Useless Fees You Can Do Without

[Fern]

Can you add to the list?

1. optional $3 monthly cable bill charge for outside wire maintenance. I've already found that, even if you don't have this covered and you have problems with cable, they will offer to sign you up for the outside wire maintenance before they send a repairman out in case it involves the outside wiring rather than inside.

2. comprehensive and collision car insurance coverage for older cars

3. warranty coverage for any major appliance

[BAGAGT1]

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Income Taxes....

[lrjohnson]

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ATM fees. I'm allergic. I don't know how people suck up 2.75 on 40 bucks. Freaks me out.

[CasaHova]

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ATM fees deff most likely you are strapped for cash when you go to an ATM so why would you accept $37.25?

[Fern]

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How about paying for air at a gas station?

[sweeps]

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Annual car registration. Both my state and my city get in on the act.

[PRICEPLUS]

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Connectivity fee on the cell phone.

[kashi]

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$125 fee to cancel a cell phone contract. If the service sucks, why should I have to pay so much to cancel it?

[Ima saver]

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I have never used an atm, nor will I! I won't pay for any of those phone services, like call waiting or caller ID. I don't like to talk on the phone anyway.

[Tree0164]

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Atm fees

[cercis]

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Check writing fees - why do people accept checking accounts which charge you to write a check?

Minimum balance fees - same thing, if the bank charges me for dropping below the minimum balance, how does this help?

Teller transaction fees - I think this one might have ended, I'm not sure, but for a while some banks were charging fees anytime you dealt with a teller.

Change counting fees

[abowers]

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I don't pay for ATM fees because it's free at my bank and they compensate me for up to $6.00 of ATM fees/month at other banks.

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"Annual car registration. Both my state and my city get in on the act."

---->I had to pay for FOUR years of car registration when I got my car in October, here in New Jersey. That amounts to $180. Hope I stay here for 4 years.... because they don't give refunds!
In NY I got a $20 refund for the second year of my registration when my car was hit and totalled.