• Stop the Hidden-Fee Rip-Off [telecom]

    From Moderator@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 4 01:33:34 2021
    Opinion
    Guest Essay

    By Max Sarinsky

    (Mr. Sarinsky is a senior attorney at the Institute for Policy
    Integrity at New York University School of Law.)

    Want to catch a ballgame at Yankee Stadium? Tickets for Sunday's game
    against the Seattle Mariners are being advertised by Ticketmaster, the
    league's preferred vendor, for as low as $15.

    But tickets cannot be purchased there for that price. After you select
    seats and reach the payment screen, Ticketmaster notifies you of a $4.20-per-ticket "service fee," plus a $3.30 "order processing fee."
    For a single ticket, the $15 advertised price is in fact $22.50 -- an
    increase of 50 percent.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/opinion/consumers-drip-pricing.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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