This is just silly. I recently saw Las Vegas hotels doing something similar though to a much lesser extent where it’s called “resort fees”. Should be illegal but it doesn’t affect me since I’m not traveling to the US
Those “resort fees” were part of Biden’s FTC’s efforts to crack down on junk fees. Trump is now undoing that work. https://www.investopedia.com/trump-has-undone-biden-s-war-on-junk-fees-11772720
It’s not just Vegas. It’s also very popular in short-term rentals (like AirBnB) and other gig enterprises.
More like “extort fees”
For hotels, I’m wondering if this is a trick to meet a government rate.
Resort fees are required by legislation, it’s basically a tax on tourists.I was wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resort_fee
The hotels receipts I’ve seen (I worked approving travel expenses, so I’ve seen a lot) they differentiate between specific locally mandated fees and their own fees (which is probably part of the legislation that compels them).
Then why do they vary by hotel?
Because I was wrong, edited.
I appreciate you.
Resort fees, I think, are usually a tax by the municipality. Not a hotel addon. However hotels have tons of fees so I may be mixing them up.Nvmd someone further down made the same switch
Let me guess: this is intentionally done to show up at the top of flights sorted by price low -> high lists.
Maybe, or maybe it’s to curb the law that force a refund in certain cases. You want a refund? It’s 64$.
They do that with shipping items on ebay all the time. cheap item price 100+ shipping
Yeah. Anyone using eBay long enough knows to prioritize listings with free shipping over others.
The same is true with all any other services, the more they break it out the more likely you’ll be scammed.
It’s not for the consumer’s benefit. They are structuring the transaction to give themselves levers to pull.
it’s funny when they choose $100 shipping on an object that actually does cost $50 to ship, but are $80 cheaper than any other option and have the audacity to complain when I want it shipped to me in Alaska.
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Fuck! Is ticketmaster selling plane tickets now??
Yes, are you interested?
What are their surcharges?
Bullshit, mostly.
I had a hotel charge me for “services.” Like bitch that’s in the price of the room!
Maybe “services” entitled you to getting your dick wet, but you didnt ask. Always gotta read the fineprint.
That’s like renting a flat and being charged extra for doors.
If I get charged for “services” in quotes like that, I’d better collapse breathless afterwards.
A meal? A succulent, chinese meal?
Enjoying a succulent meal.
A succulent Chinese meal.
This is democracy manifest.
Being alive…
They’re for convenience!
charging you for other charges.
OK. May we see the itemized list?
On the invoice it doesn’t seem so. Just 520$ per person. That link on the pic is just text.
So literally no itemization, just $520.
OK, that is indeed bullshit.
I’m guessing it’s the “peak dates” thing. They have a base price aka. minimum price when planes are mostly empty and then put on a surcharge for when demand is high, instead of altering the base price.
That makes sense, it just feels greasy
volatile, unpredictable or fluctuating operating costs and fees
Socialize the Costs and Privatize the Profits
edit: What confuses me is how these things can be “volatile” and “fluctuating” before you bought the ticket?
On the invoice it doesn’t seem so. Just 520$ per person. I’ll try.
Jesus, it is like the fucking plaque with you.
Fuck, Dean, lately all you seem to do on lemmy is gripe and insultingly correct people while getting it wrong yourself. Hope you feel better soon.
Like the plaque on your teeth?
Or did you mean plague, you (to borrow a page from your own playbook), fucking idiot?
Neither of which is an actual turn of phrase, btw. The phrase you wanted is (ironically, because of the plaque) “it’s like pulling teeth with you.” If you’re going to be a smug dick at least be correct so you don’t embarrass yourself any more than you already do by simply being a smug dick.
You’re a troll-y little thing, ain’t ya. It’s also super cool to be kind for no reason, you should try it!
Wow what a BOZO you are…
I recently did a return trip from Dublin to Boston and back. Each ticket was 1 Euro; rhe rest was airport taxes, government levies, etc.
In the past, pre-covid, 1 Euro tickets were not unusual. Part of the reason why Ryanair became so dominant was that they contracted with secondary airports that had much lower fees, so the final price was below what the competitors could offer.
Yes, Ryanair. But even they could itemize what you had to pay extra for. OP got this instead:
What confuses me is how these things can be “volatile” and “fluctuating” before they bought the ticket?
edit: somebody made the Ryanair experience into an operetta song! https://youtu.be/ZAg0lUYHHFc
What is the context for this? Is this Ryanair?
Air Canada.
Oof, I guess every air bus carrier is going down the tubes
I was shopping around tickets and this came up when using the Air Canada website.
Did the same itinerary on Google flights and none of it came up.
Why are adults and children’s prices the same. Just charge per seat at that point.
How this is 15y old and I’ve never seen?!
Thank you for the Fascinating Aida link. Spent the afternoon discovering their great back catalog.
Mildly infuriating
- misplacement of
when screenshot shows correct placement - fax of a fax
Infuriating
- image of pure text lacking accessibility
- misplacement of
*$64 and *$1040. You saved no time in typing it wrong and look stupid. It is even in the picture you took, all you had to do was follow; even a monkey can do that.
Wow, you’re a pleasant person. Just a big bowl of rainbows and sunshine.
You didn’t have to write this comment but you did and you look stupid. All you had to do was nothing. Even a monkey can do that.
What exactly is the point of this comment?
Some people are just unpleasant.
They really just are, too. I went to their page to block them, and like half their comments are just highly-downvoted, sometimes confidently-incorrect bitching.
It’s such a strange thing to get hostile about. Ironically, it low-key bugs me that we put the dollar sign before the number it’s indicating. “$64” is read as “sixty-four dollars,” not “dollars sixty-four.” So why write it like that? (Not rhetorical, I really want to know. I tried looking up this question to find out the answer, but haven’t found anything conclusive.) Putting the currency symbol behind the number makes more sense, like how some countries write the Euro. (Which also explains why some people might not intuitively place the dollar sign before the number - it’s their native convention and it follows clear logic.)
So maybe the point was ignorance or fear of the foreign? Or a misguided attempt at English language purity? Or they’re a former Redditor who hasn’t quite shaken off the Reddit “pointless, hostile hot-take” mentality?
top 10 ragebait
Moreover, the OP is a lemmy.ca account, and may very well be French Canadian. And guess what, the currency sign is trailing in French.
Who hurt you wtf. Are you okay?
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