# Should merchants be made to stop adding fees to your purchase and instead roll all that into their prices?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 11, 2024, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-merchants-be-made-to-stop-adding-fees-to-your-purchase-and-instead-roll-all-that-into-their-prices/1001421 "2024-05-11T18:44:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-merchants-be-made-to-stop-adding-fees-to-your-purchase-and-instead-roll-all-that-into-their-prices/1001421/35 "2024-05-12T15:00:36Z")

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For restaurants, you don’t tip on fees, right? But now if the fees are rolled into the price of the meal, you will be tipping on that, meaning you’ll actually be tipping more. So I’d imagine anyone who makes tips would love this regulation.

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