FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
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Re: FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
#2It’s a pretty limited rule in that (emphasis mine)
“The Rule prohibits bait-and-switch pricing and other tactics used to hide total prices and mislead people about fees in the live-event ticketing and short-term lodging industries.”
Re: FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
#3Discussion (658 points, 5 months ago, 663 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42445037
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Re: FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
#5> Live-event tickets include those for concerts, sporting events, music, theater, and other live performances that audiences watch as they occur, but not pre-recorded audio or visual performances.
What could be the reason pre-recorded audio/visual performances are excluded? Shouldn't this just be for everything? Why would some types of tickets be required to be truthful about fees and not allowed to lie about the total price in ads, while others are allowed?
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#6There's no teeth to any of these direct orders and any clever lawyer can probably argue-away all the provisions listed in the article.
Re: FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
#7> Live-event tickets include those for concerts, sporting events, music, theater, and other live performances that audiences watch as they occur, but not pre-recorded audio or visual performances. What could be the reason pre-recorded audio/visual performances are excluded? Shouldn't this just be for everything? Why would some types of tickets be required to be truthful about fees and not allowed to lie about the tot…
Movie theaters/studios lobbied harder
Re: FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
#8Okay so I'm not crazy because I swore this was a Biden era policy.
Re: FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
#9> Live-event tickets include those for concerts, sporting events, music, theater, and other live performances that audiences watch as they occur, but not pre-recorded audio or visual performances. What could be the reason pre-recorded audio/visual performances are excluded? Shouldn't this just be for everything? Why would some types of tickets be required to be truthful about fees and not allowed to lie about the tot…
"The Commission notes that the harms of bait-and-switch pricing and the
misrepresentation of fees and charges are particularly pronounced in industries such as these, in which most transactions occur online. Consumers trying to comparison shop across multiple websites, or even on the same website, when deciding what tickets to purchase or where to travel are unable to do so effectively because some businesses hide the true total price and instead force consumers to go to different sites and click through multiple webpages for each offer to learn the true total price"
Where as these are not typical concerns for movie producers and movie theaters which are already operated as a legal cartel.
Re: FTC rule on unfair or deceptive fees to take effect on May 12
#10> Live-event tickets include those for concerts, sporting events, music, theater, and other live performances that audiences watch as they occur, but not pre-recorded audio or visual performances. What could be the reason pre-recorded audio/visual performances are excluded? Shouldn't this just be for everything? Why would some types of tickets be required to be truthful about fees and not allowed to lie about the tot…
Movie theaters/studios lobbied harder
"The Commission notes that the harms of bait-and-switch pricing and the misrepresentation of fees and charges are particularly pronounced in industries such as these, in which most transactions occur online. Consumers trying to comparison shop across multiple websites, or even on the same website, when deciding what tickets to purchase or where to travel are unable to do so effectively because some businesses hide the true total price and instead force consumers to go to different sites and click through multiple webpages for each offer to learn the true total price"