When was the last time you were outraged at a stupid charge?

rubadub · 13-08-2014 12:20PM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Surely this is something they would want everyone doing instead of putting them off.

Not at all, especially places with low cost items where a fee could wipe out any profit on what they are selling. They have to pay the charges.

If any place is giving "free" CC or laser card then they have probably just added on the average cost to everything to cover themselves.

So if fees were say 50cent per transaction and 50% of sales were by card they would add 25cent to everything. So people not using cards are in effect subsidising the card users.

Some have a minimum spend to try and cover the charge.

Now that is simplified as cash will also have associated overheads.

obezyana · 13-08-2014 12:20PM

Being charged 29euro yes 29 ???? For 4 wheel balancing on my car......robbing bastards. Outrage Joe.

RED L4 0TH · 13-08-2014 12:31PM

bumper234 wrote: »

Ha

I went to Halfords to buy a car indicator bulb, Bulb cost me €3.80 and they offered to fit it for €10!:eek:

Mate has a TT. The same procedure in an Audi dealership was gonna cost him €85 or so. So he did the above.

Captain Flaps · 13-08-2014 12:43PM

Yeah, but an Audi dealer knows what they're doing in terms of headlight alignment etc. I still think that's an outrageous charge, but if it's just lobbing a bulb in I'd rather do it myself than have the unskilled 16 year old at Halfords do it.

Banjo String · 13-08-2014 12:53PM

Clamped.

Only way they'll come and release you is if you paid by credit card over the phone.

Credit card fee added on, and they have a premium rate line you must call.

Screwed every which way by the bastards.

Muahahaha · 13-08-2014 01:00PM

Banjo String wrote: »

Clamped.

Only way they'll come and release you is if you paid by credit card over the phone.

Credit card fee added on, and they have a premium rate line you must call.

Screwed every which way by the bastards.

Superglue in the padlock

*fuzzy feelings of revenge*

RoboRat · 13-08-2014 02:14PM

petrolcan wrote: »

Unsure why you are complaining about getting the correct change back. Did you expect the extra for nothing? It was you that filled up, not an attendant.

As I said, Many times I have put in €59,99 and never looked for the cent back. I also would buy milk, sandwiches, bread etc. But I guess you and they are right. Only problem is, they have now lost a customer who was filling 2 diesel cars a week worth approx €120 a week or €6240 p/a for the sake of 2 cent. Great business acumen on their behalf.

pickarooney · 13-08-2014 04:22PM

RoboRat wrote: »

As I said, Many times I have put in €59,99 and never looked for the cent back. I also would buy milk, sandwiches, bread etc. But I guess you and they are right. Only problem is, they have now lost a customer who was filling 2 diesel cars a week worth approx €120 a week or €6240 p/a for the sake of 2 cent. Great business acumen on their behalf.

Why not ask for the cent back and then you'll have it for the next time when you go over? or why not put €59.43 of petrol and get loads of change back?

If ever the expression 'cutting off your nose to spite your face' was apposite...

RoboRat · 13-08-2014 05:01PM

If ever the expression 'cutting off your nose to spite your face' was apposite...

Oh I 100% agree with you...

Although I have a feeling you mean that I have done so. In which case, I disagree as there is no shortage of filling stations and have been using another since that incident. Its extremely petty and tight fisted and something I have never encountered before (and I worked in a garage for 3 years).

pickarooney · 13-08-2014 05:11PM

RoboRat wrote: »

Oh I 100% agree with you...

Although I have a feeling you mean that I have done so. In which case, I disagree as there is no shortage of filling stations and have been using another since that incident. Its extremely petty and tight fisted and something I have never encountered before (and I worked in a garage for 3 years).

So why were you using that particular one twice a week? It must have been the closest or the cheapest or the most convenient in some way that changing from it is costing you more than two cents.

RoboRat · 13-08-2014 05:32PM

So why were you using that particular one twice a week? It must have been the closest or the cheapest or the most convenient in some way that changing from it is costing you more than two cents.

I went there because it was on the way home and I am a creature of habit, it's not the cheapest (no difference in price from the others), and there are others that are just as convenient that are also on the way home, this was the first one and I just tend to go back to the same garage.

Not sure what you mean by changing from it is costing me more than 2 cents? Changing from it makes no odds to me as all the garages in the area charge the same price, they just seem to value customers more.

If you feel there is no issue, then thats your opinion, I don't and I have taken my business elsewhere. Simples.

Captain Flaps · 13-08-2014 05:35PM

Jesus, Roborat just means that it's annoying that when he and so many people regularly just leave the cent when it's owed back to them, it's a bit tight of the station to make sure to keep it. That's all. Yeah, he could ask for it every time but come on, everyone is just getting worked up for the sake of it.

takamichinoku · 13-08-2014 05:37PM

Get Real wrote: »

Charging for the toilet/ having a "tip jar" is commonplace in continental Europe. Particularly in Germany.

Some kind of toilet tips system is a great idea! I've never left a disaster behind me but if I did, I'd want to give the cleaner something as an apology.

I'm already seeing the kind of efforts I'd go to to get bathroom cleaners more sympathy if I was running a place that had ones. Photos inside of each door of one of them with a message from them about how awful some people are ...I guess I could just pay them more or something, but that's less appealing for some reason.

ArtyC · 13-08-2014 05:40PM

Muahahaha wrote: »

Superglue in the padlock

*fuzzy feelings of revenge*

Did any bookies in galway piss you off before???

Pippy1976 · 13-08-2014 05:44PM

20c extra to use my bank card in a coffee shop,

e1 to put air in my tires .. AIR??!

Paid parking in hospitals - bloody disgrace.

--LOS-- · 13-08-2014 06:33PM

Paying about half a grand for the privilege of viewing/booking somewhere to live. But apparently that's normal here to be charged a fee for viewing if you take a place. Deposit and rent up front doesn't even come in to that, it's just a fee for the sake of taking your money.

shruikan2553 · 13-08-2014 06:46PM

rubadub wrote: »

Not at all, especially places with low cost items where a fee could wipe out any profit on what they are selling. They have to pay the charges.

If any place is giving "free" CC or laser card then they have probably just added on the average cost to everything to cover themselves.

So if fees were say 50cent per transaction and 50% of sales were by card they would add 25cent to everything. So people not using cards are in effect subsidising the card users.

Some have a minimum spend to try and cover the charge.

Now that is simplified as cash will also have associated overheads.

For take away it was delivery so in their case you would think people paying up front and the driver carrying no cash would be good things to have despite the cost. Although the fact that banks charge those fees in the first place pisses me off. Thankfully I have a student account but as soon as that's gone I don't know what I'll do.

Ruu · 13-08-2014 06:49PM

When you look at the breakdown of a transatlantic plane ticket, all those "fees".

XsApollo · 13-08-2014 06:57PM

Get Real wrote: »

Charging for the toilet/ having a "tip jar" is commonplace in continental Europe. Particularly in Germany.

The toilets in Germany the Sanifair ones (on the autobahns anyway) are always tended to.
They are the only toilets outside of my own house and my mothers that i actually feel comfortable sh*ting in.

You pay to use them but you get a ticket that you can use to offset the cost if you are buying in the shop.

Paddy Cow · 13-08-2014 06:59PM

When booking flights and you are charged €5 per flight. Myself and three friends were going on holiday and it was decided that one girl would pay on her credit card and we'd give her the money. It was all one transaction but we were charged €40 fcuking euro on credit card fees. It's an absolute joke.

Masala · 13-08-2014 07:02PM

Away for 2 days in Galway. Went into a Multi-storey Car Park and was charges 70c per 15 minutes. That's €2.80 an hour... the Mafia don't charge that for a hit!

Snake · 13-08-2014 07:29PM

RoboRat wrote: »

I went there because it was on the way home and I am a creature of habit, it's not the cheapest (no difference in price from the others), and there are others that are just as convenient that are also on the way home, this was the first one and I just tend to go back to the same garage.

Not sure what you mean by changing from it is costing me more than 2 cents? Changing from it makes no odds to me as all the garages in the area charge the same price, they just seem to value customers more.

If you feel there is no issue, then thats your opinion, I don't and I have taken my business elsewhere. Simples.

In fairness 2 cent is a bit stupid to charge especially breaking the notes up.. But on the flip side you're being absolutely ridiculous. I go to McDonald's in tallaght square once a day, and I don't assume I should be given free food every Friday. Don't be such a child. Jesus you'd swear they robbed money from you. You're not entitled to get the money off. And the chap who took your payment could've been told not to let people off or he didn't want to be in trouble. Please cop on and grow up. You're obviously not mature enough to drive a motorised vehicle so you might want to throw your license away before causing an accident.

Snake · 13-08-2014 07:30PM

Masala wrote: »

Away for 2 days in Galway. Went into a Multi-storey Car Park and was charges 70c per 15 minutes. That's €2.80 an hour... the Mafia don't charge that for a hit!

That's pretty standard.... 2-3 euro give or take is an average car parking charge in most large towns and cities.

Snake · 13-08-2014 07:32PM

Pippy1976 wrote: »

20c extra to use my bank card in a coffee shop,

e1 to put air in my tires .. AIR??!

Paid parking in hospitals - bloody disgrace.

Every bank charges you for using the visa debit cards.

The air doesn't just get pulled from around you, there's tanks of compressed air that have to be bought.

Well who else is going to pay to keep the carpark maintiained?

ofcork · 13-08-2014 07:34PM

One in cork charges 1.20 per 20 mins for the first two hours and 3.30 an hour after!!

chrysagon · 13-08-2014 07:36PM

A delivery guy from dominos who short changed me 5 euros.. when i said it to him, he claimed it was a tip.... i demanded it back..rang the shop and they said people often give tips... yes i replied, but I DECIDE THE EFFIN TIP... and seemly i aint the only one either

Banjo String · 13-08-2014 07:43PM

GrayFox208 wrote: »

In fairness 2 cent is a bit stupid to charge especially breaking the notes up.. But on the flip side you're being absolutely ridiculous. I go to McDonald's in tallaght square once a day, and I don't assume I should be given free food every Friday . Don't be such a child. Jesus you'd swear they robbed money from you. You're not entitled to get the money off. And the chap who took your payment could've been told not to let people off or he didn't want to be in trouble. Please cop on and grow up. You're obviously not mature enough to drive a motorised vehicle so you might want to throw your license away before causing an accident.

In fairness, he wasn't assuming he got free fuel.

Jaysus.

The sleepless nights are obviously catching up with you.

gabsdot40 · 13-08-2014 07:53PM

After spending almost 500 euro for a hotel stay they charged 3 euro extra for the kids to go on the go karts in the hotel playground

Paddy Cow · 13-08-2014 07:55PM

pickarooney wrote: »

For the love of Jasus will you just get card operated petrol pumps already and be done with this nonsense

Why can't they just calibrate pumps and have options you press such as €10, €20, €30, €40, €50 etc. It would save a lot of aggro. If you didn't want an even amount, you could just fill up as normal and pay whatever the price was.

Paddy Cow · 13-08-2014 08:20PM

rubadub wrote: »

Where is this? is it a normal italian chipper? like any in the italian chipper association? i.e. serving freshly cut thick chips usually in a small white bag inside a bigger brown bag with salt & vinegar?

I have never seen it freely on offer in any proper chipper. Now I have seen people putting in a big order and asking for ketchup on the way out and not being charged, but the chipper would still have a clear sign up saying its meant to be 20 or 30cent or so per sachet.

I have never seen a bottle out for free use in any real takeaway chipper I have been in. (it would be in combined chipper/cafes)

I have seen it in takeaways that serve chips in trays, I would not call them "chippers", the correct term is shitholes.

Don't think it specifies. Hot bread is exempt if it is still hot after cooking. If you were to toast it again after it cooled you have to pay.

I go to Charcoal Grill on a regular basis in Galway. It's a kebab chipper that does takeaway or eat in. They have bottles of ketchup and vinegar on all the tables and they also have bottles of mayo, burger sauce and ketchup left up on the counter that you can use if you are having a takeaway. It's only a little thing but it's nice that they aren't going to charge you for putting a bit of sauce on your chips/burger.

When was the last time you were outraged at a stupid charge?

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