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[Nikitas]

TV licenses are a ripoff everywhere. In Greece the charge for the state network ERT is in the electric bill, which means that those with more than one house pay it over and over.

BBC is still no ads? On radio podcasts I sometimes get there are adverts, and on their site too.

[miltiades]

No 9 on my Rip off list.
Vehicle Insurance Companies.

I have had a long driving career, both personal car and business vehicles.

Over the years I have never had a claim either personal or business, yet year by year MY insurance PREMIUM GOES UP.

About a year ago my car, whilst in the care of my son, was stolen, it was a Friday afternoon. Naturally I first called the Police to report the theft and then the Insurance company, it was late afternoon. About an hour or less the police rung me and informed me that the car was found, not far from where it was stolen. It was approaching closing time at 5pm so I made my way to where the car was and recovered it.

I drove home, well after 7pm by the time I reached home.
Saturday morning I tried calling the insurance company but of course being a Saturday their offices were closed.
Sunday I drove my car, did some food shopping and visited my older brother for Sunday lunch.

Monday morning drove to work, switched on my PC and checked, as I always do each morning, my emails.

An email was there sent on Friday late afternoon, acknowledging my reported theft and informing me that my insurance was cancelled, standard procedure I belive when a vehicle is reported stolen. Fair enough I thought, so I called the insurance at 9 am and informed them that my car was found and that no damage occurred, a joyrider no doubt.

The insurance informed me that as my insurance was cancelled it now had to be re instated and that there was a reinstated charge of £63.00 !!!

I was not amused but I ended up paying since the insurance would not otherwise be re instated .

I protested vigorously also expressing my dismay that on collecting my car on Friday night and driving it on Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning I was not insured.

I followed it up with a very stern email and managed to recover just under £40 from the ludicrous charge made earlier of £63.

The law of course is on the side of Insurance companies, pay up or commit an offence.

[Sotos]

Sorry to butt in miltiades but one of my rip off Britain bug bears

http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/sn ... nch-and-up
Dell UltraSharp U3014 from dell UK - £1149 - approx. 1780 usd

from dell us site
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod ... u=225-4429

1222.99 USD

that pisses me off. Still not as bad as it used to be. I remember my very first computer I ever owned - an Atari 400 - was £350 in the UK shops and was 350USD in the US and that was at a time when £1 was worth around 2USD. So better than then but still rip of Britain as far as I am concerned (or rip of Dell maybe ?)

Is there any particular reason you want to buy it direct from Dell?
EUR 1.036,48 at Amazon.it. EUR 1.053,24 including shipping to Cyprus, EUR 1.063,68 including express 2-4 day shipping to Cyprus. They seem to just have one in stock currently. In Amazon.de they had it for €987 during April.
http://www.amazon.it/dp/B00BOMYPRM

[miltiades]

No 8 on my Rip Off list.
Congestion charge, just like parking meters, was introduced under the pretext of easing the traffic congestion in central London and reducing emission. Regardless of what the so called experts are telling us, both the congestion charge and parking meters were introduced primarily as a revenue generator for the councils, Transport For London etc.

When congestion charge was first introduced the facility to register your vehicle/s by giving TFL your debit card details so that they would automatically charge you if you forgot or missed the fact that you had entered the CC Zone was not available becoming so a year or so ago. For each vehicle that you register a charge of £10 applies upfront.
Another way of raising millions of pounds from the motorists, nothing whatsoever to do with reducing traffic or fumes in central London.
Only two other European cities have introduced this con. Rome and Stockholm. London however leads the way in methods design to raise revenue from the motorists.

[Garavnoss]

Oh come on now "Lick Arse", Just make a list of the "10 Rip Offs" you want to have a rant about and have done with it, the prospect of having to wait for days on end to discover what your views are is more painful than a good kick in the bollocks, have a bit of mercy for God's sake, this is likely to develop into a "Savage Attack" on the intelligence of us all.

[miltiades]

Not wishing to bore anyone with this " light hearted " thread, but one that most will be find both informative, factual and in a way entertaining, I will post after 100 views, otherwise I could end up like some idiot who posts crap just for the sake of it. Nobody wants to read or interact with a fucking idiot, does one ?

[cypriotnado]

Here are a few of mine.

Airline fees - the ones where they charge you for using a credit card or when you have to pay extra to check a bag

Cowboy builders - UK has so many. They usually invent things that dont need fixing or make out the problem is worse then it is. Then they ask for cash in hand as they are doing you a big favour.......hmmm!

All extra bank charges especially when you use your cards abroad - as I do all the time.

[Paphitis]

Here are a few of mine.

Airline fees - the ones where they charge you for using a credit card or when you have to pay extra to check a bag

Cowboy builders - UK has so many. They usually invent things that dont need fixing or make out the problem is worse then it is. Then they ask for cash in hand as they are doing you a big favour.......hmmm!

All extra bank charges especially when you use your cards abroad - as I do all the time.

The Airlines that charge for luggage are Low Cost Carriers, who have to charge you if you want to have a luggage allowance otherwise they can't cover their costs.

As for Credit Card charges - they have the right to charge you extra to cover their Merchant Fees.

[Garavnoss]

Not wishing to bore anyone with this " light hearted " thread, but one that most will be find both informative, factual and in a way entertaining, I will post after 100 views, otherwise I could end up like some idiot who posts crap just for the sake of it. Nobody wants to read or interact with a fucking idiot, does one ?

Well said "Lick Arse", you ALMOST completed a response without the use of bad language, I am immensely pleased with your progress and I am sure you will soon be able to communicate [even with your 3rd] without using obscene expressions, keep it up, good chap.

[cypriotnado]

Here are a few of mine.

Airline fees - the ones where they charge you for using a credit card or when you have to pay extra to check a bag

Cowboy builders - UK has so many. They usually invent things that dont need fixing or make out the problem is worse then it is. Then they ask for cash in hand as they are doing you a big favour.......hmmm!

All extra bank charges especially when you use your cards abroad - as I do all the time.

The Airlines that charge for luggage are Low Cost Carriers, who have to charge you if you want to have a luggage allowance otherwise they can't cover their costs.

As for Credit Card charges - they have the right to charge you extra to cover their Merchant Fees.

Your right in the main but BA even charge now for checked luggage on some European routes and also for advance seat selection So its not just budgets anymore its creeping in to other airlines.

The fees I am talking abt are foreign loading fee applied by some cards not all. They make money on the exchange rate and add a fee when used abroad. Why some cards and not all?