Be very careful when signing a phone contract, a car hire contract, or anything similar because the fine print might conceal fees, taxes, and late rates that you weren't aware of from the smiling advertising blurb.
In investment matters, a so-called free or no-fee service almost always means concealed excessive fees.
The jurors found that Mr. Bruno had improperly concealed $200,000 in fees paid to the senator in 2004 by consulting firms run by Mr. Abbruzzese, and violating the law a year later, when Mr. Abbruzzese forgave Mr. Bruno $40,000 in debt and paid him $40,000 for a horse that prosecutors said was almost worthless.
That case, they asserted, justified their own request which involved concealing the fee agreement negotiated at the beginning of the case.
Discount hotel sites may intentionally conceal resort fees, or they may not have access to the most current resort fee information from the property.
Eight months later, a consumer class-action suit filed in Oakland accused the company of fraudulently concealing its fees and imposing excessive and unjustified charges on borrowers.
Those cases -- like the one just concluded -- accused the company of preying on homeowners, many of them senior citizens, by using a high-pressure sales pitch that concealed the high fees, or points, that the company charged for its home-equity loans.
Yesterday's settlement comes after an unusually long and tenacious campaign against the company by regulators and private lawyers, who had accused it of preying on homeowners, mostly elderly, with a high-pressure sales pitch that concealed the high fees, or points, that it charged for its home-equity loans.
Adam Smith - so beloved by the people who are changing the nature of commerce with fees, concealed charges, predatory pricing, tips and free labor - was a canny Scot who liked to know what he was getting for the money he was paying.
Now that letting agents' fees will be abolished (Report, 24 November), attention could turn to that other concealed charge, the booking fee.
However, for most smaller merchants — indeed, for most merchants over all — the interchange fee is concealed within a negotiated rate, Mr. Manfred said.
