Does the fee have any relationship whatsoever to the cost of the service? Do companies understand that they don’t have much leeway if we already are angry with them? Is a company telling the whole truth when it imposes a new fee? Are we getting something really neat in return? And are we worrying too much about the wrong types of fees — and not enough about ones that are truly consequential?
These are the five questions I posed in this weekend’s Your Money column. In the wake of the Bank of America debit-card fee fiasco, it sure seems as if we need a new set of standards for what constitutes a reasonable fee. So this week, I asked some of the smartest consumers I know to weigh in on the question.
Given that we have a pretty savvy bunch here on Bucks, too, I’d like to hear what you think about the principles I suggested in the column, the fees you hate (and others that you gladly pay) and about your own big ideas about when to get mad and when to just pay.
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