I picked up the mail yesterday to find out that one of my bank accounts had been slapped with 3 fees in a day.
I could not find any good cause for it so I stopped at my branch and they could not figure why either.
When any business starts making a good chunk of its money by becoming a fee generation machine and pissing off its customers, there is something wrong under the sun.
Why should a bank or any other financial institution ask me to go green and forgo paper statements and copies of my checks yet charge me for a paper copy when the electronic version is not available to me anymore after say 6 months?
Why would some credit card companies charge you a fee to make payments online?
Why should I be charged a fee to speak to a person in some instances (tech firms for one)?
Betsy Hart in Fee Madness in Western Springs (Chicago Daily Observer, February 9) mentions having to pay for her kids to be supervised at school at lunchtime.
Airlines must be in the major leagues as far as fees are concerned.
Mobile phone companies must also be up there.
When will this tournament of fees stop?
Some online services are going from Free to Fee.
Deborah Yao warns us Beware of teaser fees on photo storage sites (Mercury News, March 30).
Kodak will start charging a fee for storing your photos online unless you spend at least $4.99 with them. You might otherwise be at risk of loosing all your digital memories reported Renita Jablonski in Are the days of Web freeloading over? (Marketplace Morning Report, March 8).
Feel free to share your own egregious fee stories.
Was this Tournament of Fees #1?
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