Upfront Fee

A fee paid before a good is produced or a service is performed. The upfront fee is generally a portion of the total fee that the buyer must pay. For example, one may commission an artist to paint a portrait and pay a 20% upfront fee, paying the remainder when the portrait is finished. It is also called an advance fee.

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But more worrying are scams offering non-existent loans in return for upfront fees - leaving those already struggling worse off.

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A spokesman said Mr Clarke's remarks were 'entirely consistent' with what Tony Blair said in December, when he told the Commons that parents would not have to pay thousands of pounds in upfront fees.

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They were expecting applause, but they got raspberries because almost 25 percent of Los Angeles' neighborhoods don't have any street lights at all, let alone new ones, because they can't afford the $1,600 upfront fee required from each homeowner just to install streetlights in their neighborhoods.