gouging

If your local restaurant starts charging you a fee to cut to the front the line during busy hours, you can blame the Boston Red Sox. Former Red Sox player Jerry Remy is offering diners at his new sports bar a $500 "season pass" so they can be served before other patrons during the televised games....

Rent-A-Center, the national furniture, electronics and appliance rental chain, has settled charges that the company charged outrageous fees in addition to harassing and threatening customers to collect owed money. Washington state's attorney general filed a complaint in July showing the absurdly...

Morgan Stanley Capital Group agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle accusations that a gasoline supplier it owns gouged consumers last fall during Hurricane Ike, Florida officials announced. The settlement is the largest in Florida history and might be the largest ever, they said.Typically, small...

Back in June, consumers were puffed up with pride when Hertz announced it was ending its policy of overcharging customers for gas. If you returned the car without filling the tank all the way again, Hertz gave customers the option of pre-buying gas set according to the going rate at the pumps in...