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Fully in favor of this. I recently had to cancel a subscription that had no "cancel subscription" button and instead forced you to contact customer service so they could try to sell you on discounts and etc. No, just let me cancel and get on with my day. Unfortunately, it seems health clubs(and I assume gyms?) are exempt from this when they are like 80% of the problem.
Health clubs rely on 90% of their members never showing up. If they all cancelled, there'd be no more health clubs.
Fully in favor of this. I recently had to cancel a subscription that had no "cancel subscription" button and instead forced you to contact customer service so they could try to sell you on discounts and etc. No, just let me cancel and get on with my day. Unfortunately, it seems health clubs(and I assume gyms?) are exempt from this when they are like 80% of the problem.
Health clubs rely on 90% of their members never showing up. If they all cancelled, there'd be no more health clubs.
Am I properly capturing the nuance of your argument? Feel free to re-echo another round of hearsay into the chamber.
Maybe you can dig more into the philosophy you have where securing profitability entitles you to the protection of those profits via legislation.
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Also I’d like to add that your claim that the gyms would be 10x more expensive and that most would close is baseless. In Sweden there are gyms everywhere even though their are consumer protections against exactly this sort of thing. The gyms in Sweden are generally cheaper than the IS as well. I’m not going to draw a general conclusion from this other than “it’s complicated”. The fact is you don’t really know how gym…
My basis is that I was told by a couple gym owners that 90% never show up to use the gym, and their business model depended on that. I haven't examined their books myself. Like I wrote, I'm not making a value judgement here, just pointing out the consequences. The business model may still be the same in Sweden. It's just that people are too lazy to cancel, not that they cannot cancel. I never had trouble canceling an…
If I can't find your cancel service page within five minutes of searching; I just close the card and am done.
I can't advocate privacy.com enough for these shenanigans! Issuing a credit card for each vendor - with spend caps or close the card whenever. If I can't find your cancel service page within five minutes of searching; I just close the card and am done.
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I'm not actually making a value judgement on that. Just pointing out the consequences maybe not what was intended.
Also I’d like to add that your claim that the gyms would be 10x more expensive and that most would close is baseless. In Sweden there are gyms everywhere even though their are consumer protections against exactly this sort of thing. The gyms in Sweden are generally cheaper than the IS as well. I’m not going to draw a general conclusion from this other than “it’s complicated”. The fact is you don’t really know how gym…
Basically where a lot of education funding comes from. (Lotteries)
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The result of lobbying, maybe?
Almost certainly, imo. Were I a VC, part of my model to identify industries ripe for tech disruption would be to find those that get legislative sweetheart deals that don't benefit the taxpayer.
Uber but for lobbying
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Health clubs rely on 90% of their members never showing up. If they all cancelled, there'd be no more health clubs.
How will taxis survive?? Their business model depends on scarcity. If anyone could give anyone a ride, there'd be no more rides. Am I properly capturing the nuance of your argument? Feel free to re-echo another round of hearsay into the chamber. Maybe you can dig more into the philosophy you have where securing profitability entitles you to the protection of those profits via legislation.