DOT’s rule also puts an end to airline runarounds by requiring refunds to be automatic, prompt, in the original form of payment, and for the full amount paid.
This is perfect. I just had to chase a few travel companies for refunds they owed me. The cancellations were the fault of the companies, not mine.
Every single one of them requires you to call some hidden phone number who tells you to download an app, and part of your refund is always disputed. It literally takes hours just to figure out how to complain.
They take your money in 5 seconds, but give it back in “5 to 7 business days”.
They take your money in 5 seconds, but give it back in “5 to 7 business days”.
This is the thing that pisses me off most. After spending hours arguing when they finally relent it will be “up to 30 business days before you see your refund”. I had one company take 120 days to refund my money when my venue had to be cancelled during COVID, money that I had to pay the moment I booked.
At that point you have to complain about it to your credit card provider. They are literally taking your money. 30 days is not acceptable, let alone 120 days.
I complain once to the merchant and if the money isn’t going to be refunded soon, I call the credit card company. Try not to threaten or call again. Literally just escalate at the sign of problems.
During COViD, I had flights cancelled on me. It was a discount carrier that first claimed “no refunds”. When I called and pointed out COViD regulations requiring it, they relented and gave me a credit for their shitty airline, expiring in a year. However after two years, I did get an actual refund … never again flying JetBlue
- Ensuring accountability for companies that provide bad service. People shopping for products or services should be able to rely on customer reviews to assess which companies will provide streamlined service and not waste their time. The FTC has proposed a rule that, if finalized as proposed, would stop marketers from using illicit review and endorsement practices such as using fake reviews, suppressing honest negative reviews, and paying for positive reviews, which deceive consumers looking for real feedback on a product or service and undercut honest businesses.
Wait. No more fake reviews? No more supressing honest negative reviews?
I’ll believe it when I see it. Let’s see how Amazon/Google/Yelp handle this.
Let the lobbying commence!
One thing I’d like to improve the clarity on or outright declare/enforce: put a limit on the wait time allowed. Fixing chat bots, and website directions is one thing, but still being put on hold for 2 hours because the company doesn’t pay for sufficient phone staff is BS.
and it does not make companies pay the phone staff a living wage either furthering the problem
this all just show for the election with no plan to carry through
In '21 a bill to more than double the minimum wage to $15/hr failed due to Republicans in Congress, and Biden used an Executive Order to increase Federal Worker minimum wage to $15/hr. The issue isn’t Democrats here. Vote Blue if you want to empower Harris and Co. to enact these changes they clearly also want to implement.
In '21 a bill to more than double the minimum wage to $15/hr failed due to Republicans in Congress
With the help of 8 members of the Democratic caucus.
There will never be another national minimum wage increase. And every centrist loves it that way.
Note that I said national. Not “well, it covers government employees and blue states, so you worthless flyover morlocks be happy with 2.13 plus tips because we’ve got ours, fuck you.”
In '21 a bill to more than double the minimum wage to $15/hr failed due to
Republicans in CongressDemocrats pretending that an unelected clerk with only a strictly advisory role had veto power
Fixed it for you. They had the votes.
The issue (mostly) isn’t Democrats here
Fixed that too.
While there’s no doubt that the American Fascist Party is much worse in probably every way, the Democrats HAVE been known to make a ton of vague promises around election time that they don’t follow up on as well as breaking concrete ones that their owner donors don’t like.
justice delayed is justice denied
Biden has not even been a strong supporter of raising the minimum wage and just giving some lip service to it is a slap in the face to US people
last time workers demanded better he squashed it by threatening workers with their livelihoods
How about automation of filing taxes. Such a scam.
New direct file from the IRS is a good step forward. It is very simple but not everyone is eligible yet iirc.
Its so simple I’m disqualified from using it because I have a HSA.
Now pass federal universal healthcare and that’ll go away so we have no issues.
Is that because they don’t have the info from the HSA?
I thought the point of systems like this is that they prepopulate everything they know, and then you fill in the rest?
That way it’s quicker, and you dont accidentally miss something they know about and get in trouble with the IRS wasting everyone’s time?
Didn’t they just open it up to everyone? I thought that was one of the Biden admin’s recent wins
It’s opened to all states (was certain states before) but not everyone qualifies.
A new Internet provider came to town and we jumped from Comcast. Waited up to two hours multiple times trying to get through to someone to cancel the account, and couldn’t. So we just let them turn our service off. We don’t have any of their hardware so there are no continuing charges. It’ll be easier and less costly, considering the value of our time, to pay the collection agency.
That is fucked up. That’s some bullshit I’d love to see fixed.
I have good news for you. You can just tell your credit card provider that you tried to cancel, but couldn’t. They will just cancel it for you. It’s a bit of a strong-arm tactic, but it works.
Whenever you need to cancel a gym, try this. They tell you that you need to come in? Nope, not acceptable or legal.
That’s the real reason every gym has a naked old guy hanging out in the locker room with his nuts out. At some point, every man will spend decades of his life trying to cancel his gym membership - and having failed all his life, will find himself having become a desperate old man, left with no choice but to flaunt his wrinkly nutsack in the locker room in hopes of them finally kicking him out, thus freeing him from his eternal struggle.
Yeah I think we did ETF or something. I’ve been out of work for 5 months. Now let me tell you about trying to close an empty bank account so they will stop paying people and charging you fees…
Closing a bank account is as easy as legally possible. They are already highly regulated, and there’s a lot of paperwork to protect you from having your account closed without your permission. You can literally go into a bank if you want help. That’s not the same thing as a gym at all.
don’t rely on that. I had a medical vendor charge the wrong amount (pre claim) and refuse to reverse the charge and my credit card company (well ex credit card company) refused to as well. because some sort of charge was legit they did not see the wrong amount as any issue.
Yeah turns out wrong amount is somehow not fraud so the credit card doesn’t need to help with it. You have to battle it out in civil court instead. Enraging.
Doesn’t work with Comcast …… when I moved into my current house, I got a fantastic fiber provider that hooked me up on move-in day! However apparently the previous owners had Comcast and Comcast kept trying to collect despite me saying I have never had an account with them. 2-3 months later, they came and cut my fiber from my actual provider. Bastards wouldn’t even let me complain because now they realized I’m not a customer
They cut someone else’s fiber? That seems like a trespass or destruction of property, but probably not your property.
