When you do your local supermarket shopping you will see X product or Y product on the shelf for a price. If you suddenly arrived at the checkout and were told that you would have to pay an additional amount you would not be too happy

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The Daily Mail ran a news item on Wednesday 14th July 2010 entitled “Scare tactics and hidden costs they use to bump up car hire” The article by Liz Philips explained that “Greedy car-hire firms have almost doubled the cost of rentals in the run-up to the summer holidays in the most popular European hotspots – but it is the extras that really bump up the price” The first part is most likely a consequence of the car hire shortage in the summer of 2009. Personally I know of two situations whereby for this week in Dublin, Ireland a friend was quoted over ?350 for six days car hire and I recently paid ?255 for 8 days hire in Nice, France and the same time last year it cost ?322, not a decrease this year, but that was for 15 days car hire. The report goes on to say “A lucrative trick is to frighten you into taking out extra insurance when you pick up the car

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