I just got a bacon and sausage roll and a large coffee out of greggs and it cost me £3. If I went into the main building, the same thing would have cost me about £8!! I also got 20 ■■■■ in wh smith and it was nearly 11 quid!! And don’t even get me started about the parking charge its an absolute disgrace and if I had a choice I’d never park in one again.
True enough makes you wonder why people use the coffee machines when there is a Greggs available and well done to Greggs for selling products at a decent price. earlier this week a mate went to pay for parking in the services on the M27 at Southampton and was quoted £27 told her to stick it her reply “was you’ll get a fine”, his answer “good luck with that one don’t think the debt collector will trouble me in Donegal”
Heres the thing. Rather than moaning about paying it,why not refuse to pay it? All you here now adays are people moaning that things are too expensive. Be it petrol,electricity,food or whatever. If people stopped paying it then the prices would start to come down.
Think about this. British gas announces profits of,say,£161 million pounds. Then says they are putting prices up by 5%. Everyone ■■■■■■ and moans and writes into the papers and so on and so on. And what happens? The price rises by 5%. BUT if every single customer went “No way,not paying it” and left them with nothing then I bet the price would soon come down.
Everyone thinks the big companies have us over a barrel. But they dont. The consumer just lets them believe it by constantly paying. Think about petrol prices too. If everyone stopped using,say,BP garages then do you think BP would accept this or pressure the government to reduce the tax? (Anyone who doesn’t believe a company like BP controls the government rather than the other way round needs a reality check)
So back to the main point. Rather than everyone (lorries,cars,vans) paying £3 for a bottle of water or £1.20 for a wispa etc,DONT PAY IT. This money isnt them scraping by. Its all about maximum profits and while people continue to pay through the roof prices,it will continue to be bend over and take it time
Easier said then done for HGV drivers who are slightly stuck over a barrel ( if that’s the right phrase).
If i buy anything from an MSA it really is as a last resort, as for parking in them s it oles again only if the company is paying they are pish taking thieving scum bags,
jay0:
I also got 20 ■■■■ in wh smith and it was nearly 11 quid!!
People still smoke? Jesus. £11 for a box of cancer that lasts what, a day? £11 could keep me pumped full of nicotine for nearly a year.
Get on the vape train mate, it’s 2015.
I don’t pay them. I’ll go for a crap in their toilets if I have to, and I’ll park my truck in their parking area if I have to but I never pay them, in fact every time I park in a motorway service area it just ends with Welcome Break/Moto/Roadchef paying £27 for the POPLA appeal, which they always lose. So basically they pay me to park there. 
Yep, Greggs is one of the only two franchises on an MSA that get any money from me, ever, i’ll get the odd coffee from McDonalds, and more power to them both for not ripping their customers off like the others.
As for the scandalous price of things, i agree with the above poster, don’t pay it, don’t give the coffee rip off joints half and hours pay (for many) for a cup of froth in a paper cup.
We, 'er indoors and me that is, will not pay it, we’d rather find the hose pipe at the filling station and get some water out of that than give single penny to those rip off sites.
We’re lorry drivers, we’re not compelled at gunpoint to give our money to these shysters, we’re mobile, learn where the few remaining cafes are and use them, give your custom to the supermarkets that still have sensibly priced cafes attached, and in industrial areas like The Black Country and Northern towns there’s more little cafes than you can shake a stick at, not difficult to find one where you can park and get a proper bite to eat including a cuppa for the price of a motorway coffee.
Costa Coffee being one example, msa prices are even more of a rip off high street costas charge £2.59 for a large cappuccino but if you go to a msa it’s £3.65 robbing bloody lot
Contraflow:
jay0:
I also got 20 ■■■■ in wh smith and it was nearly 11 quid!!People still smoke? Jesus. £11 for a box of cancer that lasts what, a day? £11 could keep me pumped full of nicotine for nearly a year.
Get on the vape train mate, it’s 2015.
Yea, but you look cool when you are smoking a ■■■ whereas you look a bit naff when “vaping”.
I find a little bit of roadside rubbish/paper carefully taped to a digit or two on my front number plate (makes it look like a bit has flown up and stuck on it) on my motorhome works a treat when I need to stop in a MWSA overnight works well. Have never paid yet and no charge tickets to date 
The only good thing about Msa,s , is some have the Chosen Noodle franchises, rice or noodles, Thai curries and so on.
The duck spring rolls are tasty, the meal deal gets you a drink and prawn crackers.
Then some have the roast meat carvery, like the one at Cobham,good prices, the pulled pork fills you all day,meal deal gets roast spuds and a drink.
Another positive note is McDonald’s open
night or to grab breakfast.
Most Msa,s have Costa a lotta and Stirbuckets open all night.
Costa do a Cortado, it is half price on high streets, but Msa staff get paid less.
I do find it amusing that motorway services don’t seem to rush when it comes to fixing and maintaining the facilities that people use, yet when someone mucks about with a number plate camera they’re straight on it like a tramp on hot chips.
Had the temptation a a few times to put some oil on an old rag and smear the cameras you can reach.
Saw one bloke covering a camera up with gaffa tape a while ago, must have used a whole roll going round and round it 
jay0:
I also got 20 ■■■■ in wh smith and it was nearly 11 quid!!
They’re chiselling ■■■■■■■■ at the airport. 11 quid there too.
Should be fixed price regardless of where you get it from like other Euro countries. Even the expensive Irish knock you for 10 yoyos for 20 Benny Hedgehogs regardless of whether it’s a supermarket or a 24h garage.
Harry Monk:
Contraflow:
jay0:
I also got 20 ■■■■ in wh smith and it was nearly 11 quid!!People still smoke? Jesus. £11 for a box of cancer that lasts what, a day? £11 could keep me pumped full of nicotine for nearly a year.
Get on the vape train mate, it’s 2015.
Yea, but you look cool when you are smoking a ■■■ whereas you look a bit naff when “vaping”.
Never understood why yanyone would pay to deliberately have [zb] teeth, [zb] breath , and [zb] wreak.
Mattwoodtransport:
Never understood why yanyone would pay to deliberately have [zb] teeth, [zb] breath , and [zb] wreak.
More interesting and adventurous people I suppose. As we used to say when I was a teenager “If she smokes, she pokes”.
Harry Monk:
Yea, but you look cool when you are smoking a ■■■…
To who? 8 year olds?
Personally, I’m not that concerned with impressing pre-pubescent school girls, so I’d rather consume my nicotine in an undoubtedly cheaper and arguably healthier way.
This thread has me open mouthed in astonishment. I didn’t know people actually eat the crap Greggs pass off as food and think it’s a good thing. More people than I thought must have a desire to die early.
Smoking is awesome since they banned it in public places. If all those cool people didn’t die so young of cancer think of all the pension payments they’d be claiming in old age. That saves non-cool people money.
Have a ■■■ on me. In fact, have a million 
