While perusing their site, I was surprised to see that Australia's National Measurement Institute was for a time, the world's custodian of the Ohm.
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Elsewhere, in their amusement section, I found this collection of gems:-
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I would have thought $3270 for measuring a resistor would be more than enough, but no, they need that extra 33 cents.
They are after all, masters of precision - they are able to determine the fee to 3ppm.