Its general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, said: "While Newsquest is sacking professional staff on its titles, it is charging journalist students for writing articles for them.
Wolfson also said Next was reducing the interest rate it is charging on its Directory credit card business, as it revealed a 3% decline in credit card customers. From October it is lowering the interest charge from 24.99% to a still high 22.9%. Wolfson said he wanted to bring rates down further but more importantly differentiate between lower and higher risk customers.
Clinging to its old profit margins, it is charging more to businesses than to individual consumers.
Elsevier is the target of the boycott not only because of its support of the Research Works Act, but also because of the increasingly high prices that it is charging for its journals.
While eNeuralNet is marketing the software to political groups, sales have so far been mainly to other kinds of clients -- pharmaceutical companies seeking patterns in clinical trials, a travel agency trying to detect credit card fraud -- and it is charging $50,000 to $5 million for its services, including the conversion of documents into searchable databases.
In the case of Qualcomm, for instance, competitors have complained that it is charging excessive royalties for its patents on mobile-phone technologies.
Governor McGreevey last week told the company that installed and operates the state's vehicle inspection system that it will have to reduce the amount it is charging New Jersey or risk losing its contract entirely.
Now it is possible that the company with the lowest prices doesn't truly understand what its costs are, and that's why it is charging such low prices.
The Athenaeum Hotel and Apartments in London has something like it: This year, it is charging the same figure in dollars for its rates as in pounds, for any night.
Despite tough credit conditions, Wyndham securitized $671 million worth of bonds backed by its time-shares last year, pocketing the spread between what it is charging customers and the 9% coupon on the bonds.
Increasingly, it is charging for them.
