I just finished my PPL at PTC in Waterford so i think i can comment on this.
You dont decide where to go training simply by looking at a website (PTC or PPrune). You make a telephone call, go to the college. Speak to the people there. If you ring PTC, even before this thread was started i'm 100% sure they would have told you the correct prices for groundschool. Therefore using the term pickpockets implies theft or robbery without your knowledge. This is simply not the case. If you dont know what you're being charged or what your paying for, that is nobody elses fault but you own.