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Overcharges for the 337,757 potential class members totaled $2.42 million, the filing states.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Overcharges ranged from 80 cents for pecan panko to $14.84 for coconut shrimp.

From Reuters • Jun. 2, 2017

Overcharges for port visits to Thailand alone in 2011 and 2012 amounted to $2.3 million, according to court records.

From Time • Oct. 3, 2013

Overcharges allowed from eight in the morning to half past ten in the forenoon, and from five to eight in the evening.

From A Description of Modern Birmingham Whereunto Are Annexed Observations Made during an Excursion Round the Town, in the Summer of 1818, Including Warwick and Leamington by Pye, Charles

Overcharges, for example, and skilful manipulations of the steelyard to make it lie, are not considered so much moral defects as tokens of an unusually active brain.

From Sidelights on Chinese Life by Macgowan, J. (John)