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  1. Are you kidding me? I was about to buy some tickets to an event that cost $263 each. Right when I was ready to check out, TicketMaster kindly informed me that the service charges would be $71 - *PER TICKET* !!! Is this really how things are?! Are there options? Ebay? Craigslist? This must fall under some type of extortion or usury law.
  2. I recently discovered that a restaurant close to my house that I enjoy delivers, with only a $15 minimum and no delivery charges. Great! But then I noticed that there were two separate menus - one for dine-in, and the other for delivery, and the delivery menu was 10-15% higher across-the-board. So this "free delivery" actually costs you at least a couple bucks, if not substantially more. Has anyone else come across this dubious tactic? I don't want to call out the restaurant, because I like them, and I'm not even sure this is unethical, but at the minimum, it causes me to raise an eyebrow (and not order from them!) I would council anyone ordering online to beware of "free delivery charges," and to compare prices with the dine-in menu. The same holds true with delivery-service companies, which can charge anything they want - it's sort of like hotels.com, which I'm finding less-and-less to have the "lowest available prices" (which they claim to have). What's so hard about saying, "We charge a $1 delivery fee [which would cover materials], and require a 20% tip for our driver?" They're still making the same amount per order, and assuming a 33% food cost, why would they want to lose an order over something like this? This situation is a variation of the one described in Joe H's post about buying airline tickets,
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