What is something you really resent paying for?

hollydolly said:
Our local airport...short term parking charges...



  • Up to 30 minutes - £10
  • Up to 1 hour - £18
  • Up to 2 hours - £22
  • Up to 4 hours - £35
  • Up to 24 hours - £62
  • Each additional 24 hours (no hourly rate) - £62
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About 20 years ago I was doing some work for the people at the JFK airport in New York. At that time short term parking was $64/day (I am sure it's more now).

I asked how they could justify charging that much, the answer was simple, people pay it, the lot was often full even at that price.
 

I resent paying for any Microsoft product. Actually, I resent paying for any software. Software is intangible, which makes me feel like I'm paying for nothing, kind of like having to pay for air. And I'm a software engineer! (Ex-software engineer, that is.) I'll spend half a day trying to find a free software product rather than pay $20 or whatever the cost, so it's kind of irrational on my part.
 

Don M. said:
Our expenses, for most things, seem reasonable. Perhaps the one thing I would like to see change is the TV subscription. We pay for about 225 channels...200 of which we seldom, if ever, view. I would like to see a TV service that allowed the user to chose only the channels they like to view, and are charged accordingly.
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Australia has free to air TV
Sure, only 25 channels, with some of them nothing but repeats, but we have always had free to air.
Has the UK/US had paid TV service since it's inception?
 
Aunt Bea said:
Doesn't charging people for parking at the shopping mall or the grocery store drive more people to Amazon and end up hurting local businesses. :unsure:
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Does not seem to have any effect.
I am sure some people would go elsewhere but the one time I went to the pay for parking shopping centre, it was almost 100% full.
4,300 car bays.
It took me 20 minutes to get out of the multilevel car park. :rolleyes:
 
Jules said:
Resort fees at a hotel. I don’t need the newspaper, bottle of water, free local calls, etc. Resorts fee are just a way to hide what they’re really charging so you can’t do a fair comparison when reviewing different hotels.
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Accommodation prices here are overpriced, in my opinion.
I like to be frugal and sometimes when I look at place to go, I will quite often skip whole towns because they all seem to collude and have excessive pricing.
Another issue I find is that many accommodation places do not display prices.
"Ring business for prices"
Well, in hunting around for the best price, those that display this message do not even get a look in.
Plus I let them know as well.
I simply state that this particular marketing strategy has it's draw backs and may lose them business.
 
Lewkat said:
So are ours. But, if you take your ticket in with you, it will be validated and no charge. But not for visiting someone in hospital.
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Not here it won't.. you pay you lose.... except there are some hospitals..not all, but some where if you're a cancer patient or on kidney dialysis and are at the hospital several days a week.. you can get some kind of dispensation ..but otherwise no we are out of pocket for hospital parking charges...
 
When I worked downtown for a Hotel chain, the price for parking was $40.00 per night.
It was Valet parking only and many times I'd find that they had parked a car in my reserved spot.
Had to get out of my car, find a valet with those keys and wait while they moved the car out of my spot.

Guess if you could afford the $200.00 plus for a night, 40 bucks wasn't a big deal.

Viva, NashVegas!:)
 
Feelslikefar said:
When I worked downtown for a Hotel chain, the price for parking was $40.00 per night.
It was Valet parking only and many times I'd find that they had parked a car in my reserved spot.
Had to get out of my car, find a valet with those keys and wait while they moved the car out of my spot.

Guess if you could afford the $200.00 plus for a night, 40 bucks wasn't a big deal.

Viva, NashVegas!:)
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I think £40 is a lot on £200 ... in London.. and even some places in the UK outside of London, hotel rooms can be £30,000 per night.. yep you heard me right.lol... so Paying a £100 valet parking is a drop in the ocean
 
A little off the subject, but I remember worrying about the exchange rate when we lived in the UK.
We rented of course and we had to convert our US dollars at the bank on base to Pounds to pay the rent.
The exchange rate changed daily, and we did our best to do the switch on the low points.
It I remember correctly; the rate back then was something like $1.98 to 2.00 to the Pound.
Seeing the rate at $ 1.35 to the pound, makes me want to move back.:)
 
hollydolly said:
We have that... we can choose the TV package we wish in the UK. For example I choose not to have sports channels or disney or children's channels..or movie channels ( I can watch movies on Netflix if I want ) .. so I pay much less than someone who has a full package deal.....however we also have to pay an annual tv licence just for the privilege of watching tv..( or more specifically the ability to receive the broadcasts from te BBC which carries no advertising , which also includes radio )..we pay around £160... if we're caught without one we face up to £1000 fine, and or prison time.. I kid you not, many people have been imprisoned for being too poor to buy a TV licence... ..so I would love to see the end of that..
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TV and radio licences were ditched decades ago in OZ. We have multiple free to air channels and the ABC, which has an amazing range of programs is totally free.

I pay for Netflix at $15.99 per month which is affordable.

I object to paying subscriptions for paywalled media. I don't want to be captured by just one source. I would happily pay a general copyright fee that allows access to multiple sources so that I can browse.
 
I hate the fairly recent subscription model for software. Used to be that you bought a program for your computer and that was that. You owned the program in perpetuity. These days though, so many programs have converted to a subscription service where you can either pay monthly, usually at a steep rate, or yearly, usually at a somewhat discounted rate. VPN’s and Antivirus suites are (and pretty much always have been) notorious for this. But more and more program developers are using this tactic.
 
Don M. said:
Our expenses, for most things, seem reasonable. Perhaps the one thing I would like to see change is the TV subscription. We pay for about 225 channels...200 of which we seldom, if ever, view. I would like to see a TV service that allowed the user to chose only the channels they like to view, and are charged accordingly.
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