Sentences with phrase «ripped off by»

That I haven't been ripped off by a Nigerian con - artist.

No, not at all, didn't feel ripped off by headline and didn't think you were a suicide risk yesterday!

Now, confess: did you feel ripped off by my Orlano Bloom headline?

I've been surprised by how many people are getting ripped off by turnkey rental providers.

Other sellers will get ripped off by buyers whio have taken one of those courses on TV.

To all the people who are in favour of FLAT FEE services, if you feel ripped off by Realtors now... just wait until you pay pay pay for every little thing the FLAT FEE (ha ha) brokers are doing OR not doing... pay up front and then what?

Suppose you don't want to get ripped off by a mortgage lender who might «bait and switch» by quoting ultra-attractive loan terms that are then inflated at the last minute when you arrive at the closing and you then have no choice but to sign the papers.

Tenant fraud prevention and landlord fraud prevention when undertaken, can save many gut wrenching incidents and hardships for people who can't afford to be ripped off by unscrupulous Individuals who hide behind anonymity.

But if I didn't know, as many many of us property owners do NOT know, I would have been ripped off by $ 3000.

I got ripped off by a contractor I'd used before, proving that one positive interaction doesn't always indicate a bright future.

So if you get ripped off by some of these FSBO's good luck!

If you have had the unfortunate experience of being ripped off by one of these services, you know that many of them do not operate in an ethical manner nor do they provide students with quality services.

If there's nothing I hate more, it's being ripped off by a service provider in any industry, especially since I'm in an industry that frequently gets a bad rap primarily because there are very few executive resume writers that can produce career marketing documents that actually work.

In the wake of devastation from Hurricane Harvey, KSLA News 12 has received numerous messages from viewers wanting to donate money to help the storm's victims, but not get ripped off by fraudulent charities.

To make their case for why they need easier access to bigger money awards, the patent owners tell stories about small inventors who have their inventions ripped off by big companies who use all sorts of tricks to avoid paying the inventors on their patents.

As anyone who's been ripped off by a bitcoin scam artist can tell you, how you buy, sell, hodl or otherwise transact in crypto is a matter of who to trust with your private key.

Not a huge money saver, but I'm sure you must be used to getting ripped off by now, since you're an Apple customer!

Getting ripped off by the insurance company has become a major concern.

Are you getting ripped off by your Dallas Renters Insurance?

They will still definitely pay more than the average car insurer although they can avoid getting completely ripped off by insurance companies.

In my mind, it's not about my wallet (I had no valuable things in it other than the wallet itself), but it's more of a psychological feeling of being ripped off by this insurance company for years without knowing it.

Far too often I hear about people being mistreated, mislead, and flat out ripped off by their auto insurance providers.

You're much more likely to be ripped off by a random person on Facebook, Craigslist, Backpage or some other website.

I was ripped off by this company and had more then a legit claim We were to Fly in to Dallas / FW.

During the 1930s in Iran, when the Shah tried to «modernise» by forcing women to unveil (on pain of having the veil ripped off by a policeman in public), many women chose to stay home, rather than unveil.

The reason is that I see a lot of online reviews where others are saying they got ripped off by this company.

I see a lot of people ripped off by debt settlement scams, before they come to see me.

Our client held several patents covering a very special wiper blade connector that was being ripped off by a competitor.

I would feel ripped off by WSIB with these statistics.

When someone believes they have been poorly represented or even ripped off by a lawyer, they should have somewhere they can turn without fear of having even more lawyers come after them.

They assisted clients in many different areas of law including cases involving children who were abused and neglected, two appellate pro bono cases, a gaming card denial, a case involving a senior who was ripped off by a plumbing company that didn't complete the work, an illegal repossession case, and other consumer fraud cases.

We put it in place as one more way to help protect the iPhone from being ripped off by others.

Is it because those customers feel they have been ripped off by paying high prices for information in an oligopolistic market, and conned by sales people who understand little about the content and functions of the products they are pushing?

Many of them have previously been jacked around or ripped off by some debt settlement company, or another attorney.

Some of them would not have paid to meet with me because they were previously ripped off by another attorney.

It makes more sense to pay for expensive fuel to bus kids to school then to shut down busses and force people to pay more money for a less efficient way (for conditions where walking / bicycling is impractical)-- People might tend to assume something is fair and feel they are being ripped off by «someone» when made to pay more when it is simply the facts of reality that are «ripping them off» (and the consumer reaction might be different because of the distinction?)

When you compare a real decade, 2000 - 2010, with their fake decade, you realize they've ripped you off by 12 months, cunningly removing the front end in order to hide the rise.

... Mr L told us he'd been ripped off by a company selling solar panels.

But that's cold comfort for any artist who feels they've been ripped off by the man who, in 2008, set a record for a single artist sale at auction, offering approximately 200 pieces at Sotheby's that raked in a cool $ 189 million.

In 2009, John Unger, a well known metal sculpture artist, had his fire bowl designs ripped off by another artist, who then sued Unger to break his copyrights, and John had to raise money via Kickstarter to defend his copyrights.

[Update:] Neal makes a really good point in the comments: Really interesting thought, Hugh, but bad products could also be a social marker — «ah, yes, I was ripped off by that building company too» or «oh — you'll be disappointed by that mobile phone as well».

Another artist, who goes by imakeshinythings on Etsy, got ripped off by Urban Outfitters.

It's so wrong to have different msp amounts in different countries though, we probably already get ripped off by the price of the points in the first place here in the UK.

Oh, and Guy Gardner has his arm ripped off by Hal before he's sent tumbling to the ground.

Less than that and I start to get a little quarrelsome, the only reason I don't feel ripped off by the 7 hours romp through the single player campaign of Battlefield 3 was the hilarious results of trying to fly the helicopter in the co-op mission with a friend.

While in most games your characters limbs being severed from their body is a bad thing, in NeverDead it's quite normal to have every limb ripped off by a pack of ravenous demon - dog things, leaving you in control of your rolling head as you desperately try to make it to back to your torso so you can continue fighting.

Too bad for the people that feel ripped off by PS +, but to be honest, I simply can not share their dissapointment.

Players in a free to play RPG might find it perfectly fair to pay for added inventory if they know how much loot they expect to be getting and what opportunity they will have to off - load it, but are still likely to feel ripped off by a game that forces them to choose between losing an important item or buying more space with no notice.

For the most part, the story felt rather boring and there were no real standout moments unlike MK9, where you had several memorable scenes like when Jax got his arms ripped off by Ermac, or how many of the Lin Kuei fighters were turned into cyborgs.

I can't help but think that other players are going to feel ripped off by this deal.