What is the most bogus charge you’ve seen on a bill?

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1. Niagara Falls, Canada. On your bill you will see “tourism improvement fee (TIF)” and “Niagara Falls destination fee”. Those fees are voluntary and it’s not taxes but they always add it to any bill (hotel. restaurant, etc). I always ask them to remove it from my bill as it’s a voluntary pay.

2. Our plumber charges us by the hour but he starts the clock when he leaves his shop and not when he arrives at our house.

3. A hospital bill that included a “tobacco education fee” for someone who had randomly mentioned that he smoked like once a week. No, nicotine isn’t that dangerous.

4. I had a plumber charge a “trash disposal fee” of $400…when they threw the stuff away in my own trash can. I refused to pay it.

5. A 30% gratuity on a restaurant tab. Now I get it if you’re an ass hat to the waitress then it’s on you and you deserve to have to pay it but I used to work in the restaurant industry so I always treat them with kindness and respect as well as patience so I felt really pissed off by this. I always tip a minimum of 15%, but 30% is ridiculous and by force is nuts

6. Service charge.

   Fuck off. Waiter service is standard and included in the price of the food.

7. “Being American”

   It’s not visually listed. It’s usually a silent tax natives of a foreign country try to charge you because you’re visiting.

8. Hotel room service:

   Delivery fee + Service fee + Gratuity

   $14.00 Caesar salad becomes $31

9. Service fee’s they tack on to concert tickets. The venue’s around where I live charge upwards of 40% sometimes. So a ticket that would normally cost $30 is now $42 becuase “lol service fee bro” best part is I’ve attempted to bypass by purchasing at the venue in person and they still require the fee. Its kept me from going to a lot of concerts out of pure hatred of greedy practices like that.

10. I had a wheel stolen off my car once in an apartment parking lot. I had to purchase a whole new wheel and tire. There’s a whole story about the experience at the dealership getting a new wheel and tire, but it was topped off by the “tire disposal fee” of $2.00.

11. 1) I got a $76,000 medical bill for a 90 minute surgery. One of the consumable devices used was in the itemized bill, listed at $2200. That device happened to be a project of mine early in my career and the price sold was $13.00 a piece.

    2) Paying my property taxes online incurs a “5% or $25 min convenience fee.” One of our vehicles is a classic and the tax bill is $8/yr. Plus, the tax office does not allow you to pay multiple bills at once, so that convenience fee hits each item separately. The alternative is taking a half day off from work, going to the bank, getting cash, and standing in line at the tax office for 2 hours only for them to pull some stupid clerical bullcrap and sending you back to the DMV for some pointless form.

    3) I bought a new motorcycle 8 years ago. I financed half and paid it off within 4 months. Or so I thought. The finance institution slapped a surprise $3200 charge on the account when I paid off the last penny of principal. I called and was told “we show the motorcycle as having a gap in insurance coverage for 1 day when you initially bought it, and our policy is to add insurance for the duration of the original loan.” So, being a 2 yr loan, they added fees for 2 years of insurance. Except, my insurance policy was dated 4 days before I picked up the bike. It took me about 20 phone calls to get that corrected, and I had to get damn near violent on the phone.

12. Over half of the items on my Comcast bill.

13. Any “convenience fee”

14. My electric utility bill once increased by a factor of over 10x, when my usage hadn’t changed.

    They admitted they had changed the meter out during that month, so it was obviously a bad meter. But it took two months to convince them to swap it out, they kept wanting me to pay the $1k monthly bill first.

    As soon as they replaced the meter again, the bill was normal sized.

15. Additional Overcharge

16. I went to a restaurant, once, they sat you, told you that you had to pick up your own drinks from the bar. The menu was all online and you had to order online only. They brought us the food but that was it. There was a mandatory 20% tip, plus they added an additional 20% tip on the top, so 40% tip for us doing everything except bringing out a plate of food. We told them to take off the 20% and never went back.

17. I once got over $2000 in roaming charges without leaving the country. The telecom wouldn’t budge on it over the phone so I did a charge back on my card and canceled my plan.

18. Taxes

19. Service fee, convenience fee, resort fee, lets take advantage of this fukker just because we can fee, etc, etc.

20. “Cash fee” was an additional $5.00 for paying in cash on ~$50 purchase at a store in the mall.

21. I had a data entry fee at a honda dealership, was low key upset about that

22. Anything to do with vacation rentals, concerts, travel fees … Anything where a company feels the need to hide costs so that they can misleadingly advertise a lower price.

23. The tipping thing has gotten ridiculous.

24. Resort fees. Bitch I’m staying at a Hilton in Woodland Hills that doesn’t even have a pool. What about this place makes it a resort

25. One time I asked for hot sauce at a restaurant and they charged me for it. Not salsa, literal hot sauce. Insane lol