15 Biggest Ripoffs You’re Still Paying For

5 – Extended Warranties,

• So you’ve bought a piece of furniture or big, hefty appliance and you want to make damn sure your investment hasn’t gone to waste, so you take on the extended warranty, usually 5 years
• Of course, more often than not you’ll be paying a premium for this service guarantee, perhaps as much as a typical repair would cost
• To sum up: you’re insuring your purchase for a repair over a period where you almost certainly won’t have any operating issues, when you could, y’know, wait till it breaks and call a repairman for the same price

4 – Hotel Mini-Bar,

• They already know, man, the hotel owners know you’re gonna rock up to your room, exhausted from a hard day’s work or travel, so they stock the fridge or bar with all kinds of nonsense
• The markup is one of the biggest rip-offs on Earth – over a thousand percent just so you can have your mars bar at 1am, and people fall into that trap all the time
• It’s really easy to bypass though – just anticipate your midnight cravings and visit a convenience store or supermarket ahead of time, stock up on inexpensive calorie-ridden sweets for an all-night buffet

3 – Movie Popcorn,

• These two words go hand-in-hand since the dawn of cinema, so tightly fused that nobody would dare speak up against it, like bacon and eggs for breakfast it’s just a part of culture now
• Of course you don’t want to be that one idiot who refuses to shell out $15 for a tub of popcorn for your family, and even though it costs pennies to produce, you’re still buying a product marked up by a thousand percent
• The reason? According to industry analysts, theatres barely make anything from ticket sales alone, so they need to rely on popcorn and candy sales

2 – Razor Blades,

• And here we have the most often stolen item in any supermarket, the hilariously overpriced razor blade
• You know something is wrong when, like printers, the main unit is sold dirt cheap and you look over to the accessory section only to get a nosebleed and burst eye vessels
• Popcorn and hotel snacks might be marked up by a thousand percent, but razor blades approach 5 times that, for a blade on a strip used to cut facial hair, an essential tool if you plan to work at any job, ever
• Rumours suggest all razor companies conspire to keep the prices high, and they’ve always been that way

1 – Lottery Ticket

• Generally referred to as the “idiot tax”, an alternative to cutting your dollar notes into little pieces by instead handing it over a desk for a slip of paper worth nothing
• The chances of you actually winning the lottery are so low, so minute that you literally have a better chance of getting killed on your way to buy the ticket than you do to actually win the jackpot
• Of course, for some people it’s all about the possibility of winning, gives them hope every week – and even though you and I know it’s a waste of time, for a lot of others it means everything, and I’m alright with that

 

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