Nonprofit markups.org is exposing the most egregious new car prices

Post by waffle_ss » Fri, Aug 12, 2022, 4:19 AM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #211

waffle_ss wrote: post #187

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> they advertise one price but actually have tons of mandated fees when you show up to purchase I had a similar experience booking a hotel room recently. Despite advertising a rate of $x, when I'd click through to complete the booking, towards the end of the process every single one would tack on a mandatory "service fee" of somewhere between $40-80. It seems to me to be a way to keep their room rates artificially lo…

"Resort fees" are a thing but in my experience you don't see them a lot outside of what are plausibly actual resorts, i.e. typical hotel chains don't usually have them. Of course, there are always lots of taxes that get tacked on. Especially pre-pandemic, I booked lots of hotels. (AirBnB also has cleaning fees etc. although what little I've used AirBnB they seem to be pretty prominently displayed.)