Worst rip off experience?

[1111 1,284]

Thought this would be a interesting topic just state and talk about you're worst experience being ripped off, any where from something being over priced to just being fake or a complete lie. 

[Mothra 704]

Kinder eggs are generally overpriced these days anyway, but last week I went to buy one and the guy at the counter charged me 40p more than what the price said on the shelf.

[The Real Minty <3 217]

One of my friends was really stupid, he bought a broken xbox 360 with no games and one controller for 500 US dollars...

 

*facepalm*

[Alto 437]

i once bought one of em fake i pod rip offs

[A Black Circle 1,586]

I remember seeing a toy that was just a paperclip, branded as a MacGyver toy. One paperclip. Yeah.

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

I'm an Arizonian, we were up north on holiday and decided to go visit the Grand Canyon.... I have seen it before but my grandparents came in from Virginia and haven't seen it.... we were telling them how cool it was.... when we got there it was snowing which was very unexpected especially when you anticipate the entire state to be hot.... but that's not all.... the Canyon itself was covered in fog so you couldn't see anything.... they might as well closed the place but no they still charged people to see nothing...

 

 

  On 2015-06-09 at 12:36 AM, Peppermint Blaze said:

One of my friends was really stupid, he bought a broken xbox 360 with no games and one controller for 500 US dollars...

 

JESUS! your friend is a real idiot.... 360s were never worth that much even on release..... currently used Xbox 360s are worth barely 100 U.S. dollars and to spend that much money....

Edited June 9, 2015 by Snowflake Frostflame

[ThatOneComrade 1,091]

Right, so you know how at Gamestop you have the option of trading in games? Well, nieve 10 year old me had been buying games at the store for over two years at that point, and I'd spent most of my allowance on games. Considering I got $20 a month, I was ready for a truckload of cash. I go to the store with my dad, trade in two-years' worth of games, and I get around $50. I didn't even get to take my games back because my dad was in a hurry to arrive to the party we were attending.

 

Needless to say, I was very pissed off, and I'm still bitter about it.

[Wind Chaser 4,768]

The Kyocera Event. That phone was obsolete the day it was made.

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

  On 2015-06-09 at 12:57 AM, Pokekid543 said:

Right, so you know how at Gamestop you have the option of trading in games? Well, nieve 10 year old me had been buying games at the store for over two years at that point, and I'd spent most of my allowance on games. Considering I got $20 a month, I was ready for a truckload of cash. I go to the store with my dad, trade in two-years' worth of games, and I get around $50. I didn't even get to take my games back because my dad was in a hurry to arrive to the party we were attending.

 

Needless to say, I was very pissed off, and I'm still bitter about it.

yes Gamestop is the greedest company ever.... they only give you 10% back of what a game is actually worth.... your better selling them online.... I sold a great condition Halo ODST and got $2 for it

[baba_booey 4,303]

I haven't had many rip off experiences, but one time, I went to a retro game store and bought Crash Team Racing, and when I took it home and put it in my PSOne which I recently got, all it did was red screen. Since then, I've vowed never to shop there again. Especially since there's another retro game store in my area.

[The Awesome One 1,315]

Paying a heft price for a ticket to watch a cricket match in what was supposed to be the best enclosure but instead it turned out to be a horrible experience. Not even a roof above our heads as most international stadiums have.

[Love//Hack 819]

Instead of Nutella, we had to buy Hershey Spreads and chocolate JIFF. They ended up tasting hardly the same as Nutella for me. 

[Magic Note 2,750]

Spending over $100 (idr how much it was, it was two seats) on St. Louis Rams tickets nearly two years ago, only to find out the game was a literal barn-burner. I was bored enough that I almost fell asleep at the game.

 

I haven't been back there since, and I probably won't go there again.

Edited June 9, 2015 by Magneton

[Guest90210 3,569]

The Amazon Kindle. At least, the original incarnation. I and my siblings purchased one for my mom for mother's day a long time ago. It was a useless piece of faulty technology. It barely worked and we were never able to receive a refund.

[Clover Heart 978]

The stupid freaking cell phone I have now. They're both prepaid, so they should be comparable, but, no. I've actually considered saving money specifically to fix my old phone so I can junk this stupid piece of shit. The only reason I got this one was cuz I thought since it's cheaper, it'd be the better deal. No. I should just have bought the more expensive one or gotten mine fixed in the first place, even if that meant being phoneless for a while. First, I had to do a massive fucking run-around to get this stupid phone. I had to return home 3 times just to get everything they needed. Fuck's sake. And, like, when I got it home, I immediately hated it. It's not cuz I had to run around to get it. Although that probably didn't help. It's cuz it's a piece of shit and they can't hide that it's a piece of shit. It's more expensive than the one I got 5 years ago. It has practically no features. My old phone had a translator. This barely has a calculator. And when texting, in order to change case, you have to press the button that many times. Meaning if I want an upper-case z, I have to hit the friggin button 8 times. That's insane. My 2003 Samsung dinosaur phone had a button for changing case, for fuck's sake! Changing to kanji sucks and takes too much time. I've turned into one of those people I said I'd never turn into: those who text as lazily as possible, sacrificing all grammar, punctuation and spelling in order to make a quick text. And believe me, if I didn't have a phone that came directly out of Satan's asshole, I would bother to take the time to make sure everything was correct. But no. It seriously takes too much time. I can never send a quick fucking text. It always has to be a freaking ordeal to sent a text. First it's gotta uncompress. Uncompress what, I have no fucking idea, but it's gotta uncompress its asshole, or some stupid bullshit like that. And then, like I said, it takes forever to write anything because you gotta press every freaking button 395474840`8319895751843 times. And then, it never wants to sent it right away. It's such a fucking brat. Why can't it just send it? No. It never sends it the first time, so I gotta go back into my unsent folder, dig out the e-mail, sent it again, and then -maybe- it'll send it. I never even use my phone anymore because it pisses me off just thinking of the stupid thing. I hate it more than anything I've ever owned. This has got to be the worst thing I've ever bought. And the sucky part is that I don't have any money and you kinda need a cell phone nowadays, especially since I don't have a land line, so I'm stuck with this piece of shit until I can either get a different one or fix my old one. It's seriously depressing. I should just have saved my money. Or splurged. Now I'm stuck with this gorilla's ass of a phone. Why is this piece of shit more expensive than my last phone when it doesn't do jack shit? When it doesn't have half the features of my old phone? When just looking at it makes me wanna smash it into the wall? Such a freaking rip off. I probably would have been better off without a phone. At least that would have been something I could have used: money. I know I complained about my phone in another topic, too, but goddamn! I just hate it so much! You don't know the rage simply possessing this phone fills me with. I don't even care, as soon as I can, I will destroy it and I will love every minute of it. I don't know if I've ever hated anything so much in my entire life.

[OptimisticNeighsayer 478]

Having to go through three iPods in less than a year has convinced me that Apple is all sleekness but no substance -- or alternately, that I should probably get with the times and finally get an iPhone. 

[xenozfan3 189]

Me trying to go to ponycon New York this year. I bought an expensive vip ticket to go but this was the time that major blizzard hit the east coast in February so my flight was cancelled and couldn't reschedule a flight until 2 days later. By then it would be too late so I couldn't go. Even after I explained my situation to them they wouldn't give me a refund. The airlines and hotel did. They tried to make it up to me by sending me some con merch but even that took over 2 months for them to mail it too me.

[Sommar 1,289]

I remember one time I purchased a sandwich at a grocery store for lunch. The label read "sausage sub" and it was $2 I think. Not a bad deal right? But when I unrapped the food from 3 layers of tinfoil, I was surprised. The sub consisted of a small sub roll with three pieces of small cut up sausages and a tiny bit of mayonnaise. I know now not to purchase pre made subs from that store again.

[Envy 6,202]

Only two remote incidents that I can think of:

 

The worst one was getting a Wi-Fi Router. We were completely oblivious to wireless routers, and had no idea of what price range we were looking into. The first place we went to charged nearly $150 for one that was the best they offered. We figured that since it was the best they offered, it was a price we could expect.

 

For whatever reason we went to Walmart and I ended up going back to the bathroom which is behind electronics, on my way back I decided to check out the routers to verify that we had made the right decision... That's when I saw the router we bought for like $70... We quickly took the other one back and bought it from Walmart for half the price. lol

 

The other instance was The Sims 2's online store, and was much less severe. It sold items individually from Stuff Packs, which I could not verify paying in entirety. I wanted just a couple of objects from a Stuff Pack, so I paid $5 - $10 (forgot) to go ahead and get them. There was then a glitch and I couldn't purchase the objects I wanted. Shortly after that they decided to close down the store in a couple of months or so. They never got the problem fixed, and I never spent them because I didn't want anything else... So I got ripped off.

 

I was ticked off. Mostly because back then I didn't have a job, and that was some of the limited money I got for Christmas/Birthday that got wasted.

[Empty Room 512]

A few months ago, I was at a car boot sale and bought a copy of Make Yourself by Incubus. I didn't realise until I bought it, but when I looked at the discs, they were both the second disc, meaning that I had two copies of the bonus content.

I wasn't too happy with that.

Edited July 2, 2015 by Blackened