There is whole cottage industry of journals that will publish basically anything in exchange for a submission fee, being kept alive by desperate PhD students who need a couple of more papers published so they can just get their degree and get out of there.
When it happened to me it was a "reputable" high-impact neuroscience journal, not Cross-stitch Monthly.
Was it for open access? Lots of journals charge a fee if you want to make your paper generally available.
Yes, but they charge after acceptance, not before.
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This is certainly what used to happen - my experience was from 2007 so they might not be getting away with it any more.
Cerebral Cortex is the only (legit) neuro journal I know of that charges a submission fee. Are there others?