Time for a winge thread


Roam Express who charge $1 for each email statement they send.

They must make millions per year just for sending automated emails

REALLY???? OMG that is terrible. Can you switch off the email statements?

Yes you can do it here

Another rip off is the companies such as Reconnect who handle residential rental payments. They charge a fee to use and hold onto our rental money for a few days before passing it to the letting agents. Whatever happened to the good old reliable and free direct debit instruction? The letting agents are also part to the rip-off for refusing to accept any other form of payment.

Bastewards are talking about implementing paying to park at our local supermarket and shopping precinct..... Rip off buggers.... Imagine someone doing that !

We've stopped shopping at the places where they do that.

Yup... And introducing parking fees at regional hospitals for staff and visitors so as to make all things equitable for those that work or are pts at city centre sites...

****wits.

Target: for charging 10c or 20c for a bag which gives them free advertising.

the big telcos and two year contracts

Agreed. Also, Telstra's disgraceful $500 installation fee that I got charged last January. I'll never use Telstra again because of that.

I heard the tail end of a news report a few days ago where a flood victim in Bundaberg was in desperate circumstances and she said she was charged $11 for a cup of coffee - if that's true its terrible that there are opportunists out there taking advantage of people in distress.

Yeap, that's just horrible. Almost as bad as looting.

Yes I remember that, and thinking at the time shouldnt that coffee have been free?

Some things like charging for parking were just inevitable, it was just a matter of time. We always had to pay at the hospital in Brisbane, either in the street or in the car park.

To be fair though, my local hospital in Sydney and my former local hospital in London both charge to park.