We literally cannot have even one nice thing in this country. You best start believin’ in cyberpunk dystopias… because you’re in one.
the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule
The FTC is free to issue this again. They need to do it in accordance with the law next time.
The current ftc doing something constructive?
Most likely situation is that this will not happen now, or years from now
industry associations and individual businesses […] argued the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule. The judge panel has agreed with them.
Three judges — two appointed by President Trump, one by President George H. W. Bush — found that the FTC’s rulemaking process was flawed and did not include early analysis of the rule’s possible economic effects. [1]
“the law”
what a shocker trump fucking over everyone again
So per the latest Supreme Court ruling, this only applies to that explicit case then, right?.. Right?
I was really hoping this would go into effect so I could sign up for a gym membership. I’ll never sign up with a gym again…Their cancellation processes are offensive and predatory.
The “click-to-cancel” rule would force gyms to allow you to cancel your gym membership as easily as you signed up for it.
For some reason these businesses are against losing the free money they get for making it hard to cancel subscriptions.
It’s been a law in Germany for three years now:
For those who worry about this and other services like this, privacy.com is the solution.
You basically create virtual credit cards with an amount limit. At any point you can cancel the credit card and not worry about all the hoops you need to cancel.
This is great advice for signing up for streaming services, and very, very bad advice for a gym membership.
They absolutely will send your delinquent gym membership account to collections and it will wind up on your credit report. It’s part of their business plan.
You’d have to sign up with a false identity, which is technically fraud.
Every single opportunity, however petty, to ensure we become more miserable evwry day.
Just for that I’m going to put things in my Amazon and eBay accounts and just keep swapping stuff without buying anything for weeks at a time.
Doesn’t that ONLY apply to whatever circuit it’s in?
This is the FTC’s rule, but nothing prevents each and every state from implementing a law to do the exact same thing, except slightly differently than every other state, making it extremely costly for the companies to implement.
