1)fabricated expenditures; made-up handling fees; add-on taxes; fake surcharges. Costs that are made up after a price for the product, or service, has already been given. 2)A way to make more money after a price has already been given for a product or service. This process usually feels to the customer like they just got hit with a "wet iron skillet".
"Just lowball him and when he gets here we'll hit him with the wet iron skillet."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)