Exhibiting Service fees are sky high, why?

How can the exhibitor who is already dealing with a crappy economy deal with the every increasing charges placed on us by the show decorator and convention services companies?  There is a lot of controversy on this topic as fees continue to climb and accountability is hard to get.  Serenity J. Knutson, Editor in Chief of PlannerWire has a series of articles addressing these issue and providing a variety of opinions from those of us in the mddle of it.  See the entire article and my two cents worth at http://www.plannerwire.com/article_template.cfm?aid=1633&sid=30/