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Runaway pricing.

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Prices have gone up everywhere on everything. It’s nuts and no matter how much we bitch and complain there’s not really anything we can do about it except pay more… and bitch and complain.

This is me.

Bitching and complaining.

We live in Maine…a clean, beautiful, environmentally friendly state. We have returnable bottles and cans, a ban on plastic grocery bags and numerous recycling programs. You rarely see trash on the sides of the roads and while all that is wonderful it comes at a cost.

Like this one we just had to pay to dispose of a dead window air conditioning unit.

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Yikes.

And speaking of ridiculous charges?

When I reserved our rental car for the week long anniversary trip I planned… the price was $654.73.

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Until I got to the confirmation/pay page and it jumped to $911.39… a difference of $256.66. That’s one helluva lot of add ons.

Surcharges/Fees:

County Tax 5.00%:

Concession Recovery Fee
(11.11%)

Customer Facility Charge 5.00/
day:

Vehicle License Fee 4.00/day:

Taxes:

It’s the world we live in… but that doesn’t mean I have to like it.

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40 thoughts on “Runaway pricing.”

  1. Concession recovery fee? Customer facility charge… for taking thecar OUT of the facility????

    One of DoorDash’s small add on fees is to “bypass the limit on fees we can charge”… or something to that effect.

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      2. We have a policy of 4 free pickups/year. I don’t know whether I didn’t know that or the tv was verbotten.i’m lucky to have a recycling center nearby so now I simply wait for the ‘hazardous househokd waste’ events, where everything is free.

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      3. We just bought Cirque du Soleil tickets for December that totaled $300, $50 of which was for “convenience fees,” which I think means “a way we can conveniently rip off the buyer.” I was so outraged that for a nanosecond I considered cancelling, but we’ve wanted to see a Cirque show for so long I just swallowed my disgust, but it’s down there, deep in my gut, churning.

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  2. I understand some fees are beyond the control of the rental company. That said, things like “license fee” are typically part of the overhead that is already built into the price of the rental. I’m surprised they didn’t tack on a “Vehicle Depreciation Fee” of a couple hundred bucks.

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  6. Most everything has been said, but I want to know what facility you are using each day and what is the facilty fee for exactly. You use their facility the day you rent the car and the day you bring it back. If you did not use their facility tgey would have no busiñess. They should be paying you!

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  9. You may have left off a couple of fees and some other miscellaneous fi, fo, fums.
    There is the embedded hidden voodoo Wall Street stock market fee that every year companies have to make a greater profit.
    The fee that despite Maine does not allow plastic bags, that everything is wrapped in plastic at least 13 times before it is manufactured, warehoused, delivered, and disposed of.
    The pending fee that our petrochemical economy is immersing and ingesting micro plastic particles into every single corner of our planet ( yes Maine too).
    And lastly but not exclusively the fee for wear and tear on my mouse, touch pad, and touch screen for navigating through this quite lovely post of yours.
    I have foregone and forgiven the Christy McVee and Grace Slick fee for listening to soothing music while we both wait for our Fee Therapy and Avoidance session for which there is yes another fee… because yes nothing is free and everything is fee ! Does that warrant a rhyming fee ?

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