When my ( late ) wife decided to learn to fly she was unfortunate enough to walk into CABAIR these people sold her a flight case full of all sorts of overpriced stuff most of it never got used.
Being new to aviation she did not pick up on fact that the whole operation was just designed to extract as much money from the punters as they could, this attitude continued with the flying order book written in the same vain.
She was about to give up on flying when a friend suggested a move to another flying club, she never looked back and ended up owning two aircraft and putting about 700 hours in her log book before illness took her medical away.
The moral of the story seems to be don’t trust anyone who try’s to sell you more than you need ( usualy wrapped up in a flash package ).