The FTC wants to ban hidden ‘junk fees’ that jack up the price of your purchases::A new rule proposed by the FTC targets hidden and “bogus” fees businesses often add onto their services at checkout, aiming to do away with the deceptive practices.

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You’re thinking of the FCC.

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Wrong picture, that’s definitely Chad doing this.

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Chadmare

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They’re starting with Ticketmaster right?

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Those fucks are beyond this and just need to be destroyed

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Hmmm Ticketmaster seems like a good place to start

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Admittedly their fees are blatant because Uncle Sam basically handed them the whole market in the 2010s, when they were allowed to merge with Live Nation.

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Yet again, I can’t understand the rationale behind the FTC’s choice of their targets

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Idk, it makes sense to me. ISPs, utilities, cell phone providers are all guilty of this. I don’t want to read fine print for these sorts of transactions.

What would you rather the FTC tackle?

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To target something so ubiquitous that everyone has dealt with it and doesn’t like it?

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Sure, but I’d rather see them tackle something bigger and more substantial

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