Government publishes consultation on new measures to tackle unfair and costly subscription traps, which cost consumers £1.6 billion annually.
  • Consultation launched on measures to crack down on “subscription traps” and better protect shoppers
  • Proposed measures will stop complicated websites and restrictive call centres preventing refunds and cancellations.
  • Unwanted subscriptions cost families £14 per month per subscription and £1.6 billion a year in total
  • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    1 month ago

    I’ve spent much of my adult life with nothing positive to say about our governments. I’m not really emotionally prepared for being pleased about something a UK government is doing!

    • Docus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      You’re ok for now. It’s just a consultation, so every chance nothing actually pleasing will happen.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      I was a big fan of them banning indoor smoking. If you’re going to smoke in a restaurant what’s even the point in going, you now can’t taste the food anyway.

      • rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        awh I do miss indoor smoking; it gave the shit food a unique flavour! And who doesn’t love a sticky wall?

  • deadcatbounce@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    With car insurance almost invariably automatically set to annually renew by the insurance company whether you want that or not, car insurance is a (disguised) subscription service.

    Every money advice place esp Money Saving Expert dating look around annually, auto annual renewal should be illegal.

    I f#@king hate that car insurance companies do that.

    Thanks to OP for posting the article.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I have a calendar event set on my phone to tell me when the insurance can be renewed. When it ends, when it can be renewed.

      • deadcatbounce@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Quite so. There is an optimum time to renew as given by Money Saving Expert amongst others.

        My point was to draw the mal insurance company practice within the realms of subscriptions so that it will be caught by the enquiry and anything that emerges from it.

  • Mex@feddit.ukEnglish
    21·
    1 month ago

    Some states in America already have this. If you can subscribe via a web form you should be able to unsubscribe thorough the web too.