Umm uhhhh they’ll have to increase the total price to make up the difference in processing more numbers which will cause the employee budget to decrease hurting the local economy which means less taxes to fund fire department and your babies will burn in a fire caused by the unqualified cable tech they had to hire to offset the loss in profits.
Comment on FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Quick! Someone tell us why this isn’t a good thing because the government did it! Surely there’s some secret corruption at work!
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 6 months ago
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No no no, you got all wrong. Think of the children! They are ruining the future of our children!
omega_x3@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The lobbying group for cable companies said that it would hurt their highly competitive market(I’m sure they weren’t able to type that without laughing) and it makes it harder for them to advertise one price since the cost of the sports and local bundles are regional (though they have no problems getting those prices correct on the bills.)
linearchaos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Whatever it is It will only come down to costing companies with deep lobby pockets money and how the conservative new agencies are spinning it.
I’d like to see everything priced on the rim and out the door. Taxes, registration, fees, shipping all on the line. I’d like the price on the shelf/invoice/website/advertisement/cash register and bank statement to all match.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
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.
asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What do they do?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
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.