2y ago

The FTC wants to ban hidden 'junk fees' that jack up the price of your purchases

www.engadget.com

The FTC wants to ban hidden 'junk fees' that jack up the price of your purchases::A new rule proposed by the FTC targets hidden and "bogus" fees businesses often add onto their services at checkout, aiming to do away with the deceptive practices.

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Price advertised == Price actually charged.
It’s not really that hard. Do it!
- Can we please include sales tax in that price too? It is also a bullshit hidden fee the way the US does it.
  
  The argument the idiots use is "We want to see government theft!" instead of just having a line item at the end of your receipt showing tax collected and the breakdown. It's not like we don't have toiletpaper roll length receipts already.
  
  Government: no not like that
  
  My weed dispensary includes taxes in the display price. It's awesome
  
  How would a company advertise pricing across multiple states? E.g. on the web...
Alright let's target Ticketmaster first.
- How to say you didnt read the article without saying it...
  
  What kind of loser reads the articles? I just make snap judgement on catchy titles.
  
  The website isn't loading for me, can you tell me what the article says?
- That’s their entire business model
- Seriously! They charge more in fees than some ticket prices.
While we're at it, can you roll taxes into it as well? Fuck having to guess what the local sales tax is...
- The difference being, of course, tax rates are publicly available and easily found online ahead of time
  
  Which do you prefer to shop for, gas or hotel rooms?
  Gas is always advertised with the tax built into the price. Every sign you see is the full price. When you look at online gas apps including Gas Buddy or even Google Maps, you're seeing the full, final price.
  Hotels advise one price on shopping sites and then you pay a much higher price once all the taxes are included. Can you look up the taxes in advance? Sure. Assuming you know to look for local sales tax, and county lodging tax, and the city entertainment tax. But why is that necessary? Why is it helpful to you as the consumer? Do you think the retailer doesn't know the total price in advance?
Car dealerships shaking and crying
Hmmm Ticketmaster seems like a good place to start
- Admittedly their fees are blatant because Uncle Sam basically handed them the whole market in the 2010s, when they were allowed to merge with Live Nation.
They're starting with Ticketmaster right?
- Those fucks are beyond this and just need to be destroyed
KKHHHAAAAAAANNN!
Seriously though, Lina Khan is awesome. Best FTC chair in a very long time.
Absolutely necessary and I hope it is implemented sooner than later
My partner's best friend helped pen the legislation for this and specifically took it on because she knows how much this shit pisses my partner off lol
Wrong picture, that's definitely Chad doing this.
- Chadmare
- You're thinking of the FCC.
Yet again, I can't understand the rationale behind the FTC's choice of their targets
- To target something so ubiquitous that everyone has dealt with it and doesn't like it?
  
  Sure, but I'd rather see them tackle something bigger and more substantial
- Idk, it makes sense to me. ISPs, utilities, cell phone providers are all guilty of this. I don't want to read fine print for these sorts of transactions.
  What would you rather the FTC tackle?

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