Locksmith charges woman $5390 to get back into her apartment: 'You didn't get scammed you got robbed'

Sometimes you have no idea what something costs. You've never encountered this particular service or item, so you don't even have a ballpark. This is me with kegs. I have never purchased a keg before, so I don't even have an estimate of how much it would cost. You could pull the wool over my eyes and make up a number, and I would be none the wiser. It's important, in these situations, to do your research. But sometimes you end up in a pinch, and you need something, and you just have to pay for it.

That's what happened in this story, in a classic quagmire where a woman was locked out of her apartment. She had lost her keys and needed to get in. There is not much you can do in this situation unless you have a neighbor with a spare set of keys. So she did what she had to do and called a locksmith. But when all was said and done, she was in the hole for a lot more money than she was expecting. Some wondered if it was legal.

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These are the situations when it's a great idea to get a second and a third opinion. Because if you just accept everything that people tell you, then you might end up pretty ripped off. Read on to see the full details of this story and read what commenters had to say about it.
A locksmith charged my partner's sister $5390 to get back into her apartment...

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