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[BobsRevenge]

I was tricked by the commercials for the Taco Bell triple steak stack thing. Big chunks of fajita beef! Loaded with cheese!

...no. It was nasty shredded beef with undercooked cheese. My aftermath shit looked more like respectable fajita beef than whatever had hidden in that flatbread and died.

(not my picture, but looked just like this)


Thanks a lot Taco Bell. You marketing wizards! :{

Second pic looks way more appetizing to me. Like a disgusting cheesesteak gone deliciously wrong.

 

[tapedeck]

Last time I watched a Cowboys game.

 

[Sye d'Burns]

Second pic looks way more appetizing to me. Like a disgusting cheesesteak gone deliciously wrong.

Unfortunately it tastes like it was scraped from the drainpipes.

 

[Kosmo]

Any time the refs get involved in a Lions game.

 

[mf.luder]

When I bought GAFgold.

 

[Complex Shadow]

every time i go to the movies. =/

 

[VeryGooster]

Any time I spent a quarter on a bag of Wise chips. More air than chips.

 

[moojito]

I once had a car that would randomly cut out on me. I took it to a garage and paid like £200 for the mechanics there and some electronics specialist to check it out and tell me they had no idea what was causing it. Good times.

 

[Salmonax]

When I succumbed to a Threadless sale. God damn are those shirts pieces of shit. I'd be better off cutting holes in a potato sack.

 

[LakeEarth]

Oh yeah, I'm going to agree with XBL. I enjoy XBL, but they renewed my account without any "your account is about to expire!" warning emails. I swear they used to do this, this time they just went and charged me.

And they are pissing me off right now cause they won't let me delete my credit card off of xbox.com.

 

[SykoTech]

Everytime time I buy/rent books for college. Even online.

 

[moojito]

Oh yeah, I'm going to agree with XBL. I enjoy XBL, but they renewed my account without any "your account is about to expire!" warning emails. I swear they used to do this, this time they just went and charged me.

And they are pissing me off right now cause they won't let me delete my credit card off of xbox.com.

The good thing about this kind of asshattery is when your credit card itself is about to expire and then they're all like "oh, your details are going to expire soon! please give us the new card details, it'll be better this time" while you wave a giant middle finger at the screen.

 

[EYEL1NER]

Last time I felt ripped off?
In the B/S/T thread when I bought an iPod Touch from ReconYoda and never got the item or my money back. $180 fucking down the drain.

That was Nov 2010. I don't really feel ripped off too much I suppose. When I do feel bad about a purchase, I realize it's because I didn't do my homework on it or research something enough or got in over my head. I try to shop smart too. But that one was just my bad luck. Didn't know I was going to be dealing with someone that dirty.

Maybe more recent than the iTouch, maybe not, but another time I remember getting ripped off was at Walmart. I was pushing the cart down the toy aisle with my daughter and saw a toy called "Millions of Bubbles." It was a bubble gun that was supposed to produce a ton of bubbles. I think it ran me $5. My two-year old was so excited when we got home, I opened it, and then...nothing. It didn't work at all. The fan-blades on it were almost like felt, they were soft so kids didn't fuck themselves up with the blades. But they were too soft to support the weight of the bubble solution. Pissed me off quite a bit.

 

[MIMIC]

I was tricked by the commercials for the Taco Bell triple steak stack thing. Big chunks of fajita beef! Loaded with cheese!

...no. It was nasty shredded beef with undercooked cheese. My aftermath shit looked more like respectable fajita beef than whatever had hidden in that flatbread and died.

(not my picture, but looked just like this)


Thanks a lot Taco Bell. You marketing wizards! :{

Haha, this.

My order was thoroughly cooked and tasted great, but it didn't look ANYTHING like the advertisement.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Every WWE Main Event I've paid for in the last 3 years
Audley Harrison vs David Haye
Papa John's when they removed my Cheese and charged me full price

 

[Glorious_Paradox]

-Paying full price for FFXIII. What a travesty. RIP Square.
-Paying $10 for Oblivion. Even at such a low price I felt bad for supporting such a comically bad game.

 

[Skel1ingt0n]

College, college...

...

... and college.

Not the education itself. I've been graduated since May (!) and still don't have a job :-/ But I know that *eventually* the degree will have been worth it, and so I don't complain too much. However, it's the small things that schools do to f*** you that drive me nuts.

Take, for example, text books. In so many ways do you get screwed, even when you do it "right" and buy used from online sellers rather than new from the bookstore.

I had a class in which a $227 book was REQUIRED for the class. Haha, right? I'll just borrow a friends! Nope, the professor did random "book checks" five times during the semester, and if you didn't have yours, it was -2% from your grade. The best part? We used the book ONE.FUCKING.TIME. - and it was for homework. I never opened the book ONCE in class.

Or, for example, when the book that's required is written by the professor, so they can get extra income. I had to buy a $90 book, new, that was less than 75 pages. And all it had were questions that you had to read and then answer in the space provided. You couldn't write answers on a blank paper - only from the book. And then you ripped out your answers. Thus, making the book worthless for resale.

And so on, and so forth.

And then there's the bullshit fees.

$96/semester goes to rec center fees, even if you don't use it.
$149/semester goes to "athletic fees", even though tickets to 99.9% of the events still cost money.
$47/semester go to "psyche fees." Most schools have these. Guess what they're for? To support students who have difficult times re-adjusting or getting along with their peers or handling school, and they need to get evaluations done. But everyone pays :-/
$229/semester goes to student government fees. I can understand this one. It's fine. Except for the fact of... what the hell are they doing?! Our tuition and fees go up every.single.year... so what am I supporting? lol
$10 here
$25 there
etc, etc.


And then classes that are required - but have NOTHING to do with your major. I was a journalism major, with an emphasis in strategic communication (PR, marketing, advertising, etc). I had to take 13 credits of French. THIRTEEN.

At $690/credit.

$690 x 13 credits = $8,970 + books = ~$9,500 on a foreign language that has NOTHING to do with my degree, I will never use, and just two years later I have almost entirely forgotten. I couldn't ask you where the restrooms are in french at this point.


/rant

 

[NervousXtian]

Recently? Watching that joke of an BCS Title Game. Only good thing is it was so damned bad we'll probably get a playoff now.

 

[aronnov reborn]

when i ate at texas roadhouse with just my wife and my baby girl.... we never go out to eat because it's a waste of money and we were reminded when we got the check.. $59.... no thanks.

 

[Rubbish King]

$60 for GAF Gold.

I know that feel bro

 

[Syph Medwes]

When I bought Brink at launch.

 

[Krakatoa]

3ds Launch day.

 

[thezerofire]

Brink

 

[Salmonax]

when i ate at texas roadhouse with just my wife and my baby girl.... we never go out to eat because it's a waste of money and we were reminded when we got the check.. $59.... no thanks.

Price aside, if you rarely eat out, don't waste it on a chain restaurant.

 

[Sye d'Burns]

College, college...

$47/semester go to "psyche fees." Most schools have these. Guess what they're for? To support students who have difficult times re-adjusting or getting along with their peers or handling school, and they need to get evaluations done. But everyone pays :-/

You're going to love Obamacare.

 

[ArtistDude88]

My check engine light came on in my car a while back, so I took it to a NAPA auto shop. They wanted to charge me over $100 just to see WHY the check engine light was on by hooking a diagnostic tool up. Then they would of proceeded to charge me out the ass for any repairs, I'm sure.

I know what the diagnostic tool is. It's a $99 device you can get at any Wal-Mart that they hook up to your car's computer which spits out error codes.

I gave the mechanic behind the counter a disgusted look and walked out. I can only imagine how many people they rip off doing this.

I ended up unhooking my car battery over night and and letting it reset the light. It never came on again.

 

[speedline]

Paid over $350 to a mechanic for what equaled up to being a tuneup. He was supposed to fix some sluggish engine issues and a tune up is a good idea, but that wasn't the problem. I took it to the dealer and got it fixed right for less than $250. Will go to the dealer first for now on.

 

[bengraven]

Gamestop, three years ago.

I had ZERO gas in my car and ZERO dollars in my bank account.

I was trying to sell some games until my paycheck got there - I had to take whatever they gave me because I could not get home without at least a few bucks.

They gave me $11 cash for 7 Xbox 360 and DS games including Oblivion CE with all components. I had to take it.

 

[friskykillface]

3ds Launch day.

this.

I will wait with wii u now.



other times have been when i was an idiot and bought a "new" game at gamestop, smh at it being opened and labeled as new, i was a stupid kid

 

[Indrid Cold1]

The other day I ordered wan tun noodle soup from my local takeaway, got delivered and didn't have any fucking noodles in it. Noodles cost an extra £1 quid. I was pissed right off.

Before noodle-gate it would have to be paying £25 quid for Deus Ex Human Revolution.

 

[FStop7]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 + Call of Duty Elite

The biggest waste of a hundred bucks in recent memory.

 

[.GqueB.]

Just got a bag of baked Doritos that was criminally under-filled. Way more air than usual.

 

[.GqueB.]

I was tricked by the commercials for the Taco Bell triple steak stack thing. Big chunks of fajita beef! Loaded with cheese!

...no. It was nasty shredded beef with undercooked cheese. My aftermath shit looked more like respectable fajita beef than whatever had hidden in that flatbread and died.

(not my picture, but looked just like this)


Thanks a lot Taco Bell. You marketing wizards! :{

LMAO!!! I just cracked up pretty hard at work.

 

[NEOPARADIGM]

Bought the full Fight Night Champion game ($30) when the story mode was five bucks. Realized I paid $25 for a shitty career mode and online that I won't use.

Totally my fault though.

 

[sixteen-bit]

When I bought Rayman Origins last week for $60.

Ouvh, what's the return policy?

 

[Ultratech]

Hmm...

I could spend half a day talking about College.
What else...paid $7 for a Chicken Strip Basket (+Drink) at Dairy Queen...GODDAMN it was a rip-off.
That's it for lately.

Just got a bag of baked Doritos that was criminally under-filled. Way more air than usual.

Friend of mine once got one that had nothing but air in it. Major disappointment.

Last time I watched a Cowboys game.

Well played, good sir.

 

[Kisaya]

Buying Pokemon Mystery Dungeon :/
There's probably something else but I can't remember it lol

 

[Forearms]

Car dealership...wife bought a car and the salesperson briefly mentioned some security window etching. He didn't give us a choice to say yes or no therefore we thought this was included with the car. It wasn't until we were signing the financing papers that we saw the $200 tacked on charge for this and at that point the etching was already done. I was fucking mad as hell but my wife didn't want me to make a scene and spoil what was an otherwise happy moment for her.

In the grand scheme of things it's only $200 but man fuck that salesperson for pulling that shit. What a scam.

The wife and I just picked up a car last week. They tried to sell this to us - we declined.

The windows are probably already etched, and the fee is to transfer the service to your name - not to have them etched after the fact.

 

[ReBurn]

This morning. Went to automatic car wash, paid $8, car wash was broken. Customer service number for the car wash was disconnected. No car wash, no refund. :/

 

[Kazerei]

I was on a road trip when my car's check engine light and traction control light went on. Not wanting to chance it, I took it to a dealership to have it serviced. Cost $1100 and they told me they had to fiddle with some parameters or adjust some sensors or some shit. Thankfully my friends helped pay for part of it.

 

[Peasant Princess-King]

When I was told that my insulin prescriptions were going to cost me $500-$600 today. I was like O.O... Then I was like :[

I didnt pay it but every time I get an insulin refil I feel it is getting more and more expensive to stay alive. The insurance companies sure like to play fast and loose with your life. :/

 

[Axion22]

Not enough to justify the cost. It's like $1.60 per year.

With or without the APR?

 

[ReBurn]

When I was told that my insulin prescriptions were going to cost me $500-$600 today. I was like O.O... Then I was like :[

I didnt pay it but every time I get an insulin refil I feel it is getting more and more expensive to stay alive. The insurance companies sure like to play fast and loose with your life. :/

The cost of diabetes management sucks. :/

 

[Ryaaan14]

Surprise $100 late fee for being 3 days late on rent.

 

[CrankyJay]

With or without the APR?

Not sure what you mean. The insurance guy said it would only save us a few bucks a year and the etching was $200...we'd have to own the car for like 20+ years to get ROI.

APR on the financing was 0% over 60 months, so not sure what that has to do with this.

 

[SillyEskimo]

I paid 5.5k to have my roof repaired last summer. It took 2 men (ages 60 and 19) 4 hours to complete the work. All of the debris fit inside a single hefty garbage bag. Posting this makes me mad all over again.

 

[Annihilator]

I lost about 5k selling a car a year later after purchasing it. That was like 5-6 years ago...that's more of being stupid than ripped off but whatever.

Something recent..hmm I bought a new tv recently and like a month later it was $100 cheaper but that's to be expected.

 

[G-Fex]

everytime I loan my friend money.

Also paying for food at jack in the box

 

[KingK]

Yesterday when I bought textbooks for this semester.

 

[Peasant Princess-King]

The cost of diabetes management sucks. :/

Yeah it does. I usually pay $30-$40 per insulin and I take two. I have been having Type 1 Diabetes since I was 8 and I'm 23 now. Aside from having it for so long, I'm not much of a liability. I've never passed out or had a seizure, I eat right, exercise but none of that matters. Insurance companies only want to cover people who are healthy because that gives them the most gain. They hate people like me who actually need it because they actually have to pay for stuff. They pretty much dictate what you can take because they don't want to cover other alternatives. It is shitty. And that is just insulin costs. There is also the cost of medical visits and additional prescriptions like code strips for blood monitoring, lab work, insurance deductibles, quick pens in case of emergencies, copays and lots of additional items. It's not enough to have a disease that kills you nice and slow, insurance companies have to nickel and dime you as well. Meh... So miffed right now.