Sentence examples for egregious fees from inspiring English sources

They searched for income elsewhere, and found it in the annoying and sometimes egregious fees they charge to consumers.

"They are a virtual cartel that control the travel sector from the U.S. to Cuba, charging egregious fees in collusion with Cuban authorities," said Mauricio Claver Carone, director of the U.S.-Cuba Democracy PAC in Washington.

The best defense against egregious fees is to read about the hotel's rates online, before you make a reservation.

Those caps, however, didn't affect intra-state calls, which make up the bulk of costs in the prison communications industry.Thursday's order addresses that, by setting a cap on all local and long distance calls from state and federal prisons at 11 cents per minute in an effort to "rein in the excessive rates and egregious fees on phone calls," the commission said.

In addition to these egregious stated fees, Wall Street has many methods to hide additional fees and charges from you.

In addition to the egregious stated fees, stockbrokers, mutual funds and financial advisors on Wall Street have many methods to hide additional fees and charges from you. 1. Providing nominal returns, not real returns.

Personally, I can count on at least one hand the number of times I was surprised by extraneous charges, from egregious roaming fees to hidden costs.

We need to increase public outrage about how corruption of politics affects people's daily lives -- contaminated tap water, higher cell phone bills, egregious bank fees.

Officers worked with the courts to issue egregious fines and fees to boost city revenue, at the expense of individuals who could not afford to pay them and were subsequently thrown in jail.

But some consumer advocates said they still believe that the fees are egregious enough to warrant more of a fight.

Thankfully, the egregious nature of these fees has provoked the wrath of consumer advocates, and pricked the conscience of some regulators, enough so that many companies have rolled back their gift card charges.