Life money r/AskUK

Somebody asked about annoying business practices that we have to put up with, and these 21 replies will have you fizzing with rage

12.

‘Shops asking for your email so they can send your receipt ‘to save paper’. Yeah, sure.

Hotels asking you to re-use towels to help save the environment. Ditto.’
Oohoureli

13.

‘Getting money back from train tickets for delays, but some is taken in ‘admin fees’… when I’ve done all the admin to request a refund on the website!’
multitude_of_drops

14.

‘UK companies not having UK centres. Like British Gas. The only reason they don’t is profit.’
el_pieablo

15.

‘Buying a f-cking house. It shouldn’t take more than 2 weeks to go from accepting an offer to exchanging. Offers should be legally binding, and pulling out should come with a fine for either party (some specific exceptions could be made, maybe).’
Izwe

16.

‘Car parks that require you to download an app to pay and then have the balls to charge a 20p ‘convenience fee’. Exactly who’s convenience was it at for me to have to use my mobile data to download an app, likely have to make an account, enter the right code then pay the right amount? I also feel it’s ageist as there’ll be plenty of older people who simply aren’t capable of doing the above.’
Distinct-Lion4658

17.

‘Car/van rental companies outsourcing a 1mm scratch repair to a fake company 200 miles away who then get an inspection from a fake repair shop who value the estimated damage to be £800 without seeing the vehicle, then immediately issuing a court summons for non-payment.

(I won the case, btw.)’
red-gloved-rider

18.

‘Increasing pricing mid-contract. Should be law it stays exactly the same as it started until the contract is over.’
hotchy1

19.

‘Dynamic pricing can get in the bin.’
S1nnah2

20.

‘Supermarket membership pricing.’
jack5624

21.

‘Supermarkets doing away with checkouts in favour of self-checkout systems, then insisting that you present a receipt to get out. Either you trust me to check out my own goods, or you pay a checkout operator to do it for me. Anything else isn’t happening. Get in the sea.’
blackleydynamo

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