re: Biggest legit non scam rip offs of all time

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Food delivery

If you want to pay $25 to have some crackhead deliver your $6 Taco Bell meal, you're a schmuck.

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That's double schmuck territory. 6 bucks isn't getting you a meal there. So trying to be frugal and order off the dollar menu, whilst simultaneously being a dumbass and paying a shitload for delivery.

Not to mention, there are businesses that depend on weddings and/or was built around weddings.

Diamonds. It was the diamond company (I forget the name) that created the whole "diamonds are a girl's best friend" and pretty much made it the norm to propose with a diamond ring. What would diamonds be worth if they were not jewelry?

Flowers. The markup on flowers have to be through the roof. Look at valentines day. You can buy a half dozen of roses from the grocery store for $15. Or you can call a flower shop and get them delivered and the flowers themselves cost at least $50, that doesn't include cost to have them delivered, etc.

Flower shops could only do weddings and funerals and do well.

Then tuxedo rentals. You have your seasonal rentals, mardi gras balls, proms, but weddings are year around.

Then there are the dresses, everything for the reception, etc, etc.

And all of that for what? To me flowers or flowers, I don't go in a wedding and say "Oh look how lovely the daisies are". As for as I am concerned, they could be fake.. And I will be honest, all wedding dresses seem to look the same to me. Those things cost at least a few hundred dollars and they wear it one time.

Then they pay some annoying as shite camera man.

You can get the same result with a lot less cost, but no.. for some reason there are some women who want the whole ceremony and in reality half the people there don't want to be, there are some who will not remember it two weeks after, all that money spent for what?

Healthcare/Med. Insurance/Rx prices

outboard motor mechanics. I just paid 400 dollars for a plastic sensor that took him 30 seconds to change.

Jewelry.

Wedding jewelry in particular.

Insurance

Road tolls

Funerals /thead

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Title insurance.

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You are insuring the title search you are paying for.

So I'm paying to do a search and then also paying to cover their arse.