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[Closed] "We're here to make sure you don't get ripped off"

robdob · 2010-11-29T09:57:54Z

At home ill today and watching boring daytime TV. "Rip-Off Britain" comes on. First case, bloke goes 8p overdrawn so bank charges him £28. He rings up and says he can pay that in a week or two. Bank says, no, you're overdrawn so you need to pay it back. Long story short, he leaves it for 2 years as he can't afford it and it ends up with £250 worth of charges. He has to borrow money off family to pay this which he then pays back in 2 weeks. Eh? Second case, bloke has been told his rate for his CC is going up from 24 to 29% and he is not happy (its legal, but I'm thinking how come he's paying that much?). He says increase in interest is £1000pa. Eh?? Turns out he owes £26,000 on 3 credit cards and he has a bad credit record. All this time we are expected to feel sorry for these people with jaunty background music and Angela Ripon (what has happened to her face BTW?) saying how terrible this all is. Then they come up with solutions like debt management etc. STOP SPENDING MONEY YOU MORONS!!! "We must keep up the fight against the banks" - one woman who has thousands of pounds of bank charges who even took bank to court but had limited success, telling this in her immaculately decorated house with brand new furniture everywhere (a sideboard which I know cost nearly £800 as I used to sell them!). What happened to saving up, spending what you earn etc? I hope the banks start charging more because then hopefully it'll put these idiots off spending so much money they don't have. Crikey, Gloria Hunniford is having a go at some top banking bloke now about the guy who was 8p OD and got charged £250 - "it's ridiculous isn't it?". Err no what was ridiculous was letting the 8p OD bloke be in charge of money in the first place.

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MrOvershoot

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This is supposed to be slagging off a sh1tty tv programme innit? Surely not each other!

Quite so, another one off sick here, waves at all the couch dwellers (into week 3 following a double hernia op & now an infection in the wounds 🙁 )

I did think 6k for your first car!! Think mine was £75, about the only one that seemed genuine rip off was the bloke who got of the train some stops early and got fined £150 for the privilege.

Posted : 03/12/2010 12:41 pm

DezB

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I didn't get past the first story!

Posted : 03/12/2010 1:17 pm

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