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Christabel
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24-02-2008 10:55 AM
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| My friends have just come back from Sharm and were charged £35 as their luggage was supposedly overweight. They were under 20kg each when they left the UK and did not add to their luggage when they returned. They reluctantly paid up and immediately they landed back in the UK they had their luggage weighed at Birmingham airport and it was found NOT to be overweight. Has anyone else experienced this please?
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kazl
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24-02-2008 02:08 PM
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| I have seen this on other holiday sites. Sharm airport seems to be one of the worse for this. It also seems like quite a profitable scam! I have been to a few places in egypt including Sharm and have never had this happen to me.
If you are stopped my advice would be to take your suitcase off the belt ,make sure the counter goes back to zero then place your suitcase back on. Make sure the person behind the desk doesn't have a leg or other body part (!!) placed on the belt.
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Honey Bunny
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24-02-2008 02:15 PM
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| I have heard about this too somewhere in another post, it seems to be happening on return flights only , which unless you have bought loads of clothes and souveniers on holiday doesnt make any sense, as the heavy things like suncreams and toiletries which now have to go in the hold luggage have been used up or left behind.
I think it was John who said if you can try and find an empty check in desk and weigh it yourself first and if when you get to the check in clerk it doesnt say 0 on the scales then tell them to reset it.
Mind you that is easy enough in a uk airport going out which are usually understaffed, than at a foreign crowded full airport.
Sounds like a scam!
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Christabel
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24-02-2008 05:54 PM
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| Thanks both for your views. I will certainly be watching to see that the scales are set at zero.
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iaintwoeyes
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24-02-2008 06:00 PM
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| Usually the scales at check-in desks are not switched off and therefore I always weigh my cases at an empty check-in desk prior to checking in!
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kazzapop
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24-02-2008 10:39 PM
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| This is a very profitable scam for this airport!!! We were supposedly "over the limit" on our return home. Strangely enough they only took cash!!!!
Beware this fraud, but corruption is rife there.
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John
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25-02-2008 07:20 AM
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| Take a look at my information post in Flights airlines and airports called 'Excess luggage'. You may pick up a few tips for next time.
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Pooh_Bore
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03-03-2008 09:15 PM
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| Other passengers on our flight had this and when the check in guy was challenged and asked to get a supervisor they immediately backed down and said it was ok.
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Honey Bunny
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04-03-2008 01:00 PM
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| Thats shocking, he was obviously trying to pull a fast one then!
Mind you they might all have been told to do try it, unless people complain you never know
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Mal 54
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04-03-2008 05:07 PM
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| I must admit when we went to Sharm we did'nt have a problem with overweight luggage, this was a few years ago though. Although, in Sharm airport a guy was standing at the check in desk, took our luggage off us to be weighted, then put out his hand, obviously wanting a tip, to which my husband ignored.
So maybe because they didnt get away with this scam, this over weight luggage is a new way off getting money out of people.
Just beware.
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powell
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07-03-2008 08:54 PM
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| Just returned last night from Sharm @ no probs at all we found the air port fine hell of a lot better than last year but no probs with luggage at all @ the weather was outstanding
ANGIE
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Tymeglobe
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27-03-2008 04:02 PM
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| hi ... read your account of what happened at Sharm with interest ...
I have just returned from Sharm and was supposedly 50KG over weight to which i got charged 300GBP!!!! on the spot. Yet when we initially checked in at manchester 2 weeks previously no one mentioned we were so dramaticaly over weight....which we were not
We certainly didnt buy anything heavy to increase the weight by double so I too am convinced we were scammed .. My partner complained to Thomas Cooke who said that the staff at Manchester may have been leniant with the weight and allowed it to go through
( likely story) and if we brought a complaint then we may get charged retrospectively for the outbound trip as well. So its a case of they are always right and the customer is always in the wrong and we are supposed to believe their excuse of being charitable rather than hear a better explanation of why the weight wasnt over at Manchester yet it was double the alowance when leaving Egypt at Sharm airport
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RASERGLASS
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27-03-2008 06:39 PM
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| Hi tymeglobe
Either one of two things,you must be made of money or totally naive to pay £300 in excess baggage!!!!!!!!
Ray
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garyelaine
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27-03-2008 06:54 PM
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| You were conned
The average weight allowed is 20kg + 50kg overweight your suitcase must have weighed about 12 stone and i bet you lifted it onto the scales one handed.
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Petrafyde
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05-04-2008 12:20 AM
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| Can I just reassure those who are watching, but not posting...
I have been to Sharm twice. Once as a single lady traveller, then with my partner and three children. Both times the guys at the weigh-in didn't look at us twice! In fact, on the way into Sharm on my own I had to pay £54 excess baggage charge at Manchester because it was so heavy - I then went and shopped like crazy and they didn't bother charging me on the way home. I surely must've been severely over the limit.
Although I cannot say if this 'scam' has started in the past ten months since my last visit, my previous experiences have been positive - but dull ;)
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Honey Bunny
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05-04-2008 10:58 AM
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| Personally I think If they are gonna charge you for being overweight they should give you money back for being underweight too!
Its like them new Car park machine with the registration thing, the space has already been paid for, the same as someone having underweight luggage has paid for your luggage being overweight.
We are always under but the day we are over we cant say what about all the times we were under can we.
Basically maybe we should all wear shellsuits etc and look poor then maybe they wont try it on.
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RASERGLASS
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06-04-2008 04:45 PM
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| I paid £70 for extra weight before leaving manchester as we took our baby girl who didn't have a luggage allowance.We didn't pay for extra on the way home and didn't get charged at all.I know we used some items but were definately over.I just think it is the luck of the draw.
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chez658
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20-07-2008 12:52 AM
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| We have recentley come back from Salou and was told one of our cases weighed 17kg and we would have to pay an excess baggage payment of 30euro. We tried to tell the woman the first case she had put through was still half on the belt, but fell on death ears claiming we couldnt share the weight.We told her to put the first case through but she put both through and gave us a slip and informed us we couldnt get our cases back and to pay the money then go back to her for our boarding cards. On arrival over here we got an independant witness who agreed we never opened the cases once removed from the belt and all cases weighed under the 15kg.We now have to write to Ryan Air to complain. BEWARE
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