This is nothing to do with my career shenanigans, but I'm cross and I need a rant. I've just booked a ticket, single from Burton on Trent to Basingstoke, 18th Dec. It's 3 bleeding changes and costs £21.45, and that's with a railcard. I don't think that's too expensive, and I like getting trains so I'm not too fussed about the journey. However what I DO object to is all the random fees that the trainline adds at the last minute.
You've gone through the hassle of finding the right train, weighing up whether you can make the connections, if there's any better way to do it etc etc, you finally get to the paying stage and you find that the TrainLine has added a £1 booking fee. FOR WHAT????
Then you choose your payment method. You can either pay with a debit card (risky) or pay with a credit card...for which there is a £3.50 charge. FOR WHAT????
I was talking with a friend the other day about crime, and he said something about the difference between crimes that rich people make and the crimes that poor people make. It strikes me that these stealth charges are a prime example of this. We just accept them because there's no other option, and we don't complain because it's a clever steady drip-drip-drip of taking our money and the more it happens the more we become numb to it. In the meantime the credit cards and banks are making loads of money and giving themselves £1 million bonuses. What can we do about this ridiculously unfair system? Nothing.
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