Avoiding Hidden Fees

I found this article on digg, and I thought it was pretty interesting. It doesn’t really give a whole lot of solutions for avoiding these fees, besides doing your homework about the services you’re purchasing, but it was informative to be able to see what ridiculous things they are trying to charge us for nowadays. Housekeeping fees in hotels? I thought clean sheets and towels were part of the deal for the nightly rate. I know that recently, any time I’ve purchased concert tickets or movie tickets online there has been a “convenience fee”… Like it’s somehow less convenient for them to sell tickets through a website than it is for them to open the venue and hire and train staff to sell the tickets. Plz.