Most Outrageous Fees

[Admin]

Money Magazine recently came up with the list of the most annoying fees in their January 2007 issue. Here they are.

Banking and Credit:
• Over-limit fee
• Foreign-currency fee
• Late fee
• Same-day payment fee
• Balance-transfer fee
• Bad deposit fee
• Monthly service fee
• Biweekly payment fee
• ATM fees

Real Estate:
• Junk closing fee
• Title insurance

Phone Surcharges:
• Carrier cost recovery fee
• AT&T's tax-related surcharge
• Property tax surcharge
• Activation fee
• Penalty to end contract early

Car Rental:
• Insurance
• Excise taxes

Airline:
• Paper ticket fee
• Talking to a person fee
• Changing your flight fee
• Reserving an aisle seat fee
• Overpacking fee

Hotels:
• Internet connection fee
• Resort fee
• Automatic gratuities fee
• Package delivery acceptance fee
• Mini-bar restocking fee

Stores:
• Gift-card activation fee

Investments:
• Excessive annual fees
• Transfer fees
• Variable annuity expenses
• Annual expenses

[justcallmebroke]

Wow, what an interesting (and long!) list there. Some of these fees are just plain hilarous (unless, of course, you're the one paying for them.) These companies really know how to sock it to their customers. I especially see this with my credit cards; the fine print seems to be getting smaller and lengthier every year.

[now-or-never]

Thanks for all the info.. Its really helpful....

[fred333]

Those are some crazy fees.