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US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

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Re: US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

#81

I should be able to go into my bank or card service online. View a list of all my subscriptions. Click on a subscription (or select all). And cancel. If there is a card that offers this let me know because I'll be switching immediately.

I'd have different wallets for everything if everything took Bitcoin. I guess I could do that with generated credit card numbers but haven't bothered with it.

Re: US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

#82

I should be able to go into my bank or card service online. View a list of all my subscriptions. Click on a subscription (or select all). And cancel. If there is a card that offers this let me know because I'll be switching immediately.

You can use privacy.com as another commenter has written. But one catch is I believe you can be on the hook for subscriptions where your card no longer works but you haven't cancelled your subscription. So they can send you invoices and even send it to collections. Although I strongly feel that at least for transactions of a sufficiently small size (normal retail subscriptions) cancelling your card should be legally…

This type of activity is happening with Amazon Netflix and other medias also with various E-Commerce sites Apple particularly is asking for all particulars train to debit after the expiry of the period but is not allowing cancellation properly as the bandwth work remains down in many many areas sporadically we are not able to cancel at will.This is a user unfriendly activity which is monopolistic or coercive.People will lose faith in digitization slowly

Re: US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

#83
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From googling apparently the "presiding officer" is appointed by the FTC chair. So it sounds like the FTC spiked its own case.

It was Lina Khan. She just felt strongly about going out the way she came in — losing every single case.

Illumina, Tapestry, Kroger, Lockheed Martin would disagree.

Also, didn’t she „build“ the right to repair laws?

Re: US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

#84

Spectrum (cable/telephone/internet) kept me on the phone line for 30 minutes as i tried to cancel.

Ask my girlfriend about my phone call with Time Warner (pre Spectrum) where I said the words "I want to cancel cable TV but keep internet" about two dozen times to 3 different people.

Re: US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

#85

I should be able to go into my bank or card service online. View a list of all my subscriptions. Click on a subscription (or select all). And cancel. If there is a card that offers this let me know because I'll be switching immediately.

You can absolutely do this in India. Every card based subscription requires an explicit authorization to set up. And every such authorized subscription can be seen in the bank app/site. You can choose to cancel those subscriptions at the bank end and the subscribed services will fail their next renewal. This is not just a service specific thing and is required by regulation for all recurring payments, incl utility bills, insurance premia, entertainment service, cloud services.

Re: US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

#86

Here is an idea, make your service value for money and people will not want to cancel. If your product is so poor that the only way you can retain customers is to make it too hard for them to cancel then your product needs to be improved.

You just offended siriusxm, every newspaper, and every gym in the country.

Don't forget swimming pool season pass.

I will buy my next season pass when I have a history of entry transactions that proves I could have saved by buying one...

Re: US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

#87

Here is an idea, make your service value for money and people will not want to cancel. If your product is so poor that the only way you can retain customers is to make it too hard for them to cancel then your product needs to be improved.

If your product is so poor that the only way you can retain customers is to make it too hard for them to cancel, then your business model should be illegal.

Re: US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

#89

I should be able to go into my bank or card service online. View a list of all my subscriptions. Click on a subscription (or select all). And cancel. If there is a card that offers this let me know because I'll be switching immediately.

Yes there is https://www.privacy.com/ which gives you a unique virtual credit card per subscription, which you can cancel from the bank.

Re: US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

#90

I should be able to go into my bank or card service online. View a list of all my subscriptions. Click on a subscription (or select all). And cancel. If there is a card that offers this let me know because I'll be switching immediately.

Yes there is https://www.privacy.com/ which gives you a unique virtual credit card per subscription, which you can cancel from the bank.

That... doesn't necessarily work though?

If I tried that with my gym, they would send me to collections.

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