<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Kremmen:
In the US, where the businesses pay the government to ignore customer issues as much as possible, hotels get to advertise $99 rooms that might actually cost $130 with taxes and tips, restaurants get to advertise $50 meals that will actually cost $65 and so on. In other places, this omission of necessary or expected charges would be called fraud.
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Kremmen, you took the words out of my mouth. For me it is still difficult to get used to these practices, even after living in the US for some time now.