The rip off thread

[Borry]

Taxis.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Bottled Water

Hey gather in, I have a secret. That bottled water you're paying $3 for 600ml for, it's 100% free from the tap. Shhhh don't tell anyone though

 

[BotsMaster]

Taxis.

should be a $1 per km.

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Jack Anthony

Hey, at least he was only a PSD pick, we wasted two draft picks on Richard Tambling.

 

[bresker]

1.25L bottles of soft drink, why get a bottle for $1.99 when the 2L version is the same price, I shit you not at some IGAs and Woolies, or like only 20-50 cents more dearer.

Same goes for 600ml bottles in the milk bar or servo. Extra 80c gets you 1.25l - twice as much soft drink.

Shits me when Woolies sells Pepsi Max 1.25 litres for a dollar and they sell out. I have a strong addiction to Pepsi Max.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

Taxis, movies, the usual fancy restaurants get away with murder.

A slab of Wild Turkey is incredulously expensive.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Bottled Water

Hey gather in, I have a secret. That bottled water you're paying $3 for 600ml for, it's 100% free from the tap. Shhhh don't tell anyone though

taste like aids though. best thing I've done was put a tank in and feeding the rain water into it.... fresh.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

taste like aids though. best thing I've done was put a tank in and feeding the rain water into it.... fresh.

Can't say I have tasted Aids.......

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Can't say I have tasted Aids.......

It tastes like tap water.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

It tastes like tap water.

Obviously you don't live in Melbourne. Best tap water in the world buddy

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Obviously you don't live in Melbourne. Best tap water in the world buddy

I'll stick with my tank water but well done Melbourne for the best tap water in the world.

 

[PP34]

Foxtel

 

[badveins]

Going to the Movies. (In Aus)
Premium Vodka, vodka is meant to just be pure spirit mixed with water. The amount of times its distilled determines the "purity and lack of congeners"
Those socks that are invisible!
All the Targeted Nurofen and Panadol they sell for back pain and period pain, its all the same.
Anything in Australia which is run by Oligopolies/Monopolies (supermarkets, cable tv etc)

 

[Scotland]

+1 for taxis. The most annoying things IMO are the fact that the meter goes up whether you're moving or not and the flagfalls, call out fees, surchages etc.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

Foxtel.

/thread

 

[BALKAN]

Public transport
Movie tickets and food at the cinemas
Parking in general

 

[Plugger35]

Movie prices are ridic.

I went to see Wolf of Wall Street on a tightarse Tuesday expecting to pay about $10 as usual but they charged me $16 and I said I don't want to sit in gold class with f***ing 3D glasses and champagne, just give me the tightarse tuesday cinema option. Apparently that was the tightarse tuesday cinema option but because it was R rated you had to pay extra just to see some ****, ass and drug use. That never used to be the case.

Beer on tap in some Perth bars are charging over 10 bucks now for a pint which is highway robbery.

Most things in Perth are a ripoff though, being so isolated we have no other option but to suck it up.

 

[Jordie_tackles]

Agree with Perth beer and food prices, was there 3 years ago and was getting charged 10-11 bucks a pint.

VIC is still just over the 9odd bucks atm

 

[CLUBMEDhurst]

Was expecting more from this thread.

I feel ripped off

 

[Gasometer]

Foxtel

x 2 Foxtel.

 

[Papa Juggs]

Food, petrol, electricity, games. It's all one big "**** you Aussies, you can afford to pay more HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA".

Sometimes I just want to live in some poor ass country for a while just so the cost of living doesn't feel like it's bending me over just for being alive.

 

[TassieEagle]

Vidya games, Australians pay through the nose for them. Complete rip off

 

[ioppolo]

Movie tickets. Americans pay about half of what we do at the cinemas.

 

[Plugger35]

Movie tickets. Americans pay about half of what we do at the cinemas.

They pay a lot less for CDs, DVDs and clothes too. You can also buy cartons of beer in supermarkets there for around $10 or less.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Although Taxi's are expensive, they need to be. It's not like Taxi drivers are making massive dollars