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#FTC #ClickToCancel
"The rule would have made it as easy for a consumer to cancel a subscription as it was to sign up."

Click-to-cancel is canceled — and only a glimmer of hope remains for its revival

"The FTC's rule to make canceling subscriptions as easy as they were to sign up was blocked just days before it was set to go into effect."
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Business Insider · FTC blocked click-to-cancel subscription trap rule, for nowBy Ayelet Sheffey

#FTC #ClickToCancel
"Canceling subscriptions could continue to be a grueling process after the US court of appeals for the eighth circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s 'click-to-cancel' rule, which would have required companies to allow consumers to cancel subscriptions using the ..."

‘I have a huge case brewing’: US readers’ frustrations with canceling various subscriptions
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The Guardian · ‘I have a huge case brewing’: US readers’ frustrations with canceling various subscriptionsBy Olivia Empson

Question regarding California’s click-to-cancel law (Automatic renewal law),

* Costco wouldn’t let us check the price of appliances without a membership id.
* I purchased the membership online though their app and found the deals were shit.
* Couldn’t find a way to cancel through the app, chat asked me to call a number, they gave me yet another number of the local store and the store is asking me to come in-person to cancel.

Is this bs legal? Can they force me to come in to cancel and not offer any online means to cancel the membership? Is there a place where I can put in a complain for this practice?

Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’

The cable industry, home security companies, and advertisers are suing to stop a rule requiring making it easier to cancel subscriptions.

theverge.com/2024/10/23/242780

The Verge · Industry groups are suing the FTC to stop its click to cancel rule
More from Richard Lawler

"The #US Federal Trade Commission is taking action against #subscriptions that are difficult to get rid of. On Wednesday, it adopted a final #ClickToCancel rule requiring businesses to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up.

...The #FTC will also require businesses to clearly disclose the terms of their subscriptions & get customer consent before charging them."
theverge.com/2024/10/16/242716