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FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service (arstechnica.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I'm gonna call out the way Amazon bills your credit card for multi-item orders on this one. That's some fuckery right there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What do they do?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They charge your card for seemingly random groups of products so your order is split into strange Unrecognizable transaction amounts, and you can't tell by looking them which order items the charges are for, and if your want to see, it's buried deep in your account settings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

And then once a month they randomly sign you up for Prime "by mistake". But don't worry, since you caught it in time you'll get a full refund in 5-7 business days.