Trade groups told the FTC a simple “Click-to Cancel” proposal to easily quit subscriptions could actually lead customers to miss out on hot new deals.
This is called a lie, folks.
It doesn’t go far enough. For monthly payments you should have to confirm them at least annually with a positive assertion. When your card number changes, you should have to assert it as well.
The “convenience” of automatic payments and automatic updates of card numbers has let AOL and their like bilk millions and millions from people that forgot they were paying them.
Give me a fucking break
Let’s say I’m the dumbest person alive and I canceled it without wanting to. Are they saying I’m so dumb that I can’t subscribe again like I once did?
It’s clearly a bad faith argument. The real logic is that if they make cancelling easy, frustrated people will do it. If cancelling is annoying or difficult enough, some people will give up and keep paying.
Man, I remember back when the ESA were the good guys, when Jack Thompson tried to be famous.
