ClubMan said:So what would somebody who thinks that a €15 mixed grill is a rip-off suggest as a solution - apart from the obvious one of the consumer exercising discretion, shopping around and making a purchase that better suits their needs, budget, tastes etc.
ClubMan said:things like that (and many others like it) are patently not rip-offs. High price and not value for money - maybe. Rip-off - no.
Brendan said:If we use Rip-off to mean expensive, then we will need a new word to identify the expensive items which involve deceit and overcharging.
ubiquitous said:I would equate the word "fraud" with financial crime. I don't think the term lends itself easily to a scenario where a pub hikes up the price of a pint by 30 or 50 cent on match days. There is a world of difference between this and spammers conning little old ladies out of their nest-eggs by pretending to be son of the late President of Nigeria, or the likes of what John Rusnak did to AIB. If a newspaper accused a city centre publican of being a fraudster on the basis of a ripoff pricing allegation, the resulting libel action would shut them down.
I don't think your petrol price example is accurate. If a retail (of petrol or any other product) increases his selling price because his cost base is increasing then he is not necessarily, as per your example, increasing his profits but is merely increasing his revenues.
They have received a product for a price that they were willing to pay.
ubiquitous said:I would equate the word "fraud" with financial crime. I don't think the term lends itself easily to a scenario where a pub hikes up the price of a pint by 30 or 50 cent on match days. There is a world of difference between this and spammers conning little old ladies out of their nest-eggs by pretending to be son of the late President of Nigeria, or the likes of what John Rusnak did to AIB. If a newspaper accused a city centre publican of being a fraudster on the basis of a ripoff pricing allegation, the resulting libel action would shut them down.
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