulton Crown wrote: » But I guess you just can't be arsed....hmmm ?
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:
