But the new locale did have one sure merit: with their savings nearly exhausted, of all the places the Jin family had taken their brother in a 500-mile trek from Guangdong Province, it was the cheapest, costing what for them was still an exorbitant fee of about $15 a day.
Many of the clerks and other officials were sinecures who, in lieu of wages, charged increasingly exorbitant fees to process cases, one of the main reasons why the cost of bringing a case to the Chancery was so high.
Some cities are charging exorbitant fees for the deployment of next generation (or "5G") wireless networks as a means of raising revenue for municipal coffers, with the consequence of delaying or preventing the deployment of broadband networks in rural and suburban areas.
Early on, some e-tailers displayed shipping charges at the last possible point in an order, then extracted exorbitant fees for the privilege of putting, say, a Rambo video in the mail.
Who owns the intellectual property of a major healthcare breakthrough and can they limit access to, or charge exorbitant fees, for the use of their lifesaving IP?
Outside of her personal financial decisions, Leibovitz is a prime candidate for such a scheme given that she is one of the rare professional artists capable of commanding exorbitant fees for hire as "the world's best-paid photographer".
Instead of paying exorbitant fees to license old recordings, it could simply hire a Grammy-winning, chart-topping singer to make some new ones.
In addition to paying exorbitant fees to do things most of us take for granted, like cash or write a check, these households are locked out of a variety of other services.
But Professor Henning said he believed that many companies were willing to pay exorbitant fees to a monitor in hopes of leniency.
