Your worst rip off ever?

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Aftermath

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$1800 for a car that cost me well over $2k in the past 12 months for repairs/replacements alone.
 
XZeroII

XZeroII

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I went to a McDonalds in LasVegas and ordered some breakfast. Here in WI, if you ask for it to be supersized, they will take off the breakfast drink and replace it with a supersized drink for the $39 cents. Well, they didn't take off the old drink, so I charged for 2 drinks for each meal. I was going to go up and complain, but then decided to quietly hate them for the rest of my life.
 
rudder

rudder

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Paying tuition. If I had invested my tuition money in Dell I could have bought the university and gotten a degree much easier.
 
MattCo

MattCo

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I would have to say any new car I have ever purchased. The fact that you drive it off the lot and it devalues 2 or 3 grand has to suck. 5 years later a $30,000 vehicle is now worth $6,000 trade in on a new $30,000 car. Not to mention that the life expectancy on the damn things is so short. Of course you can keep one for 10 years but it requires new transmissions, altenators, clutches, front-ends, tires, belts, batteries, plugs, etc. that ends up costing as much as a new one.

-MC
 
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TommyVercetti

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Originally posted by: XZeroII
I went to a McDonalds in LasVegas and ordered some breakfast. Here in WI, if you ask for it to be supersized, they will take off the breakfast drink and replace it with a supersized drink for the $39 cents. Well, they didn't take off the old drink, so I charged for 2 drinks for each meal. I was going to go up and complain, but then decided to quietly hate them for the rest of my life.
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That's your worst rip off?
 
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fs5

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One time I spent $0.99 on juicyfruit strappleberry gum. It lasted me like 2 seconds. I posted a thread about it a few months back. let me find it.
 
anxi80

anxi80

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Originally posted by: MattCo
I would have to say any new car I have ever purchased. The fact that you drive it off the lot and it devalues 2 or 3 grand has to suck. 5 years later a $30,000 vehicle is now worth $6,000 trade in on a new $30,000 car. Not to mention that the life expectancy on the damn things is so short. Of course you can keep one for 10 years but it requires new transmissions, altenators, clutches, front-ends, tires, belts, batteries, plugs, etc. that ends up costing as much as a new one.

-MC
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bought a pontiac huh? :p

edit: fixed pontiac typo.
 
Spike

Spike

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Originally posted by: rudder
Paying tuition. If I had invested my tuition money in Dell I could have bought the university and gotten a degree much easier.
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lol, gotta agree with that. The second worst ripoff was probably when I bought that stupid lime-green plaid shirt at Old Navy. True, it only cost $1 but that was probably the worst $1 I ever used and that inlcudes the one I burned just to see what color the flame was.

-spike
 
anxi80

anxi80

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Originally posted by: godspeedx
Originally posted by: anxi80
3 words...

reloaded and revolutions.
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16 bucks? That's not too bad.
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didnt go to school last semester, so no student id discount. so, it was actually $18. :D

edit: also, it took 4 hours of my life that ill never get back, plus the money to buy $4 popcorn and $4 sodas.
 
AMCRambler

AMCRambler

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Jan 23, 2001
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Got you all beat. I bought a 1965 Rambler off Ebay for a parts car. Supposedly running, just hard to start. Paid $1000 to have it shipped from Oklahoma to NY. It got here and you guessed it. No it didn't run. It was timed incorrectly and the starter motor wasn't even bolted to the engine block. The seller definitely described the car as in better condition than it was. Even still I was able to get the motor running and used it in my 66 Rambler, so it wouldn't have been that bad a deal for $1200, but the shipping costing a grand killed it($2200 altogether). I'll never buy another car sight unseen, parts car or not. I can't get mad though because I knew I was taking a chance and of course it bit me.
 
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nebula

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When I built my first computer I bought all the parts off the internet. I needed one more part, a floppy drive, to complete the system. Pricewatch listed Compu-U-Plus as being the cheapest, like $5. But their cheapest shipping option is $15 I called to ask if I could get anything cheaper, the answer was no, so I placed the order. I don't know WTH I was thinking. Sure I got it fast but I didn't need it that fast!

At least I still have that drive so I'm getting my money's worth! Like I ever use it anymore.
 
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Ticks

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i bought a used cd player for my car when i was 16 from a local juvenile delinquent/degenerate for 50 bucks. Well, he got it installed but it would not work properly. To test it out i put a cd in. It ate the cd and would not give it back. We took it back out of the car and i explained to the nice young man that it wasnt working. He took it and said he would get my cd out and find out what was wrong with the cd player. I never saw any of it again :(

lesson learned. Don't buy stuff from ruffians.
 
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