Additional charges on the bill

[Cotty]

Just reading the "Admin Fee" when buying a car thread https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
The OP was buying a used car and the garage included a £99 "Admin Fee" on the invoice.

Got me thinking, what other companies/industries add addition charges to your bill? Few I can think of:

Restaurants - service charge
Cinema - booking fee
Garages - admin fee

Any more?

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bigandclever said:

Not especially out of the ordinary but my last AirBnB bill was £50 ... plus £20 cleaning fee and £12 service fee (and then plus £15 taxes). So my last AirBnB bill was double the headline price.

What exactly is the service charge, on an AirBnB booking, for exactly.

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98elise said:

Charging for WiFi is like charging for hot water. It should standard for a hotel.

Travelodge charge £3 for WiFi for the duration of your stay, regardless whether you stay one night or five.

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Fatboy said:

No problem with fitting as an extra cost, but getting you to pay the fitters directly is just the shop dodging any responsibility for the fitting that they're arranging, and not on...

I think what Kwackersaki was annoyed at was the £19 charge for arranging the fitters. Like he/she couldn't call them directly.

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mmm-five said:

Another one was a bar in London who brought out food and asked whether we needed cutlery. "Yes" was our response, and that was met with a comment that "There's a £1.99/table charge for cutlery, as our bar food is meant to be eaten with fingers!".

Fine, and no problem for the olives, almonds and sticky mini-sausages (although some toothpicks would have been less messy/more hygenic for our group)...but a bit of an issue for my spiced pumpkin soup.

That did make me laugh and reminded me of a joke.

A man goes into a restaurant, he sits down, he's having a bowl of soup. He says to the waiter, "Waiter, come, taste the soup."
The waiter says, "Is something wrong with the soup?"
He says, "Taste the soup."
The waiter says "Is there something wrong with the soup, is the soup too hot?"
He says "Will you taste the soup?"
"What's wrong, is the soup too cold?"
"Will you just taste the soup?"
"Alright I'll taste the soup?! Where is the spoon?"