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When is the last time you felt ripped off?
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sixteen-bit
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Wow...that seems like a lot. Did you get other quotes or settle on them?
In most classes, if you don't buy the book new, you have to throw in an extra $50 or so to unlock the publisher's website where you have to do your homework anyway. It ends up making it about the same price, or in some cases more expensive, to buy used or rent. It's fucking criminal.
Bought a breakfast sandwich from Blue Baker (a local sandwich shop/bakery) this morning like I've been doing several times a week for quite some time now. Find out they've raised the price $1.25. $4.25 for a bagel with egg and a slice of cheese? Fuck off. Used to be able to get the same with a drink for that price. I could buy a dozen eggs, a package of cheese, and a bagel at the grocery store for that price. Generally the only time I'd ever go there was for breakfast because the rest of their menu is overpriced as hell for the baby sized portions they give you. Guess I'll just start making my own breakfast sandwiches and be happy with the savings.
Zoe
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Gotta pay for that Austin location some how.
I have a feeling the set list will be identical to 2 years ago...which was identical to the year or 2 before that. That is the rip off.
Most recently on my shitty fucking Panasonic Viera.
42-inch Plasma 1080p TV, bought in 2008 for $980. Just two weeks ago, barely three years later (bought it Nov, 2008, died end of Dec, 2011) it started displaying distorted images, which were at fist temporary but got increasingly worse. Called up Panasonic and they had no idea what was going on when I described my exact symptoms to them.
I tried fixing it myself because there was no way in hell I was trusting a TV repair shop to tell me they fixed it when they likely hadn't (if Panaosnic didn't know what was going on with their own shit, why the hell would some schmuck with a tiny repair shop?) and possibly paying them upwards of a couple hundred dollars to do nothing.
Instead I went to Costco and grabbed a brand new 50-inch LG 1080p plasma for $649. For an additional $70, I got an extra three years of warranty that stacked on top of the factory two year warranty, so my shit is covered for five years. It's a great TV too, despite the flimsy stand, so I'm quite content.
Still pissed I spent nearly a $1000 on a set that lasted barely three years. In my heart of hearts, I know Panasonic makes good stuff, but it pretty much ensured I will never buy any hardware from them again.
42-inch Plasma 1080p TV, bought in 2008 for $980. Just two weeks ago, barely three years later (bought it Nov, 2008, died end of Dec, 2011) it started displaying distorted images, which were at fist temporary but got increasingly worse. Called up Panasonic and they had no idea what was going on when I described my exact symptoms to them.
I tried fixing it myself because there was no way in hell I was trusting a TV repair shop to tell me they fixed it when they likely hadn't (if Panaosnic didn't know what was going on with their own shit, why the hell would some schmuck with a tiny repair shop?) and possibly paying them upwards of a couple hundred dollars to do nothing.
Instead I went to Costco and grabbed a brand new 50-inch LG 1080p plasma for $649. For an additional $70, I got an extra three years of warranty that stacked on top of the factory two year warranty, so my shit is covered for five years. It's a great TV too, despite the flimsy stand, so I'm quite content.
Still pissed I spent nearly a $1000 on a set that lasted barely three years. In my heart of hearts, I know Panasonic makes good stuff, but it pretty much ensured I will never buy any hardware from them again.
How can someone be surprised that cars are a rip off? Who ever said they were cheap or a good investment? They are the complete opposite. The average car owner in the US spends $7000 annually on car related expenses. Its the price of being lazy and/or living outside of a big city.
Seeing Tool play live can usually be described as many things, a ripoff is not one of them.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
Oh yeah...
I took my now ex-GF to Les Bourgois, a small vineyard off the river for Valentine's Day:
I'm not much of a cheapass when it come's to Valentine's Day. I'm okay splurging for the experience, and have had a few $200+ checks in my day for a nice night out. But this particular year, I was hurting a bit for money, as I had about $1500 in unexpected costs a couple weeks earlier. So, I wanted to save a little money.
I pick out this Les Bourgois place, as it's nice atmosphere and most plates are about $20-$25. I call ahead a week prior to setup a reservation, no problem, and make sure to ask if it'll be a standard dinner menu. The receptionist says yes, but that there will be speciality items for the evening. Cool.
We get there, get seated, and get a custom menu. Turns out, the receptionist either lied or was misinformed, and they were ONLY offering 5, 7, and 9-course dinners. At $50, $70, and $90. :-/
It's too late to leave and go somewhere - and I'm not gonna make my GF deal with that - and I'm not gonna make a scene, so I have to deal with it. Luckily, my ex is a pretty small gal, and decided on the 5-course, and I agreed.
Too bad every single item except one inferior plate for each course had a $5-$10 surcharge.
To top it off, the portions were TINY, the food only "good", and when I left, I was still hungry and just craved some McDonald's.
With a glass of wine for each of us, two 4-course meals, 4 upcharges, and tax, my "cheap" dinner ended up costing $151. The sevrice was pretty bad, but not awful. I didn't want to come off as a cheapass, so I gave a large (but proportionally small) $15 tip.
$166 for two people to eat, after being told it should cost about half that. And I was still hungry afterward.
I took my now ex-GF to Les Bourgois, a small vineyard off the river for Valentine's Day:
I'm not much of a cheapass when it come's to Valentine's Day. I'm okay splurging for the experience, and have had a few $200+ checks in my day for a nice night out. But this particular year, I was hurting a bit for money, as I had about $1500 in unexpected costs a couple weeks earlier. So, I wanted to save a little money.
I pick out this Les Bourgois place, as it's nice atmosphere and most plates are about $20-$25. I call ahead a week prior to setup a reservation, no problem, and make sure to ask if it'll be a standard dinner menu. The receptionist says yes, but that there will be speciality items for the evening. Cool.
We get there, get seated, and get a custom menu. Turns out, the receptionist either lied or was misinformed, and they were ONLY offering 5, 7, and 9-course dinners. At $50, $70, and $90. :-/
It's too late to leave and go somewhere - and I'm not gonna make my GF deal with that - and I'm not gonna make a scene, so I have to deal with it. Luckily, my ex is a pretty small gal, and decided on the 5-course, and I agreed.
Too bad every single item except one inferior plate for each course had a $5-$10 surcharge.
To top it off, the portions were TINY, the food only "good", and when I left, I was still hungry and just craved some McDonald's.
With a glass of wine for each of us, two 4-course meals, 4 upcharges, and tax, my "cheap" dinner ended up costing $151. The sevrice was pretty bad, but not awful. I didn't want to come off as a cheapass, so I gave a large (but proportionally small) $15 tip.
$166 for two people to eat, after being told it should cost about half that. And I was still hungry afterward.
Skel1ingt0n
I can't *believe* these lazy developers keep making file sizes so damn large. Btw, how does technology work?
You make it sound like it's an option for most people to not have a car...
VivaZapata
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When I had a blow out and Firestone was the only available tire shop.Needless to say a $50.00 dollar difference between a new Walmart tire vs the low end Firestone tire. Up yours Firestone!
SillyEskimo
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The warranty was still good from the previous owner. If someone else had done the work, that warranty would've been null and void. Yes, we were overcharged. That warranty had us by the balls though.
It is when you get the same show years in a row. Change up the set list a little bit. Just my opinion.
luckyboyceo
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For those of you complaining about textbooks, I echo your pain and raise you my school's newest practice:
Our required textbooks are now not even books at all. Instead, they're 400 sheets of three-hole punched paper (no binding), that you can "put into your folder for convenience!" They're priced the exact same as textbooks (my statistics one was $120), and of course the kicker, you can't sell them back.
Textbooks, biggest scam of the century.
Our required textbooks are now not even books at all. Instead, they're 400 sheets of three-hole punched paper (no binding), that you can "put into your folder for convenience!" They're priced the exact same as textbooks (my statistics one was $120), and of course the kicker, you can't sell them back.
Textbooks, biggest scam of the century.
Play more off opiate/undertow? Im all for that. 150%
You know what sucks ?
I was a member of xboxlive gold, bought one year. Then my credit card expired. A few months later, the year was over and xbox.com kept sending me emails to put my new card number so they could renew the membership. I didnt want to renew so I just ignored the mails and after the year was over, the gold service cuts off. All good.
Last week I was drunk and wanted to buy some MK9 character, so I put in my new card number. They tell me they wont accept it because I didnt give it to them when they needed it. What a bunch a bullshit. So now I cannot buy anything from xbox live. good times.
Shalashaska
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Very recently, trying to get some money rightfully owed to me from my University.
I got 2 of mine used and I'm e-renting one so I saved a ton of cash this semester. My professors all use last edition books too. I love them for that.
Last time I felt ripped off I ordered some replacement mouse skates for my mouse. Came from China. I was supposed to get 2 sets for $8 but only 1 set came with sticky material. I sent them an e-mail but no reply. Oh well.
Deified Data
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Took you that long?
ReBurn
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I'm type 1, too. I go tomorrow for the annual renegotiation of my treatments. Completely at the mercy of the insurance company.
WiiRevolution1
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Buying the Nook Touch for $140 and then B&N lowered the prise to $99 a month later.
YYOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO RELEASE A NOOK COLOR 2 NOT PRICE DROP YOUR TOUCH B&N!!!
:/
Oh well, its deffinitly worth the $140 noneless. Tho I only read 1 book on it so far since I got out of books and into games (I usually read books for 1 week-3 months then completely stop and play games instead. Then do the same for games.) but I'm getting back into books again so yay. My favorite eink device! (but I only owned a Kindle 3 before that...still use iPad as primary reader since I read at night alot.)
Besides that I never really feel ripped off.
YYOU WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO RELEASE A NOOK COLOR 2 NOT PRICE DROP YOUR TOUCH B&N!!!
:/
Oh well, its deffinitly worth the $140 noneless. Tho I only read 1 book on it so far since I got out of books and into games (I usually read books for 1 week-3 months then completely stop and play games instead. Then do the same for games.) but I'm getting back into books again so yay. My favorite eink device! (but I only owned a Kindle 3 before that...still use iPad as primary reader since I read at night alot.)
Besides that I never really feel ripped off.
PigSpeakers
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I bought dinner for a friend on new years eve. I don't feel super ripped off or anything, but I felt bad about it the next day.
/high five
Ordered a nacho bell grande from Taco Bell along with some other stuff. I didn't check the bag when they handed it to me and drove home (big mistake, my fault).
I drive 25 min home, and then realize they forgot the entire nacho bell grande.....FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU that was the main thing I was looking forward to.
Of course I was still charged for it. But I did nothing about it being so far away from the location, and I didn't feel like calling some hotlines or whatever. Oh well.
I drive 25 min home, and then realize they forgot the entire nacho bell grande.....FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU that was the main thing I was looking forward to.
Of course I was still charged for it. But I did nothing about it being so far away from the location, and I didn't feel like calling some hotlines or whatever. Oh well.
Took my sister to the apple store cause she wanted a mac air .... i told her no way and i put in the extra money for a Samsung
She didn't put out huh?
Deified Data
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So much Taco Bell hate. What'd you guys expect when you ordered?
PigSpeakers
Member
She doesn't even have the slightest interest in me that way... and I already knew that. I convinced myself I was just being good to a friend and trying to pay back all the people that have payed for me in a karma sort of way. Didn't work.
If you have to do that much convincing to feel ok buying dinner for a friend...well, they probably aren't a very good friend.
Must've been a hefty check for that type of buyers remorse.
If you played on console did you try the analog (or was it digital?) control method or did you stick with the default?
GameplayWhore
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Tried to order an HP TouchPad, didn't realize until nearly three months later that it hadn't arrived, turned out that was past the statute of limitations for PayPal intervention. Lost like $180, a good lesson. :|
edit: more like I didn't realize that the charge actually went through -- I was expecting to see it happen later on when the device shipped for some silly reason.
edit: more like I didn't realize that the charge actually went through -- I was expecting to see it happen later on when the device shipped for some silly reason.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
Bought a $70 dollar artillery cannon to cap off my fireworks display for New Year's Eve and the fucker was a dud.
VGChampion
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The latest one that was a complete waste of money that I can recall was DC Universe Online. I knew it was going to go down in price or go free but I still bought it about two weeks after launch because it looked so much fun. I had even played the beta and disliked it.
Today I had to get an oil change for my car, and with nothing in walking distance but a Popeye's, I went there for dinner.
The 3 chicken strips were tiny, the fries were few and cold, and I don't understand why they serve those awful greasy biscuits. For $8, I got a meal I'd expect off a value menu...
The 3 chicken strips were tiny, the fries were few and cold, and I don't understand why they serve those awful greasy biscuits. For $8, I got a meal I'd expect off a value menu...
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To be completely honest. Nearly every iPhone game I've spent money on a day or two later I'm like "why did I buy this?" Even the ones that were really fun the first day or two I had them. I got mad excited about Ridge Racer and GTA3. But I now I've completely completely forgotten all about them.
Trigger Warning
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