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Akima:

--- Quote from: Redball on 12 Dec 2012, 17:46 ---I'd never heard of salad cream until today. Looked it up on Wiki, and saw as I suspected that it "resembles" salad dressing, which to me "resembles" mayo.
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Salad dressing in the USA is very strange. In Chicago, having been warned of fat-laden horrors like Ranch Dressing, I once ordered a salad with French Dressing. It was gooey, sweet, pink, and not at all what I expected (a vinaigrette made with oil, wine vinegar, salt, pepper, and maybe a small pinch of ground mustard).

Zingoleb:
This is going to sound odd, but I kind of hate all salad dressing. If I'm going to eat a salad I just pour olive oil on it.

VonKleist:
TOBAL against unfair and excessive dunning charges


waaait... there are laws..

So yeah, I got a letter from debt-collectors because I didn't pay my fine for fare-dodging to German Railways.
They demanded nearly a hundred bucks, making the reminder fees almost the amount of the original fine. I thought about it for a second and googled this shit. Turns out german law is inconclusive but generally an amount of 3€ per reminder is deemed fitting. German Railways sends two reminders and then shoves the whole thing to a debt-collecting company.
Imho this is fraud... I just payed the original fine plus the reminder fee of 7€ and now wait to see if they´ll try to press charges.

pwhodges:
When Royal Mail collects duty on VAT on purchases I've made from abroad, they add an £8 collection fee (other couriers are similar), which for the things I buy is often double the amount being collected; their collection fee for unpaid postage is only £1 or so, which rather shows the other one up (I suppose there's extra paperwork dealing with the tax authorities, but even so...).

I've also had a courier try to refuse to deliver until I paid duty as for a new item on what was actually the return of a repair.  Grrr!

VonKleist:
I usually avoid trouble and cough up. But this just seemed too unreasonable. No way, no how. The administrative costs can never ever be high enough to justify the markup.

The same problem persists with fees on failed debit transfers. My phone-company charges 15-20€ per failed debit just because they can, because there still is no regulation on this.

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