Bowers initially thought the quoted fee was a mistake but it was confirmed to both him and another staff member at the Global Mail to be $8,000.
Users are given a quoted fee before entering the cab, which is based on earlier taxi journeys along a similar route.
"Auditors quote fees to their clients based on how much time it is going to take" to do the audit, he said.
A move for Porto's Brazilian midfielder Fernando is also a possibility, with City having been quoted a fee of €15 million (£12.4m) for a player who has been the subject of offers from Monaco and CSKA Moscow.
' " Their complaints were varied: the other clinic had been dirty; the doctor was rude; they were quoted one fee over the phone but charged another at the office; they received no follow-up care.
His local estate agent quoted a fee of around £4,800, including VAT.
Khan quoted a fee of 25,000 per song, at a time when Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi (the best paid playback singers of the time) charged 300 400 per song, thinking that Asif would send him away.
The application or loan processing fee, origination or underwriting fee, lender or funding fee, appraisal fee, document preparation and recording fees, and broker fees may be quoted as points, origination fees, or interest rate add-ons.
A rate quote without fees is useless.
Such treatment by the housing agents included unwillingness to schedule an appointment, providing fewer housing options and less information on lenders and other advantageous financial opportunities, quoting higher fees or presenting more extensive application requirements.
