bhan261
join:2001-02-12
New York, NY
| Speakeasy is doing it too...
...eliminating what they used to call "taxes" and now simply call "regulatory compliance fees". I guess they haven't attracted the public outcry due to their relatively small size. But it's still just so much crap.
I'm thinking about increasing the prices at my business by adding the "photocopier recovery fee" and the "coffee machine recovery fee". |
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pb5k
more cowbell
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join:2005-11-16
Glendale, AZ
 ·Cox HSI
| Lawyers do this already. When I got my bill from my lawyer once, he literally charged me for a magazine subscription - "legal research - periodicals" or some such thing. 
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av8r
I'd Rather Be Flying
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join:2002-06-14
Boca Raton, FL
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When is the last time you brought your care in for service? Weren't you charged a 'shop materials charge'? In my area, it runs about 15% - if you have an oil change or have your transmission rebuilt.
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If I am not for myself, Who will be for me? If I am only for myself, What am I? If not now, When? -- Hillel |
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