> 1. Pretty much every retail store in existence in the US, because sales taxes aren't calculated until checkout Which is, of course, insane. There is no good

> 1. Pretty much every retail store in existence in the US, because sales taxes aren't calculated until checkout Which is, of course, insane. There is no good reason for taxes to not be rolled into the price. What next? An 'employee wages' line item that gets added at checkout? Maybe a 'mall rental space' one? A 'shareholder dividend' one? > 2. Every online retail store that charges for shipping and handling. Depending on where they ship, those are at least unknown until checkout. > 3. Even your cleaning fee example isn't as cut-and-dry as you make it out to be. Cleaning fees for vacation rentals are usually assessed only once per stay (i.e. for cleaning the room after checkout), so including the cleaning fee into the nightly rate isn't accurate, even if I enter my rental dates while searching. Rental availability is only known when you enter a date range. If you've entered a date range, there's no reason the fees can't be included in the price. There's nothing fraudulent about selling 5 nights for $180/night, versus 4 nights for $195/night, just like there's nothing fraudulent about charging more for 2x2L jugs of milk than for 1x4L jug. > 4. I've seen customers get irate and demand something was "fraud" when a vacation rental had parking fees. Unlike #1 and #3 (Sales tax, cleaning fees), parking fees really are optional.